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M I N U T E S T O WA R : Picnic in Hell Entering I met her father. I did a pencil sketch portrait of him. The drawing was clumsy, even bad and it made him appear sad and worn out. But polite he looked at it and said that is a picture of an old sad man, and I felt terrible. Dominic: ‘Do you know what happened to them?’ Bet’s wife: ‘No one knows...they took the children away. So the military forces, they have taken the thirty persons and nobody knows what has happened to them.’
M I N U T E S T O WA R : Picnic in Hell person I see ...it is difficult. But I know that it is more difficult for them, to be in the situation that they are in.’ Bejta Dervish: ‘I have seen massacred people, I have counted 103 dead with my own hands. Bodies had no heads, no noses, no arms.’ His wife then explains: ‘We were at the school: the elderly, children, men and women. All the people from ten different villages were concentrated in one school. Then they separated the men aged from 15 years upwards and the elderly. They only left the weakest. These they returned to us. Of that group which was sent to this huge field, no one, not one person has returned. None!’ His wife in a striped top almost crying began then began to explain what had happened to others: ‘They were waiting in a queue for bread and sugar. The first day, it was Saturday. The first day on Saturday…..They took about 300 young away. On Tuesday they broke down the doors, entering the house.’ His wife then explains: ‘We were at the school: the elderly, children, men and women. All the people from ten different villages were concentrated in one school. Then they separated the men aged from 15 years upwards and the elderly. They only left the weakest. These they returned to us. Dominic: ‘Do you know what happened to them?’ Bet’s wife: ‘No one knows...they took the children away. So the military forces, they have taken the thirty persons and nobody knows what has happened to them.’ She continued: ‘We were eating...they broke the doors down, the second group of young were inside the house...our children were sobbing. They were eating when some military forces entered the house forcefully and they took her children and saying: ‘We will take them away and return them in three days. It has been fifteen days and we have heard nothing.’ We pass across and see other families always the stories are the same but different. One woman in a tent explains: ‘The Serbs came inside the house and they killed the son there. They ordered the father and other son to cart the body away to bury him...and they were also executed. We left their bodies behind. They remained, unburied…left for one month…the birds were eating the bodies.’ In half disbelief horror at the immense enormity and gross abuse I explained outside to the camera: ‘It doesn’t matter what side a person is on, if that person is innocent and suffers, then it is a crime against humanity. When someone escapes justice in this world, they cannot escape it in the next. This evil feeds off
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