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- New massacre in the village of Sopi of Suhareka
- Grenades on Kēiē and Dobėrlluka
- Villages of: Batllavė, Sfeqėl, Shajkovc, Livadicė and Mirovc of the Llap region under attack by Serbian terrorist groups
- Burning in the city of Gjakova goes on
- The list of the executed and massacred people in the village of Pastasel, Commune of Rahovec
- EYEWITNESSES TELL OF MASSACRE OF FORTY ETHNIC ALBANIANS BY YUGOSLAV SECURITY FORCES (Human Rights Watch)
New massacre in the village of Sopi of Suhareka
Suharekė, April 4th (Kosovapress) Yesterday, in the
village Sopi, commune of Suhareka, according to one witness, serbian terrorists have
executed 35 albanian civilians.
Up to now we have confirmations that: Kadri Elshani, with his mother and with two
brothers, and Arian Elshani were killed while the brother of Arian is wounded. Occupying
forces after having plundered, they have set on fire the village of Sopi. All captured
peoples from Sopi village and from villages around have been forced by serbian
terrorists,to leave for Albania.
Grenades on Kēiē and Dobėrlluka
Shalė, April 4th (Kosovapress) Today, at 07.30 o`clock (GMT), from "Kodra of Banjska" Hill, the village of Kēiēi was the target of serbian grenades.This bombardment by serbian terrorist forces is done by using cannon shots, tanks, mortar, projectile-launcher. Also from this serbian positions, the village of Dobėrllukė was grenaded too. From 11°°o`clock (GMT), from the ward of Boshnjakėve, in Mitrovica and Kroi i Vitakut, our observers have seen smoke and fire. Last night Cėrnusha has been burned, and the smoke of this fire could be seen even today.While Shala zone was again today the target of the serbian aviation.
Today, serbian terrorist forces have attacked villages of: Batllavė, Sfeqėl, Shajkovc, Livadicė and Mirovc of the Llap region
Llap, April 4th (Kosovapress) Today, from early in the morning, serbian terrorist forces have attacked the territory of Llap by using military aviation. This attack, according to our uncompleted informations was taken over the village of Popovė, and there are reports for many wounded people as result of this attack. Serbian terrorist forces have attacked today villages of: Batllavė, Sfeqėl, Shajkovc, Livadicė and Mirovc. Units of KLA have respond strongly to these attacks and they gave a strong hit to enemy. There are thousands of IDP's in this area. The clashes are going on.
Burning in the city of Gjakova goes on
Gjakovė, April 4th (Kosovapress) Serbian military-police forces are hidden in albanian civil objects in the city of Gjakova. Thus, the command of the serbian military is placed in the center of this city, one part of police forces is placed in the new elementary school "Mustafa Bakia", while the other part is placed in the construction material store nearby the bridge of Taliqi. Burnings in the city of Gjakova are going on. A painful characteristic is that, during all day you can see long convey full of displaced people coming from the region of the north Dukagjin, and their direction is Albania. In spite of this, the population of the city of Gjakova is determined to self organize and they don`t intend to leave their city.
The list of the executed and massacred people in the village of Pastasel, Commune of Rahovec
Rahovec, April 4th (Kosovapress) These albanian civilians have been executed in the village of Pastasel :
01. Haxhi Jemin Krasniqi
02. Shaban Ali Krasniqi
03. Sahit Mahmut Krasniqi
04. Pajazit Dan Krasniqi
05. Hamdi Islam Krasniqi
06. Avdi Sadik Krasniqi
07. Ali Sadik Krasniqi
08. Vehbi Idriz Krasniqi
09. Hydajet Cen Krasniqi
10. Shaban Cen Krasniqi
11. Selim Beq Krasniqi
12. Fadil Selim Krasniqi
13. Rrem Beq Krasniqi
14. Abaz Beq Krasniqi
15. Selim Sinan Krasniqi
16. Mazllum Xhafer Krasniqi
17. Selman Shaban Krasniqi
18. Bajram Shaban Krasniqi
19. Fejz Shaban Krasniqi
20. Mahmut Sali Krasniqi
21. Rasim Ethem Krasniqi
22. Rexhep Destan Krasniqi
23. Avdyl Sinan Krasniqi
24. Hamdi Din Krasniqi
25. Met Jahir Krasniqi
26. Vesel Islam Krasniqi
27. Sadik Pajazit Krasniqi
28. Shaban Pajazit Krasniqi
29. Ali Sejdi Krasniqi
30. Musli Haxhi Krasniqi, he had lived in Gjakova, but he is killed in Pastasel
31. Muharrem Mursel Krasniqi
32. Ismet Met Mazreku
33. Ali Syl Mazreku
34. Ukė Adem Mazreku
35. Muhamet Din Krasniqi
36. Zeq Met Mazreku
37. Behlul Din Krasniqi
38. Shaban Abdyl Krasniqi
39. Brahim Ukė Krasniqi
40. Mustafė Ukė Krasniqi
From the village Guri i kuqė:
01. Haxhi Dajė Seferaj
02. Haxhi Ibish Fetahu
03. Haxhi Ahmet Mustafaj
04. Jemin Danė Mustafaj
05. Mustafė Sherif Mustafaj
06. Ramė Zenel Zymeraj
07. Qani Ram Zeneli
08. Vesel Zenel Zeneli
09. Hasan Destan Avdylaj
10. Haxhi Destan Avdylaj
11. Selim Brahė Fetahaj
12. Asllan Destan Mustafaj
13. Ali Ukė Sadriaj
14. Blerim Avdi Fetahaj, age 14
15. Adem Qerim Fetahaj
From the village of Zatriqė:
01. Mustafė Osman Berisha
02. Ibrahim Osman Berisha
03. Ramadan Vesel Kastrati
04. Hajrush Vesel kastrati
05. Metush Gani Kastrati
06. Xheladin Brahim Vehapi
07. Hamz Islam Vehapi
08. Bajram Dem Spahiu
09. Samedin Jemin Kastrati
10. Isuf Nush Kastrati, he was wounded in the village of Zatriq
11. Zymer Isuf Kastrati, he was wounded in the village of Zatriq
12. Murat Avdi Kastrati, old age
13. Jahir Nush Kastrati
14. Jonuz Mytr Kastrati
From the village of Polluzhė:
01. Ramadan Jetė Dulaj
02. Veli Nezir Berisha
03. Xhafer Zekė Berisha
04. Zaim Haxhi Morina
05. Nasim Fexh Morina
06. Dem Haxhi Berisha, killed and buried in Polluzh
From the village of Koznik:
01. Avdyl Nebih Isakaj
02. Sahit Imer Isakaj
03. Din Sylejman Salahaj
04. Kadri Shaban Bajraj
05. Hasan Zenel Bajraj
06. Sokol Ramadan Isakaj
07. Him Ramadan Isakaj, both arekilled in Koznik and they are buried in Pastasel.
From the village of Papok: 01. Haxhi Cen Fejza, and
02. Bislim Ramadan Fejza, both killed in the village of Pastasel
From Klina environs:
01. Osman Hajdar Mėrlaku, Gremnik
02. Nimon Demir Mulaj ,Jashanic
03. Jakup Beqir Racaj, Njellov
04. Hasan Zenel Salihaj, Pej
05. Hajzer Hamit Hajzeri, Obiliq i Epėrm, Skėnderaj
From the village of Kramovik:
01. Avdullah Idriz Kelmendi, and
02. Rasim Idriz Kelmendi .
From the village of Llapqevė:
01. Binak Qerim Thaqi
02. Binak Ismet Gashi, Sfėrk, age 14
03. Ukė Gashi, Sfėrk
04. Tafil Banush Gashi, Sfėrk
05. Haxhi Jemin Zenunaj, Gremnik
06. Sali Selman Krasniqi, Senovc
07. Feriz Mrasori, from Mrasori
08. Veli Rrust Krasniqi , from the village of Ēifllak
All these victims are buried in the village of Pastal, against all difficuties that were created by serbian criminals. Five other carbonized cadavers were found ina trailer of one tractor. While there some other carbonized cadavers in some rooms of one house. Till now we could not learn about their names, but about 30 persons are from the age of 15 up to 30. There are suspections about more victims.
EYEWITNESSES TELL OF MASSACRE OF FORTY ETHNIC ALBANIANS BY YUGOSLAV SECURITY FORCES
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch interviewed six refugees late on April 2 who reported that Yugoslav
forces shot and killed forty male ethnic Albanian villagers in the town of Velika Krusa
(Krusha e Madhe in Albanian) on Friday, March 26. The village, on the main road between
Dakovica and Prizren, was reputed to have had sympathies for the Kosovo Liberation Army
(KLA) over the past year. Human Rights Watch fears the men may have been slain in reprisal
for their village's suspected support for the Albanian insurgents.
The six witnesses -- three men and three women--had driven through the mountains on a
tractor for seven days before crossing into Albania at the Morina crossing point near
Kukes in northern Albania, where they were interviewed by Human Rights Watch. One of the
men was wounded, having suffered shrapnel wounds in his legs and lower back.
The refugees said Yugoslav infantry raided their village on the afternoon of Thursday,
March 25, the day after the NATO air campaign began. One of the witnesses, who was in the
fields tending cattle, was shot and wounded as he ran towards the village. He hid that
night with the five others, he said, who were discovered early the next morning by
Yugoslav security forces wearing green camouflage uniforms.
"They gathered us together with the rest of the people from the village," said
X.S., aged sixty-four. "Then, at about seven in the morning, they separated out forty
younger males and shot them with machine guns."
The five other witnesses -- C. R., a forty-seven-year-old male, N. G., a
seventy-seven-year old male, R. R., a fifty-year-old woman, Z. R., a fifty-year-old woman,
and X. G., a sixty-five-year-old woman -- told similar stories.
On April 3, the BBC broadcast exclusive footage of an alleged massacre in Velika Krusa.
The video, smuggled out by an amatuer cameraman and edited because of its graphic content,
shows the bodies of several young men who were, according to the BBC, "killed with a
single bullet to the head after trying to escape." According to the cameraman, more
than one hundred people were killed when Serb forces shelled the area. He told the BBC:
"A group of Serbs were on top of the hill. Others came from behind. Our men were
captured and the Serbs killed them one after the other." The cameraman gave the BBC a
list of twenty-six victims, many of whom were known to him, which is reprinted below. He
claimed that there were thirty-one bodies in total, but five of the corpses were burned
beyond recognition.
The consistent and credible reports of killings at Velika Krusa supplement the testimonies
of three other refugees interviewed by Human Rights Watch on March 30 and 31, who said
that they had seen at least fifteen ethnic Albanians killed on the road around Velika
Krusa (see Human Rights Watch Flash #14). According to these refugees, the killings took
place near a police and army checkpoint on the main road between the villages of Zrce and
Velika Krusa.
In recent days, two international journalists have gathered the testimonies of
eyewitnesses from Mala Kruse (Krushe e Vogel in Albanian), another village located a few
miles to the southeast of Velika Krusa. CNN correspondent Christiane Amanpour interviewed
a badly burned refugee late last night form the village, who said he had been placed in a
pile of 112 bodies that were covered with petrol and set on fire by Yugoslav forces. The
witness survived, however, and made it out to the border.
New York Times correspondent John Kifner interviewed another witness from Mala Krusa on
March 30. The refugee, N.Z., reported having seen a mass killing, although no details were
provided ("Kosovars Flee to Beat Serb Deadline of Death," The New York Times,
March 31). The article said that her claims "conformed with other accounts given by
refugees" and with accounts heard by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in
Europe.
Based on its own research, as well as the coverage of the international media, Human
Rights Watch believes that two separate massacres may have taken place in the two
villages, Velika Krusa and Mala Krusa. It is possible the the killings were security force
reprisals or "revenge killings" for the villages' suspected support for the KLA.
Human Rights Watch researchers have determined that such a pattern of reprisal killings is
indeed underway in south-western Kosovo, and it has been a pattern over the past year of
the Kosovo conflict.
Reportedly Killed in Velika Krusa:
1. Ramadan Krasniqi
2. Ramadan Shait Hoti
3. Eqrem Jemin Duraku
4. Ibrahim Myrteza Duraku
5. Gjevgjet Syljman Duraku
6. Fahri Haxhilaf Hoti
7. Bajram Ali Duraku
8. Haxhi Halim Hoti
9. Hasaf Nexhat Hoti
10. Habib Haxhilat Duraku
11. Fraidin S. Dina
12. Flyrin S. Dina
13. Nimetullahli i Hoxhes
14. Shaban Rasim Duraku
15. Ali Selim Duraku
16. Azem Jonuz Duraku
17. Haxhi Arif Shala
18. Jeton Abdyl Duraku
19. Faredin Shemsedin Hoti
20. Kresnik Faredin Hoti
21. Sami Sadik Nalli
22. Sali Sadik Nalli
23. Selim Bajrami
24. Dahim Bajrami
25. Qamil Bajrami
26. Ismet Jemin Duraku