Background
Çami was born on 4 October 1925 in the village of Labovë of Gjirokastër District in Albania.
academician and party official
Çami was born on 4 October 1925 in the village of Labovë of Gjirokastër District in Albania.
After the war he studied philosophy in the University of Tirana. His career in this field would culminate with the honorary title "Professor" (similar to Doctor of Philosophy).
He held the position until the seventh parliamentary term ending in 1974. Çami served for several years as First Secretary of the Party of Tirana District. At the 8th Congress of the Party in November 1981, he was added to the candidate-member list of the Political Bureau of the Party of Labour of Albania.
Between 1982 and 1991, he served again as representative in the National Assembly during the tenth and eleventh legislature.
In July 1985, he was elected as the successor of the First Secretary of the PPSh Ramiz Alia, as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party. Çami remained within this supreme organ of the Party until his retirement in December 1990.
In 1993 a special court was brought in Tirana against Çami and nine other former high-ranking officials (Muho Asllani, Besnik Bekteshi, Vangjel Çërrava, Hajredin Çeliku, Lenka Çuko, Llambi Gegprifti, Qirjako Mihali, Pali Miska, and Prokop Murra) being charged for "abuse of public funds". The following sentences were given: Mihali and Gegprifti eight years each, Miska and Çuko seven years each, Çami, Çeliku, and Bekteshi six years each, and Çërrava, Murra and Asllani five years each.
On June 1996 he was against sentenced.
This time he got a life-sentence for "crimes against humanity", considering his position as local First Secretary of the Party.
He joined the partisans of the National Liberation Movement and served as a political commissar. He became member of the Central Committee of the Party in 1971.
Albanian Communist Party since 1943. AWP Central Committee 1966-1971, member 1971 -. Albanian Academy, of Sciences since 1972.
Political Bureau 1981-1986. member since 1986.
Presidium of Albanian Academy, of Sciences since 1984.