The story of Kosovo that raised the Swiss: Father killed my mother before our eyes, after 20 years I came to Kosovo

Kosovar had returned to her homeland 20 years later to meet her mother's family, which her husband killed in front of their children.

In times of war in Kosovo when Lena was two years old had emigrated with her parents to Switzerland and with her six - year - old brother, and as refugees, they were camped for asylum. At the time, parents had begun to have problems and that the state had placed them in a protective center, but her father had bought a gun somewhere and had gone to the centre and had killed their mother in front of two children.

The legal institutions in Switzerland had asked for a family to send two children left without a mother and that Dad was in prison and had been sent to a couple where the two had been Swiss. Lena had had a good, happy childhood with the Swiss parents “, and contact with her father's families in Kosovo had been cut off while her mother's family had not dared to search for children. At school, he had been loud because of his language and his case and that his children had ridiculed him a lot.

Lena always wanted to meet her mother's family, but not Dad's. She decided on one day she returned to Kosovo and asked where her mother was and on the basis of the documents her adoptive parents had been able to find the village of Lipjan where her mother came from.

The Albanian girl raised in Switzerland, although afraid of the plane she was leaving for Kosovo until on the same plane was singer Ledri Voula, who she says likes very much. After arriving in Kosovo, she had gone to her mother's village and to the village mosque were and the cemetery there had seen her mother's name.

She had continued in the village looking for her mother's family and at the green door where she was told to go had met a woman who was actually the uncle's wife who had just told her story had begun to rent a lot and that even Lena had been very excited. Then she wanted to know if there were other family members and she had told her she had a very large family, but that her grandparents or mother's parents had changed their lives two years ago, and there were two cemeteries she had seen in her village mosque, her grandparents' graveyard. Then she had met and talked with her mother's entire family and had kept in touch with them.

Lena says she remembers a little tragic when her father kills her mother in front of her eyes.

I always knew they weren't my biological parents and I knew that my memories before they raised me. How did you feel about the Swiss family? I feel like Swiss, but also as an Albanian, in culture as a Swiss, but in music and food, I feel myself as an Albanian, and the bloodiest I am Albanian”

Lena had also visited her aunt in Germany, which says she is much like her mother. The girl who grew up as Swiss but who is more blood is Albanian sees herself living in Switzerland, but that the husband wants to have it Albanian, and that shows that there are very good reports with Swiss parents but no longer lives with them. /Albora. ch/