{"id":186541,"date":"2021-04-01T15:33:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/?p=186541"},"modified":"2021-05-25T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:24:04","slug":"kosovo-village-remembers-106-civilians-killed-in-1999-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/kosovo-village-remembers-106-civilians-killed-in-1999-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosovo Village Remembers 106 Civilians Killed in 1999 War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Acting President Glauk Konjufca described the killings of the Kosovo Albanian civilians in the village of Pastasel\/Pusto Selo 22 years ago as a \u201cmonstrous\u201d crime by Slobodan Milosevic\u2019s forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Officials and local residents in Pastasel\/Pusto Selo, a village in the Rahovec\/Orahovac municipality, commemorated the 22nd anniversary on Wednesday of a massacre of 106 civilians during the Kosovo war in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis massacre, and many others that we are commemorating these days all over Kosovo, reminds us of the price we paid for Kosovo\u2019s freedom, but it makes us more determined to not make any compromise with freedom, independence and our state,\u201d said Acting President Glauk Konjufca, who paid tribute at the village memorial.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Serbian state did not even spare children in this massacre. This shows how monstrous [Yugoslav President] Slobodan Milosevic was,\u201d Konjufca added.<\/p>\n<p>On the afternoon of March 31, 1999, Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces surrounded the village of around 100 homes, which in previous weeks had doubled its population as many people who had been displaced from other villages by the war had arrived to seek refuge.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses say that after throwing grenades for an hour, the Serbian forces gathered the locals in a field, separated men from women and began shooting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey separated people in groups by 30, depending on their age. Nobody survived from the first group. There were four groups in total, I was in the third group,\u201d 77-year-old survivor Tahir Krasniqi said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor of Rahovec\/Orahovac, Smajl Latifi, also paid tribute to the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose who were killed were first buried by local residents, but Serb forces exhumed them days afterwards and burned some of the corpses in an attempt to hide the crime,\u201d Latifi said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this crime still remains unpunished,\u201d he added, calling on Kosovo\u2019s judiciary to investigate the crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perparim Isufi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This article was was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/balkaninsight.com\/2021\/03\/31\/kosovo-village-remembers-106-civilians-killed-in-1999-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">balkaninsight.com.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acting President Glauk Konjufca described the killings 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