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[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Interviewer: What do you remember from the period before the war?
\nInterviewee: From the period before the war, there was prosperity. Nice life, employment, school. Colleges were at our fingertips. So, an ease, a job. From the house to the workplace is about 400 meters. All the best. And also before the war, when I was younger, I played sports. I played handball, I traveled all over the great Yugoslavia at the time. Socializing, both with Serbs and Albanians. And wherever we went, we were well received. And in Slovenia and in Croatia, in Bosnia and Macedonia and everywhere.
\nInterviewer: And what do you remember from the war period?
\nInterviewee: Well, there are many unpleasant things that I remember. The first thing is the start of the war, the bombings. Family together, thinking, when and where to shelter the family. Uncertainty, whether they are going to bomb Obili\u0107 because, “where to hide the children” and the country at that time, Yugoslavia – FRY, did not provide the civilian population with appropriate protective equipment. And the worst thing in life, that period of 77 days. Sometimes nice. We were all together, the joke, the suspense. And then through that joke, we imprinted those unpleasant things that were happening around us and in front of our eyes. Some things and scenes.
\nInterviewer: And how do you remember the period after the war, until 2004?
\nInterviewee: After the war, for a period, I lived by myself, because the Albanians started attacking houses. And then I had to leave the neighborhood as the last one to shelter the children for a short time, I returned to protect the house for the first five or six months. Later they… the family came back. There are some scenes when the daughter says, “Daddy says… let’s go back to our house, because those birds in Serbia, they sing like dark owls”. So there were those difficult moments. After that, when the family was together, it was much easier. There is nothing to worry about, they are there together, and if they are sick, and if they are healthy, we help each other. But there was an awkward moment in the first months in Obili\u0107. I had money, I don’t even know how much I had, and I couldn’t afford the children anything. No pleasure in buying them ice cream and such things. Because Albanians did not want to give anything to Serbs. And then we supplied ourselves, how we supplied ourselves, with trucks. KFOR drove to Mitrovica and that’s how we supplied ourselves with food and those necessities. Later, the situation changed a little. Those natives came back to Obili\u0107, they started to open places where we all knew each other and socialized. And then they said, “Hey, come let me give this to you”, \u201cjust he says, so that they don’t see\u201d, he says, \u201cthose who came from elsewhere\u201d. Because I guess they suffered pressures too, as far as I know. It was easier. And we organized our life, we had a good time. During the day, the children would play, in the evening at nine o’clock we would provide a guard because Shiptari had named, the settlement that we opposed, they named it [unintelligible]. They were trying… they started burning houses. Moreover, we also had a death case, the murder of Dragan Todorovi\u0107. Then they wounded the neighbor Stevi\u0107 Dragan. They fired three shots at him, and all three shots hit him, but, some [unintelligible] was felt. And then, for a moment, the thought that everything was fine, that the situation was normal, came that March 18. I was in Gra\u010danica and Obili\u0107 was attacked on March 19 and 20. We resisted them for two days and I can say that KFOR also participated in that action, to evict the Serbs from Kosovo. Because a few days before that, the Albanians went from house to house and marked which were Serbian houses. And KFOR did not want to protect us. And then, when there was a conflict between Albanians and Serbs, then KFOR came to protect us, but they did not aim for us to stay in Obili\u0107, but to evict us. And then after a few, let’s say an hour or rather, a few minutes, we were placed in this, the former Devet Jugovi\u0107 Army Barracks. So in the KFOR camp, we got together, and my nephew called me and said, uncle, do you know what’s new? What? He says, your house is on fire. I say, no I lost the house. We took playing cards to take our minds off what was happening while we were playing cards. And like, let’s play cards on houses. It was then… those conversations… we will, we won’t, we won’t. There, the Italians proved to be just that, in the true sense of the word, like the army and the Irish.
\nInterviewer: And today, twenty or more years after the war, do you have friends among Albanians and do you even think that it is possible to overcome everything that happened in the past?
\nInterviewee: To be honest, both before the war and during the war and after the war, those Albanians I had as friends remained my friends. But friends. Whereas, those who weren’t friends then and after the war didn’t really like to see me, and I didn’t like seeing them either. And as for a better life and peace, I have said 1,000 times that if we had the rights that the Albanians had before these events, 50 percent of the Serbian people would be the happiest people in the world. They had all the rights, they had schools, colleges, their alphabet, everything. And now, although Serbian is guaranteed by the Constitution in Kosovo, they do not allow us to use it anywhere, nor do they issue us papers in Serbian. It can only be better under one condition, that Kosovo returns under the authority of the state of Serbia. In what form, will it be… all the rights to be given to them as a wider autonomy and not statehood. Only then can we expect and have. And that is, that the state of Serbia has jurisdiction over the government in Kosovo. In some respects. In these local matters, they should not be interfered with, but border defense, finances should be under the authority of the Serbian state. So that we have someone to complain to. Because this last case of Mr. Todosijevi\u0107, a man was convicted of a verbal offense. And they can condemn me, you, and all of us for something. If we deny that there was genocide in Srebrenica or if we say that Racak was a staged situation, they can accuse anyone.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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