Radio Television of Kosovo has obtained a document that proves that in February 1999, special units of the Serbian police had prepared a list for the execution of 66 Albanians.
The document, titled “List of Albanians to Be Liquidated with Quick Procedure,” bears the signature of the commander of the Serbian special police unit, Colonel M. Marinković, and contains the names of 66 Albanian citizens, most of whom were public figures and intellectuals of the time.
Among the individuals targeted for execution was the former Prime Minister of Kosovo, Bajram Rexhepi, who during the war served as a medic in the Kosovo Liberation Army. Also on the list was Sadri Ferati, the former Minister of Local Government Administration in the Government of Kosovo.
According to the document, the territory was divided into operational zones, with specific individuals responsible for carrying out the killings in each zone. Among the people involved in executing this plan were names such as Dejan, Ratko (believed to be Ratko Antonijević, former director of the Mitrovica prison), Kasallović, and Ajeti (suspected to be Sherafedin Ajeti, former director of the Mitrovica prison).
On March 24, 1999, when NATO began airstrikes against military and police targets of Slobodan Milošević’s regime, it is believed that Serbian structures on the ground began implementing the execution list. Among the individuals who were supposed to be executed was Agim Hajrizi.
That evening, in his home in Mitrovica, Agim Hajrizi, his 11-year-old son Iliri, and Agim’s mother were brutally killed. Also that night, Latif Berisha was killed in his home.
Aferdita Hajrizi, Agim Hajrizi’s wife, gave a powerful testimony at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she identified some of the perpetrators of the crime: Nenad Pavićević, Ratko Antonijević, Dejan, and Boban, stating that at least two of them were known for their involvement in acts of violence against Albanians even before the war.
“We knew the murderers, they were our neighbors in uniform,” Aferdita Hajrizi recalled, emphasizing that the perpetrators of the massacre were not strangers or outsiders but people with whom they had lived for years in the same neighborhood. “They didn’t come to intimidate, but to eliminate. The murder of Agim was not just a crime, it was a pure act of political and ethnic cleansing,” Aferdita Hajrizi stated in her testimony before the Hague Tribunal.
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