"One of them hit me on the head with hit rifle butt and pushed me to the side."
"At the crossroad, the Serbian army separated from our families a group of 14 men, 15 years and older."
"After the column with women and children got away, and when they were convinced that they have already left the village Rezalle, they ordered us to get up in line, two by two, and to get out of the yard."
"I begged him, crying out for my sons to assure myself that they were alive, but the policeman hit me with the butt of his gun and I fell down."
"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."
"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."
"I came into my house that was burned down and in the middle of the yard I saw a killed cow."
"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."
"I loved my father very much and I miss him more than anything in this world."
"Water of the river Belaja was red of blood."
"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”."
"No one who was present during the massacre in Obri e Epërme survived the massacre."
"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. "
"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."
""The same policeman then turned to us and ordered us to continue our way to Albania. I don't know what happened to my husband""
"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."
""They separated some of the men to the side and sent the others to Albania""
"The young men who noticed the army before they entered the village managed to escape, but not all. "
"After they came out on the street, they started shooting at my husband I. I threw myself over I. and started yelling to kill me too."
""We were kept at this place, half-naked, for three hours""
"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."
"We said goodbye to them and that was the last time I saw my brothers alive."
"Near H.'s body I later found 18 cartridge cases."
"Soon the sky was completely covered with smoke coming out of our burnt houses."
"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."
""On the way home, close to the cemetery, I saw the body of I.H. who had been murdered. He was in a sitting position, and had a bullet hole in the chest area, close to the heart." - A.R."
""When we reached Djakovica/Gjakove, we waited all night, hoping they'd let our sons go. But they didn't come and I never saw my son, who was 22 years old at the time.""
"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."
"When the Serbian forces noticed us, they ordered us to join the gathered crowd and to hand them all the money and jewelry we had. Then they separated us from the men and divided them into three groups."
"When we crossed another 150 meters from our village, I heard bursts of gunfire."
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The goal of this project is to allow the public to learn about the facts and evidence regarding the crimes committed during the armed conflicts in the former Yugoslavia in the 90's for which no one has been held responsible.