General information

Call No.:

392-2-13:7/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-13 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: WITNESS Kosovo Project

Located at

DVD-ROM #7 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-13_007

Date of production

1999-06

Date

1999

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Albanian

Duration

36 min.

Notes

[Footage: ; Partners: ]

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

This video contains footage from Siceve te Prishtina. Footage shows bodies of massacre victims being removed from the places where the Serbian police and paramilitary left them, and then being formally buried as mass gravesites. There are shots of people mourning the dead who are being interred. There are interviews with two survivors from Siceve te Prishtina. The first man interviewed is Sevdaim Beqir Berisha, who is 22 years old. He explains how Sylejman and Jahir Berisha, both 99 years old, were killed in their sleep by two hand grenades. There is footage of the room where they were killed, including room in disarray, bullet holes, shells on floor; He also tells how his mother, Shehide Berisha, along with Vahide Berisha, was killed on May 16, 1999 by Serbian police and paramilitary. The second man interviewed is Shpetim Gashi from the village of Jereli. He recounts how he survived the massacre on May 15, 1999 in Jereli. There is more footage of a burial - good shots of graves being dug, mourners, some with photos of their deceased, crowds watching, graves with wooden markers.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)