Anthology of wounds - Arct

Anthology of WoundsThey had many days working in the middle of theswamp and had opened a long and very wide channel.It deepness was high as a man. When they entered insidethey didn’t look. In the two parts of the channelwere build some very high crushed rock layers.The prisoners began to work to make the channeldeep. They dig the land and transported the soil in thecrushed rock area. Making deeper the channel was filledfull of water. Here the prisoners, worked without shoes,with rolled up trousers, and on parts full of water, evenonly in underwear.Just near this place was the sector appointed to workeven us.Working the channel made deeper and so the landmade softer and wetter. The water came out and thework did more difficult, the place was full of mud andsilt. When the lunch time came, the policemen whistled.The prisoners left their job. Before the Elbasan brigadewas the corporal Zeneli that ordered that no carriage toremain without unloaded. The prisoners climbed in thedam and were set in line of twos. Some couldn’t stand.They sat on the ground until the cook brought the boilerwith meals.The policeman ordered the prisoners to the line. Theyscreamed:-Keep the direction! I want to see you in one line! Iwant to see one head.-Corporal Zeneli saw a prisoner of them of Durres,which was not in the line. He captured the man fromthe collar, and beat with stick, before the other prison-186