Kosovo/Kosova As Seen, As Told grocery store. Two police wearing regular blue uniforms shot a 70-year-old man. They first took his ID card from him, threw it into a river, ordered him to retrieve it and then shot him. On 1 April a man from Jablanicka in Pristina stated that a neighbour was killed instantly by a burst of gunfire while tying to escape approaching masked paramilitaries and police officers. The same man subsequently witnessed a friend of his being shot dead when a single shot was fired by a masked paramilitary, while the man was trying to assist a religious leader who was wounded in the street. Sometime between late March and mid-April a group of people was surrounded in the forest between Ljubizda Has/Hasi i Lubizhde (Orahovac) and Djonaj/Gjonaj (Prizren). The group, who stated that they were all civilians, was then questioned about the UCK. Men between the ages of 15 and 60 were separated from the main group and between 10 and 16 of them were placed in a line. One of the VJ soldiers placed his weapon on a tripod and positioned himself in front of the men. Another soldier pleaded with him not to shoot and sat down and started to cry, but the first soldier proceeded to open fire and shot at the men while their families were forced to look on. At least eight of the men died while others escaped with injuries. Police then forced villagers to hide the bodies in various places. A number of killings occurred on 17 or 18 April in the village of Ade/Hade (Obilic/Obiliq municipality) when approximately 14 police, VJ soldiers and paramilitaries arrived. They shelled the village, burned houses and carried out a series of killings of members of the same extended family in which five men died. All five victims are widely named in statements. One man was shot as he came out of the house with a white cloth to "surrender". He died some hours later of his wounds from lack of medical assistance. One police officer and one VJ soldier, both armed with AK-47s, then went to the house of that man's brother and separated women and children (whom they sent away) from four men aged approximately 27 and 78 years old, some of whom they burned alive in the stable. When members of the family and other villagers returned a few days later they found two bodies (variously described as tied with cables and without legs) under the carcass of a cow. Another body was found shot in the yard; the fourth was not found. One man recounted that in Grastica/Grashtice (Pristina) on 18 April: "There were four paramilitaries, three of them were wearing black nylon [mask]s over their heads. They separated five young males who were all under 30 years old. Two of the paramilitaries wearing masks executed them by the side of the road. I was three metres from the scene and could hear the man who gave orders say: `Shoot them, kill them, do not let them go alive'." Reports also attest to attacks on civilians travelling in convoys. In one particular incident a convoy of Kosovo Albanian IDPs was caught between the villages of Gornja Sudimlja/Studime e Eperme and Donja Sudimlja/Studime e Poshtem, respectively 5 and 2 km east of Vucitrn town. One man who was near the front described it as being led by Kosovo Albanian political leaders from the area who were carrying a white flag. According to the interviewee, they stopped to rest at approximately 20:00 hours. News arrived from the back of the convoy that villages behind were being burnt and people killed, and that the convoy should move on. As the convoy moved on Serbian forces arrived at the front of the http://www.osce.org/kosovo/documents/reports/hr/part1/ch5.htm (8 of 15)12/5/2003 11:50:53 AM