Kosova Crisis Center
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Peja, April 7th (Kosovapress) On April 1st, serbian terrorist forces have executed another massacre over the unprotected albanian civil population. For this cruel massacre we were informed from one witness who was present in this terrible event together with 4-5 persons who reached to escaped accidental from this massacre. There are doubts that over 100 albanians from Lybeniq (Check the photos of a similar massacre that Serbian forces performed in the same village in May 1998) of Peja, are being killed on April 1st but the witnesses could identified only 35 of them. All the identified executed people were from Lybeniq, while only one of them was from Strellci Epėrm of Deēani commune. Another unidentified albanian is being wounded.
The executed persons are:
1. Safet Salih Shoshi
2. Gani Demė Shoshi
3. Jashar Misin Hamzaj
4. Adem Isuf Bushati
5. Avdyl Ali Morina
6. Riza Avdyl Morina
7. Avdi Tahir Kēinaj
8. Ramiz Ali Avdullahaj
9. Fadil Shaban Alimehaj
10.Bajram Sadik Alimehaj
11.Shaban Isuf Alimehaj
12.Haxhi Sylė Alimehaj
13.Rrustem Malė Alimehaj
14.Hazir Malė Alimehaj
15.Shaban Lah Alimehaj
16.Bajram Rexhė Bobi
17.Demė Rexhė Bobi
18.Abdyl Ali Bobi
19.Zeqė Hysen Bobi
20.Kadri Isak Jahmurataj
21.Musė Sadik Jahmurataj
22.Qemal Musė jahmurataj
23.Ukė Hajdin Bushati
24.Shaban Sadik Jahmurataj
25.Isa Shaban Jahmurataj
26.Rami Sadik Bushati
27.Adem Sadik Haradinaj
28.Muzli Sadik Haradinaj
29.Skėnder Binak Huskaj
30.Ramė Sadik Huskaj
31.Tahir Demė Huskaj
32.Bekim Beqir Huskaj
33.Rexhė Dan Huskaj
34.Naim Qelė Huskaj
All these massacred persons are from the village of Lybeniq of Peja, and
35.Rrustem Sadik Ukaj- from Strellci Epėrm of Deēan
Declaration:
I, Shefqet Bobi, declare upon the Lybeniq case:
They (serbian terrorist police) have come about seven o`clock in the morning on date: April 1st.1999, and they have gave us ultimatum to escape from the village. We with all families and all other men have start to leave from the village, but when we reached near the end of the village , they devided us from our families.After the families were forced to leave for Deēan, the took us and alignmented and they executed us. when the were assured that they have kill us all, they went to burn our houses. Us 4-5 persons, who reached to survived, we went to hide in a house which was burnt. Then we run and we catch the column of civilian people of our village.About 10°°o`clock in the morning we left for Rugova.We came in Rugova on April 5th.1999. For few nights we slept in the hills of Strellc and Isniq, thenwe passed in Dimishec.
Another massacre of the
serbian criminals nearby Rahovec
Rahovec, April 7th (Kosovapress)
Nearby village of Celina in the commune of Rahovec, another massacre made by serbian
criminals during their invasion in this village has been found.The massacre has been
executed between March 24 and 25 of this year, while the massacred bodies are found
yesterday, after partially retreatment of the serbian forces and the search of the land by
the units of KLA. In this massacre 51 albanians civilians from the village of Celina, are
killed in barbaric way including at least 12 children, then women, old age people, girls,
boys and men. Except the last four people on this list all the others are members of the
families incurred in this cruel barbaric act caused by serbian fascist criminals. The
massacred people are: From village of Celina,
Name and Surname, Age
01. Miftarė Zeqiri
02. Sanie Zeqiri
03. Mehmet Zeqiri
04. Sebahate Zeqiri
05. Albulena Zeqiri(11)
06. Alkin Zeqiri (10)
07. Bledar Zeqiri (7)
08. Alban Zeqiri (5)
09. Alma Zeqiri (2)
10. Myrvete Zeqiri
11. Suzane Zeqiri (21)
12. Elbasane Zeqiri (18)
13. Nazlie Zeqiri (16)
14. Burbuqe Zeqiri (14)
15. Besart Zeqiri (11)
16. Faik Salihu (42)
17. Mirjetė Salihu (40) ,with four children but we could not learnt about their names
18. Bajram Salihu
19. Bejtullah Fetahu
20. Shyqeri Dina (50)
21. Sulvan Dina (52)
22. Rrahman Dina (53)
23. Hamėz Dina (30)
24. Skėnder Dina (32)
25. Driton Dina (22)
26. Hidai Dina (60)
27. Isa Dina (62)
28. Haki Rexhepi
29. Isa Rexhepi
30. Dergut Rexhepi (40)
31. Naim Rexhepi (38)
32. Alban Rexhepi (15)
33. Nijazi Rexhepi
34. Shani Rexhepi
35. Sefer Rexhepi
36. Teki Rexhepi
37. Rremė Rexhepi
38. Ramadan Kastrati, from Hoqa e Vogėl
39. Ismet Kastrati, Hoqa e Vogėl
40. Haki Kastrati, Hoqa e Vogėl
41 Shyqeri Kastrati, Hoqa e Vogėl
42. Rasim Kastrati, Hoqa e Vogėl
43. Agim Kastrati (24), Hoqa e Vogėl
44. Fadil Maksuti (26), we don`t about his village
45. Fetie Kadriu (60),
46. Shyqeri Siniani (44), .
47. Dinė Sinani (52),
This list is not final one, because is difficult to identified the massacred people, while
they are searching for more killed people that up to now have not been found. But this
work is becoming very difficult because of serbian criminals who are still in one part of
this village. Except the dead people of this village and the villages around there are a
lot of the missing people and there are no confirmations what has happened to them.
Massive grave in the grave-yard of
Prishtina
Prishtina, April 7th (Kosovapress) One witness from Prishtina, testifies that on April
2nd.1999, he has seen with his own eyes, three tractors with the trailers full of
cadavers. These tractors were accompanied by serbian police. The cadavers are buried all
together in a massive grave, in the grave-yard of Prishtina. At 10.00 o`clock, the next
day, serbian police has brought another tractor full of cadavers and they have buried them
in massive grave and then they have covered them by using bulldozer. The witness of cruel
atrocious act, is alive and safe in the zones that are controlled by KLA.
Albanian civil population is in big
danger because of serbian military-police infantry
Gallap, April 7th (Koovapress) The condition of over than 250.000, fled people, now placed
on the Operative Zone of Llap is very grave, except starvation and diseases, they are in
big danger from terrorist forces, who are bombing with grenades upon the civil population.
Along the Lisica mountain of Gallaku, over than 200 infantry serbian troops are positioned
and they are big threat for civilian population which is placed there. Inhabitants of the
village of Prapashticė, have taken ultimatum by serbian terrorist forces, to leave from
their houses.
Shame on Macedonia!
As a Border Camp Is Broken Up, Refugees Are Scattered and Families Separated
By CARLOTTA GALL
BLACE, Macedonia -- It was clear they had left in a hurry. Abandoned belongings and
plastic bags littered the ground. Baby food and even identification cards were dropped in
the mud.
Overnight some 45,000 refugees were deported from the border camp at Blace, evacuated on
buses and dispersed throughout the region. The operation, unannounced and executed by the
Macedonian authorities under the cover of darkness, was chaotic.
Over 10,000 refugees remained unaccounted for 24 hours later, a spokeswoman for the U.N.
high commissioner for refugees said. The organization was trying to track stories that
refugees had been sent in buses to Greece, Turkey and Albania.
"We are working to locate them," said Paula Ghedini, the spokeswoman.
"Because it was not announced, we only found out from other people."
The UNHCR has complained about the evacuation to the Macedonian government, which has said
repeatedly that it could not handle the tens of thousands of refugees. Wednesday the
Macedonian deputy prime minister, Radmila Kiprijanova, said at a news conference than
9,500 refugees had been taken to Albania by bus and that some would be flown to Germany.
The main bulk of the refugees, about 45,000, were dumped during the night in new camps
down the road or elsewhere in northern Macedonia. In the chaos of the operation many
families were split up.
After the terror of forced expulsion from Kosovo, fleeing their homes and losing
everything they own, hundreds, possibly more, lost family members in the crush and are
clamoring for news and information.
The camp here at Blace, for over a week home to a mass of an estimated 65,000 people, was
deserted Wednesday. The makeshift shelters of plastic sheeting and blankets were
abandoned. Nothing moved across the hillside and fields except scraps of rubbish blowing
around. Where thousands of voices had created a constant din, there was silence.
The smell of thousands of unwashed bodies, crammed in close proximity, still hung in the
air. Clothes and blankets were heaped together in a huge pile, as if people had dropped
them as they filed past to the buses. No one was crossing the border from Serbia, and
there were unconfirmed reports that the border had been closed.
The Macedonian authorities began loading up and busing out refugees two days ago. For some
reason they suddenly accelerated the operation and in 24 hours cleared out over 45,000
people. They were moved directly, bypassing the transit camps where they were to get food,
water, showers and clothing. While aid workers interviewed here agreed that to keep the
thousands at Blace would have been impossible, they expressed concern at the methods of
the Macedonian government. They said they wanted to insure in the future that all refugees
were registered before they were moved out.
Some 10,000 were sent to Albania, the Macedonian government announced Wednesday. It was
not clear whether Albania, which has been overwhelmed with more than 200,000 ethnic
Albanian refugees from Kosovo in recent weeks, had been consulted on the move.
Another 1,500 refugees, wet mud still clogging their shoes, were sent straight to the
Skopje airport and boarded planes for Turkey.
Ms. Ghedini said that she was told by aid workers that a convoy of 20 buses crammed with
refugees was observed driving as far as the border with Greece, apparently on its way to
Turkey. Greece has offered to take 4,000 refugees and Turkey 20,000.
Ms. Ghedini said there was evidence that the refugees had been given no choice in how or
where they were sent. "We do have some concern that some sort of pressure was
used," she said. "It is not clear if they were taken forcibly, but we do know it
was involuntary. Refugees do not usually leave their possessions behind," she added.
There were also numerous accounts of refugees who did not know where they were headed and
who were separated from family members as they boarded the buses.
Just a few miles down the road in a new tented refugee camp, Ejup Kamerolli said he had
lost two teen-age sons. "The police separated us as I was passing to the buses. They
put the children in the bus and made us step back. I saw them drive off but I do not know
where they went."
Close to tears, Kamerolli, a former policeman from northern Kosovo, was standing with
dozens of others to register lost children at a table set up by Save the Children.
"I am not afraid they will be lost. While they are with other Albanians they will be
OK, but I just want to know where they are," he said.
If the refugees had been given proper information they would have insisted on staying
together, Ms. Ghedini said. The haste of the operation and disregard for the splitting up
of families had made the job of tracing refugees much harder, she added.
Aid workers compiling the lists said they feared the problem of missing children was
enormous. In just two hours in two camps, Save the Children registered 56 parents who had
lost children and 26 children who had lost their parents Tuesday, a representative,
Christina Gale, said.
Refugees clustered around the table in front of her. One woman, Blerina Qyqalla, had lost
her five year old child in the crush of the nighttime exodus at Blace. Another seven year
old boy had been found completely alone, separated from his parents by police at the
border.
Yusuf Bajgore was registering his three small nephews. Their parents had somehow been
separated from them inside Kosovo, when they were expelled from the capital, Pristina, by
Serbian forces.
"I have been looking everywhere for them. We are still living in the open, I have not
even had time to organize a tent," Bajgore said. "I have only rumors, that
someone saw them somewhere. Nothing else. The children are crying, but at least they are
with relatives, otherwise they would go crazy."
Despite the anguish of so many separations, refugees in the Stankovic camp a few miles
down the road were enjoying some small pleasures and daily routines. Women washed babies
with bottles of water and strung clothes on the wire fences to dry.
Children ran to watch as NATO soldiers flew in more tents with the twin motor Chinook
helicopters. U.S. Marines arrived to hand out bread and water from trucks, and set up more
tents for the sudden influx of about 6,000 people in the last two days, shooing children
back with their hands and big grins.
Part of the 24th Marine Expedition Unit, they had come off the U.S.S. Nassau in the
Mediterranean and were enjoying their first spell on dry land in weeks. "They were
excited to get off, after five weeks on board eating dry rations," laughed Lt. Jason
Arthaud, in command of 50 men.
Yet the camp remains a secure zone and refugees are fenced in, with Macedonian soldiers
and guards on the gate. Aid workers expressed concern at working in a camp run by
soldiers, even if they were NATO.
They are concerned that refugees are not allowed to leave the camp, even when some have
relatives and houses available to them in Macedonia and abroad.
"In a few weeks it could be like camps for Cambodians, that is concentration
camps," said a doctor with Medecins du Monde who asked not to be identified.
The refugees were pessimistic about their future. "I think I will never see my
homeland again." said Fazile Pervetica, a grandmother, as she looked over two tiny
children sleeping on a blanket on the ground. "I am too afraid of Milosevic to try to
go back," she said of the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic.
Her two sons had remained inside Kosovo to guard the houses, she said. "We do not
know if they are alive or dead," she said. She had fled Serbian forces several times
in recent months and said now she could not face moving further, even though she had yet
to find a tent. "They can take us anywhere they want, I just do not want to be in the
rain," she said.
NATO Fears 'Human Shield' Tactic On
Refugees
By Matthew Green
LONDON (Reuters) - A British minister said Thursday that Serb forces seemed to be rounding
up trapped ethnic Albanian refugees and returning them by force after slamming shut border
exits from Kosovo.
As Western fears grew for the safety of tens of thousands of exhausted, desperate
refugees, NATO's chief official suggested Yugoslavia's president could be planning to use
them as human shields against increasingly successful alliance strikes on Serb forces.
Britain's International Aid Minister Clare Short said: ''They seem now to have started
rounding up refugees queuing to leave Kosovo and returning them by force. We do not know
whether they have been driven back to their homes or elsewhere within Kosovo.''
She told a London news conference: ``They have also closed the frontier crossing points on
the Kosovo side. It is not known where the refugees taken back to Kosovo are and what is
happening to them.''
Asked how many people had been forced back into Kosovo, Short said it could be 25,000 or
30,000. She said that the forcible movement of people was completely ``unacceptable.''
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana said Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic could have
two reasons for shutting the border crossings.
One could be to avoid pictures of a mass exodus being broadcast around the world. ``Or he
could be trying to use people as human shields in case the alliance's military action is
concentrated more on the ground,'' he told Spanish radio.