Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsOf course from a juridical point of view, the redressof all injustices is very important as well: the condemnationof all communist crimes in Albania is imperative,including the crimes perpetrated on behalf of theideology. Such a juridical rectification would render thenew generations the conscience toward a period whichthey have not experienced directly. Such a thing has tobe done simultaneously with the condemnation of thecommunist ideology, and the crimes that it produced.Of course, the stories depicted herein are a humantestimony of all human rights violations and a reflectionover the transfiguration of the perpetrators. It couldbe much simpler to condemn an ideology and a periodof the history; rather than to bring before justice thoseperpetrators. The Albanian transition resulted to be along one, and the confusion this phenomenon producedis unbearable. In fact it seems more important than ever,to distinguish once and for ever, the collaborator fromthe sufferer; the man that didn’t say a word before theinjustices and the other one that produced them.Of course, there is a great deal of pain and sufferancein all narrations included in the present anthology.With the hope that the emotional response of thereader will not hamper the process of reading the bookentirely, we also wish very much that no one will gethabituated to the scenes of ill-treatment and abhorrenttorture that the authors have described herein. On theother hand, this is just an original and lively collectionof life experiences, whose aim is to prevent that someday everything might well be forgotten, as it never happenedat all.8