Ibrahim Karbunara

He was among the first deputies to be convicted of treason by the People's Socialist Republic of Albania and sentenced to hang with his son, Hysen, who shot Josif Pashko.

For higher education, Karbunara travelled to Istanbul, where he learned five languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, English, and French.

After graduation, he returned to his khanqah (Albanian: teqe) in Karbunarë, until 1909, when the Young Turks government detained him in Peqin for “disturbing the millets.”[3] In November 1912, Karbunara became the Mufti of Lushnjë.

During the short reign of Wilhelm, Prince of Albania, Karbunara signed a note of protest on behalf of Debar and Chameria, which envoy Turhan Pasha Përmeti brought to the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920) to advocate for Albanian sovereignty.

Joining the opposition, he was prosecuted and executed for allegedly “forming a traitorous organization linked to war criminals foreign and domestic aided by agents of Anglo-American imperialism, an organization that committed acts of sabotage, espionage, and terrorism to overthrow the people’s power and raise an oppressive regime of the [monarchist] Legality Movement Party.” His son was shot in front of him, and their remains have yet to be found.