INTERVIEW with AGIM RUDI Pristina | Date: August 25, 2017 Duration: 156 Minutes
INTERVIEW WITH AGIM RUDI Pristina | Date: August 25, 2017 Duration: 156 minutes Present: 1. Agim Rudi (Speaker) 2. Erëmirë Krasniqi (Interviewer) 3. Donjetë Berisha (Camera) 4. Nevryze Rudi (Agim Rudi’s spouse) Transcription notation symbols of non-verbal communication: () – emotional communication {} – the speaker explains something using gestures. Other transcription conventions: [ ] - addition to the text to facilitate comprehension Footnotes are editorial additions to provide information on localities, names or expressions. Part One Agim Rudi: I was born on June 10, 1947. I was born in Gjakova. Even though my family were from Gjakova, they lived in Mitrovica, my father had a store. Earlier in Mitrovica there weren’t two stores that sold nails and dye, henna, fabrics. There was one store, and it was my father’s store. And… ‘44, it 1 was very problematic in Mitrovica, a very problematic time, chetniks existed but near Mitrovica, very near. They always lived in a part of Mitrovica, there were a lot, a few in Mitrovica and a few who went away from Mitrovica, they were always near Mitrovica, the chetniks. In ‘44, my father and his whole family fled to Gjakova, there were two, there were one brother, two brothers, actually one was born then, there was one brother. There were one brother and two sisters, we fled to Gjakova, my house was in Gjakova because Gjakova people go to work somewhere, either in Ferizaj or in Gjilan, or somewhere, they leave their family in Gjakova but this is how they lived, this is how they lived in Gjakova… people of Gjakova in Mitrovica… Erëmirë Krasniqi: When did you come back to Mitrovica? Agim Rudi: Then we came back slowly, slowly… I’ll tell you how.
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