Literature and music for commemorative event in Spac

In one of the buildings of the infamous former Spac camp, there was a commemorative event with literature and music on the 40th anniversary of the shooting of former Spac prisoners, Vangjel Lezho, Fadil Kokomani and Xhelal Koprencka. The event was organized by the Institute for Democracy, Media & Culture (IDMC) and the Institute for Research on Communism Crimes and Consequences (ISKK), with the support of the Ambassador of Austria, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Tirana and the Municipality of the Rreshen.

Austrian ambassador, Johann Sattler, made an appeal for not to forgetting Spac and prevent it from being degraded into a ruin, so it can turn into a site of memory and reflection for the youth. Minister of Culture, Elva Margariti especially stressed the need for dialogue on the past, which should include memory sites and their preservation. ISKK director Agron Tufa stated that Spac had been forgotten by politics and that previous governments had simply made promises to turn the camp into a museum, but these promises were not been kept.

IDMC director Jonila Godole emphasized the dissent within communist prisons was an act of resistance to the regime. She talked about "the three Spac rebels", political prisoners Fadil Kokomani, Vangjel Lezho and Xhelal Koprencka, who were shot on 28 May 1979. The first two were sentenced to death after sending a letter to the Central Committee criticizing the divergences with the Soviet Union, and demanding the dismissal of Enver Hoxha. Koprencka was convicted of a letter urging the political Bureau to get closer with the United States.

Fatos Lubonja read excerpts from his book, "Repunishment," about the arrest of Spaci's "hostile" group in 1979, which included included him as well in addition to Lezho, Kokomani and Koprencka. There was a moving moment when Lubonja showed the photos of his three executed friends as they were asked to yell “Long Live the Party!". Bedri Çoku recounted Spaci's Revolt on 21–23 May 1973 as one of the key people. Shkëlqim Abazi gave a detailed description of the camp in the five years that he passed there as well as the Spac Revolt.

During this event two Austrian instrumentalists, Bertin Christelbauer (cello) and Zamir Kabo (piano), played parts from a select classical repertoire including Bach, Schubert, Shostakovich, etc.