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TIRANA, Aug. 23 – Albania’s plans to turn an abandoned forced labor camp where hundreds of Albanians considered enemies of the former communist regime are believed to have been killed in the late 1940s and early 1950s into a memorial museum in honor of victims of communism has clashed the two main organizations representing Albanians in the United States and around the world. Joe DioGuardi, a former US congressman of Albanian origin, says he opposes the identification of the southern Albanian town of Tepelena as the “Albanian Auschwitz” and has called for the project to be cancelled or be decided…
