The confession of the man whose entire family was killed 19 years ago

May 31, 1999, was a bad thing for a family from Vushtrri Study. 13 members of the Gerjaliu family were killed for one day by Serbs. Most of them kids. The only one left alive by this family is Nexmerdin Gerjaliu. He survived shooting, not in Kosovo, but abroad.

But in this massacre, dubbed one of the worst during the Kosovo war, Nexmedin's wife, son, mother, brother and wife and six children were killed.

They were buried by his neighbors, and when he returned after the war, he met them only in the cemetery.

Today it is 19 years after their murder, and Nexmedin remembers with the most pain his loved ones had not yet given their last goodbye. Their goods are growing as he recalls his last conversation with his mother, Sala.

His mother had expressed concern over the fate of the other son Selatin, who was a KLA soldier. But she had not thought that she herself would die with him for a day.

“With nanacom last talk on the phone. He said: Mom, you want to leave me without a brother. The whole family thought that. Brother has been dressed, is also a martyr. But they had such fate after going together”, relate Necmedin Gerjali to his mother on 30 May.

The next day Nedmedini, who was in the Netherlands, had learned about the murder of his family, though until he arrived in Kosovo, he had hoped it was a mistake and that someone would find him alive.

But no one could get him on the street except for his married sisters.

Loud memo Very heavy. Tomorrow I heard you. I've got the tragic news. Did you believe, I didn't believe, someone I could find, but fate had been such that everyone had gone. I've come with hope from there, but no one ever found me. I thought I'd found a”, Gerjaliu shows.

The Gerjaliu family was killed in their home, sparing no small children. The youngest was 7 years old, and the oldest was only 15. He was executed along with his father in the sokka, while others were killed in the room where they have spread their sperm daily.

Gerjaliu is also disappointed by the fact that he says he knows the names of those who committed the massacre, while adding that such verifiating visits by investigators are made only for formalism.

The “have come almost every year. They did nothing. Just ask, verify, provoke or change words, nothing else. Last year they came here. I told you to drink coffee come whenever you want, never come back and do nothing. So the needle knows nothing. Nothing is known to us. People know who it was, but no one has ever been brought to justice, he says.

Although she no longer lives in the house where her family had been slaughtered, Nexamedini, accompanied by her sister and daughter who was born after the war after Nexmedini was remarried, often visits the place where they were killed.

He keeps photos of his most beloved, while keeping alive the hope that the house will someday be turned into a museum.

The procedure is in the municipality. With the help of the new chairman we may have to move forward. Last time we came to the Commission for Discretion, that's where the work went, we didn't move forward. I talked to the mayor, he said it was a good initiative. See what's going on, he told you.

According to him, the period of 1999. As he adds that if he repeated, they would again give everything they have for Kosovo.

The family killed by Nexmedin Gerjaliu are: Sala Gerjaliu (1925), Sophie Gerjaliu (1963), Safer Gerjaliu (1991), Selattin Gerjaliu (1950), Férrije Gerjaliu (1960), Sabahudin Gerjaliu (1992), Abdurrahjaliu (1989), Mebet Gerjaliu (1988), Muharem Grjaliu (1985), Shaban Gerjaliu (1985), and Shahin Gerzhaliu (1984). /N. Jakupi.