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<strong>Psychosocial</strong> <strong>Notebook</strong>, Volume 2, October 2001<br />
ground, cigarettes, everything… everything ended up in the water<br />
because it was raining… They gave a thorough thrashing to the boys in<br />
front of everybody, and they scared me. [Rozafa]<br />
When the Serbian police were in the streets, they used to stop people and<br />
beat them up, and take their money… Laws didn’t work any more: they<br />
decided the rules as they went along. [Shapi]<br />
We all worked in the fields because there was a time when not just<br />
schools were closed to us, but also factories and institutions. [Dritan]<br />
We took classes in the Mosque… Hearing the Imam’s voice drove us<br />
crazy when we were listening to the professor, because the mosque is not<br />
the right place to listen and study…. [Ilir]<br />
Phase three: when restrictions are enforced with a higher level of risk,<br />
when deaths begin to occur and it becomes dangerous even to go outdoors<br />
or attend a funeral:<br />
We couldn’t go out because we feared they were shooting… We didn’t<br />
have funerals. Instead we ran away to avoid getting killed ourselves. I<br />
don’t know what happened to my mother. [Arta]<br />
The Serbs were angry because of NATO, and were beating up or killing<br />
whomever they found in the streets. Because of the fear, we didn’t go out,<br />
not even in the street or in the backyard. [Rozafa]<br />
When they killed someone at his house door, while he was going out…<br />
He would remain there. [Gezim]<br />
There was violence against girls, women, so they were afraid to go out,<br />
because this could have happened to them too. [Rozafa]<br />
Phase Four: entire families are forced to live underground, in basements,<br />
where deaths continue to occur. One’s home starts to become unsafe.<br />
At the beginning, we went in the basement. While we were there, a<br />
20-year-old girl… with a wheelbarrow, I carried her because her legs<br />
were destroyed by a shell. My colleague’s son, Iziroid, died because a<br />
Serbian shell fell right in the corner of the basement where he was staying,<br />
killing him. [Gezim]<br />
We lived in a house with 35 people; I stayed in a room with 12 persons.<br />
[Teuta]<br />
I was afraid to stay in my house… we stayed there, all in three rooms…<br />
for three weeks. [Rozafa]<br />
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