Leotrim Caraku, a survivor of the Poklek massacre, shared the horrific moments he endured during the massacre. He said he still suffers from the fact that he did not get to see his mother. "Today I long for my mother, as I never got to see her. Today I remembered everything, there was a woman in a black jacket, I couldn't see her face, I thought it was her. One was wounded, and another was asking for water, we left them at the entrance door when we left," he said. The Poklek massacre refers to the killing of 53 Albanian civilians, including 24 children, in the village of Poklek, near Drenas, Kosovo. The massacre occurred on April 17, 1999, and was carried out by Serbian forces during the final stages of the Kosovo War, motivated by ethnic cleansing against Albanians in Kosovo and anti-Albanian sentiments.