A life waiting for lifeless bodies, 65-year-old Gjakova confessed

A life waiting for lifeless bodies, 65-year-old Gjakova confessed

Ferdony Qerkezi, 65, from Gjakova, keeps the bitter memories of 1999 fresh when Serb forces had killed her husband and her four sons. She relates how on March 27, 1999, Serbian police entered her home and took her husband and four sons, Anthony 24 [...]

She relates that as of March 27, 1999, Serbian police entered her home and took her husband and four sons, 24-year-old Anthony, Amendi 23, Ardian 18, and Edmund 14.

Now she only lives in “House”, filled with the cards of her most beloved.

For the first news, Ferdnia has waited until 2005, when legal expertise had witnessed the identification of the bodies of her two murdered sons.

But to this day, 18 years later, he continues to search for the bodies of his mate and two other sons, who are still considered to be inexperienced men of war.

I received news in 2005 that after the tests, the bodies of Artan, killed in Rogova of Has, as well as Edmond, whose body was found in the Vermica in Prizren”, says Kerkezi for Radio Free Europe.

Although in 2008 she has identified only her son Ardian's clothes, found by international missions, Mrs. Ferdonius says that her body has not found them, although she is determined to search.

With tears in her eyes, Ferdony Curkezie confessed her happy life 18 years ago when nine family members lived in her home.

At the time, she was 46 years old and lived with her husband and four sons, two of whom had married the same day.

Mrs. Ferdonius failed to become a grandmother, since only four months after his marriage, the two sons were killed.

March 27, 1999, for her and her family was the most ominous date.

In 1999, a great tragedy occurred in my home. Serbian police took my husband and my four sons. The police are here at 11:00. We've been at home 23 people, 11 men, 12 women”

These (the others) were neighbors and family, as well as friends of the boy. All the men were taken by the police on that day”, she confessed.

The police first requested ID permission. He sent them to the police and then returned. They first locked us in the house, and then they took the men out. I thought they wanted to rescue them, because the cops who came, we knew them. They were bloody, and we met with them, says Mrs. Cherkezie.

She relates yet another tragic episode of the day when the police took her young son, who was still a child.

I woke up and the little boy who was then 14 years old, to hand him over to them to save him, because even at home we were in danger”.

They spoke Albanian very well. And they told me, you don't have to be afraid because we came here to protect you and save your life. But after they were taken away, I never saw my husband or my four sons, who are still searching, Cerkezi said.

The Qerkezi family is one of many families in Kosovo who experienced the worst horrors of the 1998-99 war. Kosovo institutions have no precise data, but say there are over 12,000 people killed during this war. And 1656 are still considered extinct.

Of the various tombs in Kosovo and Serbia, about 2,500 people have been identified, unidentified courses at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Pristina are located at 400 pieces of mortore remains.

It has been warned that in the next phase of dialogue in Brussels, between Kosovo and Serbia, with the European Union's mediation, the Kosovo team will demand that the question of whitewashing the fate of missing persons during the war be one of the topics of discussion.

 

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