{"id":189977,"date":"2024-03-20T17:16:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/?p=189977"},"modified":"2024-03-20T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:17:36","slug":"deaths-and-disappearances-in-srbica-skenderaj-on-the-day-of-departure-of-the-osce-kvm-20-march-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recom.link\/en\/deaths-and-disappearances-in-srbica-skenderaj-on-the-day-of-departure-of-the-osce-kvm-20-march-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths and disappearances in Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj on the day of departure of the OSCE KVM, 20 March 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">According to the orders of the Joint Command for Kosovo and Metohija, dated 19 March 1999, units of the 125<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Motorised Brigade of the VJ, one PJP company from U\u017eice, and units of the 37<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Motorised Brigade of the VJ, were present in the Poljance\/Polac\u2013Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj region, tasked with \u201cblocking the Klina\u2013Srbica direction and the town of Srbica\u201d. The command post was located in the area of the ammunition factory in Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The members of the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) left Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj on 19 March 1999. The entire KVM (1,381 members) left Kosovo on 20 March 1999. On the morning of <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">20 March 1999<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, soldiers wearing camouflaged green and brown uniforms arrived in front of the police station in Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj. The group left in the direction of the Naselje 3 neighbourhood. Around 07:00h, the residents of Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj heard gunfire from the surrounding hills and from the direction of the ammunition factory. Around 08:00h, police officers in white uniforms, black boots and blacks masks appeared in the Naselje 2 neighbourhood. Around 08:30 they started entering houses.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> 1. Deaths of eight people in four houses<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nebih (Hazir\/Hyla) Vojvoda (48)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lavdim (Sali\/Nuri) Vojvoda (20)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sadri (Zenel\/Fahrije) Gashi (45)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Januz (Halit\/Mihane) Kalleci (61)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhavit (Januz\/Mehreme) Kalleci (28)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Musli (Dibran\/Zelfije) Shala (29)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sabit (Beke\/Hamide) Veliqi (39)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ramiz (Rexhep\/Emine) Geci (31)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the morning of 20 March 1999, police officers wearing white uniforms and masks entered houses in the Naselje 2 neighbourhood and removed the men. They took eight men from four houses on Adem Shala Street. From Hilmi Ta\u00e7i\u2019s old house they first removed <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Nebih Vojvoda<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Lavdim Vojvoda<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, who had fled from Lau\u0161a\/Laush\u0451 with their families a few days earlier, and <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sadri Gashi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, who had fled from Trstenik\/Terstenik. They held them in front of house, while two police officers kicked down the gate leading to the neighbouring house, belonging to <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Januz Kalleci<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, entered the house, brought Januz out, and then one of them went back inside and returned with Januz\u2019s son, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhavit Kalleci<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">. Around 08:30h, police officers in white uniforms entered Dibran Shala\u2019s house. They kicked in the gate. They first entered the ground floor apartment, where the Mangjolli family was staying, and then went up to the apartment where Dibran was located, with his son <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Musli Shala <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and son-in-law <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sabit Veliqi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">They<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">first made the men strip down to the waist, asked them where they were from and what they were doing. One of the police officers shouted \u201cThese guys killed my brother\u201d. Dibran recognized the voice and blue eyes as belonging to Zoran Jovanovi\u0107 from the village of Kostrc\/Kost\u00ebrc, whose brother had been killed in 1998 by members of the KLA. He saw this police officer take Sabit and Musli out. Dibran begged the police officers to allow Musli and Sabit to put on jackets. One of them answered \u201cThey won\u2019t be needing them\u201d. Dibran saw them taken, together with the detained neighbours, in the direction of the place called Te Pishat (\u201cat the pines\u201d). A short while later he heard automatic gunfire. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ramiz Geci <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">was at home with his wife, parents and four relatives, when police officers in white uniforms entered the house. They pointed to Ramiz. His parents begged them not to take their son, that he had not done anything. The police officers pushed them away with the butts of their rifles. Their neighbour Asllan Rreci saw them at the place called Te Pishat with police officers in white uniforms. The Serbian forces transferred their bodies to the morgue at the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica\/Mitrovic\u00eb, from where they Islamic Community collected them on 25 March 1999, and buried them at the cemetery in \u0160upkovac\/Shupkofc.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> 2. Deaths of six people in houses, at the transformer station, in the forest<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Veli (Hasan\/Slavka) Mustafa (34)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hajzer (Avdullah\/Hasime) Musa (31)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhavit (Rexh\u00eb\/Elshame) Sylejmani (39)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Milazim (Sadik\/Mihane) Rexha (27)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ilaz (Osman\/Afije) Aruqi (42)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hajdin (Maliq\/Elfije) Aruqi (79)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Six men, wearing white uniforms and masks, took <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Veli Mustafa<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> from his parent\u2019s house in the Naselje 2 neighbourhood. He and his father Hasan were the only men in the house. The uniformed men ordered everyone out into the yard. They detained Veli, and ordered Hasan, the women and children to go to Albania: \u201cShove off to Albania, where you belong. Kosovo is ours\u201d. Gunfire could be heard as soon as Hasan, the women and children left the yard. Veli\u2019s body, with visible gunshot wounds, was discovered in the family\u2019s yard on 30 March 1999, by their neighbours Rexha Kuliqi, Sadik Kopiliqi, and Qemajl Zabeli.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hajzer Musa<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> was taken from the home of his uncle Xhavit Geci, in the Naselje 2 neighbourhood, by police officers in white uniforms. His body was discovered two or three days later near the place called Te Pishat, by Abit Haziri, a member of the KLA, who buried him there.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhavit Sylejmani <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">had been staying in the Naselje 3 neighbourhood since November 1998, in a house belonging to his friend Zymer Imeri, who was working abroad. Two other families were staying there on the morning of 20 March 1999, when <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">three men wearing white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> and masks, entered the house. They had on black gloves. The pants legs of one of them were stained by blood up to the knees. They took Xhavit to the yard and the sound of gunfire could be heard two minutes later. Then the police officers in white uniforms ordered everyone out. When Xhavit\u2019s wife reached the village of Lau\u0161a\/Laush\u0451, she heard from her relative Mihrije that she had seen that Xhavit had been killed in the Naselje 2 neighbourhood, near the transformer station. Mihrije returned to Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj two days later and found her husband\u2019s body near the transformer station. With the help of Jetish Behrami and Beqir Mulaj, she buried him two or three metres from the transformer station.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">When police officers in white uniforms entered the Naselje 2 neighbourhood, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Milazim Rexha <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and his brothers Blerim and Naim, and their neighbours Sami and Uk\u00eb Loshi headed towards the Glavica forest, which was located above Smal Gjinovci\u2019s house. Milazim was the first to enter the Glavica forest. According to his father Sadik, at that moment, <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Serbian forces, stationed at the ammunition factory<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in the Naselje 3 neighbourhood, were moving towards Glogovac\/Gllogoc. Along the way they encountered KLA resistance and started firing mortars, which is when his son Milazim was killed. His body remained in the forest for three days, until Sadik found someone to help him retrieve his son\u2019s body from the forest and bury him in the village of Donji Obili\u0107\/Kopiliq i Ulet.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ilaz Aruqi<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> had a house near the police station. His parents, brothers, who had their own families, lived in the same house. Ilaz was visiting his neighbour, Sadik Uke, and his wife and children, parents and one brother were at home. <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Three men in white uniforms entered<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> the house, wearing black boots and black fingerless gloves. They beat up Ilaz\u2019s father in the house, and his brother in the yard. When the police officers in white uniforms left, Ilaz\u2019s wife, children, parents and brother found Ilaz in the yard; he had been shot in the throat and head. They hid his body in some hay and buried him in the yard three days later.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Hajdin Aruqi <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">held a religious ceremony in Lau\u0161a\/Laush\u0451 on Friday, 19 March 1999, with his assistant Murat Babaj. That evening he returned to Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj together with Murat. The following day, together with Murat and his family, he took shelter with Islam Konjuhe. Hajdin was in bed when hand grenades were tossed into the house. He was killed on the spot. Murat and his daughter were wounded. After the war, Hajdin\u2019s mortal remains were discovered in the rubble of Islam\u2019s house.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> 3. Disappearance of detained persons and disappearance of the bodies of victims<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Isuf (Feriz\/Sala) Gashi (54)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Burim (Isuf\/Raza) Gashi (20)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Qemajl (Xhafer\/Remzije) Neziri (15)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Idriz (Selman\/Halime) Kameri (45)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sejdi (Zeqir\/Emine) Zeqiri (40)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Refki (Zeqir\/Emine) Zeqiri (24)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Agim (Imer\/Ajshe) Berisha (28)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Muhamet (Ferat\/Raza) Zenuni (39)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhevdet (Zenel\/Rabishe) Zenuni (19)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gani (Azem\/Halime) Azemi (48)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Shaip (Gani\/Sadije) Azemi (26)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Faton (Gani\/Sadije) Azemi (22)\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Emrullah (Sokol\/Bahrije) Azemi (21)\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Halim (Qerim\/Ajkune) Gucati (56)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Muhamet (Sheqir\/Naxhije) Fazliu (30)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Musli (Zeqir\/Ajmane) Fazliu (28)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> killed <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Isuf Gashi, his son Burim and relative Qemajl Neziri<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, in the yard of Isuf\u2019s house, near the police station. The bodies were immediately transported by truck in an unknown direction. Isuf\u2019s <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">BLG-800799-02, Burim\u2019s under BLG-800799-01, and Qemajl\u2019s under BLG-801893-01.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> killed <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Idriz Kameri<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in front of his wife, in the alley behind the house in the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Naselje 2 neighbourhood. Idriz\u2019s disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">BLG-804611-01.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> killed brothers <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sejdi and Refki Zeqiri <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and their brother-in-law <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Agim Berisha<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> in Abaz Kajtazi\u2019s house in the <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Naselje 2 neighbourhood, where Sejdi and Refki lived as tenants. Traces of blood were discovered in the house after the war, but there were no bodies. Sejdi\u2019s disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under BLG-801783-01, Refki\u2019s under BLG-802859-01, and Agim\u2019s under BLG-801902-01.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> detained <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Xhevdet Zenuni and Muhamet Zenuni <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">in Muhamet\u2019s house, and ordered their families to go towards Lau\u0161a\/Lausa. Muhamet\u2019s parent returned home two or three days later. They found traces of blood in the yard, near the stable, but there were no bodies. Muhamet\u2019s disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">BLG-800959-01, and Xhevdet\u2019s under BLG-801128-01.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">At Gani Azemi\u2019s house,<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> detained <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Gani Azemi, his sons Shaip and Faton Azemi, relative Emrullah Azemi, and neighbour Halim Gucati<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, who<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">had come to their house when he saw armed men in white uniforms enter the neighbourhood that morning. Before being kicked out together with her daughters-in-law and children, Gani\u2019s wife saw her husband, their sons, and Halim being taken into a room. She returned two weeks later, found that the house had been torched, and in the room where her husband, sons and neighbour Halim had been taken she found traces of blood, but there were no bodies. Gani\u2019s disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">BLG-802803-03, Shaip\u2019s under BLG-802803-01, Faton\u2019s under BLG-802803-02, Emrullah\u2019s under BLG-803014-01, and Halim\u2019s under BLG-802595-01.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Muhamet Fazliu and his cousin Musli Fazliu were members of the KLA. On 19 March 1999 they came in Srbica\/Sk\u00ebnderaj, to Xhavit Berisha\u2019s house, where their families were staying. Around 10:00h on 20 March 1999, two men in white uniforms entered Xhavit\u2019s yard. They expelled all the men from the building, which had previously housed the store, releasing the older men, and then they shot first <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Muhamet Fazliu <\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and then<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Musli Fazliu<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, after which they left the yard. Musli\u2019s sister Nexhde saw <\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">police officers in white uniforms<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> drag the bodies to the street and throw them in a TAM lorry and drive away. Musliu\u2019s disappearance is recorded on the ICRC\u2019s list under<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"auto\">BLG-803902-01, and Muhamet\u2019s under BLG-803903-01.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the orders of the Joint Command for Kosovo and Metohija, dated 19 March 1999, units of the 125th&#8230; ","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":189967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2651,1800,1811],"tags":[4107],"class_list":["post-189977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage","category-memoralization","category-victims-voice","tag-srbica-skenderaj"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - 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