> BLIC > March 20, 2004 > > They wanted to burn us > > > 'I heard a terrible noise. I looked through a window > and saw our church in fire. I took the children to > Hranislav's yard so quickly. The children did not ask > me 'Mama will they kill us?' because they are too > small to ask something like that', Verica Mladenovic says. > > She is 40. She is from Obilic. She lived in Cerska > Street only several gardens from the Stolices house. > The Stolices were killed and burnt last year. Two days > ago while rushing children into armored UNMIK jeep she > saw smoke from the direction of her house. She has > three sons, Milosh 11, Milorad 8 and Nikola 5. > > We are dialing the number of her mobile telephone. > > 'Is that Belgrade', she says and begins to tell her > story immediately. > > 'The first night when the violence started we all were > sitting in front of our houses. The situation with us > was peaceful, but nobody went to bed. Then all of a > sudden it began. About 8 a.m. after our church, three > white skyscrapers were set on fire. Kosovo Police > arrived and took us into the station. We ran away to > Hranislav Radovanovic, the man that has bees. There > were 50 adults and 11 children. My neighbor, that > Albanian is not telling me whether I should stay or > leave. He was only watching. When I left I did not > know that I would never see my house again. . Very > soon Kosovo Protection Corpus arrived to tell us that > we should leave Obilic', Verica says. > > Since they refused to leave, later on they were taken > to a barracks in Pristina where Italian soldiers are. > > 'We have decided to leave. Italian soldiers told us > that everything that belonged to Serbs had burnt in > fire. We all shall leave from here as soon as > possible'. > > >