{"id":7856,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/shyqyri-alimerko\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","slug":"shyqyri-alimerko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/shyqyri-alimerko\/","title":{"rendered":"Shyqyri Alimerko"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shyqyri<\/span> Alimerko<\/span>, a par<\/span>t<\/span>icipan<\/span>t<\/span> in <\/span>t<\/span>he An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion War and Hero of <\/span>t<\/span>he People, was killed in <\/span>Lepenica<\/span>, Vlora. Born in <\/span>T<\/span>ragjas<\/span>, Vlora, in 1923, he a<\/span>t<\/span>t<\/span>ended <\/span>t<\/span>rading high school in Vlora, where he embraced progressive democra<\/span>t<\/span>ic ideas. Fo<\/span>llowing <\/span>t<\/span>he fascis<\/span>t<\/span> occupa<\/span>t<\/span>ion, <\/span>Alimerko<\/span> became one of <\/span>t<\/span>he ac<\/span>t<\/span>ive members of <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Libera<\/span>t<\/span>ion An<\/span>t<\/span>i-Fascis<\/span>t<\/span> Movemen<\/span>t<\/span> in Vlora, <\/span>par<\/span>t<\/span>icipa<\/span>t<\/span>ing<\/span> in an<\/span>t<\/span>i-fascis<\/span>t<\/span> demons<\/span>t<\/span>ra<\/span>t<\/span>ions and aiding in <\/span>t<\/span>he burning of I<\/span>t<\/span>alian army ammuni<\/span>t<\/span>ion depo<\/span>t<\/span>s in <\/span>Pashaliman<\/span> in A<\/span>ugus<\/span>t<\/span> 1941. He was arres<\/span>t<\/span>ed several <\/span>t<\/span>imes due <\/span>t<\/span>o his an<\/span>t<\/span>i-fascis<\/span>t<\/span> ac<\/span>t<\/span>ivi<\/span>t<\/span>ies and became a member of <\/span>t<\/span>he Albanian Communis<\/span>t<\/span> Par<\/span>t<\/span>y in 1942. <\/span>Alimerko<\/span> me<\/span>t<\/span> his end while figh<\/span>t<\/span>ing agains<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he suppor<\/span>t<\/span>ers of Sadik <\/span>Prem<\/span>t<\/span>e’s<\/span> group in <\/span>Lepenica<\/span>, Vlora. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: <\/span>Shyqyri<\/span> Alimerko<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary – Vol. 1<\/span><\/span>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2089, page 56-57.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span>Ledio<\/span> Xhoxhi<\/span>, personal archive.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shyqyri Alimerko, a participant in the National Anti-Fascist Liberation War and a People’s Hero, was killed in Lepenic\u00eb, Vlor\u00eb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11454,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7856\/revisions\/11454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}