Prishtina, 04 April 2025, dtt-net.com – Remains of eleven Kosovo Albanian civilians are buried today after being found 26 km away from the Kralan village massacre location when on 4 April 1999 Serbia forces killed 86 civilians of Klina municipality.
Remains of seven are buried in Klina municipality cemetery and of four others in surrounding villages after authorities and forensic team found them in early March in in Bishtazhin village of Gjakova municipality, where Serbia army and police removed and hid the bodies after killing them in Kralan village of Gjakova.
86 men, including four 14-year-old children, were executed on that day.
Remains of some other victims were found earlier in Serbia proper territory.
More than 12,000 Ethnic Albanians were slaughtered, around 20,000 Albanian women and girls were raped, 120 houses destroyed or burned, 800 000 forcibly deported to Albania and North Macedonia, in spring 1999 by Serbia’s army, police and paramilitaries.
More than 12000 Albanian civilians were killed by Serbia forces during the 1998-1999 war; more than 800,000 were forcibly deported to Albania and North Macedonia; more than 120 000 houses destroyed and around 20 000 Albanian girls, women and men were raped.
1600 civilians, of which around 1200 Albanians killed by Serbia forces, and around 400 Serbs and members of other minorities believed to be killed by Kosovo guerrilla members, are still missing from the two year war for independence from Serbia.
