"12th of March 1999 Czech Republic had entered NATO" "In less than two weeks after, the planes of NATO comenced the bombing of" "Yugoslavia without the mandate of the UN." "It was on 24th of March 1999." "Czech Television presents" "Stolen Kosovo" "It was 26th of March 1999." "Our neughbours came to us and unforunately they met here my son" "and said:" "Bob, come with us to work to Cerna Hora." "Here in the forrest of Rugova they were stopped by KLA and arrested." "They were asked where are they going." "They said they are going to work in" "Cerna Hora and KLA said:" "You will work for us." "Because our Bob spoke fluent Albanian, they did not noticed he is a Serb." "Next day came to them one of our neighbours and told them they have a Serb among them." "They took my son away, nobody knows where and I do not know what happened to him..." "Kosovo and Metohia today... the world call's it Kosovo for short." "South-Serbian provinces, ocupied by NATO since 1999, and then under the UN mandate." "Record uneployment, high criminality and rest of the Serbian population surviving in ghettos." "Kosovo's Albanians dream of their independent state." "March 1999" "Air bombardment of Serbia lasted 78 days." "over 1,000 tomahawk cruise missiles were used." "Damage is estimated at hundreds of billions US dollars." "Serbians were being punished for the regime of Slobodan Milosevich which supported Serbs in Chorvatia and Bosnia... and in the end fought the Albanian separatists in Kosovo in the framework of this campaign, a new Orwellian term was created" "humanitarian bombing." "Here for example, is dying the night shift of technicians of Serbian TV." "When in 1913 Otoman Empire left southern Serbia it left behind a colorful ethnic mixture." "Every Serbian uprising, and there were many in 500 years of Turkish occupation, was followed by mass killings and exodus of Serbs to the north." "Turks then gave away their property to muslim newcomers." "Mostly to the Albanians." "but still the Serbs made more than 50 percent of population." "With the masacre of the Serbs begun WW1." "Austro-Hungarian Empire had imperial interests in the Balkans, and independent Serbia was in the way." "2.5 million of lost Serbian lives... was the war cost at the begining of the 20th century." "Serbian army retreated, but never surrendered." "They belonged to the victors and our allies." "Albanian separatists were the enemies of royal Yugoslavia it's existence prevented their teritorial aspiration for the ethnicly cleansed Greater Albania." "They wanted to anex to Albania Kosovo and Metochii, part of Macedonia, part of" "Cerna Hora, another part of Serbia and northern Greece." "A bizzare plan when you consider that ethnic" "Albanians were less than half the population in all these territories." "Spring 1941..." "Yugoslavia is attacked by Hitler" "In Chorvatia and Bosnia begins the elimination of Serbs, comparable to Holocaust." "who wants to survive runs to the forrest to join partisans." "Second World War will cost the Serbs almost 2,000,000 lives." "Southern Serbia is occupied by Italy." "Under their patronage the Albanian nacionalists proclaim the Greater Albania." "Also in Kosovo begins the ethnic cleansing." "Serbians are being murdered, their property confiscated." "To kill a Serb is for an Albanian chauvinist a heroic act." "70,000 Serbian families had to leave Kosovo in a panic." "The resistance to the Nazi occupation in all of Yugoslavia was lead, apart from the nacionalist movement, mostly by the communists." "The victory of the Tito's partisans at the end of the war was not a victory for Kosovo's Serbs" "Marshal Tito by the decree forbids the return of tens of thousands of Serbs back home to Kosovo their homes and land gradually gives to the Albanian poor." "My grandfather was under communists an ordinary citizen, our family had here 50 hectares of land." "When they were buying grains, they ordered my grandfather to supply two railcars." "Grandfather gave two railcars." "Then they ordered him to give another two." "He could not." "They ordered us from our house, it was the biggest, we had 500 sheep and 100 cows pigs and so, it was a complete farm." "The communists confiscated it all." "They forced us to the neighboring village Korysa, there we lived several years." "Grandfather was imprisoned in Nisa, he got five years, he was there two and a half." "He was beaten, pulled by the mustache,....why?" "Because we had too much land, too much property, they called him a kulak." "Albanian families are leaving poverty at home and enter Yugoslavia." "They are given the property of the Serbs to which Tito refused permission to return." "All under the slogans of brotherhood and unity of the nation." "I grew up in Kosovo in Dona Dubnica near Podujevo, it's a small town, where lived Serbs and Albanians, it used to be purely Serbian." "Our neighbour came directly from Albania and regional branch of the Ministry of Interior bought him property as a kind of aid." "They left Albania as emigrants." "They were very poor." "Our family was helping them with food, clothes... and other necessities." "After the war the whole Yugoslavia is changing." "From agriculture it is becoming industrialized." "Tito's communists are guarding the equality between nations and minorities." "Any expression of nacionalism is harshly punished." "Even to criticize anti-serbian policies is viewed as an expression of nacionalism." "Kosovo's Albanians are gaining unheard of privileges their lives are much richer culturally and materially than in their homeland." "they have their own schools, universities, radio... later their own television." "Albanian families also have many more children and demography of Kosovo begins to radically change." "The end of the 70's brings economic crisis to Yugoslavia." "It hits the Albanian minority the most... lack of education and knowledge of other languages prevents them from looking for work elsewhere and there in no work in Kosovo." "For Albanian families with many children.." "there is not enough housing." "The price of land escalates to unreal heights." "In the mean time, the relations worsen, mostly in the 80's." "Albanian neighbour, who lived next to us began to attack us with his wife." "That we should go to Serbia, because all of Kosovo and metohia is Albania." "It was in somewhere the 80's." "Here was 200 Serbian households." "Now there is only 5." "They all run away from terror, from persecution." "I live on property estimated at 2 billions." "Half an hour ago came one Albanian and offered me for all of it, cattle and horses included, only 400 million!" "How could I sell?" "Where would I go?" "They persecute me, the Albanians, I don't know how long I can take it." "To get to the property, Albanian criminals killed Mrs. Milicic's husband and then her son." "Documentary film about her life was not allowed to be shown in Yugoslavia at the time." "Supposedly not to obstruct the brotherly relations of nations." "Serbian historical buildings were attacked." "The witnesses of thousand year presence of Serbs in Kosovo not even Serbian cemeteries were spared." "In time of the occupation we were robbed four times." "We saved only our lives." "Then we returned, repaired our homes, started to live here again." "Four years ago, we had to leave again." "Our houses were destroyed, windows doors burned," "They took everything." "See, they burned my house, stole the bricks from the cellar, broke the walls, stole the doors, the top house burned." "When I returned, everything was gone." "I reported it to the police." "They came from the ministry of Interior to see it and they never did anything about it." "This month, on the 11th they set fire to my home." "I reported it to the police again." "They came again to take pictures, but never began the investigation." "We get no help from the authorities." "If they come again to burn and steal, it make no sense to report it any more." "The constitution by Tito, from the year 1974 meant in Kosovo absolute power of Albanian administration." "Serbs and other ethnic groups began to revolt." "Their leaders are arrested." "The protest marches to parliament bring no improvements." "We get no help neither from local or regional government." "Investigators come, they drink and eat everything..." "I will say it straight:" "We will not be able to survive in Kosovo." "Serbs are organizing defence... but the majority leaves for peaceful north." "When the Yugoslavia attempts to restore law and order in the south... it runs into organised resistance, as if the law and order was oppresing the Albanians" "Red flags with five pointed star, Albanian eagle and symbols of islam a mixture of communist agitation, religion and nationalism." "There can be no talk about the fight for the citizen's rights." "Despite all this the Kosovo's police goes almost exclusively only after Kosovo's Serbs." "From what happened next the anti-serbian propaganda made extraordinary happening." "New chief of Serbian communists Milochevich comes to Kosovo" "Serbs made another protest." "One of the protesters made it all the way to the new secretary and presents the witness report about who ordered Kosovo police to beat Serbs." "Here nobody is allowed to beat you." "These words will be later interpreted as a example of great Serbian chauvinism." "The constitution from 1974 is abolished and in Kosovo is restored direct influence of Serbian state power." "All present rights of Albanian minority remained but the majority of Albanians protest by shutting themselves in their community and creates paralel structures" "Albanian youth often demostrates the separatistic movement is supported from communist Albania and Albanian emigration in the World." "In the early 90's the Albanian separatist demostrations take the form of the democratic revolutions in the ex-communist countries." "Where the citizen's rights the goal?" "Or the ethnically clean republic of Kosovo." "At this time the book "Through Terrorism to Independence" is published." "By now the movement in Kosovo is run by KLA." "Kosovo's Liberation Army." "In the year 1998 almost 400 Kosovo's Albanians were killed, because they disagreed with separation from Yugoslavia." "In the same year, the US government designated KLA as a terrist organization connected to organized crime." "Fighters of KLA are trained and armed in Albania" "Albania is breaking the UN charter and international rights... becomes an agressor." "There are fights in many parts of Kosovo" "Miloshevich, now president, tries to gain Albanians through economy by forgivable credit, low rate loans, Albanians are exempted from taxes, and electricity." "There are almost 2,000 arab mujahadins among the KLA the weapons are bought from taxes, which are collected around the world by the heroin mafia" "When the terrorists begin to lose against the Yugoslav army they offer armistice... when the armistice is agreed on, they take advantage to occupy territories they were pushed from." "and then begin to settle the scores with the ones who still befriend the Serbs" "They pushed me into a car and when we neared the Ovcarevo, one youth cocked the pistol and wanted to kill me." "Old one said:" "No, no at the headquarters!" "there they through me into the room." "Broke my rib cage." "How many were beating you?" "Two women." "then they asked why I visit Milan Lavovich and Spirek Zlatkovich?" "You visit them drink coffee with them, Serbs come for coffee to you." "I say, I visit them because they are my neighbours... the police freed this Albanian family" "KLA force them to spent over one month in the goat shed with no food, no water they held us here one month, beat me and my husband with an axe they held us here, looking for our money we cough rainwater into a pan" "Why?" "If we are with the Serbs then we should get the hell out." "The villages around here were damaged." "KLA was shooting from them at the army" "The army had to clear it, so the citizens and soldiers would not die that is why it happened, that some houses are damaged." "They shot from these houses." "In Kosovo, there is a civil war" "Yugoslavian state fights the terrorists, but they already have a strong suport among the local population in the fights, the police is trying to separate women and children" "KLA is using them as a human shields after the cleanup operation the police is guarding them home" "some men are forced to join the KLA those the police allows to go home arrested officers of KLA are going to jail and to the courts in all its existence the Yugoslav society failed to create lasting cohabitation" "tens of thousands leave the areas of fighting they refuse to be neither targets nor human shields they leave to surrounding states including Serbia" "Albanian propaganda claims the Serbs are killing the Albanians" "forrests of Kosovo begin to give up their secrets mass graves of Yugoslavs of various nationalities and ethnic origins the victims of KLA here one of the murderers is helping to recover the bodies" "when the evidence is collected, he will face the court after the war these people were turned over to UN in Kosovo and they never served their sentences" "much of the information never made it to the western medias for example the old lime mine in Klecka there the so called fighters for freedom and democracy from KLA were burning bodies of executed citizens of Yugoslavia among them women and children" "in front of the prosecutor and media the brothers Mazrek answer questions this is the place where they shot 10 people, 10 civilians they were civilians?" "Yes they were women, children and elderly?" "Two children, three women, two young boys and three grown men" "Were they Serb or Albanians?" "I think they were Serbs." "Did you rape anybody?" "Yes" "How many women did you rape?" "Only one." "How old was she?" "Fifteen." "Then my commandant ordered me to cut her ears off and kill her." "You cut off her ears?" "Yes" "the woman you raped, you cut off her ears and killed her?" "Yes brothers Mazrek were sentenced but after the war they were transferred to UN mission in Kosovo they are still free same as others for example Hashim Tachi called the Snake wanted by Interpol for organizing bomb attacks the very same Hashim Tachi, who as a prime minister" "of Kosovo in February 2008 proclaimed the indepent republic of Kosovo" "there are talks between the delegation of Yugoslav government and Kosovo's Albanians to whom the agreement guaranteed autonomy inside Serbia" "KLA wants more the US delegation insists on addendum, which means occupation by NATO that is unacceptable to Yugoslavia." "the US administration is no longer denying its sympaties for KLA then Racak happened bodies of men in civilian clothes were found there" "US diplomat blamed the Serbs another reason to bomb." "NATO warplanes began to attack first military targets, then the infrastructure but civilians are also dying attack on Yugoslavia is seen by Serbs as an attack on their nation not on the regime of Milosevich." "During the attack on Yugoslavia the cluster bombs are used in many places, forbiden by international laws." "They cause, what else, loses of civilian lives." "The regular express train Skopie-Belgrade is targetted by US pilot twice he know very well it's full of civilians" "this how the humanitarian bombing looks up close" "After 78 days of terror from the skies," "Yugoslavia is assured that Kosovo will be part of Serbia military delegations in Kumanovo sign the agreement it becames clear later that some NATO countries will disregard it based on this agreement the Yugoslav army leaves Kosovo in June 1999 with the army leaves the majority of Serbs, Cernohors, Romas, Macedonians and Turks" "Jews of Pristina leave among the very first, they know what will happen next" "the new masters of Kosovo come from the forrests and from Albania" "one US politician said:" "We do not chose our goals according to our friends, but chose our friends according to our goals." "then comes what those familiar with it knew will happen" "fighter for freedom and democracy are ethnically cleaning Kosovo" "and NATO soldiers only helpesly watch" "now even the reluctant leave Kosovo let us remember" "NATO declared that their entry to Kosovo is to defend local multiethnic society" "this is how ethnic cleansing is made:" "murder a few and the rest will run away journalist will explain that it was only justifiable payback for past wrongs they what could be will be stolen and was could not, wil be ruined it is good to burn the homes, so they cannot return to them" "new property is always helpful after all it is the bounty of the victor" "during first days of occupation 58,000 Serbian estates were demolished and 116 churches and monasteries burned and demolished many of them were built long before the America was discovered" "NATO troops did not even tried to obstruct this sacking" "we are left with seven orphans she has four, me three" "then arrive new protectors of Kosovo french Cousnier for example" "while they banned the KLA, they are friendly with it's leaders" "and now a common picture of commanders of KLA and NATO" "the bombing was supposed to bring down Milosevich but lasted another year and a half he was supposed to be tried in Serbia instead he was sent to Haque where he took part in the proces which was designed to justify the NATO aggresion" "in Bosnia and Kosovo at the time the accusation ended and he begun to call the witnesses for the defence, he dies under suspicious circumstances." "In Serbia the autoritation regime ended and the country went through several elections why cannot be Kosovo returned to this new democratic state?" "200,000 Kosovo's Serbs now live far away from their homes and properties often in conditions not fitting the 21 Century" "Why did we leave?" "To get away from Albanians and the violence" "We had a choice either leave or be all killed" "We lost everything." "We have nothing." "Our estate, our homes we left it all there." "Here are people who were left with nothing but their empty hands." "Nothing." "We live here, this is our live." "We are we forced to live here." "In Pec we had a 300 square meter house here my children sleep now look where we keep the flour." "This is our bread." "In 21st Century." "This is the shame of the international forces" "Albanians forced from Kosovo apart from Serbs also other ethnic groups they cannot return same as the Serbs." "These are all our people, Romas from Kosovo many small children." "They left Kosovo, because they were persecuted by Albanian community" "They chased them away, burned their homes." "They were forced to leave their homes and here they live in greater poverty here they live very miserably." "When I was down there, they were shooting at my family." "We were in the bedroon when they begun firing automatic weapons at the windows it was close to midnight." "And we had to leave." "We like to return home but we have no confidence due to what happened." "We wait scared that it will happen again." "When they do what is needed there, create security, we would return." "Mass graves in Kosovo." "here are buried masacred civilians of various ethnicity investigation lead nowhere, or never even started." "Could it be that authorities of UN which administered the province had no interest?" "Will it be even possible to investigate the crimes which happened here?" "Will it be possible to point out the culprits?" "I said:" "I am returning to Kosovo, and that's it." "I went to Brezovice, every Sunday I was here." "when I came, there was only foundation left." "I slept down by the river." "Five days nobody knew I live here." "After 5 days the Germans from KFOR found me and insisted I leave." "This piece of land, house, trees, even the piece of sky, this is mine." "When I bought it, I bought the land with the sky above it." "And to the KFOR Germans I said:" "I am not going anywhere." "Alive you will not force me away, only dead." "I am among the first of 53 who returned to Osojane" "When we came, we found just ruins." "All was destroyed." "I repaired 13 roofs free." "I am a builder." "No charge." "In Kosovo, faster than new homes, grew military bases." "There are around 16,000 soldiers their mission is to defend Albanians against the Serbs." "Also an US base Bondsteel was built here." "I houses 70,000 soldiers a second biggest US base outside USA." "Perhaps this was the real reason of the anti Yugoslav campaign?" "Kosovo protect two different police one of them belongs to the UN mission." "the other is formed mostly from ex-members of KLA." "the rest of the Serbs survives in ghettos, for example Gracanica in the local monastery resides the head of the Serbian church vladyka Artemije he was one of the biggest critics of Milosevich." "As it happened many times in history, when the nations suffers, so does the church." "Because of the repulsion of Serbs, killing and ethnic cleansing the main target of the Albanian extremists are Serbian christian properties, churches, monasteries, because they stood here 700 years as a vitnesses to the fact that the Serbs had lived here and" "created their own culture and history here." "The goal was the push the Serbs away." "Destroying all historical monuments of Serbian culture is an attempt to erase all Serbian presence in Kosovo and metohia." "Military escort by soldiers of KFOR even to the local water source, that is a life of Serbs in Kosovo today." "If you not an Albanian and would like to go perhaps shopping, the only way is with military escort." "Otherwise your life is at risk." "This is a regular bus route Osojana-Rukavac-Mitrovica." "Escort is made by men and women from Spanish unit of KFOR." "These people will then move around Kosovo towns at their own risk." "Is this a solution to the multi-ethnic cohabitation?" "We have filed 17,000 indictments for damages done in 1999 to repair the damaged houses." "And the result?" "International community prohibited Kosovo's courts to prosecute them." "They prohibit trials." "7 cases started and then they ordered all courts to stop all proceedings." "I still have my flat, but one Albanian lives there." "You rented it to him?" "No, nothing like that." "Is he your friend?" "No, no, he took my flat over, when we left Kosovo." "Simply moved in, took it and still lives there." "How is it now for you in Kosovo good?" "Good, good." "Now the Serbs do not bother you, you can do what you want" "They did not bother us." "He says you cannot film here, no filming." "He cannot talk, his conscience bother him." "I have to ask about this house." "This is a house of my son in law. we built it together." "Now one Albanian lives here." "He pays no rent, has no lease." "This is the house." "Who owns this house?" "This is my house." "Do not make problems, or else." "I don't make problems." "At least know who's what kind of person." "What did you do in the war?" "When I lived here, I made sure none of the houses would burn." "Hey neighbour you better leave, before someone kills you." "Not a single Albanian took over a flat of an Albanian." "If he would, the police would quickly throw him out." "How is it possible that 29,000 of their families live like this?" "They say it is a social necessity." "What social necessity?" "All their houses were rebuilt, every one." "They returned here." "But not even Albanian extremist are content." "Something is still in the way of their goal." "Every year they attempt to take over the last enclave of Serbs" "Mitrovica, in the north of Kosovo." "If it wasn't for the French paratroopers, likely it would already be ashes and ruins." "The terrorist KLA is outlawed, but it's structure live on in Kosovo." "Right after occupation of Kosovo, Albanian separatists try to take another piece of southern Serbia." "their attempt is quicky stopped by Serbian army." "So they turn their interest to Macedonia." "They attack from Kosovo in 2001." "Kosovo becomes the focal point of another upheaval." "Gradual return of refugees is a sore point for separatists." "in March 2004 they organize big pogrom." "Units of KFOR are unable to safeguard the Serbs." "Albanians again use women and children as human shields, again they burn and kill." "Great mass of people walked with flags, shouting KLA, KLA" "They begun to beat us." "My husband first with a stick." "He fell." "Then others beat him." "They pulled me, I had on me documents and some money, 500 euro." "I held it in my hands They tried to grab it" "I fought them, but I did not have enough strength." "One youth, about 20, whom I knew well, jumped on my back" "I smelled smoke, I thought they will burn us alive." "More housed and historical churches were burned out." "3,800 people we left without the roof over their heads." "They threw Molotov coctails to burn me out, here was my entire family." "How many?" "About 100 souls." "Here they were too." "Blocking every window" "They posted armed guards, so we could not escape." "And I was inside, with son, daughter in law, my wife and for grandchildren." "I oppressed no one." "Attacked no one." "It's those from Albania." "The terrorists." "From this church in Podojevo retreated under KFOR orders a Czech unit." "Multinational forces of KFOR under German leadership quickly redeployed on Serbian border." "Supposedly they expected an attack." "Inside Kosovo the KFOR units managed only the evacuation of the attacked." "They moved them to their basis and gave them soup and blankets." "Houses, flats, property all was left without protection." "Terrorists had a free hand to burn and pillage." "Multinational forces of KFOR unwittingly took part in ethnic cleansing for the second time." "100 meters from the KFOR fence several dozen Romas were fighting with Albanians." "And they did not come to help." "I say, in New York you would run." "87 Roman houses." "They were no shacks." "One was over 500 square meters, not one under 200 square meters." "They were wealthy educated people." "For sure they were not Serbs." "I say:" "Why did you burn them out?" "They the French kept them in tents." "Women gave birth in tents." "Even women were not allowed to give birth somewhere else." "March 17 and 18 they begun to shoot from the hill." "I called them by phone" "KFOR arrived." "We went all the way there." "They turn on the searchlight." "I say:" "Don't do that!" "Hide." "When they hid with the searchlight, the shooting returned." "I say: see that?" "Yes Start shooting!" "Not allowed." "Why do you carry a weapon then?" "Give it to me since you're not allowed to shoot." "Not allowed." "So then what?" "What's left is to defend ourseves with axe, pitchfork..." "Obilic, Kosovo March 2004" "Xavier Solana while general secretary of NATO, signed the order to bomb Yugoslavia." "As a commissar for European security he visited Kosovo." "Where we will go now?" "I want to stay here." "I was born here." "In my country." "I do not harm anyone." "Our men with no firearms defend us." "How can we defend ourselves?" "We believed that international community will protect us..." "This how Kosovo's Serbian setlements looked like before the bombing" "and this is how it looked at the beginning of occupation." "Serbs started to returs to the dismay of Albanian extremists." "they organized pogrom and with the assistance of KFOR gained more land in 2004." "Despite all this, in some places, the Serbs hanged in." "As an example in the ghetto in Horni Orachovec." "They are guarded by Austrian army camp." "You all the empty streets, there are no people here." "They left, moved out, buying a flat elsewhere in Serbia." "Right now we have 7.5 thousands families, wanting to return under any conditions, with no guarantee of security, no conditions." "They just want to return." "Arrange this." "Make it happen." "Allow us to do it." "Everyone has a right to this." "There is no nation without the right of return." "The biggest worry of the Ministry of Culture in Kosovo is a beauty queen pageant the only investment now in Kosovo are not industrial developments but mosques." "Get out you catholic." "Catholic, catholic..." "You are so stupid." "You Mother Theresa you." "We'll cut your neck you catholic." "Catholic, catholic..." "A monastery in Zociste." "The Serbs collected money to rebuild it." "But Kosovo's mission of UN made concessions to Albanian extremists and ordered the Serbs to remove monastery's new roof." "Why the UN and KFOR units catter to Albanian extremists?" "Kosovo's Serbs have very little to be cheerful about." "One bright event is the annual vintage in Horni Choca." "Vinemakers are restricted to no further than 50 meters from their houses, but still the local Merlot is excellent." "International troops transport them here, from all other places in Kosovo," "Metohia and northern Serbia." "but the good-byes hurt." "will they see each other next year?" "Or ever?" "We are optimists, we believe that we will return and live here again." "This is our land, our country." "I do'nt know a Serb who would sign the separation of Kosovo." "It is hard." "We get no help from anyone." "Not from Serbia, not from UN." "No one." "They all abandoned us." "This is civilization." "Fadil Hodza himself said that they are barbarians." "Cannot speak for anyone else." "You decide for yourself, what are they." "We do not want even a single grain of sand, which does not belong to us." "But neither can anyone take a grain of sand from us." "You can take everything, you are strong." "You can do whatever you want." "In a year it all here could be independent." "You can take it all if you so decide." "But we cannot agree with it." "If you take from us, in 100 or 200 years we will still have a legal right to it." "My great grandsons will have the right." "But if we agree to it, then we lose it forever." "The separation of Kosovo and Metohia as a first signed, apart from USA, Germany, Italy, France and Great Britain, the countries which signed in 1938 the Munich agreement."