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"My father, who probably knew that we would be executed, fell to his knees in front of the commander and told him in Serbian: "Please, I'm here with my two sons. Please leave one alive because I have no more sons. " "
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""10 or 15 soldiers with tin hats started separating the young men from the column. Then they ordered my son too to leave with them. My son was afraid. I told him "don't be scared my son, it will be fine""."
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"When we came into the hallway of the house, I was the first in line and a lighter was thrown in front of me. I didn't see who threw the lighter. One of them shouted at me "pick it up and light it". I took the lighter. I don't know whether I lit it, when I heard a burst of fire.""
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"When he entered the room, I heard a stark voice from the yard saying “Throw the bomb you idiot and run”"
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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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"They took foam rubber in the hall and lit it on fire. One of them approached from the outer side of the house, broke the window just above my head and threw the lit foam rubber into the room. At once, the dead bodies were caught in fire, as well as the whole room and the house."
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"The gunfire lasted about 5 minutes. Then I felt pain in my stomach, but I couldn't move, I pretended to be dead. I heard some people crying for help."
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""One tank positioned itself on the hill above the village and pointed its cannon toward the village. Later, with no warning, the tank shot straight at our house""
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"I felt sorry for my sister who was only six years old and whom I left when I jumped through the window. I awfully regretted jumping and saving only myself. I wish I died along with them."
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"I heard them cry… and then the explosion of the second bomb. After the explosions, you could hear bursts of gunfire, and it lasted for a long time, and then came the dead silence."
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"Everything happened so quickly, we didn’t even have the time to look at each other or to somehow say goodbye to each other and to this life."
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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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"Shortly afterwards, I heard some footsteps going towards us on my left side and then going in order and shooting with ab automatic rifle at people who were already on the ground. When he arrived at my head, then I heard him changing his cartridge clip and then started shooting at people who were on my right."
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"We said goodbye to them and that was the last time I saw my brothers alive."
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"Please don’t kill my only brother!"
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"Early in the morning, exactly one day after the NATO bombing of Kosovo, Serbia's police and army entered our village with tanks and began to burn the houses and the whole village."
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"My husband was holding our one year old daughter in his arms. One paramilitary man ordered him to put the child down and to join the other men who were separated on the side."
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"No one who was present during the massacre in Obri e Epërme survived the massacre."
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""We were kept at this place, half-naked, for three hours""
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"I was petrified that he would notice me too. I tried not to breathe. For my daughter who was also covered in dead bodies I thought she wasn’t alive because I could see her breathing. "
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"We walked about 50 meters with a military escort. Then they stopped near the village cemetery. They ordered us to lean on one fence."
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"Around 10 o’clock in the morning, the Serbian soldiers separated a group of young men between 13 and 18 years of age. One officer kept my son S. on his knees and said “we are the regular army and we don’t kill young people, we will bring all of them home”."
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""I begged them to release our sons, but one of them told me "They just need to stay there to get checked and we will release them, too" - K.P"
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"After that they ordered the rest of us 12 men who were left in the truck to come down. Then they told us to stand in line with our hands above our heads and they were taking us to the place where they just killed the first two groups."
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"After the second explosion, the policeman fired in bursts on the people some of who were wounded and others already dead. The policeman changed his cartridge clip three of four times."
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"When the shooting stopped I heard the voices of the shot men. Probably some of them were still alive. Five minutes after that, the house of Z.G. was on fire, with six shot men inside."
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"When we crossed another 150 meters from our village, I heard bursts of gunfire."
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"I heard one of the soldiers say: "No one should be left alive, check!""
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"After less than five minutes we heard a burst of gunfire. Only one and it lasted short. The women started crying. My mother too. I cried too and just watched confusedly. I knew they killed my father."
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"My daughter insisted on going back to her father. I didn't let her, but there was a big commotion so she managed to slip out and head back to our village on foot. I couldn't imagine that my husband and daughter would be killed that day."
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