Word: kastoria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week in Kastoria, a worn woman of 55 cooked a pot of beans-a meal for eleven people-while unemployed men sat silently on crates and battered luggage...
...Kastoria 217 repatriates, sent back last year from Rumania and Czechoslovakia, are living wretchedly in four ramshackle stone buildings. Each got 150 drachmas ($5) from the government the day he arrived in Greece, nothing since...
Said Kleoniki Kiprou from Monopilo Kastoria: "First they hanged the priest, then they cut off his mother's hands, and then they ordered us to follow them. What could we do?" In Albania her eight-year-old girl and five-year-old boy were taken from her and a rifle was thrust into her hands. Tapping the weapon, the rebel capetdnias said: "This is your husband, this your child." Kleoniki was forced into the battle of Vitsi. She deserted and got back to her village-without her children. In Fourka Konitsa, the villagers learned in advance of the guerrillas...