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Attack on Prekaz

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Attack on Prekaz
Part of the Kosovo War and the Drenica massacres

The main house that was attacked by the Serbian police
Date5–7 March 1998
Location
Prekaz, FR Yugoslavia
(present-day Kosovo)
Result

Yugoslav victory

  • Yugoslav forces capture Prekaz
Belligerents
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia FR Yugoslavia Kosovo Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Shaban Jashari †
Units involved
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslav Army
Serbian police
Special Operations Unit
Special Anti-Terrorist Unit		 Kosovo Liberation Army
Strength
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia c. 100+ policemen and special forces; at least one attack helicopter, several APCs, armoured vehicles, mortars and artillery[1][2][3][4][5] c. 38 militants[6]
Casualties and losses
2 killed
7 wounded[7][8][9]		 c. 38 killed[6]
Albania 59 Albanians killed—mostly members of the Jashari family including 28 women and young children and at least three by summary execution[10][11][12]
Albania/United Kingdom One adolescent, a BBC journalist and an Albanian translator shot by police, but fled and survived[13][14]
Albania Up to 5,000 civilian refugees[15]

The Attack on Prekaz, also known as the Prekaz massacre,[16] was an operation led by the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Serbia which lasted from 5 to 7 March 1998, whose goal was to eliminate Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspects and their families.[17][18] During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz were killed, along with nearly 60 other family members.

The attack was criticized by Amnesty International, which wrote in its report that: "all evidence suggests that the attack was not intended to apprehend armed Albanians, but to eliminate the suspects and their families." Serbia, on the other hand, claimed the raid was due to KLA attacks on police outposts.[17] The attack and subsequent death of Jashari became an integral part of the local Albanian national narrative.[19]

The operation was accompanied by use of summary executions and excessive force by Serbian authorities, along with often being considered a war crime due to excess (and intentional) non-combatant casualties.[10]

  1. ^ Austin, Robert C. (1998). "Albania and Kosovo: Roots of instability". Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. 6 (1): 67. doi:10.1080/11926422.1998.9673163. about 1,000 heavily armed Serb police and special armed forces launched a three-day assault on the village of Donji Prekaz
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference report2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Lellio, Anna Di (2006). "The Legendary Commander: the construction of an Albanian masternarrative in post-war Kosovon". Nations and Nationalism. 12 (3): 516. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00252.x.
  4. ^ Bellamy, Alex J. (2007). "Human Wrongs in Kosovo: 1974–99". The International Journal of Human Rights. 4 (3–4): 120–121. doi:10.1080/13642980008406895.
  5. ^ Emmert, Thomas A.; Ingrao, Charles, eds. (2009). Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies: A Scholars' Initiative. Purdue University Press. p. 294. ISBN 9781557535337. On 5–7 March thousands of police and soldiers surrounded the Jashari compound in Prekaz.
  6. ^ a b Glenny, Misha (2012). The Balkans: Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804–2011. New York City: Penguin. p. 655. ISBN 978-0-14242-256-4. On Thursday 5 March 1998, a large force of Serbian police launched an offensive in Drenica, killing 22 Albanian fighters and triggering a flight of the civilian population towards Vučitrn.
  7. ^ "Kosovo killings: Belgrade's official version of events". BBC News. 12 March 1998. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  8. ^ David, Saul (2009). War: The Definitive Visual History. London, England: Penguin. p. 496. ISBN 978-0-75666-817-4.
  9. ^ "Obračun sa Jašarijem je bio uvod u rat na Kosovu". Kosovo Online (in Serbian). 6 March 2020. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  10. ^ a b "VIOLATIONS OF THE RULES OF WAR BY GOVERNMENT FORCES". Human Rights Watch.
  11. ^ "Sites — Stories". sites-stories.com. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
  12. ^ Kubo, Keiichi (2010). "Why Kosovar Albanians Took Up Arms against the Serbian Regime: The Genesis and Expansion of the UÇK in Kosovo". Europe-Asia Studies. 62 (7): 1146. doi:10.1080/09668136.2010.497022.
  13. ^ Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: A Human Rights Crisis in Kosovo Province (PDF) (Report). Amnesty International. June 1998. p. 7. Riad Jashari (16) was reportedly shot and injured before he reached the hill but survived to flee with the assistance of the others.
  14. ^ "HUMANITARIAN LAW VIOLATIONS IN KOSOVO" (PDF). Human Rights Watch. 10 (9): 49.
  15. ^ "Eerie Quiet Follows Assault in Kosovo". The Washington Post. 9 March 1998.
  16. ^ "Behind the Kosovo crisis". BBC. 12 March 2000.
  17. ^ a b Krieger, Heike (2001). The Kosovo Conflict and International Law: An Analytical Documentation 1974–1999. Cambridge University Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-521-80071-4.
  18. ^ Abrahams & Andersen 1998, p. 27: "The police attacked prekaz and the Jashari compound again on March 5, 1998, this time in a more determined manner. All evidence suggests that the attack was not intended to apprehend armed Albanians, considered "terrorists" by the government, but as Amnesty international concluded in its report on violence in Drenica, "to eliminate the suspects and their families."
  19. ^ Lellio, Anna Di; Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie (2006). "The Legendary Commander: the construction of an Albanian master-narrative in post-war Kosovo". Nations and Nationalism. 12 (3): 513–529. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8129.2006.00252.x. ISSN 1469-8129.

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