Gorica Mitrović
Interviewer: Could you introduce yourself first?
Gorica Mitrović: Mitrović Gorica from Lipljan.
Interviewer: How do you remember the period before the war?
Gorica Mitrović:Well, before the war, everything was fine. So, we lived normally. We walked, moved and so on.
Interviewer: What do you remember from the war period and how did you leave your home?
Gorica Mitrović: Well, I remember it like this, it suddenly happened on March 17. Everything was calm. So, there were no people, there were no gatherings, and suddenly they started to gather. The noise started, the shouting. Then they started throwing cocktail bombs, flammable cocktails. They started attacking us, shooting. We started to run away and we were so…we were terrified. It was terrible. Well, after all those events, that shooting, that burning of the house, we retreated, we went through the settlements. We walked along the road past the church. They helped us… KFOR helped us then. In fact, they didn’t even help us, they just sat in their vehicles and let us… showed us where we were supposed to go. It was a place next to the church, a tavern. We all gathered there while the shooting was over our heads. Albanians with guns passed by and so we ran away. We ran through the yards,
Interviewer: Before the war, did you have good relations with your Albanian neighbors?
Gorica Mitrović: Well, we didn’t even have many Albanian neighbors there. But we were normal: “Good day, good day”. We didn’t have any problems.
Interviewer: Do you think we can put the war behind us and build a better society in Kosovo together?
Gorica Mitrović: Well, I think that we could make it happen, let’s all forget about the past, let’s all forget what happened to whom, both to us and to them. Then there could be some reconciliation. To forget the past, in fact to move towards the future.