It is not an easy death. Both teach English. The night Serb troops entered their community to force them from their homes, Vjellca's husband ran out the back door and escaped over a wall. He later joined her in Montenegro. Sherine's husband went out the front door and was killed.
Blood soaks the soil.
They were told to gather their things, that they had three minutes to leave, to begin the passage over the mountains into exile. Instead, they were herded into a courtyard and executed, their bodies piled up and burned. Among them was a young woman eight months pregnant. These may not be all the victims here. Not all the homes and communities in the surrounding woods and nearby mountains have been checked.