| Georgie Kanzuron a refugee
who lives today in Macedonia stands on some of the rubble of the village
Popadia. This is where his father was born, most of the residents fled
during the war. The empty village has now been demolished to make way
for a new dam. When Georgie was 6-7 years old his grandfather (his father
was in the Democratic Army) started teaching him some Greek, he told him
that now he would be going to school and his name would be Giorgios, not
Georgie. In school he must only speak Greek, or there would be trouble.
On his first day in school it went fine, until he forgot and said his
name in Macedonian. He was beat on his fingers, and later his grandfather
was taken away by the police and beaten on the soles of his feet, for
not bringing up his grandson speaking Greek. |
