Today marks 27 years since the beginning of the war in Kosovo, which started in the villages of Drenica – Likoshan and Qirez, where fighting took place at a location called “Te tre lisat” between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Serbian criminal forces.
Several Serbian police officers were killed during the fighting. As a result, enemy forces surrounded both villages, executing 24 innocent civilians.
During the siege of the villages, the enemy used heavy artillery, including helicopters and numerous other armored vehicles, including tanks, reports Kp.
From the first day of fighting, the enemy carried out massacres against civilians. In the Ahmeti family alone, 11 people were killed.
A few days later, on March 5th, the Serbian army and police surrounded the family of the legendary KLA commander, Adem Jashari. The Jashari family resisted for three days and three nights in the fighting against the enemy.
With the Battle of Prekaz, it became clear – the war for freedom in Kosovo would not cease.
During the fighting until the liberation of the country, around 1 million Albanians were expelled from Kosovo, 15,000 were killed, and 2,400 of them were martyrs.
Serbian forces carried out many massacres, such as those in Abri, Reçak, Meje, and many others.
During the last war in Kosovo, about 5,000 people went missing, and the fate of over 1,600 people is still unknown. Over 20,000 women were raped.
Between March 1998 and June 1999, Serbian criminal units and heavy artillery destroyed or severely damaged around 1,100 Albanian settlements, looted, burned, and destroyed over 200,000 houses, businesses, craft workshops, factories, schools, libraries, cultural-historical monuments, and religious, cultural, scientific, and religious sites.
NATO bombings began on March 24, 1999, targeting Yugoslav military sites. NATO, with the ground support of the KLA, forced Serbian forces to withdraw from Kosovo, and the man known as the “Butcher of the Balkans” – Slobodan Milošević, signed the capitulation in Kumanovo.
