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The police ordered the women and small children to leave the area and to go to
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After several minutes of gunfire, the police piled hay on the men and boys and set fire to it in order to burn the bodies. As a result of the shootings and the fire, approximately 105 Kosovo
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Publication-Massacre in Pastasel, Orahovac
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