List of massacres in the Kosovo War

List of massacres in the Kosovo War
Mass grave of Račak victims.

Incomplete list of massacres by Yugoslav forces in the Kosovo War, listed chronologically:

  • February 28, 1998, Likoshane massacre — Serbian special police murdered several members of Ahmeti family.[1]
  • February 28 and March 1, 1998, Cirez massacre — Serbian special police murdered several members of Sejdiu family.[2][3]
  • May 25, 1998, Ljubenic massacre — Serbian forces extrajudicially executed at least eight men.[4]
  • September 26, 1998, Golubovac massacre - Serbian forces summarily killed thirteen men who were detained at a compound in the village of Golubovac.[5]
  • January 29, 1999, Rogovo massacre — Serbian police forces killed 24 Albanians, supposedly KLA members.[6][7][8]
  • March 25, 1999, Bela Crkva massacre — Serbian forces executed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Bela Crkva, including twenty members of the Popaj family and twenty-five members of the Zhuniqi family.[9][10]
  • March 31, 1999, Ljubižda massacre — security forces reportedly executed 14 Kosovo civilians in the village of Ljubiñda, northwest of Prizren.[11]
  • March 31, 1999, Pusto Selo massacre — Serbian security forces, including paramilitaries, summarily executed 106 six ethnic Albanian men in Pusto Selo (Pastasel), a village near Orahovac.[12]
  • April 5, 1999, Rezala massacre — Serbian forces entered the Albanian village of Rezala and gunned down at least 80 villagers.[13]
  • April 17, 1999, Poklek massacre — Serbian special police forced at least 47 people into one room and systematically gunned down. 23 children under the age of fifteen died in the attack.[13]
  • April 17, 1999, Ćikatovo massacre — Serbian forces killed twenty-four men from the Morina family.[13]
  • April 27, 1999 Meja massacre - Serbian police and paramilitary forces killed at least 300 ethnic Albanians, mostly men, from the village of Meja, in Djakovica municipality. On the same day, Serbian forces killed approximately 13 to 50 people in nearby Korenica village. [14]
  • May 14, 1999, Cuska massacre — Serbian police and paramilitary gathered villagers into 3 houses, gunned them down with automatic weapons and burn them. 41 known victims.[15]
  • May 22, 1999, Dubrava Prison massacre — Serbian prison guards killed more than 70 Albanian prisoners.[16]
  • May 26, 1999, Prizren massacre - Serb forces killed some twenty-seven to thirty-four people and burned over 100 homes in the Tusus neighborhood of the city of Prizren. [17]

Incomplete list of massacres by KLA:

  • 14 December 1998, Panda Bar incident - unidentified gunmen attacked Panda Bar caffe in Peć. 6 teenagers were killed and 15 people wounded. The killing of six young Serbs in an attack on the Panda coffee in Peć was considered to be in revenge for the killing of 30 KLA members few days earlier.[18][19]
  • September 1998, Lake Radonjic - the Serbian police collected 34 bodies of people believed to have been seized and murdered by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, at Lake Radonjic near Glodjane (Gllogjan)[20]
  • 1999 - 2000, In 2008, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she alleged that, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs of between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania.[88] The ICTY and the Serbian War Crimes Tribunal are currently investigating these allegations, as numerous witnesses and new materials have recently emerged.[21][22]

Reference

See also

  • War crimes in the Kosovo War

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