Word: sigurimi
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...addition to men in uniform, Tirana swarms with plainclothes Sigurimi, Albania's secret police, whose "interrogation'' methods range from the use of poisonous snakes to an ingenious electric cage that shocks the prisoner when he tries to straighten up or sit down. According to a United Nations survey, 80,000 of Albania's 1,700,000 citizens were thrown into concentration camps between 1945 and 1956, and 16,000 died there. Last spring, a dozen Albanian army and navy officers were tried, in an improvised courtroom in Tirana's Partisan Cinema, as pro-Soviet conspirators...