{"id":7972,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/safet-butka-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:01","slug":"safet-butka-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/safet-butka-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Safet Butka"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Safet Butka, professor, nationalist, opponent of communism, son of patriot Sali Butka, was killed in <\/span>Melçan<\/span>, <\/span>Korça<\/span>. He was born in <\/span>Butk<\/span>ë<\/span>, <\/span>Kolonjë<\/span>, in 1901. He completed his secondary and university studies in Linz and Graz, Austria, where he graduated in philosophy (1928). There he published his first study <\/span>“Naim <\/span>Frashëri<\/span>, <\/span>jeta<\/span> dhe<\/span> veprat<\/span>” (<\/span>“Naim <\/span>Frashëri<\/span>, life and works”<\/span>)<\/span> (1925). After returning to his homeland, he was appointed a professor at the High School of <\/span>Korça<\/span>, the Commercial School of Vlora, director of the “Normal” school in <\/span>Gjirokastra<\/span>, inspector at the Ministry of Education and director of the State High School of Tirana (1929-1939). He led the first anti-fascist demonstrations of students and citizens of Tirana (April 3–6, 1939). As the director of the lyceum, he also inspired the teachers and students not to honor the invaders. <\/span>He was i<\/span>mprisoned and exiled by the Italians to the island of Ventotene (1939–1942). <\/span>He was a n<\/span>ationalist, fighter for freedom and liberation, commander of the detachments of the National Front in <\/span>Korça<\/span> district (1942-1943). He fought several battles against the Italian invaders: in <\/span>Floq<\/span>, January 1943; <\/span>Pocest<\/span>ë<\/span>, September 1943, etc., and against the Germans: <\/span>Barmash<\/span>, August 1943, in cooperation with the British Mission in Albania. Initiator and activist of the union of all Albanians in the fight for a free, <\/span>ethnic,<\/span> and democratic Albania. After the collapse of the <\/span>Mukje<\/span> Agreement (1943), as soon as he had finished a battle against the Italians in <\/span>Pocest<\/span>ë<\/span>, he was surrounded by communist forces in <\/span>Melçan<\/span> and, in order not to cause the fratricidal war, but also not to fall into their hands, he sacrificed himself in 1943. He was decorated with the medal <\/span>“Martyr of Democracy” and the highest title “Order of the National Flag”. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: Safet Butka)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror – Vol. <\/span>II,<\/span><\/span> “West Print”, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2012, page 217-218.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© Institute of Historical Studies “<\/span>Lumo<\/span> Skendo<\/span>“, Tirana<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Mel\u00e7an, Kor\u00e7\u00eb, Safet Butka, a professor, nationalist, and opponent of communism, was killed. He was the son of the patriot Sali Butka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7972","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\/7972","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=7972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11685,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7972\/revisions\/11685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}