Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told described the violence that took place in a police station in Pristina as follows: "On 3 May, they sent us to the officers for questioning about UCK activities. They made us take off our clothes and lie down. They beat us with wooden clubs, on every part of the body, back and head. They also put our penises (mine too) on a table and beat them. Different kinds of screams were heard. But you scream as you want. There is no way to escape. They beat us until they were tired (about two hours). Afterwards they placed us again together in a corridor. We had to carry some people who could not move Then we were put onto buses. We were beaten when we got on the bus and were sent to Lipjan [Serbian: Lipljan]. I had blood in my urine for 17 days." 52 One interviewee, describing his detention in Lipljan prison, stated that he saw two male detainees being 53 raped by two policemen who declared that they had AIDS. Another man recounted how "all the men were taken to Novi Dom near Kosovo Polje the next day, in an armoured vehicle. They entered the shopping centre where the police had set up an office one by one, and were interrogated. We were beaten with batons, kicked in the groin, [had our] heads banged against walls, some to unconsciousness. One man who had refused to talk after repeated beating, was told to take all his clothes off. A policeman opened a desk and told him to put his penis between the lid of the desk and the base. [The man] gave a 54 (fake) name of a UCK suspect and was released. Sexually humiliating and degrading treatment. Many men were humiliated by being forced to undress in public. An 18-year-old man described how he and some other men were hiding in a forest in Prizren municipality when they were surrounded by police. They were ordered back to their village and there they were beaten, forced to lie on the ground, eat grass and sing Serbian songs. The younger men (including the interviewee) were taken to the forest, stripped and made to stand naked in the rain for two hours, while their clothing was searched." 55 In another case, from Decani municipality, a 33-year-old man refused when police tried to make him 56 undress in front of a group of women. For this he was beaten so badly that three bones were broken. In Kraljane/Kralan (Djakovica) about 400 men were stopped at a checkpoint as they tried to flee. They were forced to undress completely, body-searched and made to remain on their knees with hands behind the head." 57 A 36-year-old man was stopped on the road by police in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenice. After showing his ID, police ordered him to walk to the nearby forest. There seven police officers began to beat him. 58 They ordered him to take off his clothes and then to put them on again, several times over. In Varos Selo/Varosh (Urosevac) a group of men were ordered by a dozen paramilitaries take off their clothes. One of the men refused, and for this he was stabbed in the side. The paramilitaries then opened the gate of the courtyard where the men were being held and told the naked men that they could "go now to Macedonia". 59 http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch7.htm (13 of 17)12/5/2003 11:51:55 AM