Hito Çako

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Hito Çako (1923–1975) was an Albanian politician and lieutenant general of the People's Army of Albania.

Life

Born in Progonat in 1923, he joined LANÇ and the Albanian Communist Party in 1942. He was interned in Italy in 1942-3 until the country's capitulation to the allied forces. Upon returning to Albania, he joined the 5th Attacking Brigade to which he was promoted to the rank of political commissar. In 1944 he was promoted to the rank vice-commander of the 2nd Attacking Corps. Of his relatives Rakip (1923–1943) died in Shëntriadhë against the Italian army, while Remzi and Shefqet (1924–1944) died against the German army in Cepo and Qesarat respectively.[1]

After Teme Sejko's purge he acted as political vice-admiral of the fleet until Sejko's replacement by Abdi Mati. Çako was a long-standing member of the party's Central Committee and a deputy of Vlorë County in the Albanian parliament until 1974, when in the first phases of the Sino-Albanian split he was accused of being a member of a pro-PRC coup d'etat headed by party leader Beqir Balluku and was sentenced to execution to firing squad in 1975.[2]

Sources

  1. ↑ Meçaj, Nasip; Çelaj, Xhemil; Toçi, Fatmir (2009). Enciklopedi e Kurveleshit. TOENA. p. 61. ISBN 99943-1-496-3. 
  2. ↑ Hodos, George H. (1987). Show Trials: Stalinist Purges in Eastern Europe, 1948-1954. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 167. ISBN 9780275927837. Retrieved 16 December 2012. 
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