Interviewer: What do you remember from the period before the war?
Interviewee: Well, I remember a good old time where we were all almost… we had the same rights. We hung out, went out, walked… to the main street in Pristina, where the “Corso” is. Where we were all Albanians and Serbs one and the same. We hung out, saw each other, drank coffee together. One part of the period where this is really… we lived well, we got along well.
Interviewer: And what do you remember from the war period?
Interviewee: Well, the war period, what do I know. Kind of like in a fog. Pretty tough times, empty city. No light, everything desolated around you… an unpleasant situation for the man himself, as they say. Because we didn’t expect it, we didn’t even know what happened to us, and so on.
Interviewer: Do you remember the moment you had to leave your apartment?
Interviewee: Well yes. That day we… I sat in the apartment until June 28. An Albanian neighbor came to me and told me to hide in the village for a few days and it will pass in a few days. However, twenty years have passed since we could no longer return to Pristina. Now we are within reach of the city of Pristina. Although, today we live much nicer, as they say, we also have greater freedom, comfort. The place is as it is here in Čaglavica and we are surrounded by Albanians, but we have an equally nice relationship with our neighbors where we all hang out and talk to each other, and so on.
Interviewer: Do you think that twenty or so years after the war we can build society together, or do you think that it does not depend on us?
Interviewee: Well, why not? We could do it simply, if others would not interfere. If we sat down with the Albanians at the same table, we would easily agree on everything. Because we have lived together before and I hope that we will live in the future. Because I say, our generations have always lived with each other.
Interviewer: Thank you!
Interviewee: You are welcome.