Albania agrees to help identify communist era's missing
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Albania has agreed to work with international experts in identifying people who went missing during the country's communist past.
Prime Minister Edi Rama met Friday with Kathryne Bomberger, director-general of the International Commission on Missing Persons. The commission said in a statement that they discussed establishing a program to account for those who disappeared.
Official numbers based on files from the communist rule of Albania 1945-1991 have revealed that about 6,000 people were killed, 34,000 imprisoned and more than 50,000 sent to internment camps.
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The commission says the initial phase of its work in Albania will include trying to identify the remains from a mass grave discovered northeast of Tirana in 2010 and from a site in southern Albania.
Albania opened the files in 2015 in part to help determine the fate of the missing.