On the 33rd anniversary of the fall of the dictator's bust, a discussion on "The Robber at the Foot of the Hills"

With the writer Lekë Tasi, a discussion was held on his book "The robber at the foot of the hills". a new era for Albania, held this meeting at the "Tumo" center to discuss the book by the writer, Lekë Tasi, "The robber at the foot of the hills". A book with themes from the events belonging to the dark dictatorial period, with the denial of freedom and expression described with realistic notes in the story about the deportation of the author's family as well as hundreds and thousands of other families, between the years 1944-1991. "With the writer Lekë Tasi, a former political victim and other writers who touch on the unresolved events of the 1994 period -1991. Together with the Authority for Information on the Documents of the former State Security, we join together in the book club-"Learn from the past", it was said by the NKLL earlier. Lekë Tasi was born in 1929. He studied cello under the direction of teacher Walter Caletti, in the years 1939 - 1943, then with Ymer Skënder, in the Artistic High School in the years 1949-1952. He worked as a first cellist in the Orchestra of the Radio and the Opera Theater where he was dismissed for political reasons in 1967. His father Koço Tasi, a lawyer by profession, well-known in the 20s, had been a Member of the First Albanian Parliament after the Congress of Lushnja. After the June Revolution, he emigrated for 17 years to Greece. Uncle Akile Tasi, with a busy political career during the war, journalist by profession, died in the prisons of the dictatorship. Leka was sent to forced labor, a little later he was interned with his family in Grabjan, Lushnje, 1975-1990. He recounted the life of this period in the autobiographical book "The robber at the foot of the hills", Tirana, 2009. His main activity is painting. Upon his return, after exile, to Tirana in 1990, he resumed painting and exhibited at the National Art Gallery, as well as several other personal and collective exhibitions. His work was used by AIDSSH as the image of the first greeting card, with the theme of reflection on memory.