Mehmet Mazrekaj’s hands shake in his lap as he recalls the night in March 1999 when death came to the village of Beleg in western Kosovo.
The retired schoolteacher, now 74 years old, remembers how Serbian forces separated the men from the women and children, how he was tied up and heard the screams of women and girls being raped in a cattle barn through the night between March 28 and 29. He remembers his escape to Albania the next morning, and those he left behind.
“They raped women and girls all night. Most of them were my students,” he told BIRN. “We left behind around 70 men from the village. Most of them have never been found.” They included three members of Mazrekaj’s own family.
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