At a juncture in the gravel road along the edge of the strip mine, according to both Billali and Velliqu, the first two truckloads of men disembarked and were marched in three lines toward the pit. The truck in which they were riding was driven 50 yards farther down the road, past a curve where they could look back at the mine. Then we had to start singing again. One man survived the massacre, but his whereabouts are unknown, the two men said. All that can be seen today at the edge of the mine are track marks where a bulldozer pushed dirt and brush onto a ledge where the bodies fell.
Flies cover the pile, and a portion of a cow's head juts from beneath some broken branches.
Billali says he is not sure why he was not killed, but he recalls that most of the men in his truck had wounds or were elderly, while those in the first two trucks were younger and thus more likely to be suspected by government troops of membership in the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. The others can live. Afterwards, he and Velliqu were taken to the Glogovac police station, which was occupied today by KLA members and had an Albanian flag flying outside. At the rear of the building, Billali pointed to the bare cement room where he said he and many others were beaten with wooden sticks. They beat us until we fainted.