(A true story)
An albanian story
I was very young when the war started so I do not remember everything about it. I just remember that it was very scary everybody very nervous and none of us really knowing what was going on. Nobody felt safe and their were terrible stories of killings and violence.
I remember my mum telling us one day that we wear not going to be safe if we stayed in our home. She said that we would have to cross the border and stay away from our home until the war ended.
I was very scared and I did not want to leave my home. Our father was not around to help us and I could tell that my mother was very frightened she was pregnant with my youngest sister and she had four daughters to look after including me. I was to young to help so she must have felt very alone.
There were lots of stories about people going missing at the border and this made us all very scared. My father was not around and my mother had also decided that my aunt should come with us. I can imagine how difficult it must have been for them having to look after 4 young girls in such as scary situation. We heard that people where being killed and that only a certain number of people were being let through the border into Macedonia each day. All of this made us very frightened but my mum insisted that it was still necessary for us to make the journey show that we would be safe until the war ended.