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The Klečka killings were the mass murder of 22 Kosovo Serb civilians, including children, allegedly by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) over a period of several days in July 1998, during the Kosovo War. After the killings, it was alleged that members of the KLA attempted to dispose of the massacre-victims by incinerating their ...
US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights Watch, the vast majority of abuses were ...
Hero of Kosovo (posthumously) Ismet Jashari (16 April 1967 – 25 August 1998) also known as Commander Kumanova (Albanian: Komandant Kumanova), was an Albanian commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who was killed on 25 August 1998 during the fighting with Serbian forces in Klečke, Kosovo. The Ismet Jashari-Kumanova Brigade [2] of the ...
The Battle of Kleçka, also known as the Battle of Dulje or the Battle of Lubocet and Grejçecit, was a clash that occurred between KLA fighters and Yugoslav forces in late August 1998 for the control of the villages of Kleçka, Dulje and their surroundings. The Albanian insurgents resisted the attacks by the Yugoslav Army, but after the death ...
War crimes witnesses to the Kosovo War (1998–99) have been victims to threats, violence, and murder. Those who spoke out about the abuses of their side in the conflict were seen as traitors to their community, and therefore, only a few became witnesses in war crime trials. [1] The international institutions ICTY, UNMIK and EULEX, and national ...
Ljubenić mass graves. The Ljubenić mass graves were alleged killings committed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces in the village of Ljubenić (alb. Lybeniq) near Peja, during the Kosovo War 1998-1999. On 25 May 1998, at least eight villagers of Ljubenić, mostly Hamzaj family members, were extrajudicially executed by a group of police ...
Tahir Zemaj (28 December 1951 – 4 January 2003), was a reowned Major in the Yugoslav People's Army, Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosova (FARK) and General of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) during the Kosovo War (1998–1999), who was killed under suspicious circumstances as part of a killing series in the early 2000s.
The Bytyqi brothers were American - Kosovo Albanian members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who were killed by Serbian Police shortly after the end of the Kosovo War, while they were in custody in Petrovo Selo, Kladovo, Serbia. The bodies of the three brothers were discovered in July 2001 in a mass grave containing 70 Albanians, near Special Anti ...