In the city of La Louvière, Belgium, Prenk Pervizi, major officer of the Albanian National Army, division general, passed away. He was born in the village of Skuraj in Kurbin, in 1897. He finished high school at the Franciscan college in Shkodër. He completed his higher studies at the Cadet School in Vienna (1914–1918), where he became friends with Ahmet Zog. After completing his studies, he returned to Albania. In October 1918, he was appointed deputy commander of Kruja, with the rank of lieutenant. In January 1920, he participated in the defense of the Congress of Lushnja. Later he was assigned to Tirana, near the General Command. At this time, he was promoted to captain and transferred to Shijak. On October 8, 1922, he crushed the coup d’état and was promoted to captain of the first class. On June 10, 1924, he left together with Zog’s government for Yugoslavia, from where he returned on December 18 of the same year. Two years later, in December 1926, he led the government forces to suppress the Dukagjin Uprising. In September 1929, now a major, he started the War School in Turin. After finishing school in 1933, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, appointed inspector of Albanian students in Italy and settled in Florence. At the beginning of 1935, he returned to Albania and was appointed Commander of Korça District. That same year, he returned to the Ministry of Defense in Tirana, with organizational duties. From December 1935 to April 1936, he was appointed a member of the International Commission where he joined the English mission. After their departure, in the years 1944-1946 he stayed on the mountain with the anti-communist forces. Partisan brigades burned the towers of Pervizaj in Laç (September 1943) and in Skuraj (January 17, 1945), while their house in Tirana was confiscated. In September 1946 he escaped to Greece, where he was involved in the organization of intervention forces against the regime in Albania. He stayed in Greece for nineteen years, until 1965. On February 15, 1966, he moved to Belgium as a political refugee. He passed away in the town of La Louvière and was buried in the town’s Saint Pierre Hainaut cemetery. (In the photo: Prenk Pervizi)
Text: Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror – Vol. VI , “West Print”, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2017, pages 261-262.
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