The journalist of the black chronicle Zamir Dule has passed away at the age of 55 after undergoing a surgical intervention in a private hospital in Tirana.
The news of the journalist’s death was announced by his family and Zamir Dule will be laid to rest in his hometown, in the village of Miras in Korçë.
The journalist of the Black Chronicle was admitted to the hospital a few days ago in serious condition due to heart problems.
On February 29, the Union of Journalists appealed for help, as Dule and his family could not afford the financial costs.
Dule was a journalist in 1997, when he was massacred by the government of the time, and since then he has not been in good health. Since then, the well-known journalist of the black chronicle became a mental health invalid and has lived in his village in poor economic conditions.
The life of journalist Zamir Dule is a drama in itself and it would take a voluminous novel to describe it. In high school, he showed talent, which he later “converted” into journalism.
After the first articles in the newspaper “Voice of Youth” with special tendencies in the genres of chronicles, he started as a correspondent of the newspaper “Koha Jonë” for the District of Korça.
In 1994, appreciating his skills and dedication, the publisher Nikollë Lesi brought him to Tirana where he covered the chronicle sector for the police, the prosecution and the court.
At its peak, until approximately 1996, when he also wrote the book “Monster of Tropoja”, Zamir Dule became a symbol of the black chronicle journalist. So much so that Karlo Bolino, at that time the publisher of “Gazeta Shqiptare” to whom Zamiri had volunteered for employment earlier, whenever the latter published his sensational news, made Karlo regretfully release the expression “Ah Z Dule!” Mr. Come out!
He sacrificed so much for his profession that at one point in his career, with the aim of getting the most sensational news from Tirana and the whole country in a quick time, he made a ‘pact with the devil’.
Zamiri quickly withdrew from this wrong step, as according to his confession, SHIK was serving some second-hand news without interest, and moreover, the journalist himself, according to his confession, regretted this communication ..
As a reaction, he made a self-decision: ‘Better a terrible end or an endless horror?’ Which meant the tribute he would have to pay…
This is where the ordeal of Zamir Dules began, who under the pressure of persecution began to show psychological problems. For which the murder of one of his brothers had an impact on the other hand. The climax of these tortures reached the ghastly night of the burning of the editorial office of the newspaper “Koha Jonë” at the beginning of March 1997.
At that time, some of the journalists, part of the staff and the bodyguards of the publisher Nikollë Lesi took shelter to sleep in the underground floor of the newsroom. The night when the editorial building was attacked, Zamir Dule was the only one who was in the editorial office after midnight together with another employee of the newspaper since it was the weekend and everyone who was sheltering in the lower rooms had left with permission.
Zamir Dule was escorted to the police where he was tortured, these tortures put a lid on the terrible persecutions against him. He no longer recovered professionally, but also from his mental health and the shadow of persecution that did not leave him.
The government of the Prime Minister of the time, Fatos Nano, granted the journalist Zamir Dule a special pension, as a sign of appreciation for his work under conditions of persecution and especially for his torture by the police.
From time to time, Zamir Dule has become the subject of discussions, even in the political ranks, as the symbolic journalist of a vindictive regime against journalists. Also, there was an attempt to be contacted by his colleagues to interview him, but Zamir, withdrawn into his solitude and the world of books, refused them. After the death of his parents one after the other, Zamir, who could not marry, is taken care of by his brother.
