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PRESIDENT MILOSEVIC RECEIVES DELEGATION OF CITY OF KRUSEVAC
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic received on Tuesday a delegation of Krusevac, central Serbia, on the occasion of Oct. 14 - the city's Liberation Day.
The delegation, headed by Mayor Miloje Mihailovic, included members of the local authorities and the managers of leading local companies. They informed Milosevic that huge efforts are being made to increase economic production of the city and the entire region.
Trayal, 14 October, Zupa, Rubin, Merima and other firms from Krusevac, play an important role in this country's industry and their stability is important for the living standards of the people of this region and for overall economic development.
Milosevic supported the development plans of the Krusevac businessmen.
Present was also federal Vice Prime Minister Danilo Vuksanovic.
MILOSEVIC RECEIVES SERBIAN PTT DELEGATION
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic received on Tuesday a delegation of the Postal, Telegraph and Telephone Company (PTT) of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the International Postal Union.
The delegation briefed the president on the work and development plans of this public Company, which operates a network of 1,600 post offices, 2.5 million telephone connections, a telegraph system, a 50,000-subscriber paging system and mobile telephony.
A sophisticated Postnet computer network, which already covers 60 percent of Serbian territory, allows the PTT to give more than 500 million postal services a year.
Milosevic, for his part, stressed that the PTT is a good example of successful organisation of technology and labour, and development of an activity vital to the people and the economy.
Modernisation that is being carried out in the PTT Company will certainly contribute to overall development, Milosevic said, adding that the PTT plays an important part in the reconstruction of NATO-devastated Serbia.
The PTT delegation was headed by Board of Governors President Radmila Andjelkovic, General Manager Aleksa Jokic and Yugoslav Vice Premier Jovan Zebic.
YUGOSLAV ECONOMIC COUNCIL REVIEWS ECONOMIC SYSTEM
The Yugoslav government's Economic Council reviewed on Tuesday changes in the economic system and the economic policy concept for the year 2000, a government statement said.
The session was chaired by Predrag Jovanovic Gavrilovic and attended by Yugoslav Vice Premiers Jovan Zebic and Danilo Vuksanovic and Economy Minister Milan Beko, as well as by experts prominent in various fields.
The Council took the view that the process of enhancing the economic system should be based on the general commitment to promote an open market economy, adjusted to international standards and highly liberal, with only the most basic protection measures.
The Council made some specific recommendations and suggestions and noted that securing monetary stability is of the essence in defining economic policy for the year 2000.
YUGOSLAV FM JOVANOVIC VISITS BUILDING SITES IN CUPRIJA
Yugoslav Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic visited Wednesday the construction sites of a sports center and of housing units in Cuprija, that were destroyed in NATO's aggression.
The builders informed Jovanovic and Sports Minister Velizar Djeric and the director of the directorate for the reconstruction of the country, Milutin Mrkonjic, that the sports center will be completed by November 4 and the housing units by December 1, according to schedule.
Jovanovic, giving credit to the builders, said that the housing units must be completed on time, so that the residents of Cuprija be in warm homes this winter.
Jovanovic said that the reconstruction of the sports center has the importance of an international project because aid for it has been provided by Greek basketball teams Panatenaikos and Aek.
Djeric said that the sports ministry was preparing a large international sports event on the day of the opening of the center.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS MINISTER - YUGOSLAV RADIO, TV WILL STRENGTHEN SIGNALS
Yugoslav Minister of Telecommunications Ivan Markovic said Tuesday in Loznica, western Serbia, that the people of Yugoslavia were fully supporting the state leadership in its endeavours to preserve and defend the country and in its reconstruction endeavours, as they had done during the NATO aggression last spring.
Addressing Loznica municipality officials and local businessmen, Markovic said that the aggression on Yugoslavia continued, but that the military attacks were now replaced by other means and methods.
NATO missiles have been replaced by NATO radio and TV stations, he said, adding that his ministry would provide the means for strengthening the signals of Yugoslav radio and TV stations.
YUGOSLAV OFFICIAL RECEIVES ICRC DELEGATION
Maksim Korac, who chairs the Yugoslav government's commission on humanitarian affairs and missing persons, received on Tuesday International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) officials in Belgrade and Zagreb, Ose Jonson and Matias Kind.
They reviewed ways and means of restoring cooperation between the Yugoslav Commission and the Croatian government commission for prisoners and missing persons.
They noted that humanitarian issues must not be abused for the purpose of day-to-day politics.
Korac took the opportunity to express again the Yugoslav side's indignation that Croatia has for seven months now been refusing to discuss the matter of missing persons and the release of prisoners whose families have been protesting in Zagreb for weeks.
In view of the international and bilateral obligations of Croatia and Yugoslavia to deal with the questions of prisoners and people missing in war operations in former Yugoslavia, Korac asked the ICRC and the International Commission on Missing Persons headed by Bob Dole of the United States to intercede with Croatia for a speedy resumption of the talks.
Yugoslavia expects Croatia to implement the Aug. 18, 1998 accord signed by Foreign Ministers Jovanovic and Granic on exchanging prisoners on an all-for-all basis.
Also, it expects Croatia to furnish answers about missing pilots of the Niksic and Savnik groups, individual captured soldiers of the former Yugoslav People's Army, and persons who went missing in the Croatian army's offensives on Serb-populated territories.
Croatia is expected, too, to release the bodies of those killed in armed operations in Croatia, the statement said.
The Yugoslav and Croatian commissions were to have met in Zagreb in March 1999, but the Croatian side has been postponing the meeting.
The commissions have not met since Feb. 25 in Belgrade, when it was decided that the planned meeting in Zagreb should finalise talks on the implementation of the Jovanovic-Granic accord.
Sixty-nine Serbs held in Croatian prisons for alleged war crimes and 17 persons held in Yugoslav prisons on charges of spying for Croatia were to be released under this accord.
KOFI ANAN IN PRISTINA
UN Secretary General Kofi Anan arrived Wednesday in Pristina, where he will spend two days to get first-hand knowledge about the latest situation in that southern Serbian province, the activities of KFOR and the UN Civilian Mission, the process of normalization in Kosovo and Metohija and about other issues.
On the eve of his arrival in Pristina, Albanian terrorists killed in the center of Pristina a Bulgarian, Valentin Krumov, who was a UN mission worker.
That murder, and yesterday's murder of a Serb, Zlatibor Nedeljkovic, from the suburb of Ulpijana and the bloody rampage of Albanian terrorists across Kosovo and Metohija suffice as an answer to Anan about how KFOR and the UN Mission have conducted the "transformation" of the terrorist "KLA" into a "Kosovo Protection Corps," and the demilitarization of that terrorist organization.
Kofi Anan will face, maybe the most difficult, fact that the UN mandate, requiring from peacekeeping forces to maintain law, order and peace in Kosovo and Metohija, is not being realized. Because it is clear to everyone that lawlessness is the order of the day in Kosovo and Metohija.
KFOR, the UN Mission, and Bernard Kouchner have allowed Albanian terrorists to pursue unobstructed ethnic cleansing, and the core of the terrorist "KLA" has remained intact to this day. Its leaders are not hiding their goals - to turn the Serbian province into an ethnically cleansed Albanian independent state. And the KFOR command and UN Mission are encouraging them in that.
TERRORIST KLA CONTINUES BLOODSHED IN KOSOVO-METOHIJA
Spokesman of the international KFOR peacekeepers Canadian Major Roland Lavoie said Tuesday that the process of transformation of the terrorist self-styled KLA had started and would bring peace throughout Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, but then made public evidence that the KLA continued persecuting and committing crimes against Serbs and other non ethnic Albanians in the province.
The body of a murdered Serb was found in Gnjilane, Lavoie told a press conference in Pristina, but did not provide any details.
Monday in Gnjilane, a KFOR patrol caught an Albanian attempting to break into a Serb house. He pointed a gun at the peacekeepers but they overpowered and arrested him, Lavoie said.
About 300 ethnic Albanians attempted to stage demonstrations Tuesday in front of the UN civilian mission UNMIK headquarters in Pristina, but KFOR troops forced them to disperse.
A bomb was thrown for the second time in three days in the center of the Serb town of Obilic, but there were no casualties, Lavoie said.
A clash among ethnic Albanians using firearms occurred Monday in the center of Vucitrn, but KFOR intervened and broke them up. Several unexploded grenades were found later at the site of the incident.
French KFOR troops searched the southern, ethnic Albanian, part of Kosovska Mitrovica and found several dozen grenades, and arrested several persons after a bomb incident in which there were no casualties.
One child was killed and three were seriously wounded in the explosion of a mine planted at a market in Zagradska Hoca, near Djakovica, Monday about 5.30 p.m., Lavoie said and added that the injured were taken to a German field hospital in Prizren and that investigation was underway.
ETHNIC ALBANIANS KILL AMERICAN IN U.N.-SECURED KOSOVO-METOHIJA
U.S. electronic media only on Tuesday, with a full day's delay, report in some detail about Monday's brutal murder of a UN official of American citizenship by ethnic Albanians in U.N.-secured Kosovo-Metohija.
U.S. media were very curt in carrying the original report, which was made in the vaguest of terms, without giving the nationality of either the victim or the murderers.
News agencies quote Bernard Kouchner, the UN Secretary General's special envoy to that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, as saying highly circumspectly in Paris on Tuesday he feared that the victim was a Bulgarian-born American citizen.
Giving the name of the murdered UN official as Valentin Krumov, the news agencies speculate that the most likely reason for the murder was his speaking Bulgarian, which the ethnic Albanians mistook for Serbian, both being Slavic languages.
Krumov was first savagely beaten and then shot dead.
This version of the affair is put forth also by the Washington Post, which describes the strained situation in Kosovo-Metohija in a way that leaves no doubt that it is the result of ethnic Albanian terrorism.
All those who speak Slavic languages, including a Polish international police officer, avoid speaking their mother tongues in public, the newspaper says.
It goes on to state that this situation has arisen since the deployment of the UN peace mission to Kosovo-Metohija, which is a criticism of the UN mission and of Kouchner that U.S. media have mostly been loath to voice.
SHAMEFUL POLICY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
Italian senate vice-president Efilia Salvato condemned the international community and the Italian government because of the latest decision of the European Union on sending selective humanitarian aid to Serbia.
In an open letter published by the daily Manifesto, senator Efilia Salvato said that the decision was the result of a criminal and shameful policy of the international community, according to which the citizens of one country are divided on the basis of their place of residence.
Salvato called on Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini to listen to his own voice regarding the protection and guarantee of basic human rights in Serbia, underlining that the government of Massimo D'Alema had ignored the commitments undertaken after last week's almost unanimous decision in the Senate, to intervene in the EU for relaxing sanctions to Yugoslavia and delivering indispensable humanitarian aid before the onset of winter.
The Italian foreign minister, Lamberto Dini, sent Wednesday a letter-answer to the daily Manifesto in which he said, among other things, that it is impossible that the international community does not sent indispensable humanitarian aid to the Serbian people.
Minister Dini specified that the Italian government had adopted the same position as UN Secretary General Kofi Annan who wants that humanitarian aid be sent to the entire Serbian people. However, the latest EU decision represents a minimal compromise, the Italian foreign minister assessed.
BRITAIN'S ROBERTSON TO TAKE UP POST OF NATO SECRETARY-GENERAL ON OCT. 14
Britain's Defence Secretary George Robertson will take up the office of NATO secretary-general on Oct. 14, it was stated in Brussels on Tuesday.
Robertson is to replace Javier Solana who, although his mandate was due to expire in a three months' time stopped acting as NATO secretary-general when he was appointed E.U. high commissioner for foreign and common defence affairs.
Robertson is to hold a meeting with the North Atlantic Council and top alliance military and civilian officials at the start of his term on Thursday.
AGIM CHEKU NOT ONLY ALBANIAN WHO COULD END UP IN THE HAGUE
Agim Cheku, who is being investigated by the international tribunal in The Hague for war crimes committed against Serbs in Croatia and for crimes against Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija, is not the only ethnic Albanian who could end up in The Hague because of crimes committed against Serbs as a member of the Croatian Army.
Besides Cheku (39), for crimes against Serbs in Croatia could also be held accountable also Rahmi Ademi (45) and Ahmet Krasnici (49).
They were all officers of the former Yugoslav People's Army who deserted in 1991 and then joined the newly formed Croatian Army.
Cheku earned his "fame" and the rank of general in the infamous "scorched earth" action in 1993 when in Medacki dzep where took part in the killing of 88 persons of Serbian nationality and in the burning down of Divoselo, Citluk and Pocitelj.
Testifying to his "courage" is the fact that in 1993 he was wounded in "fighting with Serbian forces," which certainly contributed to his promotion by Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to the rank of general.
Cheku also showed his hatred of Serbs in the Croatian army operation Storm in 1995 when he took part in the ethnic cleansing of more than 250,000 Croatian Serbs.
A new opportunity for demonstrating his fervour in liquidating Serbs appeared this year in Kosovo-Metohija where he returned ahead of NATO's aggression on FR Yugoslavia.
The investigation of Cheku in The Hague for crimes committed in Medacki dzep and in operation Storm has called into question his further "career."
Rahmi Ademi was an officer of the former Yugoslav People's Army when he deserted and joined the Croatian Army. During the operation in Medacki Dzep he was the deputy of Croatian General Mirko Norac and directly in command of Croatian army units (just as during operation Storm).
Gen. Janko Bobetko in his book All My Battles (1996) said that the action "scorched earth" in Medacki dzep was prepared by Norac and Ademi, who is still on duty in the Knin region.
Ahmet Krasnici was a lieutenant colonel of the former Yugoslav People's Army who along with lieutenant colonel Pero Cavaro handed over in 1991 to Croats the army barracks in Gospic and joined the Croatian paramilitary formation Zenga, and later the Croatian Army. The U.S. decision to investigate cases of crimes committed against Serbs in Medacki dzep (1993), Pakracka poljana (fall-winter 1991/1992), and in army operations Flash (May 1, 1995) and Storm (August 5, 1995), indicates that besides Croatian generals in The Hague could also end up Cheku, Ademi and Krasnici.
MURDER AS PART OF LANGUAGE GENOCIDE
Valtentin S. Krumov, who was killed on Monday evening in the centre of Pristina by an as yet unidentified ethnic Albanian, is the first victim among the members of the UN Civilian Mission in Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK).
The spokesman of the international police in Kosovo and Metohija, Lieutenant Colonel Dmitri Kapochev, confirmed on Tuesday that the victim arrived in Pristina only hours before he was killed.
UNMIK head Bernard Kouchner said in Pristina that in question was an American citizen of Bulgarian descent.
One of UNMIK spokespersons in Kosovo and Metohija, Nadia Lunes, s aid that in question was Valentin Krumov who arrived in Pristina from New York.
Kapochev came out with an almost incredible theory according to which Krumov had gone out for dinner and in the street asked directions from an ethnic Albanian women but, unfortunately, in Bulgarian which, according to Kapochev, must have sounded similar to Serbian.
Immediately, he was surrounded by a crowd of ethnic Albanians, who formed a screen for the killer.
Krumov, therefore, died as a victim of a language genocide that the ethnic Albanian members of KLA are systematically carrying out in Kosovo and Metohija. There are few places in Serbia's southern province where the Serbian language can openly be spoken. The ethnic cleansing carried out in Kosovo and Metohija under the auspices of KFOR, UNMIK and Kouchner, resembles methods employed only by nazi Germany.
The Polish UN police in Kosovo and Metohija, who are aware that a language genocide is also being carried out in this province, say they refrain from speaking their own language loudly in the streets fearing that the ethnic Albanians could think they are speaking Serbian, and it is well known what kind of punishment lies in store for those who date speak the Serbian language.
RUSSIA WILL FIGHT FOR YUGOSLAVIA TO REMAIN UNITED
Russia will fight for Yugoslavia to remain a united country, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said in an interview for Nezavismaya Gazeta published Tuesday.
Russia's efforts are aimed at realizing all principles the contained in UN Security Council Resolution 1244, so that those principles bring stability to the Balkans, the Russian foreign minister said.
He said that Russia does not want for itself a special, but an active role in the Balkans, along with other states.
We understand very well, because we know well the Balkans - to what can lead daily political solutions in the Balkans - to a big conflict, Ivanov said.
The Russian foreign minister pointed to the danger of the separation of Kosovo-Metohija from Yugoslavia. "If the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia is violated, then the citing of "the regime in Belgrade" will not have any sense. That would trigger dangerous processes in the Balkans and in Europe as a whole," Ivanov said.
That is why Russia is calling for peace in the Balkans and stability in Yugoslavia. But for that it is not necessary to play political games.
We are not in favour of one or the other regime in Yugoslavia - that is a matter of the Yugoslav people. We will fight for Yugoslavia to remain united, The Russian foreign minister said.
RUSSIA-NATO RELATIONS REMAIN FROZEN - FOREIGN MINISTRY
"Our relations with NATO remain frozen except for the Kosovo and Bosnia peace-making operations", Vladimir Rakhmanin, spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Tuesday commenting the Monday statement by George Robertson, the new NATO Secretary-General, that restoring relations with Russia were NATO's priority at present.
Addressing a briefing in Moscow, Rakhmanin noted that mutual trust was gravely shaken by the Kosovo events and the NATO bombing raids on Yugoslavia last spring.
"This trust must be restored, and it must be done with due account of Russia's interests, by consolidating European security," he said. "One of the central events in this respect will be the OSCE summit in Istanbul in November and discussion there of the General European Security Charter," he added.
This statement is in line with the view expressed by Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov in an interview Tuesday to the Nezavismaya Gazeta daily.
Asked whether the fundamental Act on Russia-NATO relations still made sense in the present situation, Ivanov said the Act had been signed at the highest level and that Russia had not violated it.
Unfortunately, some countries have even violated the UN Charter, but this does not mean that the Charter makes no sense any more, Ivanov said.
The countries which have violated the UN Charter and the Russia-NATO Act should return to the legal track and be guided in the future by those documents, Ivanov said.
E.U. MINISTERIAL MEETING FAILS
The European Union's ministerial meeting in Luxembourg on Monday, which was to be attended by Serbian opposition leaders, was a total flop, according to British commentators on Tuesday.
The meeting, which the western media had announced with much pomp and at which the European Union was to make official its support for Serbia's opposition, ended in confusion and failed miserably, British media report.
The leaders of Serbia's major opposition parties did not even show up, and the boycott plunged the Union ministers in what is described as chaos.
The ministers, led by Robin Cook of Great Britain, tried to mask their failure by repeating their well-worn accusations against the Belgrade government and blaming Belgrade for the non-appearance of their opposition allies in Luxembourg.
In an effort to hide the failure, the ministers rushed to adopt a so-called energy-for-democracy project, which should provide heating fuel for the Serbian cities of Nis and Pirot for the coming winter.
It is not clear, however, when the cities would get the fuel, which, according to British analysts, is not likely to get there before the spring.
Diplomatic sources in London say that the failure of the Luxembourg meeting has dealt a heavy blow to the European Union's policy towards Yugoslavia and its republic of Serbia.
Diplomats doubt that the failure was accidental and in this context speak of pressure from the United States.
The suspicions notwithstanding, diplomats in London opine that the European Union has no clear political concept for Serbia and Yugoslavia, and is trying to fill the void with blackmail, blockade and ever more conditions.
TELEGRAPH - ALBANIANS ALSO VICTIMS OF ALBANIAN NATIONALISTS
The case of the ethnic Albanian Veton Suroi, editor-in-chief of the Pristina newspaper Koha Ditore, who has received death threats from Albanian nationalists in Kosovo-Metohija, for which the highly-circulated Amsterdam daily Telegraph said on Tuesday it illustrated well the current situation in Kosovo-Metohija where "everyone who wants to prevent terror over non-Albanians or who has any kind of contact with them risks becoming a victim."
"Last week three members of the new local police beat up an Albanian who bought a tractor from a Serb," Telegraph said. The Dutch daily then quoted parts of the article that appeared in Koha Ditore in which Suroi accused Albanian "hawks" in Kosovo of being fascists, and his brethren of committing unprecedented crimes against Serbian children, women and old people and that now every Albanian in Kosovo risks getting killed if he attempts to pass water or food to captive Serbian neighbours.
Because of his apology for what Albanians have done and his assertion that at work was not retaliation but fascism, Suroi has been labelled a "traitor, bastard and gangster who will soon be liquidated."
Telegraph assessed that "in the background of the conflict is the intention of "KLA" leaders to form an ethnically cleansed Kosovo" and added "only 20,000 of the 200,000 Serbs have remained in the province."
The threats made against Suroi are contrary to democracy and constitute a violation of human rights guaranteed to all, regardless of ethnic identity, from what it can already be concluded that "next year in Kosovo we can expect a dirty election campaign," Telegraph said.
ITALIAN PAPER CALLS FOR LIFTING OF SANCTIONS AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA
The international community's policy towards the Balkans has harmed its peoples more than World War II, the Italian daily Linea reported on Wednesday.
In an editorial, Pino Rauti, leader of the Social Movement that has repeatedly urged in the Italian and European parliaments that the European Union free itself from the fatal U.S. patronage, lashed out against sanctions imposed on the Serbian people.
The monstrosity of these sanctions is unprecedented in history, he said. Serbia has for years been the target of a brutal and perverse mechanism that no one, let alone the European Union that considers itself to be 'European' in character or the United Nations in which Yugoslavia is entitled to its place, has condemned, he said.
The Serbian people are denied assistance, investments and even international loans, he said. No form of assistance, not even relief aid, is to be offered to the Serbian people, he said. Ten million people, who have for years been victims of total sanctions that are far worse than those imposed on Iraq, are condemned to 'social' death under the blows of poverty, starvation and illnesses, he said.
"Borba" in Kosovo Polje
OUR ONLY WISH IS TO COME BACK HOME
By A.Nenova
Schoolrooms and gymnasium of "Sveti Sava" grammar school in Bresje near Kosovo Polje, which has been a shelter for 462 people from Pec, Djakovica, Prizren, Urosevac, Lipljane municipality and for a number of people from Pristina for four months. Here they live, get food, share little joys and their sorrow and wait for the moment to come back to their homes from which they were expelled by Albanians.
We found elderly woman Radojka Zivkovic from Pristina lying on the mattress. Her face is full of bruises.
"I was hurt in the city. Five Albanians beat me, and I was only on my way to buy some bread", said quietly the 66-year old woman.
"I told them they should be ashamed to do that to me, that they were young and I was old, but it was no use. I barely had the strength to reach KFOR. They took me to the hospital. As there was no free beds, I was temporarily placed in this shelter."
Radojka says that she would like to come back to her flat, because the local ethnic Albanians did not harass her. Problems began when ethnic Albanians from Drenica came, as they wanted to throw her out of her flat, but her neighbors, ethnic Albanians, did not let them. She even called international police three times, and they would protect her for a week or two. However, when they were not around – the harassment continued. Even the ethnic Albanian children threw stones at her home.
The similar thing happened to Lajos Balog, actor of the Serbian Pristina theatre. Members of the KLA held him and his wife Marija in their apartment for two days.
"They harassed us. They even quarreled whether they should cut our throats right them or later. Knowing that I speak Albanian they openly told me that we would live, but that we had to leave our apartment and that we were forbidden to take anything from it", recalls Marija, who now works as a paramedic in Kosovo Polje.
Her husband Lajos says that he is the only actor left in Pristina theatre.
"I was born in Novi Sad. I could have left, but I did not want to leave Kosmet. We all lived together, we played together on the stage. Now I do not know what to say, considering the fact that ethnic Albanians named the theatre after the biggest butcher, Adem Jasari. This has nothing to do with the culture, so this can help you understand the level of their culture. They placed their people "to manage" the theatre and forbade Serbian actors to enter the theatre. However, it is my strong belief that the Serbian language will be heard again in that stage. That`s why I am staying here.
Snezana Nedeljkovic came to this shelter with her husband and three children two months ago. Before that they were at her brother’s in Kraljevo.
"The children are not going to school now. My husband works in a hospital as a cook, and I was employed as a cleaning lady. I left a full house in Prizren. Although it is not bad here and we get the food regularly, I would like to go back to Prizren as soon as possible", Snezana says. Gordana Ristic, also from Prizren, has been in this shelter for four months already. Unfortunately, she was also killed a few days ago, when a bomb exploded on a market in Kosovo Polje.
Thinking about that terrible experience, Gordana tells us: "Like every Tuesday, we were trading at the market when an explosion was heard. First one and then the second. I never felt when a shrapnel hit me. I was hurt and a man helped me who was there. It was terrible. Two people were killed. I now I have problems walking.
Gordana says she intends to return to Prizren, if possible. She says she is the first on the list for return. On one of the mattresses there is Jovanka Djemdjerovic, crocheting.
"I have to do something to kill the time. I had many of things such as this one, but they took it all away - Jovanka speaks with sadness. She resolutely says she only wants to return to Prizren, nowhere else.
Other people sheltered in Bresje have similar stories, same hopes. Until the moment when they will be able to return to their homes they spend time together. They get food three times a day. The shelter is very clean and a small team of the employees tries to make their stay as agreeable as possible.