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He was among the first to start actions against the Italians, as the commander of the K\u00ebll\u00ebz boys&#8217; unit. Naqo was the commander of the &#8220;Mihal Duri&#8221; company of the &#8220;Misto Mame&#8221; partisan battalion. He led with intelligence and bravery in all the actions against the invading enemy in Libohova, Kakavij\u00eb, Muzina and Gjirokast\u00ebr. In February 1944, due to illness, he was assigned to organize guerrilla units of the villages of Lunxh\u00ebria and formed the Territorial Battalion with about 400 people, to go to the aid of the partisan forces. After the war, he continued his education and worked in the judicial bodies in Gjirokast\u00ebr and Saranda, up to the position of the President of the Court. Naqo has been decorated with several war and labor medals from the Presidium of the People&#8217;s Assembly in those years. <i>(In the photo: Naqo Lame Qirko)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> Qirko J., personal archive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Qirko J., personal archive<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naqo Lame Qirko, a patriot and fighter in the National Liberation Anti-Fascist War, was born in K\u00ebll\u00ebz, Lunxh\u00ebri.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Naqo Lame Qirko - 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