Kristaq Rama

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Kristaq Rama was born in Durrës, Albania in 1932 and died in Tirana on April 1998. Kristaq Rama is the father of Edi Rama, actually president of the Socialist Party of Albania and prime minister of Albania, also several times former mayor of Tirana city.

Personal life

Kristaq Rama graduated from the Artistic Lyceum “Jordan Misja”, in the Department of Fine Arts in 1951, and three years later left Albania for studying in Leningrad, Soviet Union. After graduation, returns in Albania, where works primarily as superintendent of fine arts at the Ministry of Culture, and at the same time teaches as external lecturer at dhe Higher Institute of Arts. Kristaq Rama is the father of Edi Rama, actually president of the Socialist Party of Albania and prime minister of Albania, also several times former mayor of Tirana city.[1]

Works

As a sculptor Kristaq Rama has created several busts of warriors, people portraits, female sculptures, as well as other decorations.

Implication with Communist Dictatorship crimes

Kristaq Rama has signed along with Ramiz Alia and others[2][3] in the August of 1988, documents for death penalty of poet Havzi Nela by the hanging rope.[4][5][6][7][8] Other documents show that Kristaq Rama has signed for death penalty for Enver Osmani, a 29 year old from Dibra.[9]

References

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