Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsFor the first time Ana used the words “daddy andgrandpa in prison.” She was getting older, as she evenliked to say. Then she didn’t speak any more for Rane orjob for her father and grandfather but asked insistently,“What did they do? Why are they in prison?”The grandmother answered strictly, “Nothing.”InternedAlthough the main part of the former camp inhabitantswas not interned any more, the villagers called usthe same, “the interned”.Some were disgusted by the word. As I was toldsome of them lived on the command offices and annexes.The camp was behind them. After the camp was closedall its environments where just storage now, but in 1975,when a big campaign “cleanse” the country started, theoffices got full of people.The first at the former offices was Meli’s family. Sheand her sister married Italian engineers after the war.They had even one child each. Although they didn’t haveany more ties with their husbands, who had returnedin Italy, they were interned. One of the men was put inprison with “a group of saboteurs” before he left forItaly. Zeneli, their brother, that didn’t like to leave thesisters alone and had joined them. All called him “Uncle”the same as his two nephews, Boxhi, and Fredi did.When they were young, he and his little sister, Meli,who I had met in Lezha, had been partisans.They came from a wealthy family (their father hadgraduated the military academy during King Zogu’s rule54