15 January 1999 – Raçak/Račak
Serb forces entered the village at dawn. By the time they left, 37 civilians had been killed, including a young boy. The bodies of more than 20 men were found in a ravine overlooking the village, having been executed at close range.
21 April 1999 – Dragaqinë/Dragacina
Surrounded by Serb forces in armoured vehicles, nearly all of the local men fled into the hills, leaving 11 elderly men and more than 200 women and children. The remaining men, all but one from the same family, were killed and their bodies dumped in a well, while some of the women were raped during three days of captivity.
25-28 March 1999 – Celinë/Celina
Yugoslav security forces began shelling early in the morning of 25 March, before entering on foot. Over the next three days, more than 60 people were killed. Alma Zeqiri, a two-year-old girl, was the youngest.
25 March 1999 – Bellacërkë/Bela Crkva
Serb police and paramilitaries entered the village before dawn, setting houses on fire and causing the residents to flee. Many headed south along a stream in the direction of a railway bridge. However, the Serbs were there first. The members of two families were shot in fields near the bridge.
25 March 1999 – Bellacërkë/Bela Crkva
Nesim Popaj, the village doctor, and his 17-year-old nephew. were also shot before the Serbs ordered the women and children to head west along the railway line. The men, who numbered more than 60, were then forced back into the stream bed where they were executed.
1998-1999 – Drenas/Glogovac
The Feronikel plant was closed in May 1998, after which it was used as a base by the special police. Local civilians believed that it was used as a detention centre, and after the war evidence was found of torture, including a blood-stained pole with nails in each end.
27 April 1999 – Mejë/Meja
A Serb checkpoint on the main road running through the village was the site of the single worst mass killing of the war. Nearly 300 men were pulled from a civilian convoy as they headed for refuge in Albania and executed at the side of the road.
28 March 1999 – Izbicë/Izbica
After a Yugoslav offensive, members of the KLA withdrew into the forest. A group of civilians consisting of women, children and elderly men took refuge in a field, carrying a white sheet to show they had surrendered. The men were separated from the women and children and split into two groups before being lined up and executed. Around 120 civilians were killed in the valley that day.
17 April 1999 - Poklek
At least 47 people were forced into one room in a house in the old part of the village and shot dead by a police officer, before the house was set on fire. 23 children were among the dead.
1 May 1999 – Shavarina Mine, Drenas/Glogovac
Early in the morning of 30 April, Serb units attacked multiple villages in the Drenica Valley. The survivors were collected at the mosque in Qirez/Cirez, before being transported south in trucks the next day. At least 100 men were taken off the trucks at the Shavarina Mine and executed.
25 and 26 March 1999 – Krushë e Madhe/Velika Kruša and Krushë e Vogël/Mala Kruša
A joint attack by Yugoslav army and special police units on the two neighbouring villages resulted in a series of brutal killings, including more than 100 men and boys who were herded into an outbuilding before being shot and burned. Many of the victims’ bodies were then dumped in the White Drin river.
8 September 1998 – Gllogjan/Glodjane
Dozens of bodies and partial human remains were found in a canal and at a farm near one of the KLA’s main headquarters in western Kosovo. The victims were of Serb, Albanian and Roma ethnicity, and many of them were known to have been abducted by the KLA in the months prior to the discovery. Some of the remains showed evidence of torture.
March-June 1999 – Ura e Fshajtë/Svanjski Most
Thousands of people fleeing northern Kosovo crossed the bridge across the White Drin on their way to safety. Yugoslav units were stationed there and many IDPs said that harassment, extortion and abductions were commonplace, while some saw bodies near the bridge, including in the river.
14 May 1999 – Zahaq/Zahac
After being forced into a mechanic’s pit, 14 men were shot in the head one-by-one. The sole survivor fainted and was covered by the bodies. More than 70 people were killed in simultaneous attacks on Zahaq/Zahac and two neighbouring villages.
2 May 1999 – Studime e Epërme/Gornja Sudimlja and Studime e Poshtme/Donja Sudimlja
A convoy of civilian tractors that stretched for more than 2 miles was travelling down from the hills towards the town of Vushtrri/Vučitrn. The convoy was stopped by police and paramilitaries demanding money and jewellery. More than 90 people were pulled from their tractors and shot dead during the journey.