“I want to go the woods and shout “Reshaat”!”
INTERVIEW WITH: FATIME QERKINI Reshat, the youngest boy of the Qerkini family from Mitrovica, is involved in the country’s defense and begins to often miss from home during the time that the Serbian authorities intensify their terror in 1998 in the Drenica region, sometimes […]
“For twenty years neither on land nor in heaven”
INTERVIEW WITH: HALIL, SADRI & ZYLE UJKANI In April 1999, Halil and Zyle Ujkani’s two sons, Mahit and Shaip, went missing. Halili’s brother, Sadri, also lost two sons, Faton and Shkelzen. The third brother, Zahit, who has since died, also lost his son, Nazim. The five young boys, as soon as they […]
“We never light a candle for my father in remembrance of his death”
INTERVIEW WITH: JASMINA ŽIVKOVIĆ Paun Zivkovic in June 1999 withdraws his family from Ferizaj to the Štrpce area where Serbs feel safer by being more homogenous. The family bids farewell to life and work in the city, leaving the house […]
“I saw a dove and two pigeons playing”
INTERVIEW WITH: NEBIH MORINA Nebih Morina is the father of five children, three girls and two boys. In the case of Nebih, unlike the others, none of the boys are disappeared, but the oldest daughter, Mevlyde. Married in Suhareka, the […]
“The day I left them, I knew they were gone”
INTERVIEW WITH: KUMRIJE MAZREKAJ The family Mazrekaj- from Drenoc was forced to leave home when Serbian forces came to vacant the village by the Albanian population. They force them to walk a while, once they separate men from women. Kumrija […]
“If there was a tomb where I could place flowers”
INTERVIEW WITH: MILORAD TRIFUNOVIĆ Miroslav Trifunovic had returned to Kosovo after several years of living abroad. He was 43 and was thinking of marrying and creating a family. He worked in the Belacevac surface coal mining. He even built a […]
“We found pieces of bones in finger size”
INTERVIEW WITH: MALIQ KRYEZIU The family of Maliq Kryeziu was forced to leave the house when Serbian military forces came to attack the village with over thirty tanks. Striving to their families and with them to gather in the village […]
Interview with Nezir and Hamide Avdyli
INTERVIEW WITH: NEZIR & HAMIDE AVDYLI The parents of eight children, Nezir and Hamide Avdyli, remember the time when the war broke away from their two sons and they have never seen since. Three of their boys, Fadili (24), Fatmiri (18) and Kujtim (16-year-old), were separated from the family to […]
“My life has become a living hell”
INTERVIEW WITH: OLGA STOJANOVIĆ Marko Stojanovic was the director of a primary school in Ferizaj at the time of NATO bombing. Convinced that the war would soon be over and that the collective would return to the disrupted teaching, he thinks there is no […]
“His whole foot is missing”
INTERVIEW WITH: FETIJE MIRENA In the evening of 21 April 1999 in Fushë Kosova the train unloaded a group of paramilitaries who came from Serbia. They were dressed in black, armed and with masks, entered in the houses where lived different members of […]
