The touching story of a 10-year-old who was killed by 21 family members in the Gjakova massacre

Dren Caka is the only survivor of the massacre of Serbian forces committed during the night of April 1st and April 2nd 1999 at his house in Gjakova. Nineteen women and children were killed in that massacre. Dren was ten years old at the time. His sisters were 2, 6, and 14, all three of them killed.

And Dren Çaka had survived hiding behind the dead body of one of the women.

The cause of this massacre had also been declared at The Hague Tribunal. He had shown that he was hiding in a basement with his mother and three sisters. They had joined other families, mostly women and children, and men had been on the roof of the house on guard. They believed that Serbs, who had started in part of Gjakova, “were looking for only men and would not attack women and children”.

At about two o'clock in the morning, Dren's mother had heard that some policemen were coming to their home where they had broken the basement door and had searched for women and children in Serbian and Albanian. They had taken the women and children who had been there out of the basement, some had managed to escape, but Dren and his sisters and mother had failed to leave the basement and had remained in the custody of three Serb policemen, writes Insander.

Fifty-year-old Flaka was the first victim of this massacre, she was killed by the Serbian aggressor with a bullet in an automatic rifle. She was Han Hoxha's daughter. Her father had witnessed this massacre.

The flame was killed while preparing tea. Her mother and all the people who had been in the room with Flague and her mother were also executed.

Meanwhile, the police had burned down the house where the women and children had been. The house started smoking. Dren Caka had heard his two - year - old sister scream trapped under her dead mother's body, but he could not help her. Even Dren was shot, he had a broken arm. Dren had moved from room to room, claiming he was dead in every step he took. Finally he was thrown out of the window of the neighbor's house where he had been standing and headed toward his house. By the time she was leaving the house in the fire, three police officers had seen Dren Caka. They were standing in front of the house, smoking calmly.

When he arrived at his house, Dren Caka had seen his aunt and asked for help, shouting that the “s were all dead” He told her that he had a bad dream, but my aunt only trusted Rene when she was injured.

After that massacre, Dren had gone to Albania as refugees along with other relatives who had survived the mask of April 1st and 2nd. But Dren's father had not gone with him to Gjakova, while he had stayed for five months in Albania.

Since the witness had been desperate in fluent English, perhaps he grew up a long way from Kosovo, but had testified twice in the trial against Slobodan Milosevic, Dren had wished as a protected witness.

Dren is now living in Vancouver, Canada, along with his father Ali Kaka, where he's hired. His father is married again and has a son named Dennis, and Dren has tattooed Dennis's name on his arm.