The well-known artist, Eda Zari, was yesterday invited to the show "S'e Luan Topi", where she spoke about the treacherous murder of her brother during the fall of communism.
"It has been a very long time that I did not articulate on this topic, maybe because I was not yet sober with the loss, with the pain. But I had many contacts during this time with many fellow sufferers
We know that Ilirjan Zari was among the first or the first, who was killed at the border of Erseka in 1990. It was the first murder right after we thought that something was already blooming. We have the fall of the Berlin wall, we had extraordinary movements in the Western Balkans, widely in Europe. But for his bad luck and our bad luck, he lost his life and in July of '90, we know the events, the opening of the embassies, the people who go through the ships", said Zari.
The well-known artist also remembered how her parents experienced this sad event and how the other brother was in the psychiatric hospital of Elbasan.
"Those scenes, those memories are very painful. Besides we lost our brother and the other brother was sent to Elbasan psychiatry. Apart from the fact that the mother had her own sufferings, together with the father, things that greatly affected their health, the problem was that the endless questions of the State Security of that time continued. That's why we still have the Museum of Leaves today, where often when I visit, I immediately have certain memories that are really painful. Whip on the body, extraordinary ways of blackmail. The things that I also in one, let's say my writings that I have done for my brother but also for the politically persecuted, who even to this day suffer the pain and we have it very present among us.
I mean, it's not a very good memory, and every time I take that plaster off the wound, it always starts to bleed. I hope that history does not repeat itself", said Zari.
When asked why she is still researching her brother's files, the well-known artist said:
"Perhaps one comes to a certain point in life to understand beyond the family biography, beyond that family tree, who I am, where I come from, how my blood branches. This was a very important point to understand how this murder was, how it happened. What were the reasons? And as you browse, open these letters, open these documents, you become a witness and willingly a "visitor" of many painful facts, from the way he took the bullets, the way his body was dragged through the villages of Erseka ".
