Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told difficult to determine, however, how co-ordinated these groups were. Many interviewees also mentioned "Arkan's" groups and "White Eagles" as well as other named paramilitary groups as being present (see Chapter 3, The military/security context, for further details). The individual names and/or official functions of perpetrators were also mentioned in many statements. Examples given here are but a few and only give a general outline of the pattern of events in which many people lost their lives. No-one, it seems, was immune, as people of all ages, including women and children, were killed in large numbers. Many people witnessed the killing of family members or neighbours. Witnessing a killing or even seeing dead bodies is traumatic. Instilling fear and terror in people appears to have been the intended effect of at least some of the many killings carried out in public places, with bodies left in the open for all to see. One result was that many people, upon seeing such killings or their aftermath, left out of fear before they were forcibly expelled. In Podujevo on 24 March one interviewee's brother and cousin were stopped on the street and shot by police reservists. On 25 March in the same area masked VJ and police officers entered the town in tanks, Pragas and other vehicles. They expelled Kosovo Albanians, while firing their weapons at the same time and killing many people. One man said he saw 36 bodies afterwards. On 28 March in the same area a 15year-old boy had a heart attack after watching the killing of a man in what was described by an interviewee as a "drive-by killing". At the time the town was surrounded by VJ, police, paramilitaries and local Serbs, and the perpetrators of the killing were described as being four people in a black fourwheel drive vehicle. On 3 April one interviewee witnessed the killing of seven people near the cemetery in the Dragodan/ Dragodan area of Pristina. The perpetrators were five masked men in green camouflage uniforms. They first robbed a group of IDPs and then opened fire on the crowd. On 30 April VJ forces and paramilitaries shot at a crowd of people and killed a small boy. In numerous cases in the process of forced expulsion, large numbers of Kosovo Albanian men were gathered together in one area and killed arbitrarily. Although they were certainly a particular target of the Yugoslav and Serbian forces (see Chapter 15, Young men of fighting age), it was not exclusively young "fighting age" men who were singled out and killed. In one particular mass summary and arbitrary killing of 55 unarmed men in the village of Bela Crkva/Bellacerke (Orahovac/Rrahovec) at least eight of the victims were over 60 years old and two were 70 or over, while a young boy of 13 was also in the list of the dead. In that particular incident, which occurred on 25 March, Serbian forces had surrounded the village and began shelling the 850 homes and burning the houses. A group of people including women and children fled towards the Beli Drim/Drini i Bardh river. The UCK were in the area and advised the group to move on as paramilitaries were advancing. The group of people fled in different directions and in the process a number of men who were running along the railway line were shot and killed, according to a 65-year-old man who was hiding nearby. As groups of fleeing people were caught and brought together the men were separated from the women and children, who were then http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch5.htm (6 of 15)12/5/2003 11:50:53 AM