Born into a poor family with eleven siblings, going abroad, and working hard as a teenager, Sabri, now 61 years old, has experienced a lot in his life. Also, during the war, Sabri had terrible experiences. Sabri joined the KLA and he exchanged fire with the Serbian army while transporting the family on a tractor trailer while going towards the […]

In March 1999, a bomb exploded in the Mitrovica marketplace. Rrahim Hasani’s five-year-old daughter Elizabeta dies on the spot. The other seven-year-old daughter, Elvira, got wounded on both of her legs. Rrahim, now living in Podgorica, remembers the times when he lived and worked happily throughout Kosovo. He is happy that on the memorial plaque of the victims of that […]

Mursel Gashi, a former KLA soldier, and his wife Bahria complement each other in the story they tell about the murder of their minor daughter, Vlora, who was murdered together with her grandmother while they were running away from home in a tractor-trailer during wartime. “When my mother and father died, it felt a great pain, but in time the […]

Mursel and Shehria got married in 1988. A year later they got married, and they got a son. Ironically, the firstborn child of Veliu family was named Gëzim, which means happiness in Albanian language, but he caused them so much sadness and grief. In 1999, while the family was in a column of refugees leaving for Albania a Serb paramilitary […]

Born in 1998, Marigona was just a baby the day paramilitary forces killed her uncle and took her father in an unknown direction. Everything she knows about him today, she has learned from her mother, her aunts, and her uncle. Already grown up and at the end of her studies, she recalls how she grew up all her life waiting […]

The real saga of the Kpuzi family begins right after the war, when their father is kidnapped, and they never find him again. The father of this family was a man with a disability, as he could barely stutter anything. He worked in front of the Pashtrik Hotel in Gjakova as a shoe polisher. His son, Homez, with a few […]

When the Serb paramilitaries arrived for the first time at the Hanumshahe’s family in 1998, they fled and took refuge in the forest, where they had previously brought items necessary for survival. After a week they went back to the village, and they found the house burned down by the Serbs. They lived for six months in the basement of […]

“Killer, you will be forgiven”, says the poem of mother Dragica who lost her teenage son a few months after the end of the war and who still “had neither known true love nor had a chance to buy a razor and have his first shave”. Her family of four had decided to stay in Pristina after the war, believing […]

In March 1999, on the eve of the bombing by the NATO Alliance, when the inhabitants from village Polac were forced to flee to save their lives, the men were separated from the women, so Beqir Koci, then 18, was separated from his mother and grandmother. The group in which he was located was attacked by Serbian forces, and they […]

Ajete’s husband joined the KLA in a time of war. She was left with four children, with the youngest child not even three years old and her old father-in-law. When the Serb forces approached the village, same as elsewhere, the residents were forced to flee to the nearby forest. Ajete says that during the war she did not see mass […]