Vushtrri massacre
Killing of kosovars
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Kosovo War
Prelude
- Likošane and Ćirez
- Prekaz
Wartime events
- UNSCR 1160
- Albanian–Yugoslav border ambush
- Lapušnik prison camp
- Belaćevac Mine
- Ljubenić mass graves
- Lođa
- 1st Albanian–Yugoslav border
- Klečka killings
- Orahovac
- Junik
- Lake Radonjić massacre
- Glodjane
- UNSCR 1199
- Gornje Obrinje massacre
- UNSCR 1203
- UNSCR 1207
- 2nd Albanian–Yugoslav border
- 3rd Albanian–Yugoslav border
- Panda Bar massacre
- Podujevo
- Ambush near Suva Reka
- Račak massacre
- Allied Force
- F-117A shoot-down
- Novi Sad blitz
- Bela Crkva massacre
- Krusha massacres
- Suva Reka massacre
- Izbica massacre
- Drenica massacres
- 4th Albanian-Yugoslav border
- Battle of Košare
- Battle of Paštrik
- Grdelica
- Gjakova
- Meja ambush
- RTS headquarters
- Meja
- Yugoslav Ministry of Defence
- Lužane bus bombing
- Varvarin bridge bombing
- Vushtrri massacre
- Niš cluster bombing
- Chinese embassy
- Koriša bombing
- Ćuška massacre
Aftermath
Aspects
- War crimes
- Mass graves: Batajnica mass graves, Rudnica mass grave, Ugljare mass grave, Mališevo mass grave
- Destruction of heritage (Albanian · Serbian)
The Vushtrri massacre was the mass killing of Kosovo Albanian refugees near Vushtrri, during the Kosovo War on 2–3 May 1999.
Background
A column of about 1,000 refugees were travelling in a convoy of about 100 tractors, who were fleeing fighting between the KLA and Serbian forces east of Vushtrri.[1] Serbian Police and paramilitary forces caught up with the convoy that traveled south. On 2-3 May between Gornja Sudimlja and Donja Sudimlja (Albanian: Studime e Eperme and Studime e Poshtme) near Vushtrri, an estimated one hundred men were killed.[2]
ICTY investigator Romeu Ventura stated that 120 civilians were murdered on 2 May by Serb forces and buried two days later in a mass grave five miles east of Vushtrri.[1] After the war, ICTY forensic teams discovered 98 bodies in Gornja Sudimlja.[2]
The Vushtrri case was raised at the trial of Serbian police general Vlastimir Đorđević.[3] The indictment against Đorđević says that some 105 Kosovo Albanians[who?] were killed in the massacre near the village of Sudimlje on 2 May 1999.[4] Đorđević was sentenced to 27 years in prison.[5]
References
- ^ a b Bruce, Cabell (August 15, 1999). "Serb war criminals seize north Kosovo". The Independent.
- ^ a b "Vucitrn (Vushtrri) Municipality". Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo (PDF). Human Rights Watch. 2001. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
- ^ "Vlastimir Đorđević Convicted for Crimes in Kosovo". ICTY. February 23, 2011.
- ^ "POLICE CRIMES IN VUCITRN". SENSE Tribunal. January 4, 2009.
- ^ "Case Information Sheet: Vlastimir Đorđević" (PDF). ICTY. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
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