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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Interviewer: Same question. What do you remember from the period before the war?
\nInterviewee: Before the war, I remember an extremely beautiful and good life, including all the people from Pristina. And Albanians and Turks and Roma and Serbs. I mean, a real community where we all… where we socialized, were together, went to bars, went… everywhere… to cultural events. So, there was just no difference at all… in fact, there wasn’t, er, between us. I can say that it is an extremely beautiful period that I remember. And at the end of the day, let me tell you that as a guy in the orchestra where we played as guys, there were three Turks, one Serb and one Albanian. So I think that this is a true picture of life in Pristina.
\nInterviewer: And what do you remember from the war period?
\nInterviewee: Well, unfortunately, I don’t remember many good things, and there were no good things. If, well, I were to analyze it. The beginnings of the bombings and all that, when, let’s say under the signs of allegations, the Albanians were then threatened. But they were not threatened. Um, in my building where I lived, there were more Serbs than there were Albanians. And I can say with 100% certainty that we cared, we took care of them and ultimately, we prevented them from leaving. However, everyone knows that it was a foreign directive when… during the day, during the night, almost everyone left. There are a couple of families left whom we helped during the bombings and during all these events. In contrast, for example, after that, after the invasion by international forces, so to speak, the situation was not like that. And I had the opportunity to see murders and transfers and various kinds of terror… by Albanians towards Serbian population. So I have a very… very bad memory of that. Secondly, I had the opportunity to see… I happened to be on the street when a girl, a Serbian woman, was leading a half-struck parent from… from, let’s say, the infirmary, let’s call it an infirmary, towards the house. And no one helped her… well, of the people present, no one helped her. And then I remember that they attacked us, during the takeover of the television, although they could have worked as well… but with… again with the participation of international forces who evicted us so that they would be there the next day. So that the day after tomorrow they would throw in the Albanians and forbid us access to our workplaces. And I say, one disruption of relations for which I do not see much responsibility, I will be extremely honest, of all residents of Kosovo and Metohija. There are individuals who played this, that negative role both on the side of the international forces and on the side of the Albanians. After all, it turned out uh, that they were… that’s right. Whether anyone liked it or not, that’s the bottom line, that’s the real truth. Although uh, considering that I moved here where I live, many… many Albanian friends with whom I am still to this day in contact, for my own safety, I wanted to see Pristina after a year, to go to Pristina, etc., etc. Unlike them, I shouldn’t, you know, be in Pristina with them, if something would happen to me. I also insisted many times and at my insistence I went um, to… to, in my city. And it’s a very sad picture when you meet a friend and he’s so surprised, and you can see in his eyes that he’s also pleasantly surprised to see me. But that he simply must not report the difference, for example, when I was in Belgrade, when I saw any Albanian or neighbor or… especially Albanians, he also comes and that cordiality, you know. And I was really, um bothered by that. And secondly, we didn’t come across… I didn’t come across any problems though. Personally, I didn’t have any. We did not encounter any protection from the Albanians. And their code is justice, honor, etc. So in that sense I’m a little disappointed.
\nInterviewer: And how do you remember the moment you had to leave your home?
\nInterviewee: Well very… very difficult, very unpleasant. Because first the sons left who… one was a minor, one had just… just turned 18, and they left with the neighbors. That was a long line of people, um. I stayed in Pristina to work. And all of us… I’m talking about the television workers, most of us stayed there. You see kidnappings, you see robberies. I even saw my neighbor killed in front of this… in front of the building during the night. Very creepy and believe me, very scary. And I didn’t expect it to be like that. But it’s like through some kind of fog, like… like I was watching a movie. Very difficult.
\nInterviewer: And today, from this distance, do you think it is at all possible to overcome everything that we experienced during the war and to build a different society together?
\nInterviewee: Well… we are not all bad people, neither Albanians, nor Serbs, nor Turks. However, there are very bad people at the top of world politics. Whose interest is only to, as our people would say, throw a bone and let the other two start a fight. Everything depends on us. Unfortunately, both sides are indoctrinated by politics and political events and this…situation in the world. If we ourselves, if we ourselves do not fight for a better life, those from the side can only cause us problems. Nothing more. But I hope, considering, I say, I’m sure of one size… I mean the majority of Albanians who now need to show democracy. Now it’s up to them to show if the Serbs were bad, what… well, I was in my best years when… there was neither terror, nor was this… and now, let’s say the ball has been passed to Albanian side, so I am now interested in whether they will be as democratic as they say, as they stand for. And unfortunately, we have ravaged villages, pressures, attacks on Serbs. And that didn’t happen until 1999, until the bombing by NATO aggression. From the Serbs towards the Albanians. I can responsibly say and claim that because I was in the media, so I know this, a lot. But I still hope that intellect will prevail and that we will… After all, there were many wars in this region, so they reconciled and created new friendships, etc., etc. So I’m more of an optimist than a pessimist in that regard.
\nInterviewer: Thank you.
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