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Chronology of the KLA's Terrorism: April 1996 - February 1998
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1996
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April 22: Blagoje Okulic, a Serb refugee from Croatia, was sitting with a
friend in a cafe when a masked member of the KLA opened fire on the
customers with an automatic weapon. Okulic died in hospital. He was the
first victim of the KLA.
Armand Daci (20), an ethnic Albanian student in dentistry school, was
shot and killed by a sniper.
June 16: In an attack against a police patrol near Podujevo, police
officer Goran Mitrovic was heavily wounded.
June 17: Around 11:55 p.m. a police patrol in the village of Siplje near
Kosovska Mitrovica was attacked, resulting in the killing of Predrag
Djordjevic (28) from Krusevac, and the wounding of Zoran Vukocic (30)
from Nis.
The same day a bomb was hurled at the police station in Luzani, and the
police officers on duty in the station were fired on by automatic
weapons. No one was injured.
July 11: One hour after midnight in the center of Podujevo terrorists
carried out an armed attack against police officers, resulting in a heavy
wounding of police officer Sredoje Radojevic.
Aug. 2: Armed attack on three police stations (in Pristina, Podujevo, and
the village of Krpimej) around 10 p.m.
Aug. 28: Three bombs were hurled in the village of Celopek (border of the
towns Pec-Klina-Decani), around 3 a.m. No one was injured.
In the village of Donje Ljupce police inspector Ejup Bajgora (44), an
ethnic Albanian who worked at the Pristina Precinct, was shot and
killed.
Aug. 31: In the night hours two bombs were hurled into the courtyard of
the Yugoslav Army's barracks in Vucitrn.
In the village of Rudnik (Srbica municipality) an armed attack was
carried out on the police station.
In Podujevo, police officers at the juncture of the road
Pristina-Podujevo-Kursumlija were fired on. No one was hit.
The police station in Glogovac was fired on with automatic weapons.
Oct. 25: Two police officers were killed by automatic weapons near the
village of Surkis in the Podujevo municipality -- Milos Nikolic, a police
inspector of the Pristina Precinct, and Dragan Rakic from the village of
Velika Reka, who was a police officer in the reserves and a manager of a
company in Podujevo.
Nov. 16: In the village of Rznic, in Decan municipality, around 10:30
p.m. a terrorist attack was carried out on the police station. No one was
killed.
Dec. 26: Faik Belopolja, an ethnic Albanian from Podujevo who was a
forest worker in the Serbia Forest Service, was shot and killed.
1997
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Jan. 9: In the center of Podujevo at 5:30 p.m. Malic Saholi (52), an
ethnic Albanian who was the manager of the superamarket "Vocar"
and a deputy in the municipal council of Podujevo as a member of the
Socialist Party of Serbia, was shot and killed.
Jan. 11: In the Vucitrn village of Mijalic, around 7 p.m. more than 26
bullets were fired at the house of Ljubisa Mitrovic. No one was
killed.
Jan. 13: Shooting Fazil Hasani, an ethnic Albanian forest worker from the
village of Brabonic (Srbica municipality) in the neck, KLO terrorists
killed him and issued a statement denouncing Mr. Hasani as a
"traitor".
Jan. 16: Using remote-controlled explosives, the KLO attempted to
assassinate the Dean of Pristina University, Mr. Papovic, at 8 a.m. as he
was driving to the University. Both he and his driver Nikola Lalic were
heavily wounded. The explosives were set off when their car was some 50
meters from Dean Papovic's apartment in Pristina.
Jan. 17: In the village of Reketnica (Srbica municipality), at 1 a.m.,
ethnic Albanian Zen Durmisi (52) was shot and killed and his son Nazmi
Durmisi was heavily wounded. The Durmisi family was labeled
"pro-Yugoslav" by the terrorist KLA.
Feb. 1: KLA terrorists from a moving vehicle fired on police officers.
The officers fired back and killed all three terrorists.
March 5: At 10:47 a.m., in front of the Pristina University School of
Languages, a bomb in a container exploded. Four people were wounded, two
ethnic Albanians -- Adrijana Dremka and Lindita Maksuti -- and two ethnic
Serbs, Borivoje Popovic and Ivan Maksimovic.
A second explosives device weighing 4.2 kilograms, which had been placed
at the base of the Vuk Karadzic monument in front of the School of
Languages, was found and deactivated by members of the Anti-Ballistics
Unit of the Pristina Precinct.
March 21: Around 8 p.m., in the center of Podujevo, KLA terrorists fired
five shots at police officer Branislav Milovanovic, wounding him heavily.
In a statement, the KLA claimed responsibility denouncing officer
Milovanovic as a "Serbian policeman, well known blood-sucker and
anti-Albanian".
March 25: Near the village Sicevo, Klin municipality, a group of
attackers killed ethnic Albanians Jusuf Haljiljaj and Fehmi Haziraj (who
were well known as loyal citizens of Serbia) and wounded ethnic Albanian
Mehmet Gasi.
April 10: In the village of Banjica near Glogovac, using automatic
firearms, KLA terrorists killed ethnic Albanian Ramiz Ljeka, who worked
at the Glogovac Municipal Council.
May 6: Around 10:30 p.m. in the village of Lozica near Klina, ethnic
Albanian Hetem Dobruna (30), a farmer from the village, was shot and
killed.
May 16: In Srbica near Kosovska Mitrovica police officers Miomir Kicovic
and Radisav Blanic were shot and heavily wounded.
June 19: On the Pristina-Podujevo-Nis road near the village of Donje
Ljupce in the Podujevo municipality, terrorists fired 12 bullets from
automatic weapons at a police patrol. No one was injured.
July 3: In the village of Trstenik, Glogovac municipality, in the early
morning hours the KLA shot and killed ethnic Albanian Ali Calapek, a
farmer who was a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia and a member of
the local Election Commission in the 1996 elections.
July 21: The Assistant District Attorney in Pec, Miroljub Petrovic, was
shot and killed.
Aug. 3: A police vehicle was fired on at 7 p.m., in the village of Bradis
which is 10 kilometers from Podujevo.
Aug. 4: At 9:30 a.m., on the road from the village of Rudnik to Srbica,
KLO terrorists from Drenica fired on a police vehicle using automatic
weapons. Police officers Milomir Dodic and Zoran Boskovic were heavily
wounded, and a civilian who was in the car was lightly wounded.
Aug. 23: Forest worker Sadi Morina, an ethnic Albanian, was killed in
Srbica. Mr. Morina had already been receiving threats from KLO terrorists
for a long time because he remained to work "in the service of
Serbia".
Aug. 24: In the village of Zub near Djakovica an ethnic Albanian, Kcira
Ndue (32), was shot and killed, while his brother Bekim Ndue was
wounded.
The police station in the village of Rznic near Decani was sprayed with
gunfire.
Sept. 2: At 10:55 p.m. Ljimon Krasnici, an ethnic Albanian denounced by
the KLA terrorists as a "traitor", was killed in his
home.
Sept. 12: A dozen attacks were carried out on police stations in the
municipalities of Pec, Glogovac, Decani, and Djakovica around 11 p.m. No
one was injured.
Sept. 13: Around 10 p.m. a hand grenade was hurled at the police station
in Luzano, near Podujevo.
Sept. 14: A hand grenade was hurled at the police station in Kijevo, near
Klina.
Sept. 23: Around 11 a.m. in the vicinity of the village of Kijevo, the
KLA opened fire on a motorized police patrol. Milan Stanojevic, the
commander of the Djakovica Precinct, was in the vehicle. No one was
injured.
Oct. 13: The police station in Calopek near Pec was attacked.
Oct. 16: Around 1:30 a.m. there was a terrorist attack on the police
station in the village of Klincina, which lies on the road Pec-Pristina.
Adrijan Krasnici (25) from Vranovci near Pec died in the ensuing gun
battle.
Oct. 17: Around 1 a.m. the residential community Babaloc, located between
Decani and Djakovica, where 120 Serbian refugee families who fled from
Albania several years ago are situtated, was attacked.
Oct. 20: The OVK claimed responsibility for attacks on police stations in
Babaloc, Calopek, and Klincina, as well as police patrols in Gerlica near
Urosevac and Balinac near Klina, about which the public had not been
informed earlier.
Nov. 18: Around 7 p.m. in the village of Komoran near Glogovac, Camil
Gasi, an ethnic Albanian deputy in the Parliament of the Federal Republic
of Yugoslavia and the chairman of the Municipal Board of the Socialist
Party of Serbia for Glogovac, was wounded heavily. His driver was wounded
as well.
Nov. 25: KLA terrorists held the police station in Srbica surrounded for
15 hours.
Around 7 p.m. in Decani, and after midnight in the village of Rznic, two
terrorist attacks were carried out in which police officer Dragic
Davidovic (32) from Berane was killed, and Ljubisa Ilic from Srbica, also
a policeman, was heavily wounded. Bojan Trboljevac from Leposavic, Srdjan
Pavlovic (26) from Zubin Potok, and Nedeljko Aksentijevic (30) from
Kragujevac all subsequently died from mortal wounds.
Dec. 4: The KLA claimed responsibility for an attack on Pristina Airport,
claiming that it shot down a "Cessna 310" on Nov. 26 killing
all five people on-board.
Dec. 15: Around 1 a.m. on the road Srbica-Klina three masked KLO
terrorists stopped a convoy of three cars with 16 Serbian civilian
passangers. According to the civilians' testimonies, the terrorists --
who were armed with machine-guns and hand grenades -- threatened them
with death.
Dec. 19: Around 6 p.m. on the road Klina-Srbica, near the village of
Josanica, eight masked and heavily armed KLA terrorists stopped the car
of the civilian Milan Sapic from Lazarevac threatening, insulting, and
searching his family and him.
Dec. 25: Two terrorist attacks were carried out shortly after 3 p.m.
against police officers in the Podujevo municipality: In the village of
Zakut a police vehicle was fired on, and in the center of Podujevo
explosives devices were hurled at the residential building where police
officers live. There were no victims.
1998
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Jan. 4: The KLA claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist
activities in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: planting a bomb
in front of the police station in Prilep, which caused no injuries but
demolished five cars; attacking the police station in Kumanovo; and
attacking the Municipal Court in Gostivar on Dec. 16, '97.
Jan. 9: Shortly after 8 p.m., Djordje Belic (57) was shot and killed with
an automatic weapon at the doorstep of his house in the village of
Stepanica near Kijevo. Belic was the head of one of the three remaining
Serbian households in that village.
Jan. 12: In the town of Stimlje near Urosevac, shortly after midnight on
the night of Jan. 11/12, there was an armed attack on the building in
which seven families of police officers reside. The shots ended up in the
bedrooms of some of their apartments. Miraculously, there were no
victims.
Around 8 a.m., in the vicinity of the village Gradac near Glogovac in
Drenica, forest worker Sejdi Muja, an ethnic Albanian, was shot and
killed. He and another Albanian had been stopped by a masked and armed
three-member group of KLA terrorists, and after checking his ID card
established that Muja was on their list of "traitors". They
dragged him out of the car and shot him, leaving his body by the road. He
was a "traitor" just because he worked in the Serbia Forest
Service.
Jan. 13: The KLA issued a statement stating that its headquarters was in
Pristina. It also claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist
actions carried out in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: an
attack on the Municipal Court in Gostovar and the police stations in
Prilep and Kumanovo. It announced that it would expand its actions into
Montenegro.
Jan. 14: The headquarters of the Socialist Party of Serbia for Djakovica
were stoned overnight, Jan. 13/14. All windows were broken. These were
greetings for the "Serbian New Year" which is marked on Jan.
14.
Jan. 19: In Srbica all graves at the Serbian Orthodox Cemetary were
desecrated and vandalized. The monuments at the graves were completely
destroyed.
Jan. 22: After a KLA patrol had been stopping, harassing, and threatening
citizens with death in the Srbica municipality the previous night, there
was a confrontation between that patrol and a patrol of police officers.
While chasing the KLA terrorists, who barricaded themselves in the house
of Saban Jasari in the village of Donji Prekaz near Srbica, police
officers killed the terrorist Hasan Mandzol and lightly wounded two
Jasari brothers.
A three-member KLA group kidnapped the taxi driver Metus Skodru, an
ethnic Albanian, and then took his cab, an Audi 90. They told him he
could buy his cab back if he showed up at a designated place at a
designated time, under the threat that he would be killed if he called
the police.
Jan. 23: On the night of Jan. 22/23, on the road Srbica-Klina near the
village of Josanica, Desimir Vasic, a deputy in the Municipal Assembly of
Zvecan was shot and killed.
On the same road, the same night, near the village Lausa Blagoje Nikolivc
from the village of Drsnik near Klina was severely beaten until he became
unconscious.
During the same night, KLA terrorists stopped, harassed, and threatened
with death a group of Serbian women heading to Monastery Devic.
Jan. 25: On the night of Jan. 24/25, in the town of Malisevo, in the very
center KLA terrorists heavily wounded two police officers.
During the same night, KLA terrorists attacked the house of the Djuricic
family in the village of Grabanica, near Klina in Drenica.
Terrorists hurled a bomb at the house of a police officer in
Urosevac.
Jan. 26: In the vicinity of the village of Turicevac, which is located
between Klina and Srbica, KLA terrorists opened fire using automatic
weapons on a helicopter belonging to Serbia's Ministry of Internal
Affairs.
Jan. 27: Again in the vicinity of Turicevac, an armed terrorist group
stopped Veroslav Vukojcic from Leposavic and his neighbors Radmila and
Zvezdana Vukajlovic. They beat them severely. The victimis paid the
terrorists to let them go -- Vukojvcic paid 500 German marks, and
Vukajlovic paid 850 marks.
Jan. 28: A police patrol which was on its way to Decani to confiscate
illegal weapons from the family Tahirsuljaja fell into a trap and was
greeted with heavy gunfire from several houses. Nevertheless, the
officers managed to arrest seven members of the Tahirsuljaja clan.
That evening, KLA terrorists fired at the house of Dragoljub Spasic in
the village of Sibovac near Obilic.
Feb. 10: A group of KLA terrorists appeared at a fundraising event for
the KLA in New York City. They received funding from over 150 Albanians
attending the event. On that occasion, the KLA terrorists proclaimed that
they had killed 50 Serbian police officers and "corrupt"
Albanians in 1997.
Feb. 12: In Gornji Obrinj, in front of the village convenience store,
Mustafa Kurtaj, an ethnic Albanian who worked at the post office in
Glogovac, was shot and killed. He was shot in broad daylight, in front of
twenty onlookers, as a warning to others. Prior to this, he had been
repeatedly warned by KLA terrorists that they would kill him unless he
quit his job at the state-run post office.
Feb. 15: Nik Abdulahu, an ethnic Albanian employee of the Serbia Electric
Utility, was shot and killed while at work, at the electricity substation
in the village of Staro Cikatovo near Glogovac.
Feb. 18: In the night between Feb. 17/18, KLA terrorists collected
firearms from ethnic Albanians in Drenica, for whom they suspected that
they did not support their cause. Those who did not turn over their
weapons were given a deadline to do so, "othewise," they were
told, "you will be shot".
The police checkpoint near the village Dobre Vode in the Klina
municipality was attacked with automatic weapons.
Feb. 19: While returning from work, an employee of the state security
service of Pristina Nebojsa Cvejic was shot and killed near the village
of Luzani.
In Podujevo, KLA terrorists hurled bombs at a refugee center housing
Serbian civilians who were "ethnically cleansed" from
Croatia.
Feb. 20: On the road Srbica-Klina, near the village of Lausi, KLA
terrorists shot and killed Milorad Ristic, a private entrepreneur from
Djakovica, and heavily wounded truck driver Zdravko Djuricic from
Orahovac.
On the same day, on the same road, near the village of Josanica KLA
terrorists opened fire on another truck, which was being driven by an
ethnic Serb. However, an ethnic Albanian hitchhiker from the village of
Lausi, who was sitting in the passenger seat and whom the driver had
picked up in Klina, was killed by the KLA terrorists' gunfire.
That evening, on the road Klina-Djakovica, KLA terrorists set up a
roadblock where they beat up police officer Milenko Kandic.
Feb. 22: Ali Raci, an ethnic Albanian working at a Serbian-owned
agriculture company, was shot and killed in the village of Dobre Vode at
the entrance of the agriculture company. He had refused to give in to the
KLA's earlier warnings and blackmail that he quit his job.
Feb. 26: Using hand grenades and automatic weapons, terrorists attacked
Serbian refugees from Albania housed in the refugee camp Babaloc (located
on the road Decani-Djakovica) for the third time.
Feb. 27: KLA terrorists attacked the houses in Srbica where Serbian
refugees from Croatia are temporarily housed.
At Monastery Devic, KLA terrorists harassed the head nun for 30 minutes.
They ordered her to tell the police that they will all be killed.
A KLA warehouse containing 12 kilograms of explosives with clocks,
several trunks of shells, and over 120 rocket launchers was discovered in
Prizren. Several terrorists were arrested.
Feb. 28: The house of the Culafic family in the village of Donji Ratis
(Decani municipality) was bombed.
Separately, in a confrontation between police officers and KLO terrorists
in Drenica (Glogovac municipality), four police officers were killed:
Miroslav Vujkovic, Goran Radojcic, Milan Jovanovic, and Radojica
Ivanovic. Police officers Pavle Damjanovic and Slavisa Matejevic were
heavily wounded. The exact number of terrorists who were killed is still
unknown.
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