3 hours agoThe closure of the border between Albania and Kosovo separated the five-year-old girl from her mother, the meeting's story after 42 years
Periskopi(8 months ago)
(8 months ago)The closure of the border between Albania and Kosovo in 1948, then part of the Yugoslav Federation, brought tragic separation of thousands of Albanian families living along the border line. One of the most touching stories of this period is that of Honeye Myzyright, who is now 82-year-old, born in the village of Death in Kosovo and [...]
In June 1948, at five years of age, Hanif along with her grandfather, Adem Socol, visited his uncles in the village of Vlaha, Albania. The cherry trees were ripe and the children's children were homesick. After ten days the border was closed and Hanifja remained in Albania. While mother fate and father Rexhepi remained in Kosovo.
I was told ten days later: Is the border closing? I said: No. Why, if he has a fence, a wall, when I miss him, I go. If you can't, there's wires, there's thorns, there's guards. ) I said: No, two to nine, don't sit around and close the” limit, confesss Hanifa in a tone that mixs childish innocence with the unscathed pain of separation, RTK reports, broadcasts Periscope.
Hanifya grew up in Albania, head of four years of elementary school, and was later married in the village of Dobruna, the Kukes district, just a few miles from her native village.
After 42 years of separation, in 1990, when a decision was made to ease the crossing of the Hanifa border, she obtained permission to visit Kosovo and meet with her mother. The meeting took place at the border point of Qafe Morina and is considered one of the strongest emotional moments in her life.
And after 42 years, I saw Nanna, it's completely limited, nana, sisters, brothers, cousins, all of you, all of you, like, thirty cars and over 200 people, like the wedding... we've embraced the mother, she's apricot and I'm not numb... not the mother of the mother, that's me up to three days, and I don't have three days with her, and I've just started with my girlfriend, not yet.
There are thousands of stories like this of the Myzyright Khanfe, unuttered and forgotten over the years. Many carry a heavy burden on their shoulders that they never managed to meet their relatives.
Hanifa's confession remains a powerful reminder of the price Albanian families have paid because of policies that destroyed human ties in the name of artificial borders. /Periscope/
