On March 11, 1948, Monsignor Frano Gjini, Albanian philosopher and theologian, passed away. Monsignor Gjini served as a priest in Laç, Vlora, Durrës where he was also ordained a bishop, while in 1932 he was appointed abbot of Mirdita. For his activities, Monsignor Gjini was arrested on November 18, 1946 by the communist regime, and on March 11, 1948, after 16 months of investigation, he was shot.

On March 11, 1948, Father Qiprian Nika, Rector of the Franciscans of Shkodër, was shot. He died under the serious charge of having hidden weapons in the altar of Shën Ndou of the Franciscan Church of Gjujadoli, Shkodër.

On March 11, 1948, Father Mati Prendushi, a Franciscan priest was shot by the communist regime. The friar who participated in the raising of the Albanian flag in Deçiq in 1911 with the the general of the mountains, Ded Gjo Luli, was persecuted and pardoned by King Nikolla of Montenegro and later by King Zog I of Albanians, but was sentenced to death by the communist court.

On March 11, 1948, 16 arrested were sentenced to death by the new communist regime. Monsignor Nikoll Deda, Father Mati Prendushi, Father Çiprian Nika, Caf Dragusha, Cin Serreqi, Guljelm Suma, Ing. Fahri Rusi, Abdulla Kazazi, Pjetër Pali, Dulo Kali, Xelal Haradolli, Gaspër Simon Gaspëri, Murat Hysen Haxhija and Bilbil Hajmi, were convicted under the charge of being agents of the Anglo-Americans, the Vatican, participants in the Postriba Movement, the introduction of weapons in Elterin of Shnandou.

On March 11, 1963, Albanian politician Azem Hajdari was born. Azem Hajdari was one of the most prominent political figures from the 1990s to 1998. He was one of the main activists of the Student Movement in the 1990s that brought about the system change, even the first chairman of the DP and its MP. On the evening of September 12, 1998, the democratic deputy lost his life in an assassination attempt where his bodyguard Besim Çerja was also killed too.

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