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Humanitarian Law Centerson was in the same room with Jehona and Saranda in the hospital. Therewas nothing else in that note, but the names Saranda and Jehona. So, weonly knew that Saranda and Jehona were in hospital. That evening, becausemy brother was already very tired, I decided to go to Priština the followingday through the forests. While I was going to Priština, I ran into Enver, whocame along with me because he did not want to let me go alone. The sameday, around 2 or 3 o’clock in the afternoon, we arrived in Priština and therewe saw a lot of soldiers and police officers, who were walking down thestreets. As a matter of fact, there were not so many of them. Some people inthe suburbs told us that it was too risky to walk, so we decided to ask somebodylet us sleep over in the house. We decided to knock on the door of onehouse that had smoke coming out of the chimney. One man opened andlet us come in. Some 20 minutes later, we heard some shooting, but regardlessof the risk, we still decided to stay in this house. The following morningI told Enver to return and so he left. I took off with this older man towardsthe centre of the city. When I came to the hospital, one nurse checked thelist of the people in the hospital and found only Saranda’s name.I went to the room where Saranda was and I can say that it was the hardestday of my life. They were helpless and wounded. They were in terriblecondition. They screamed when they saw I was alive. Saranda told me, ‘Wewere lucky that you and uncle are still alive’. She did not say anything else.It was clear that since they were there that others were dead. I did not askhere what happened because it was too difficult for her to speak of that andso it was for me. It was very difficult for me, so I went out of the room tocry. While I was standing like that one doctor came and expressed his condolences.He said that these children are here and their families were killed.I asked him if anybody else from my family was there and he said that twoboys from my family were there and one girl, who was seriously wounded,was sent to Belgrade. Her throat was cut.When I asked the doctor how they were wounded, he said by bullets andthat it was not connected to the air strikes. The doctor helped me buy somethingfor Saranda and Jehona. He actually told me I should go and buysomething, which I did, and he added that I should take Jehona abroad becauseshe was seriously wounded. Her hand was supposed to be amputated.He gave me release certificates for Saranda and Jehona. I am not sure ifI still have these release certificates at home.148