Asim Zeneli (3 May 1916 – 2 July 1943) was an

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partisan during World War II. His death against Italian troops in 1943 in Mezhgoran became a rallying point for LANÇ. Posthumously he was awarded the highest honour of the country,

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Biography

Born in Progonat. In the 1930s he studied at the

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, in

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. and then at the

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. In 1939 he was arrested during the anti-Italian protests after the invasion of Albania. A member of the Albanian Communist Party, in March 1943 he became commander of the "Hajredin Tremishti" platoon and in late June commissar of the "Koto Hoxhi" platoon. He died on 2 July 1943 against the Italian army during the capture of

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{{Authority control 1916 births 1943 deaths People from Tepelenë Albanian communists Qemal Stafa High School alumni Albanian resistance members Heroes of Albania