Dragica on the hell he survived in Kosovo: I begged the Albanians, kill me and my husband, leave my son

Confirmation of the indictment against the KLA leaders, including the Hashim Thaci, now the first President of Kosovo, stirred the spirits of the past. Large numbers of Kosovo Serbs suffered from the company Thaci ran, but the families of the victims, who have been dealing with this pain for 22 years, do not look forward to events: their loved ones are not there and the pain for them, especially children, nothing can mitigate.

Božanić, from Opteruša village, Orahovac municipality, lost her husband and son. She was imprisoned herself, interrogated by the KLA, but added that she never feared for her life. That July 1998, she was only concerned that Albanians would return her youngest son Nemanja, a newly grown boy, as well as her husband, but sadly, 18 years later, in 2006, at the Merdare border crossing, she took over. of their bones.

“That night, from July 17 to 18, 1998, members of the KLA fired at our house in the town of Opterusa for hours. I think the reason was an agreement that my husband had with a councilor, an Albanian, from our place. That Albanian came to my house and I offered to my husband that if his Albanians came for us, he would call him to protect him, and if our Serbs came for him, that he would call my husband. I think that is rumored and that’s why it attacks us, “says Dragica Božanić and goes on to describe that fateful night:

“My husband decided to surrender the morning before and they took us and our neighbors to an unknown place, to a house. There they separated men and women. They constantly questioned all of us and on one occasion I said, I begged those Albanians to tell us they held back: “Kill me and my husband, let my son go.” We were in that facility for days. During that time, I saw my son three times. The last time we sat on some stumps and when they took him away He looked at me and said to the one who was taking it: “Don’t touch my mom.”

According to her, the women were subsequently transferred to other places and since then the wife and son have not been seen again. Albanians They accompanied her through the villages as a prisoner and she was rescued by the forces of the international community, who transferred her to the Red Cross facilities in Pristina.

“In the end, I ended up in Vrnjačka Banja with relatives, and then in Mladenovac, where I still live today. The association in Belgrade informed me in 2006 that their bones (of wife and son) had been found. I took them in 2006 at the Merdare crossing and I buried them in Orlovača, in Belgrade, but I don’t think it’s them. I left it to God. “

The bones of Mladen and Nemanja Božanić were found in Volujak, near Klina. The indictment against Thaci and other KLA leaders includes the torture of 407 people in 34 illegal arrests in Kosovo and Albania, of which at least 98 were brutally murdered. In the list of murder sites in the indictment, most of the victims (24) were found at the Volujak site, near Klina, where KLA members fired at Serbs abducted in 1998.