"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."
"Soon the sky was completely covered with smoke coming out of our burnt houses."
""They separated some of the men to the side and sent the others to Albania""
"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. "
""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.""
""While I was leaving the yard, I saw that one policeman was carrying a camera and filming everything that was going on in the yard" - D.D"
"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 "
""On March 26 Serb infantry forces entered our village and ordered us to leave our village and go to Albania""
"When we crossed another 150 meters from our village, I heard bursts of gunfire."
"One of the soldiers in green, camouflage uniform threw a bomb through the window. The bomb fell on the chest of the old man H.A. and he was killed instantly."
"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."
"I heard one of the soldiers say: "No one should be left alive, check!""
"After a short while, the soldiers took out the men. They were in their underwear. Two in line, with their hands behind their backs, they were took outside the house. I remember Mr. A. saying "please". Walking outside of the house, he kept repeating that word."
""The police noticed my presence, but did not react to it at all. Then I saw that the second floor of the house caught fire" - M.D"
"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."
"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."
"I demanded that they let us take some food and clothes with us and I asked them to allow me to set the cattle free that remained tied in the barn, but they refused all of it. "
""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""."
""So I took the remains of the body (I collected the ashes and the little things that were left, earrings etc) and buried them in the village graveyard""
""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""
"We said goodbye to them and that was the last time I saw my brothers alive."
""They hit his head with a baton and took 1000 DM from him, and then put him aside from the road, where there were some other men who were also separated, whom I did not recognize." – Sh.G"
"I heard the soldiers threatening and cursing – we’ll kill you all, we’ll slaughter you"
"Then the soldiers came to us and fired further bursts on corpses. Then I was hit the third time again on the right leg."
"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."
"My husband shouted “don’t shoot, there are children here!”"
"Immediately after that, two paramilitary men came saying ”Here are the terrorists” and they started shooting at us."
"At the main gate of the yard there were two soldiers, and as we were leaving, they separated the men while the women and children were ordered to continue their journey."
"At the crossroad, the Serbian army separated from our families a group of 14 men, 15 years and older."
"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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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.