 Enver Hoxha still haunts Albanian politics |
Albania's parliament has passed a resolution calling for communist-era secret police files to be opened. The resolution said crimes committed under the late communist ruler Enver Hoxha must be "recognised and denounced so that they are not repeated".
The non-binding document said ex-collaborators holding public office should be named.
Hoxha, who died in 1985, led Albania into international isolation and kept an iron grip on the country.
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The resolution was passed by 76 votes in the 140-seat assembly.
"Enver Hoxha was the inspiration and leader of the longest reign of repression in Eastern Europe," it said.
The opposition Socialists - the successor party to the communists - boycotted the vote.
"The deputies or civil servants who were once communist secret police must leave their jobs," said assembly president Bamir Topi of the ruling centre-right Democratic Party.
Correspondents say the resolution is non-binding and will not automatically oblige the authorities to open the police files.
Albania's post-communist governments have never managed to adopt a law on opening the files.
The communists incarcerated thousands of people in prisons and labour camps for political reasons.
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