"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."
"We started to cry. Mother tried to calm us down by saying that we are children and that they won’t harm us."
"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. "
"When he entered the room, I heard a stark voice from the yard saying “Throw the bomb you idiot and run”"
"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."
""I knew that they shot my husband I., we were however forced to continue walking on foot in the direction of Albania." - A.H."
"The soldier came in and pointed to Z.H. and said come with me, she went out and did not say anything. She was outside about 20 minutes"
"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.""
"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."
"No one who was present during the massacre in Obri e Epërme survived the massacre."
"Even though I recognized that it was his body, I couldn’t approach him as the Serbian forces were close and I was afraid that they would notice me"
""Go to Clinton, complain to Rugova, there's no room for you here""
"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."
""They separated some of the men to the side and sent the others to Albania""
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
""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."
""On March 26 Serb infantry forces entered our village and ordered us to leave our village and go to Albania""
"We went straight to the burnt house. We went slowly inside. It smelled. We illuminated the room a bit with a lighter. Only then I realized that we were walking over the remains of bodies."
"I heard one of the soldiers say: "No one should be left alive, check!""
"Please don’t kill my only brother!"
"When we crossed another 150 meters from our village, I heard bursts of gunfire."
"I slowly walked over to the corpses, and took the bag with food that was next to the body of my father. We couldn’t stay and bury the bodies. We were afraid that they would come back and find us. "
"I heard the soldiers threatening and cursing – we’ll kill you all, we’ll slaughter you"
"One of them hit me on the head with hit rifle butt and pushed me to the side."
""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"
"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 passed by the policemen, one of them said to my son: "You, go over there and give the child to someone else." – Sh.B"
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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.