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Jonuz Kaceli was born in 1908 in Tirana.
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He was one of the 23 victims of the regime"s Massacre of 1951 in Albania. Prior to his arrest and killing, he had been a well known businessman in Albania, as the co-owner in the company Osman Kaceli e djemtë, which had been one of the first companies registered in Tirana, Albania after the Albanian Declaration of Independence in 1912. He was also the brother of Sadik Kaceli, a famous Albanian painter.
Qemal Stafa, a notable World World War II hero, had been a company employee prior to his death in 1942.
Kaceli had been an important person in the business community of Tirana. He faced interrogations bravely and allegedly tried to hurt Mehmet Shehu during such interrogations.
As a result, according to a witness who told the story in 1993, he was thrown from the second floor of the Ministry of the Interior building and thus killed one day prior to the rest of the victims of the massacre, on 25 February 1951. In 2008 his act was recognized by the President of Albania, Bamir Topi and Kaceli was duly awarded post mortem the medal of Martyr of Democracy.
His corpse is now buried at the Albanian National Martyrs Cemetery (Albanian: Dëshmorët e Kombit).
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