As the Izbica massacre took place, crime that tried to hide from Serbia

All this event took place just days after the March 28th 1999 massacre, when Serb forces attacked the civilian population sheltered in Izbica, where they were killed and then slaughtered by 150 innocent civilians.

Even though Serb forces had tried to hide the crime by exbica's exhuming the deaths, to bury them at various locations across Serbia and Kosovo, it was NATO satellites who brought the truth to the surface. Through a NATO media conference, it was announced to commit this crime to the civilian population.

After this publication, specialised Serbian teams for hiding the crimes had exhumed the bodies and sent them to different locations in Kosovo and Serbia. But in a 1999 document by the investigative judge, Nebojsa Avramovic, on the date 3105.1999, he gave orders to the District Prosecutor in Mitrovica, Risto Pece, for the exhumation of corpses in Izbica Skyright. The order said that news had spread on the internet that there was a mass cemetery in Izbica and that Serbian state bodies had to prove that fact.

On the other hand, prosecutor Pecel is soon able to run the “mission” given. During the same day, he drafts a report saying that, after performing detailed “ ” on the ground, he had come to the conclusion that there was no mass cemetery at Izbica”. Can a mass cemetery be confirmed within hours? The official letter of the Mitrovica District Prosecutor through which the massacre on Albanian civilians in the village of Izbica in Scikyright, date: 31.05.1999, was completely denied.

Punisher Sadik Xhemajli talks about exhuming those killed by Serbian forces

But it's Sadik Xhemajli, from Izbica of Skenderaj, former commander of The KLA in this area, which had also led the victims' burial process in Izbica, shows that the first attempts to extract the dead from graves in Izbiica had been made only a day after Nebojsa Avramovicqi's order.

Xhemajli has also testified at The Hague tribunal against former Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, who died at The Hague while being tried for war crimes. Xhemajli says that on June 1, 1999, the exhumations of civilians killed in Izbica began. The “here are buried until June 1st, all of them. Since June 1st, Serbian forces began, a week ago they made security. The whole jungle was in the vault. And they started pulling corpses. It started with cacyons, gloves, people being captured. And they can't. They left him. On June 1st, they're all fired. On June 1st they've all fired. On June 2nd, they've come with excaves, bagers, and trucks have come and they've got cattle. Mass I have buried them all with Bagaras. They've got 147 trucks. Now there's a cemetery in Belgrade's petrovi Sel, they're found in Zvecan, they're found in Novorlan, they're nothing. And now that the case that was completely exhumed, they've taken, on July 1, 1999, I've made the announcements in villages since July 8th to re-enter the cemetery that I had the journal, I had my last name, my last name, the dates, and the 8th of July, we've come all the people and we've replanted these graves all over, and when the Albanian people have come, there's half the days they don't. That they were never able to escape. At the moment it's said peacefully 58, they're buried, but now they're missing that there's”, says Sadik Xhemajli.

Tombs in Izbica were seen by satellites while the Serbian state drafted “sluzhbene beleke” that there was no mass cemetery. Unfortunately for Kosovo, these Serbian state documents served many international post-war missions, and the truth about Serbian state crime over Albanians was never proven enough.

Gerjali: Those killed in Izbica were exhumed and re-depended several times

Arsim Gerjaliu, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine, tells of the “show” that Izbica's killers were exhumed and re-dependent several times, as a result of Serbian efforts to conceal crime. “Even Izbica belongs to the hidden traces of crime that were actually killed for the second after the murder were exhumed and withdrawn from Izbica and sent to various locations. A number of them have been found in Serbia's Petrovo Selo, who is on the border triangle between Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, on the other side is Bulgaria's hill. The rest have been found around Squirewright, in Novolan in Vushtrri, at two Kosovo points. So they've all been pulled back with the aim of concealing the crime trace”, Gerjaliu says.

Gerjaliu's statements also remind the witness Sadik Xhemajli. He had kept a diary during the war, where he had in detail described the killings, massacres, exhumations and all movements of torture against the civilian population. Xhemajli, in an interview for the Streets show, shared frightening stories from the moments he had witnessed with her wax from a distance not far away, the murders of many civilians.

NATO's “Bundards when they began on March 24th, Serbian police and the military have entered the village, from Cerkolez, Runik down, and have included Padak, Cicak, Lechia, Ternovo and gathered the population in Izbica. They've taken a shelter because they've taken it themselves in one direction that 19 people were murdered in the Imeraj district on March 26, becoming a teacher is the eighth, the mother and six children. They've got their start now. They've pulled down the population and brought them south. South plays Izbica with Paddy. And people have been collected in the meadow of the Xhemajla”, he said.

Asked where he was at the time the residents of all these villages were standing there, Xhemajli says he was in that section on March 27th, and on March 28th has made the observation from there, showing the country. I've had 2x0... I was as an observer, soldier of NLA, and I'm from this village, and I've been following the wax from one side, from another row, I've followed it, I've done my observations, there are massacres, men from the rally, men who are divided in three directions, split up, old men, women and women. From these they have separated men, and have divided them into three ways. One direction has been given to the lion of Dobran. One direction has taken him from east into the fields of Stara Sela. 78 were killed in the Dobrani Arena. Three groups were killed in this part. A 39th place, a 18th main country 78 are completely killed, of executum”, he relates.

According to him, 38 persons were sent from that country. That's where they executed them. They're 5 meters away from getting into the mountain. The execution was made according to the witnesses, of course there's an execution, 1 cop had 5 men to execute. Even according to the survivors, Sheremet Krasniqi is one of them, he has me marketing”, and Xhemajli tells me.

He says he saw it all from the country. However, KLA soldiers had not reacted in those moments. The reasons for not reacting explain to witness Sadik Xhemajli, who was a logistical commander in battalion 3, the 112th Brigade of the Drenica Operative Zone. The Order was that no soldier would do a bam because of the population. The order was made of nalt, that even if you can get it, even if I get it, don't move to kill them all, women kill them, and children. Massi has launched the population down to Albania, without starting the hala, have entered and started dividing the family 13, 14, and 15. I'm speaking by the witnesses, because my wife was there too. A Serb soldier has arrived, I say, and he said leave the children, come back. And the Serbian soldier has turned the children into women, the men have not returned”, Sadik Xhemajli said.

He has indicated that the massacre occurred on March 28th by 12. “127 were killed on March 28th, Days Bajrami, in these three groups. The burial was laid on March 31st and April 1st. The head of the burial council was me, with the band Sylla Dervisin, Naim Rexhepi, Africa Xhemajli, Sadik Prokshi and I had an assignment, I personally, with the legitimate people, that they are not village people. I had to be legitimate in my pockets, look at who they are and where they're not. Meanwhile, as a result of the exhumation of Izbica's civilian victims, 58 missing civilians, killed and exhumed in early June 1999 by Serbian forces.

There are still no found. For example, there are five of us from the izbica village that are looking for them, but considering the dialogue group I constantly ask for in Serbia, we are poor with information and we expect from the Serbian side that will also tell about the whereabouts of others”, says Arsim Gerjaliu.

Meanwhile, Sadik Xhemajli, a witness to the Izbica massacre, says the remains of the village of Izbiica were found in Petrovo Sele in Belgrade in Novolan, Bistrica. Gerjaliu adds that with its own lack of bone parts, it is not complete that we know that the human body has about 206 bone parts, and it is not complete. It's like I said before, it belongs to the hidden trace of crime train, the exhumations that have occurred in Kosovo, then burials in other countries, in some cases also opened by the Serbian side, as in Petrovo Selo, were once again worked at the site where they were buried. Then we exhumed them from Petrovo Selo, brought them to Kosovo, worked again in Kosovo, was made identification through the genetic profile of the AND and returned to family. So they belong to that group of burials and continuous exhumations for the cover-up of the crime group”.

According to him, with the fact that it belongs to June, it is the stage when they were actually in front of the Kumanovo Agreement and knew their conclusion, so they used the last piece to hide the crime trail. The goal has been to get them out of Kosovo, but some cases have not been able to get them out so they've been forced because of the shelling of bridges in Serbia, forced to bury them even in surrounding countries such as the Novolan of Vushtrria and three other points on the edge of Scytheright. And the rest that have arrived for the envoy have been sent to Serbia, on the grounds that they will not be found at”, Gerjaliu stressed.

Who are the leaders of the Serbian state who tried to conceal crimes against Albanians

During research into Serbian war documentation, the name of a person as involved in the process of concealing crimes is very often found. That's Velko Ordreovitch. Although Milosevic's Socialist chief for Kosovo, his institutional activity never hid under party clothing.

During wartime and especially on the eve of its completion, Odliovic has co-ordinated several state security segments for hiding and eliminating evidence of crimes that Serbian institutions had committed on Albanians. Odreovovic along with Zoran Agjellkovqi, former Milosevic's delegate to Kosovo, have co-ordinated affairs with David Gaijqi, Misko Lalkovijqi, Misa Vilotqi, Bosko Pericin, Bozidar Filicin, Momo Stojanovici etc., who secretly carried trucks with Albanian corpses killed, who in the first days of June 1999 from Kosovo were headed towards Serbia's territory.

In the campaign to carry corpses from Kosovo to Batajnica Velko Odrekovovic had received orders from Vlastimir Djordjevic, while Novica Zdravkovqi had carried out the operation.