Four young soldiers in the dark blue uniforms of the Ministry of the Interior MUP just
Four young soldiers in the dark blue uniforms of the Ministry of the Interior (MUP) just knocked hard on the door and said: "You have to go You have 15 minutes."They waited patiently Everyone quietly moved to pick up some things. They had come from Dragodan and we got to know each other spontaneously, like family.My mother and the girls were preparing the table, meat and rice, which we still had Then we heard a commotion on the floor below, and we knew I wouldn't say they were polite, but they weren't abusive We were surprised There was no shouting, no pointing of sub- machine-guns. I could never imagine myself and my parents, with our dignity and pride destroyed, just walking like that to the station, losing everything It was a "normal", quiet day. By then we had three other families living with us, 15 people in our small flat, and it was lunchtime.
But I still had some kind of hope, that maybe it would be temporary. But here, people were going on foot to the station - in silence, heads down, just walking. Thousands of them, for hours and hours, escorted by the police.The first day we thought: "Amazing." The next day, we said: "Oh, here they are again." By the third day, we thought it was normal, and everyone just wanted to know what neighbourhoods the people came from so they could know when it would be their time.But it didn't become real until they came to our house I had become desperate to leave I was frightened and wanted to live. The writer has been reporting for `The Independent' anonymously from Pristina since the crisis began.
She has not been identified before for fear of reprisals FOR 10 days, I did not think it would happen Even after the trains began. The line to Skopje hadn't run for ages, but after the neighbourhood of Dragodan was cleared, all of a sudden they started, and everyone was somehow instructed to head to the station. We could see them from our window There was shooting in other parts of town. The video was made after police left, and smuggled out in the chassis of a tractor.Mr Bellanica risked his life to take the film into Albania. "I have done this so that my son, my grandson, and the next generation will never forget what the Serbs have done to the Albanian people.". He claims three elderly neighbours - all brothers - were burnt to death. It is also being lodged with the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.Yesterday Mr Bellanica was telling journalists how he hid in the basement of his house for seven days after his friends perished in the murder and mayhem reigned above.The Serb police, he said, looted and burnt houses, including his own. But if the film turns out to be authentic, the two minutes of footage will be remembered for many years to come.
