f terror (Sells, 2). The Serbs used the tactic of fear to expel the Albanian population from Kosovo. One refugee remembers, "The Serbs came and they killed 11 of our people. Murdered them right before our eyes. And why? They wanted to strike fear in the rest of us. 'Go to NATO' they shouted, 'Go to Clinton, this is Serbian territory'" (Vesilind, 1). The Serbs were brutal and relentless in their ethnic cleansing campaign. Suzana Jashari, a nurse in Pristina, a city in Kosovo, tells the horrific story of how she was forced to leave her patients to die in her hospital. The Kosovo Liberation Army took over the hospital and ordered all visitors and those able to could to evacuate the building. One woman was gravely ill. After much groveling and pleading I was permitted to give her a blood transfusion with 2 pistols jabbing into my neck. Then they forced me to leave the hospital. I could hear my patients screaming as they killed them all anyway" (Vesilind, 2). Yusug Zhuniqi tells the story about how the Serbs forced 150 villagers to flee from their town. The Serb forces then separated the men and older boys from the women and children. 50 men were stripped naked, backed into shallow water and shot with automatic weapons. He played dead and was able to crawl out of the bloody creek hours later (Hammer, 65). This story is strikingly similar to that of Moshe the Beadle's from the novel Night and how he survived a Nazi massacre. Another man Visar returns to his village in Kosovo. 8,000 thousand families lived in his village before the war, now only 83 remain. Visar's old friend Isar came running to greet him and to explain how the 10Serbian police invaded his home. Isar jumped out of his window with his youngest son. The rest of his family was shot. He sobbed as he tried to explain the gruesome task of removing the brains of his twelve-year-old daughter from his floor (Hammer, 69). The Serbs not only destroyed the personal l...
