Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told ordered to leave. Numerous accounts were given, one man who survived describing the following: The men were ordered to give up their weapons but they had no weapons. Twenty men were stripped and searched by the Serbian forces who it was stated were looking for evidence of the UCK but there was none. The 55 men who had been collected together were again forced to strip to the waist and stand with their hands behind their heads while they were searched. In the course of the search a bullet was found in the pocket of a 13-year-old boy who was amongst the group of men. It was explained that the boy had picked up the bullet on the road. The police asked who supported the boy's statement and his uncle stepped forward. The uncle was then taken to one side by one of the policemen and shot. The men were then told to dress and face the water and ordered to walk into the river with their backs to the police. They were shoulder to shoulder. One of the men in the group heard an order given in Serbian to shoot. He was one of the first into the water, which was up to his neck. As the police opened fire, men fell all around him. One man was injured and crying for help. Police came over and fired again and killed him. The man who survived the mass killing remained in the water for one more hour and became so cold that he had to leave the water. Another man who hid in the river for seven hours with 15 others, said that "the river ran red with blood". In the process of rounding up and expelling Kosovo Albanian residents, Suva Reka/Suhareke town experienced many large-scale killings. The most compelling statement from one of these events was given by the wife of the owner of the OSCE-KVM building, the only survivor of the killing by Serbian forces and civilians of her extended family, including many young children - one only two years old. On 25 March, police questioned her husband regarding the OSCE-KVM and why OSCE-KVM personnel had been allowed to live in his house, and then proceeded to beat him unconscious. Around midday on 26 March the police again called at the house where the witness was staying. A policeman whom she knew called her brother-in-law's son outside and shot him dead. The police "screamed" at them and when the families ran outside they found their house "under siege" from police, and Serb and "Gypsy"(Maxhupi) civilians. She witnessed as some of her family were shot dead immediately. She and others were chased to another location, apprehended and pushed into a café. The police shot every person in the room of the café with machine guns and rifles. The witness had her four children, two girls aged 16 and 14 and two sons aged 10 and 2 years old, gathered around her. They were all killed. She was trying to protect her two-year-old son with her legs. She was also hit in the abdomen with a bullet that passed through her elder son. She urged him to pretend he was dead. As they took the bodies outside they saw that her eldest son was still breathing and shot him again. She heard him cry out. At least 12 children under 17 were killed and 10 adults including a pregnant woman. The witness pretended to be dead as the police removed all valuables from their bodies. She saw them cutting off fingers from dead bodies to remove rings. She was placed in a truck on top of other bodies including the children. During the journey towards Prizren she jumped from the truck and was found by people who took her to UCKheld territory where her wounds were treated (this incident is also covered, including with citations, in Part V, entry for Suva Reka/Suhareke municipality). In the Kacanik area a number of people died in a spate of separate killings that occurred on 28 March. A pharmacist, aged 30-35, was shot in his yard when he attempted to escape. Seven police and one Serbian civilian were described as being involved in this incident. Four policemen shot another man in front of a http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch5.htm (7 of 15)12/5/2003 11:50:53 AM