The legacy of Enver Hoxha's brutal dictatorship is still living memory in Albania, and only in recent years have efforts been made to process the traumatic memories that so many people had to undergo, with museums and exhibitions cataloguing, preserving and unearthing historical facts. Albania ran an elaborate and ruthless camp system, and the Qafë Bari prison camp south of Fushë-Arrëz, officially known as "Education Unit 311" was one of the most remote and harsh of them all. From 1982 until 1990, around 300 political prisoners were kept here under terrible conditions, sleeping 16 to a small room and forced to work in the copper and pyrite mines. In desperation, they staged a famous but futile prison uprising in 1984. The now deteriorated buildings are now freely accessible. 20km further south along the same road lies the equally notorious Spaç prison.
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