She was my aunt, Alexo Gatzoyiannis, 58 years old. The older woman stumbled along with the fixed stare of madness. One man, too badly beatento walk or even sit up, was tied onto a mule.Īmong the prisoners were five people from the village: three men and two women. They were guarding 13 prisoners who were walking barefoot to their execution with legs black and swollen from the torture called falanga. As the women came into view of the village below them, they encountered a grim procession.Īt the front and rear, carrying rifles, were several of the Communist guerrillas who had occupied their village for the last nine months of the Greek civil war.
on a hot, windless day, a group of women with firewood on their backs were descending a steep path above the Greek vil-lage of Lia, a cluster of gray stone houses on a mountainside just below the Albanian border. This article is adapted from his book ''Eleni,'' to be published by Random House later this month.
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