"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."
"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."
""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."
"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. "
"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.""
"Because the bodies were not found, some peasants are hoping even today that their family members are alive and be held in so-called private prisons in Serbia."
"In those moments, I saw that everyone around me fell to the ground. Although I wasn’t hit, I quickly fell and I pretended to be hit. "
"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."
"I came into my house that was burned down and in the middle of the yard I saw a killed cow."
"They ordered them to lay down and when they did, the members of the Serbian forces started shooting at them."
""They separated some of the men to the side and sent the others to Albania""
"Please don’t kill my only brother!"
"I continued searching for my children. I took a small skull to the hallway, I didn’t know whose but it was a child’s skull. My hand turned black."
""When we passed by the policemen, one of them said to my son: "You, go over there and give the child to someone else." – Sh.B"
"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."
"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."
"He only briefly, and slowly replied, "Mother, take the kids and go." The policeman pushed me with his automatic rifle and I fell. I held the policeman by his feet and begged him not to kill my son. "
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I felt sorry for my uncle, but I didn’t move his body from that spot"
"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."
""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"
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We haven't found the bodies, but in the repair shop we found traces of blood, shoes and clothing parts of the killed men."
"Near H.'s body I later found 18 cartridge cases."
"When Shefqet went to the place where he had buried the others, he didn’t find their bodies, and this was a couple of days after a bulldozer came and dug around the place where their graves were "
"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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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.