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Fatjona Mejdini

‘We fled oppression, not our home’: Albania to Australia and back again

Bajram Fezollari points to the precise location on the Ohrid Lake from where, 48 years ago, the boat carrying him and 15 other members of his family departed [Xhodi Hysa/Al Jazeera]

Pogradec, Albania – Almost every evening during the summer of 1975, Bajram Fezollari’s father, Feridon, would take him on a walk along the banks of Lake Ohrid.

But these were not simply strolls for bonding purposes between a once-distant father who had spent more than a decade behind bars and his teenage son. In reality, the two were on a stealth mission.

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