{"id":3332,"date":"2020-04-14T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T17:23:09","slug":"his-whole-foot-is-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/his-whole-foot-is-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHis whole foot is missing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">INTERVIEW WITH: FETIJE MIRENA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the evening of 21 April 1999 in\u00a0Fush\u00eb\u00a0Kosova\u00a0the 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 wide family Mirena, from whom they gather not less than sixteen men \u2013 brothers, uncles\u2019 sons and their sons.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The remaining women with children got terrorized by their Serbian neighbors, forcing them to leave their country. The houses got robbed and later burnt. The remained with four children,&nbsp;Fetije&nbsp;Mirena, a wife of&nbsp;Nezir&nbsp;who was kidnapped that day, tells her many sufferings during and after the war.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2006 the remaining of\u00a0Nezir\u00a0and all other kidnapped men were found in Serbia. Their burials do not cover the tragedy of this family.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0061_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"684\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0061_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3333\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0061_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?attachment_id=3333\" class=\"wp-image-3333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0061_1.jpg 684w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0061_1-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3334\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?attachment_id=3334\" class=\"wp-image-3334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0075_1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3335\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?attachment_id=3335\" class=\"wp-image-3335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0083_1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3336\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?attachment_id=3336\" class=\"wp-image-3336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0088_1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3337\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/?attachment_id=3337\" class=\"wp-image-3337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dwp-balkan.org\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/DSC_0097_1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">PHOTO: KORAB KRASNIQI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fetije&nbsp;Mirena:&nbsp;Narration in first person<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is&nbsp;Fetije&nbsp;Mirena, I am born in village&nbsp;Trovc&nbsp;of&nbsp;Vushtrri&nbsp;in e very good family. I have had my father, mother, two brothers and we have been four sisters. Primary school I have completed in&nbsp;Strovc. I could not go on in secondary because parents did not allow females to go to school. It was so before in villages. I wanted like all others to go but the circumstances were so, we couldn\u2019t. Our village was there close to&nbsp;Prelluzha&nbsp;with Serbs. In&nbsp;Vushtrri&nbsp;we had no road to travel as females. We had to go on foot for one hour up to the train there in&nbsp;Prelluzhe, and a group of young ladies, they did not let us. I have completed the exercise in Mitrovica. Serbs called us for exercise, I was for six weeks in Mitrovica, they have taken us to&nbsp;Shipol&nbsp;and then in villages.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though I did not go to school, we were many cousins who had good relations, we went down to other&nbsp;neighbours, and we have had a very healthy family. We were around seven-eight young girls of same age that weren\u2019t allowed to go to school, however after our time things have changed and my sisters went to school. It was good, we went to other friends, weddings. We have had good time in our village.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I got engaged with&nbsp;Nezir&nbsp;Mirena. My father knew his family a bit. My auntie was married in his family in Hade. Family of my husband were displaced to&nbsp;Fush\u00eb&nbsp;Kosova&nbsp;long time ago. I met my husband at my auntie but when we got engaged, he wasn\u2019t here. He was soldier in&nbsp;Pozharevac&nbsp;of Serbia, I think. We were engaged for one year. Seven months after our engagement he came back from army and after three months we got married.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At my father I have arranged my wedding ceremony, lunch and everything. We have invited men, women,&nbsp;and the ceremony was nicely done. The wedding guests came to pick me up with cars, bus, there were many guests. They are of very good family, all were educated. When I came at my husband\u2019s, they welcomed me. It was Sunday when I got married, on Monday as our tradition requires, we have had a ladies\u2019 day, and we gathered and had fun. The day I got married it was 28 September 1986. In \u201987 my son was born, on 10 September, just before I had one year of marriage. After two years of my first son, my daughter was born. The other daughter after six year and the other son after two years of my little daughter. It means I have two daughters and two sons.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have had a Serbian&nbsp;neighbour&nbsp;who had a son after seven daughters. I was owning a cow and he used to come and take milk from us. He said: \u201cI don\u2019t want to change the milk for my son, I am always taking from you.\u201d Once my father was here, may his soul rest in peace, that Serb&nbsp;came&nbsp;and he said: \u201cwhat did he want in your yard?\u201d I replied: \u201cFather, he comes to take the milk for his son.\u201d He said: \u201clisten to your father I am giving you a word: you should never trust to e Serb. You feed with your own bread and at the end he comes and kills you like a thunderstorm. Keep these words in mind.\u201d I kept these words even though I was young, but I never thought in this way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After, when we took our children to the doctor, the hospitality by Serbian doctors in&nbsp;Fushe&nbsp;Kosova&nbsp;was very bad, humiliating us. How do you carry children like that, you have no conditions, this and that? Seven days before the war started in&nbsp;Jashari&nbsp;family, my father-in-law died, and four days before the condolences period we had to quit that ceremony because many people were incoming and Serbs notices why there are many cars at our house. The railway is close, they were coming Serbs from Belgrade, the wagons were full of people pointing with three fingers, and we had to quit the condolences time because we were afraid.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All our men used to work in KEK, in-laws, my husband and all. Four days before they have taken our husbands, a house of an uncle is at the beginning of the&nbsp;neighbourhood, the Serbian&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;entered in his house and forced to lay down and told: \u201cYou have to give everything you have money and gold or we are taking&nbsp;Fatlum.\u201d The only son. There was a brother who had no children whereas the other one had two sons and a daughter, and the one that have taken the only son. And them everything had in both houses, three women have given all the gold they had and money just to let the son free. I have seen these Serbs later running, their heads were completely shaved and with crosses. They were without masks, civil. Since that happened, we have said to our men \u201cLet\u2019s go!\u201d Where to go? Whole&nbsp;Fush\u00eb&nbsp;Kosova&nbsp;was full, you could not go and buy anything, neither cigarette,&nbsp;and&nbsp;we did not dare.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They did not go to KEK anymore, they couldn\u2019t go to work because they killed son of our uncle on 24 March \u201999. He was working for Social Institution in&nbsp;Prishtina. My little son was very sick. We were coming back from health&nbsp;centre&nbsp;and told to my husband that we need to buy flour because the crises already started. A Serbian lady approached to my husband and me: \u201cTake the child and run, run, run!\u201d my husband was very insisting and said: \u201cWhy should I run? What did I do? I went to the shop!\u201d there was a big shop at the train station, I said: \u201cI want to take some flour, why should I run?\u201d she said \u201cI am saying as to my brother, take your wife and child and run home.\u201d He was very&nbsp;insisting&nbsp;and I said, \u201cLet\u2019s take the son and go!\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we reached here, just before we entered, we have heard three shootings. My husband\u2019s brother came and said: \u201cThey killed somebody.&nbsp;Things are going bad.\u201d That uncle\u2019s son came with taxi. They have&nbsp;killed the taxi driver and that cousin. The plaque on his name is there, Mehdi Mirena. There it started and we knew nothing who was killed because didn\u2019t dare to go and see. Around evening I have asked his wife \u201cDid uncle Mehdi came home?\u201d She said \u201cNo, I don\u2019t know what happened, he did not come from work.\u201d That night they didn\u2019t dare to go, the next day they woke up before morning went to check and his body and that taxi driver from&nbsp;Fushe&nbsp;Kosova,&nbsp;both of them&nbsp;have been thrown under the bridge. They have taken the car. We have taken the cousin and we have buried him in&nbsp;Kryshevc&nbsp;cemetery. From that event we have tried to open the ceremony for condolences, but it was impossible. NATO attacked the same night that they were killed but we couldn\u2019t. We started that ceremony, people started coming but Serbs from train were shouting: \u201cSerbia, Serbia, and Serbia.\u201d We quit.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After one month they came and have taken our men. It was 21 April \u201999, I will never forget. I went together with my husband to milk the cow that day. The dog was on leash there and I was coming, he remained behind me to take care for it, because he was at work but for a month no one could go. The well was in our yard and I put the bucket with milk close to the well, suddenly I saw the railway was completely black. Two trucks stopped on the other side of the railway, they landed, they all were dressed in black and with masks, and each of them was holding a green ribbon on the arm. I shouted to my husband and&nbsp;said&nbsp;\u201cthe railway is dark and I don\u2019t know what they are.\u201d They were laying on that side, they were just raising their head up. And I said: \u201cI run to the children, you run&nbsp;where ever&nbsp;you can, don\u2019t go inside.\u201d He insisted \u201cNo, I will never leave my children here.\u201d And we went inside.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They shot from the railway. My brother-in-law wasn\u2019t hearing well. I remember, they said \u201cStop\u201d, he didn\u2019t. He did not hear&nbsp;well&nbsp;and they shot from the railway and wounded him here on the yard. They entered in the uncle\u2019s house from that side. They have taken two of his sons, they were three and one sister because their parents went to Germany. From there they went and got my oldest brother-in-law,&nbsp;Nazif. His wife was taking shower to their children. It was evening, 7 and a half in the evening.&nbsp;Nazif&nbsp;was wounded and they caught him. They caught also the other brother-in-law&nbsp;Hakif. He came in here: \u201cNezir, come out because they came just to see if we are refugees or we are in our homes.\u201d The second floor of our house was not completely arranged and I&nbsp;said&nbsp;\u201cgo up there!\u201d he said \u201cNo!\u201d My oldest son was 11. He said: \u201cI cannot because they will take my son, I better surround myself.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They gathered all the men. When they took my husband, that Serb with mask came until here, children were screaming&nbsp;loudly&nbsp;and my husband said to me: \u201cturn the back of the children this way.\u201d When we saw the brother-in-law wounded, just before the Serbs came in, my husbanded fainted, I run to sparkle with water, children were screaming. When he stood up, the Serbs have taken him and brought him inside and they took him out again.&nbsp;Hakif&nbsp;came. The Serb said: \u201cLet\u2019s go out!\u201d He replied: \u201cWith wife and kids?\u201d he said: \u201cNo, we are gathering only men.\u201d The sons started to run after him: \u201cDaddy, daddy.\u201d I just grabbed my son from hand and brought him inside. He was saying to me: \u201cTake the son away from me.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Latter my daughter Enchilada grabbed her father from leg, she was screaming and screaming. Serbs grabbed her by force. I was saying to her: \u201cCome honey, let\u2019s go inside because they are just going to question your father and will come back.\u201d She was grabbing him up to the stairs. It was hard to take her from her father. That Serb told to my daughter \u201cne&nbsp;boj&nbsp;se\u201d \u2013 (don\u2019t be afraid), fondling her hair. There they have taken the sixteen man from our&nbsp;neighbourhood&nbsp;and lined up. I took my little son outside allegedly for toilette just to see. They were around twenty people, but I didn\u2019t understand Serbian what they were saying.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Son of brother-in-law,&nbsp;Safet, was 16, he used to sell cigarettes and he spoke Serbian and he was the seventeenth in line. They put them behind the railway and his father&nbsp;Hakif&nbsp;shout on them \u201cturn him back because he is a child and he&nbsp;knows&nbsp;nothing.\u201d The young boy knew Serbian. I have seen from window that&nbsp;Safet&nbsp;was coming back. But when he came, he was lost crying loudly, said: \u201cI hear everything what they said: \u201cdon\u2019t turn your head otherwise we shoot you immediately.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The night fall, we gathered in my house all together with my sisters-in-law. We were waiting their return but nothing. Children were screaming and we were trying to calm them down. To tell you the truth that night I pushed down my daughter&nbsp;Gentiana&nbsp;from the bed because of the nervousness. Our men did not come back that night.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And old lady, who died, together with my sister-in-law from&nbsp;Ka\u00e7anik&nbsp;went to a Serb to ask. They were close to us. \u201cPlease, we have been&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;forever and we had good relations, can you tell us where they took them?\u201d they have taken four sons of that old lady. That Mehdi was killed earlier and other three were taken that day. When they came back, they told what that Serb has told to them: \u201cYou take your children and go to Albania because you have nothing here, we don\u2019t know who took your men.\u201d They said: \u201cyou, as our&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;can go at police station at least to know where they have taken them. Did they kill them or where have they taken? But no, the old lady came back crying.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At 3 o\u2019clock, a Serbian&nbsp;neighbour&nbsp;holding a gun on his belt came in and said: \u201ctake your children because you have no men anymore! Go to Albanian or Macedonia, wherever you want!\u201d he was our&nbsp;neighbour. Then all of us, women and young girls. To young girls we put kerchiefs on their heads because the train station was full of people. The station is not far from us; 15-20 min on foot. One of the young girls took one of my children another one of my in-laws to look like ladies and not as girls, to protect from Serbs. We left and went to the train station. When we went, a civil Serb with an automatic on arm approached and said: \u201cWhy did you come here?\u201d my sister-in-law replied: \u201cwe are going because they expelled us from our houses.\u201d He said: \u201cyou can\u2019t go anywhere tonight. Go away because there is not train for Skopje or anywhere.&nbsp; Take your children and don\u2019t stay here as tonight NATO is going to attack the station.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stayed there for three hours in betony together with children waiting for the train but nothing. After another one came and said: \u201cI know you. Take your children because tonight here they are going to slaughter you together with your children.\u201d We took the children and went back home. When we came home it was a mess. Our&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;Serbian and Roma have broken doors and windows, have taken TVs, stoves, everything they could find in our property. For three hours they have emptied the&nbsp;neighbourhood.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The children were screaming. My mother-in-law was still alive, she was grieving. The sister-in-law prepared some food for her. My youngest son was three, he started crying and I put in the cradle. While I was cradling someone said that \u201cA car arrive.\u201d my son woke up. Zoran together with his son has taken the car of uncle\u2019s son. He was wearing a suit and an automatic on his arm, his son with bucket of fuel on his hand. My four children, sister-in-law&nbsp;Shemsie&nbsp;with three sons,&nbsp;Safet&nbsp;who survived from first group, two other young boys and I lined up us all to wall of the annex of the old house. And he said: \u201cYou have survived from all others?\u201d only he remained, young boy of age 16. He said: \u201cyou have nothing here anymore. Why didn\u2019t you go to Albania? You love Albania. Go to Albania.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They lined up us all, me and sister in law, this&nbsp;Safete&nbsp;and wanted to kill us. I have shouted: \u201cauntie Shema take your children close to you.\u201d I have taken all four of my children and said to him: \u201ckill me together with my children. I will never leave my children with you to play with them, and after dogs to eat us across the fields.\u201d He said: \u201cTake the children away!\u201d I said: \u201cI will never!\u201d But suddenly I weakened, I sat down to avoid falling and said to my children \u201cstay here close to your mother!\u201d they were loudly screaming. The sister-in-law from&nbsp;Ka\u00e7anik&nbsp;went out from her corridor, the one who was preparing food for mother-in-law and her child, and in Serbian said to Zoran: \u201cyou should be ashamed, you are our&nbsp;neighbours, and we grow up here together and now coming to burn children and women.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He returned, removed the automatic from arm and his son said: \u201cTake your children for a minute and go&nbsp;where ever&nbsp;you want.\u201d I have had a cow in the stable, sister-in-law brought two cows from across the railway because she was afraid to keep them there. I went inside, I thought my children escaped to continue through meadows that lead to&nbsp;Kryshevc. I was totally lost; I thought my son is in the cradle. I took the empty cradle and when I went out the Serb told me \u201cput the cradle down and go and unleash thee cows, take them outside.\u201d When I went in the Serb pulled out a big knife and said to me: \u201cunleash them.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t you see that I cannot\u201d I said, because they were jumping. He said: \u201cGet out!\u201d I lost completely thinking \u201cNow he is going to cut my head and leave me here.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dog was barking all the time. He pulled the automatic and shot the dog in the hovel. I saved the dog\u2019s leash. Children started to shout because they thought that their mother is killed. He said: \u201cGet out!\u201d he went and cut the leash of the cows with that knife and cows went out in the meadows. All the ladies run but a daughter-in-law of a brother-in-law came back, and I said: \u201cStay with me because I am going crazy.\u201d He didn\u2019t let me go. I said: \u201cI am going crazy because I don\u2019t know where my children went.\u201d In such cases you lose your mind. He told me: \u201cyou go!\u201d we didn\u2019t look back anymore and when I went&nbsp;out&nbsp;I just grabbed the cradle because I thought that my son was in. Then I saw my daughter, she was 8 and half, was holding my son on her back and said to me \u201cmum come because I have the brother.\u201d I dropped down the cradle.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That night we went to&nbsp;Kryshevc, and there we stayed for five days, they were barely sheltering us. They said: \u201cwe don\u2019t dare to have refugees.\u201d We came back and took care for houses hoping that they are releasing our men. We came back twice and entered carefully.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband\u2019s uncle was left alone at home because he was paralyzed, and his daughters-in-law could not carry him. When we came on the next day, they brought that uncle to the house of Mehdi Mirena, placed in a living room, undressed him completely. Serbs and Roma\u2019s brought the dog inside with him. The dog didn\u2019t touch him because it was a home dog. When his daughter opened the door, the dog jumped on her. When she saw her father like that, she got terrified. She was 19. She screamed very&nbsp;loudly&nbsp;and we run after her. They let the uncle like that intentionally to be bitten by dog, closed the door with purpose that when dogs get hungry to eat him. He was confused, just saying \u201cAaauuuuu\u201d as he could not talk, he was paralyzed and unmovable.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We covered him with a blanket, but we could not find anything to carry him out because he was big. We went out to search for any handcart. We found and put the uncle on it and took to&nbsp;Kryshevc.&nbsp;Kryshevc&nbsp;is close. We have stayed there for other two days. They: \u201cWe wouldn\u2019t like to house refugees because police from&nbsp;Obiliq&nbsp;are coming at our homes also.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One morning we decided to leave. The train was coming from Belgrade, we got in the train and went to&nbsp;Bllaca. When we reached there, we were dropped down by Serbian soldiers or I don\u2019t know what they were. They forced us together with children to walk through some garbage. A lady there gave me two breads and some cheese to take with me as she said: \u201cChildren will starve\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My hand was swollen because the son was little, the other daughter five, another son was ten and half and the other daughter eight and a half. It was difficult with four children because no one could help you, everybody was looking to save their selves. I had to carry some clothes for four children. While walking on the garbage, a piece of glass crammed into foot of my son. He started \u201cOuch mother! I replied \u201cWalk, don\u2019t talk! Just walk and don\u2019t talk!\u201d I have pulled out that glass after six months in&nbsp;Prishtina, when we came back. I didn\u2019t know while we were there because my son didn\u2019t mention anymore.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So&nbsp;we went like animals, we have waited and they crossed us to&nbsp;Stankovec. We were waiting for any news from our husbands but nothing. Some who were released from prisons were coming but for ours nothing. In&nbsp;Stankovec&nbsp;we stayed for two months, until June. I was asked to go to Australia together with my&nbsp;children&nbsp;but children were very young, I was afraid then. It was a time when we women were not so much civilized because to whom I mentioned this, used to&nbsp;say&nbsp;\u201cAustralia is far from Europe, you go there and will be lost together with your children.\u201d Children were very young. When you have no men close to you is different. Some of my sisters-in-law went to Germany to their sons but we remained lost. I refused to go to&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;and I had to come back.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we came back, it was a mess. The house was abounded. Even the taps were broken, it was completely burnt. Two years ago, we entered to live in that&nbsp;year&nbsp;but it was burned to ashes.&nbsp; Even the other house was burnt and after we have destroyed that house. When we came back from&nbsp;Stankovec&nbsp;the grass was grown to two meters and children could not go in there.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had no place to go and I was told: \u201cWe are taking to some place to&nbsp;Germia.\u201d I told them that my brother-in-law is in&nbsp;Dardania&nbsp;and \u201ctake me there\u201d because I did not know where to go. I went at my brother-in-law, he was there with his family, two other sisters-in-law with their children who were returned before me. I stayed there for 2-3 days and I told to my brother-in-law, only he survived, \u201cI want to go and see the house.\u201d He said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to go.\u201d I replied, \u201cI want to go because my oldest son is insisting\u201d. There was no place to go, it was like abounded, burnt to ashes, taps were broken and was flood everywhere.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I went to a cousin, we left from brother-in-law and gave us an apartment, which belonged to a Serb. All three sisters-in-law were living in the same apartment; there with children from three families it was hardly: four of mine, four of&nbsp;Sherife, three of&nbsp;Shemsie, all in an apartment with two rooms. Eleven children and three ladies in one apartment. The son of sister-in-law pushed my little son and the heavy heater felt on him and he fractured his head. We were close to emergency unit. Behind that heater was hidden 7-8 automatic guns but we removed from there and handed over to KFOR. I have taken my son to the emergency unit. They told me \u201cUrgently to the hospital\u201d they have taken him there with their own vehicle and he was shouting: \u201cdaddy, daddy.\u201d A doctor there was from&nbsp;Bellaqevc&nbsp;and said: \u201cdo you love more your daddy or mummy?\u201d I said: \u201cHe does not know where his father is. He has been taken during the war and we don\u2019t know where they have taken him.\u201d He said: \u201cHow come you don\u2019t know?\u201d \u201cI am from&nbsp;Bellaqevc&nbsp;and your men, all the sixteen were killed in&nbsp;Pomozotin.\u201d I said: \u201cNo way!\u201d than he replied \u201cYes, how come you don\u2019t know?\u201d I said: \u201cBelieve me, we don\u2019t know, maybe my brother-in-law knows, but they did not tell this to us, women.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have taken my son crying and went to Sunny Hill, at my husband\u2019s uncle and asked: \u201cUncle Kamer, do you know if our husbands are killed or they are alive?\u201d I have told what the doctor has told me, that one who treated my son. He said: \u201cA work permission of&nbsp;Elmi&nbsp;was found. Around 16-17 graves were found in&nbsp;Pomozotin. Some signs are found but we don\u2019t to tell you because we don\u2019t know exactly, and we don\u2019t want to upset you.\u201d He said: \u201cthis was a war; you never know they might be alive.\u201d As I was young, I trusted him, I was 30 that time. I trusted him.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A mother in-law came, and I said: \u201cSee if there is any apartment available until I reconstruct my house at least, because I have no other place to go with my children.\u201d She said to me: \u201cJust tell me if you can because a Serb has abounded his apartment and you can come in it.\u201d I replied: \u201cHow is possible a lady to usurp an apartment on her own?\u201d Two people from KLA came and they arranged. There were two apartments, but they break a door of one and placed me in there with my children.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I entered there but some&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;have told to the Serb in Belgrade. The next day the lady came and said to me: \u201cwhat do you want here? I didn\u2019t kill anyone neither\u2026\u201d I said: \u201cI know that you haven\u2019t kill my husband, but I have no place to stay, I am homeless.\u201d The Serbian lady came together with KFOR just to pull me out. \u201cGet out\u201d she said. I said: \u201cI have no place to go, I am not touching you and you don\u2019t touch me. I have no place to take four of my children just to sleep on the street.\u201d I said: \u201cI am not usurping&nbsp;forever neither taking but it is temporary solution. Your apartment is here, you will come again in it, and I am not taking it forever. My purpose is to shelter myself and children because I don\u2019t know where my husband is.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That night the Serbian lady slept in the other room. She did not sleep all night, me neither. The kitchen was full of knives, I was afraid that she will wake up during the night and stab my children. The&nbsp;neighbour&nbsp;had informed her, not because her husband was abroad, but the purpose of the Albanians was to take that apartment. The Serbian lady slept overnight and next day another Serbian lady came, who was married to an Albanian, who she spoke Albanian clearly and was translating for me. I said: \u201cmy intention is not to buy neither to live here, because things that don\u2019t belong to me will never be mine.\u201d I said I have my house, my land but I have no place to go because everything is burnt. I don\u2019t have my husband and I said that I don\u2019t have any help from anyone. Both of my brothers in Albania, none of them were here. I said none who could help me did not survive and I said: \u201cas soon as you have any chance to sell your apartment you can sell it because I might reconstruct my house and make a solution. Somebody will help me.\u201d The other lady said to her: \u201cLet this lady live in it because I am here, and I will see&nbsp;what&nbsp;she does.\u201d And since KFOR came with her have told that the next day will take to a place where they take women and children. The next day when KFOR came the Serbian lady told to them \u201cI am going to Belgrade, let this lady live here but don\u2019t you dare to sell it.\u201d I said: \u201cI am giving my word that I will only shelter myself with my children here until I make a solution with my house.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Serbian lady left and after a week she came back with her men. She has taken a truck and took&nbsp;all of&nbsp;her things, she took everything. When she left from there, one of my brothers helped her to lift all the items down, and I said: \u201cLet her take all because we can sleep in mattresses just to have a shelter somewhere.\u201d I had no stove, nor heating plate or anything where I could cook for my children. KFOR stayed there until thy removed all the items and then KFOR told me that: \u201cThey are going to bring all the items and you stay here. I signed to KFOR that I am not going to usurp the&nbsp;apartment,&nbsp;I will use it as shelter with my children.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Serbian lady has left the key at one of her&nbsp;neighbours&nbsp;whom she worked together in&nbsp;Gra\u00e7anica. The Serbian left and later KFOR brought me mattresses, some quilts, dishes, forks, spoons, knives and some food. KFOR used to come often and they brought a bag of toys for my children.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next day as soon as I put two of my children to sleep at midday, it was June, two men knocked on the door and said: \u201cMam, why did you enter in this apartment? I said: \u201cbecause I have no place to live, I was out in the street with my children and the Serbian lady in accordance with KFOR allowed me.\u201d He said: \u201cDo you know that this apartment is ours?\u201d I said: \u201cNo, I don\u2019t\u201d. He said: \u201clook the key!\u201d he put the key in the door and said: \u201cyou see the key. This is ours.\u201d My son was sleeping, the other three went out to play in front of the building. I put my hand on the door to push them go out. He: \u201csister takes the hands off because we are going to cut your hands.\u201d I said: \u201cCut them but I am not going to leave. My son is inside sleeping.\u201d He said: \u201cwe are going to give you your son.\u201d I said: \u201cNow I am going to call KFOR because they give me their number.\u201d He said: this apartment is&nbsp;ours,&nbsp;you are in wrong apartment.\u201d I said: \u201cI know I am in someone else\u2019s apartment.\u201d Both of the men pushed the door and I said to them \u201cyou should be ashamed. A lady with four children, instead of helping her you are doing to me this.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My brother came. They attacked him, but I said: \u201cYou go away. I will deal with them in my own.\u201d They went down the stairs and said: \u201cWhile we are alive, we are not going to let you here.\u201d They did not come anymore. That&nbsp;neighbour&nbsp;has made up this issue.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I lived in that apartment until and associating helps me to reconstruct my home. I lived there for two years. I stayed up to June 2001 upon children finished the school because they were enrolled in \u201cIsmail&nbsp;Qemajli\u201d school. My uncle was in Sunny Hill and with an agreement he bought it from the Serbian lady.&nbsp; The uncle told me: \u201cYou stay as long as you want.\u201d However, I reconstructed that floor of my house and children wanted to go back. I also wanted to go back at my home, where my husband left me and children because things that don\u2019t belong to me will never be mine. I returned, we have suffered, poverty, children were all young, school was far away. They went to school walking, on snow and cold. Later, in 2003 I found a job. The salary was&nbsp;low&nbsp;but it helped me a lot because I could take to school my children and I did not beg to anyone. The pension for husband \u2013 at the beginning I used to receive 300 DM until we found them and buried. When we found them they gave us this&nbsp;pension.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first one to be found was&nbsp;Idriz. They all were in the same group in&nbsp;Batajnica, in Serbia. They have withdrawn from&nbsp;Pomozotin. There we have seen 17 graves, because it was a guest in our family, uncle of these guys. He left his wife with a daughter. They all were found at the same time. They are all buried.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they were not completely buried. This was not told to us that are missing\u2026 in 2017 they brought an arm of my husband. They have told this only to my brother-in-law and his son. To us, women, no one has told this. I don\u2019t mean that this should have been told to children also. I came back from work and I met a guest of us, Sokol, he received also a part. When they told me this, I felt that whole Kosovo felt on me, it was very hard. I said: \u201cwhat are you talking about?\u201d I was told: \u201cit was Ahmet&nbsp;Grai\u00e7evci, and a remaining of&nbsp;Nezir&nbsp;came. I said: \u201cBut we have buried him.\u201d Because we knew that we have buried. I went in my room crying, blood pressure was high, and I told this to my daughter-in-law and daughter. The daughter said: \u201cYes mum, Ahmet&nbsp;Grai\u00e7evci&nbsp;was in our yard.\u201d they did not tell this to children but to my brother-in-law who came from&nbsp;Prishtina.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My oldest son came back from work in the evening, but I have told to the daughter-in-law: \u201cDon\u2019t you tell him before he eats his dinner!\u201d He was tired; I said \u201cKushtrim, my son, there were missing some part of your father\u2019s body.\u201d He walked around the dining room for around twenty times saying: \u201cThis is not&nbsp;true,&nbsp;this is not true.\u201d I told him the Ahmet&nbsp;Grai\u00e7evci&nbsp;was at our yard. \u201cYou are guilty. You did not let me to see the body!\u201d we hardly have seen the body because you had nothing to see, bones only. But they did not let the boy because he was 19 that time. He was saying: \u201cThe house remained on women. You did not know, that is not body of my father.\u201d He was shouting and crying \u201cWhere did I go, to whom I have paid courtesy, it was not the grave of my father at all.\u201d I said: \u201cHoney, I will call now Ahmet&nbsp;Grai\u00e7evci&nbsp;because you are driving me crazy. When a coffin of your father arrived, I identified his clothes.\u201d I did not recognize his bones but all the clothes in front of his coffin were his. Inside were bones. I did recognize&nbsp;all of&nbsp;my husband\u2019s clothes.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband was killed with seven bullets, as is written in the papers. One on head, one on arm and one on heart. The sweater had several holes but not down, the sport trousers and jeans that he had. We were keeping things ready to leave. Underneath he had a pair of sport pants and had a zipper inside where he kept 100 DM to have in any case. They found that pocket and took the money.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body was found in 2006 but the part of the arm arrived in 2017. We did not know, and I immediately have phoned my brother-in-law. He said: \u201cYes, it\u2019s not complete.\u201d I said: \u201cYou should have told to us women at least to prepare our children.\u201d Now my son is 31 years old. When he became 20 or 23, I would have told him because I am today, but I may not be the next day. Why children to be surprised and think that \u201cMother did not tell us.\u201d I phone the son of my brother-in-law and said: \u201cto&nbsp;Veton&nbsp;just came six months ago but I did not make it big and Red Cross have issued there.\u201d I said \u201cYou should have made it a big deal because if only a finger is missing is yours. Why should we leave it to Serbia?\u201d I want to bring his remaining and have the whole body.\u201d My son was completely mad, he was insisting \u201cI am going to take the body out and make the analyses on my own, once more.\u201d My son gave blood twice for analyses, the daughter, mother-in-law and sisters.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When they found the arm, I was invited and went there to sign and met Teuta, who works for UNMIK. She said to me: \u201cTalk to you children because it might happen that after seventy years to be found another remaining and you can bring your son at us.\u201d I have told to my son \u201cto go to Red Cross.\u201d He went there told \u201cI want to know everything\u201d they have told that those are all bones of your father because this was verified through analyses, but some bones were mixed. The son was calmed little bit. Now complete foot is missing and two of his knees\u2019 covers. The arm was buried with other bones. The Red Cross came and did with their tools. I have signed at the municipality. But the knees\u2019 cover may not be found, as Red Cross said to us. But for the foot I have told to my son, of course because he is his father and my husband, and we should know.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My husband was very good man, wise and lovely, for his children and wife, and for his close family. Once my daughter was hospitalized in Belgrade because of an infection in intestine, when she was still a baby. We were so happy when doctor told us that she is very well, and we had to come back home. When we came home our sisters-in-law cooked a dinner. Whole family of my husband was happy family. I considered my brothers-in-law like my own brothers, they were very good, they were educated, with culture,&nbsp;they never insulted me, I&nbsp;could never complain.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will never forget our last moments, I have had pie with spinach for lunch \u2013 since then I don\u2019t like it anymore, we have eaten it for lunch, but he again said: \u201cOh my God I am so hungry.\u201d I said: \u201cI am going to milk the cow and we go and eat dinner. This is our last conversation we have had in the yard. When we entered inside, I don\u2019t remember any words of him.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He could not eat that night anymore. Since that day I cannot eat pie with spinach anymore, I just make it for my children, as I feel sorry, he could not eat his last dinner in his house.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I dream him, but he just turns his back and tells me: \u201cStay there, you are fine!\u201d he says to me only these words. When I talk to my colleagues, they say to me \u201cit means stay as you are fine, take care for your children.\u201d But I cannot know. A night before our men were taken, my oldest son has dreamed and when he woke up said: \u201cI have dreamed that they are going to slaughter us like at&nbsp;Adem&nbsp;Jashari.\u201d I told this to my&nbsp;husband,&nbsp;and he said: \u201cIt\u2019s good to leave from here somehow.\u201d We remained her, only this&nbsp;neighbourhood. When I went to the brother-in-law I said: \u201cKushtrim&nbsp;dreamed\u201d he&nbsp;replied,&nbsp;\u201cLeave it he is only a child.\u201d Whatever children dreams that becomes reality, as they came in the evening and have taken our men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My message is to find all the killed persons and not to forgive this to Serbia before finding them, because Serbia knows all who killed our people. If sixteen potatoes get spoiled, you will be without lunch and let alone sixteen men.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tax is very good, we agree with&nbsp;Ramush. Let the Serbia tells who have killed them, one by one, because it knows, let confront this people and when they get the punishment we will agree for our children, grandchildren to have a better life. But currently we would not like and there is no need that Hashim,&nbsp;Ramush&nbsp;either&nbsp;Fatmir&nbsp;Lima or anyone else to give land to Serbia. Serbia has taken a lot from Kosovo. I don\u2019t know what is requesting more. They left women with small children to suffer, children aren\u2019t going forward.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because our children are with traumas. Hashim did not say any word and never came to visit for anniversaries. We all know what happened to&nbsp;Jashari&nbsp;family, there is nothing worse, but they never remembered the orphans, they never had advantages for schools, faculties neither jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All men were working in KEK. None of our children is hired in KEK to work in their parents\u2019 places, at least to have jobs in state institutions. This is my wish, let our politicians know what they are doing, let them&nbsp;take the wish of the fallen people as they shed blood for this freedom that today they are enjoying, and our children are suffering.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(This story is part of \u201cLiving with memories of the missing: Memory book with stories of family members of the missing from the last war in Kosovo\u201d, implemented by forumZFD program in Kosovo and Integra, in cooperation with Missing Persons Resource Centre, with the support of Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Rockefeller Brothers and Swiss Embassy in Kosovo)&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERVIEW WITH: FETIJE MIRENA In the evening of 21 April 1999 in\u00a0Fush\u00eb\u00a0Kosova\u00a0the train unloaded a group of paramilitaries who came from Serbia. 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