
Story #2

“My life has become a living hell”
(Interview with Olga Stojanović)
A fortnight dedicated to the issue of missing persons from the last war in Kosovo (story #2)
“My life has become a living hell”
(Interview with Olga Stojanović)
Marko Stojanović was the director of a primary school in Ferizaj at the time of the NATO bombing. Convinced that the war was ending, and that the collective would soon return to their disrupted teaching practice, he thinks there is no need to distribute teaching materials to his colleagues. After the bombing and the end of the war, Albanians are placed in his former school, while many Serbs of the city are displaced in the villages around Štrpce. There, he organises classes to teach the large adult Serb community from the area.
In September 1999, accompanied by members of the Polish KFOR, Marko returned to his former school in Ferizaj to request the remaining Serbian-language teaching materials from his Albanian colleagues.
His wife, Olga, is full of doubts about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. She does not trust in the KFOR's efforts to help him, and even believes that the American colonel is somehow involved in Marko's kidnapping.
“My life has become a living hell”
(Interview with Olga Stojanović)
Marko Stojanović was the director of a primary school in Ferizaj at the time of the NATO bombing. Convinced that the war was ending, and that the collective would soon return to their disrupted teaching practice, he thinks there is no need to distribute teaching materials to his colleagues. After the bombing and the end of the war, Albanians are placed in his former school, while many Serbs of the city are displaced in the villages around Štrpce. There, he organises classes to teach the large adult Serb community from the area.
In September 1999, accompanied by members of the Polish KFOR, Marko returned to his former school in Ferizaj to request the remaining Serbian-language teaching materials from his Albanian colleagues.
His wife, Olga, is full of doubts about the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. She does not trust in the KFOR's efforts to help him, and even believes that the American colonel is somehow involved in Marko's kidnapping.
These stories are part of “Living with memories of the missing: Memory book with stories of family members of the missing from the last war in Kosovo”, implemented by forumZFD program in Kosovo and Integra, in cooperation with Missing Persons Resource Centre, with the support of Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Rockefeller Brothers and Swiss Embassy in Kosovo)