Site Profiles: Interviewee Areas of Kosovo

Obilic/ Obiliq & Vučitrn/ Vushtrri Municipality: Plemetina Village, Plemetina Camp, Crkvena Vodica and Prilu�je
Site Profiles: Plemetina Village & Plemetina Camp | Crkvena Vodica | Prilu�je  | Kosovo Polje

Obilic/ Obiliq & Vučitrn/ Vushtrri Municipality : Prilu�je  

Prilu�je lies in Vučitrn/ Vushtrri Municipality , 2 KM from the Obilić/ Obiliq municipal border. The village lies 3 KM north of Plemetina Village .

Security & Transportation

Prilu�je�s population has complete freedom of movement as far south as the Plemetina Camp. After, they have none. The secondary road through Prilu�je that leads to Mitrovica cannot be safely used past northern Prilu�je.

The Kosovo Polje- Mitrovica/ Zvecan train runs through Prilu�je twice a day. UNMIK buses run several times a week to Plemetina, Obilić town and Gracanica.

Economy & Infrastructure

Prilu�je has one restaurant (that often runs out of food) and a few private homes that have been converted into cafes/ bars. There are a few hairdressers� salons, a ill-stocked pharmacy, and several shack-shops that sell beer, cigarettes, coffee and other items. Produce is produced and sold locally. Prilu�je also has a cultural center and radio station.

Prilu�je hosts a non-operating textile mill.  Most of Prilu�je�s inhabitants worked for KEK before June of 1999. After, they were all fired.

Prilu�je is 80- 90% unemployed. The Roma are almost all unemployed.

Telephone service has been disconnected by PTK for non-payment. Like Plemetina, Prilu�je is not within Mobtel�s mobile coverage reach. Alcatel phone numbers and credits are too expensive for most villagers.

Electricity is better in Prilu�je than Plemetina Village ; Prilu�je is on the grid that powers Vucitrn. Electricity is still, like most of Kosovo, weak and intermittent. Water quality is better than Plemetina, but is still poor.

Education

Prilu�je has a primary and secondary school. A medical secondary school has many students from Plemetina. Most Serbs have completed secondary school.  

Roma Prilu�je�s Mahalla lies northwest of the town center. The Mahala is almost entirely unemployed. Most Roma are Bugurdjije; many have completed primary school, but few have completed secondary. No Prilu�je Roma have attended university. A few Roma males work as blacksmiths or manual laborers for the Serbs. Children engage in recycling/ manual labor activities. The Prilu�je Roma leader is Ferki �Beco� Emini.

Demographic Information

Prilu�je has between 3000-3300 Serbs. Roughly 500 are IDPs.