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"Bursts of gunfire suddenly started. It seems to me that we all fell to the ground at the same time. The first bullet hit me on the right side of the chest, and another bullet hit me in the right leg. I immediately fell to the ground. Slowly I waited to die. It seems to me that the gunfire lasted forever."
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"We haven't found the bodies until 2005 when two persons from the Red Cross came and told us that the bodies of my brothers were found in a mass grave in Ruhot."
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""The last thing I saw was when they took all three of them to the field next to the road, where they placed all other men who were separated". – Sh.H"
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"We saw Sinan’s house on fire. That moment was the hardest for me. I knew that my dearest mother, sisters, brothers and other relatives are burning in there."
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"While we were lining up, the soldiers cocked their rifles. The distance between us and the soldiers was only 10 meters. It was only then that I figured out that they were going to shoot us. That’s why they left the tractors engine running, so as not to hear the shooting."
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"I was the penultimate person that came out of that yard, close to my father Latifa and I saw when all the men were ordered to stand on their feet and to realign."
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"They made us lay down and told us to hand out our money unless we want to get killed. I had 100 DM that I hid in my socks. I took out the money and gave it to them."
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"Water of the river Belaja was red of blood."
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"We started to cry. Mother tried to calm us down by saying that we are children and that they won’t harm us."
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"Around 10 o'clock after the Serbian forces burnt nearly all the houses and started exiting the village, I went to my house which was on fire and in front of the door I found the body of my nephew facing down."
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"All the victims were shot and massacred with cold weapons."
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"Three days later, the sons of V.N.went to our burnt house where they collected the remains of the three persons killed and burnt in the house and then buried them in a field."
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""A few days later I was told by my neighbors who escaped to Prizren that the bodies of the killed disappeared from the place of the incident""
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"I asked her "what did they do to you?", she said "my god what happened to us, they took all my clothes off". I did not ask her anything else."
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"Moj father was killed with one bullet to the forehead, and there were mark of maltreatment on his body, and his right let was broken."
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"They stripped them all the way down. I don’t know what happened to them, as they were held on that field, while they were leading us to Qirez."
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"We walked for about 50 meters and we heard bursts of gunfire. We all started whining. I wanted to come back, but others wouldn’t let me go. "
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"They ordered women with children to leave towards Albania. We had no choice, so we left, leaving the men behind. After walking for about 10 minutes I heard a burst of gunfire."
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"I could see 3 gypsies covering graves in the cemetery. I thought the 3 older women they had taken maybe they were burying them there."
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"At the crossroad, the Serbian army separated from our families a group of 14 men, 15 years and older."
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"We started panicking. The same policeman broke the window of the room in which we were and then opened the door of the room and threw a bomb in that exploded immediately."
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"I felt sorry for my uncle, but I didn’t move his body from that spot"
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"Then some old men, among whom was uncle Janus, began to pray to God out loud, and then all the others did the same because they knew they were going to be executed."
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"After they put that paramilitary man in the tank, they shot six civilians who carried the body so far. Then they spoke to us : « Six Albanians for one of ours »"
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"Soon the sky was completely covered with smoke coming out of our burnt houses."
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"No one who was present during the massacre in Obri e Epërme survived the massacre."
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"We said goodbye to them and that was the last time I saw my brothers alive."
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""At that moment, one policeman ordered me in Serbian to quickly get out of the yard and leave for Albania" - Z.P"
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"On the road toward Gjakove, on the right side of the road I saw 7-8 men who were lying there, with their faces on the ground and hands above their heads."
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"It had rained incessantly. I could still hear the shelling. I slowly checked with my hand whether anyone was still alive. Other than the four of us, they were all dead."
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