Prishtina, 25 March 2024, dtt-net.com – 279 Kosovo Albanian civilians, including a 18-month-old girl, of three different municipalities were slaughtered by Serbia army and police on 25 March 1999.
On that day 25 years ago, 69 were killed in the village Fortese of Rahovec, 82 in Celina, 54 in Brestoc of the same municipality, 46 in Tërnje of Suhareka, 20 in Goden of Gjakova and 8 in Randobrava of Prizren.
32 amidst the slaughtered killed civilians were children, with the youngest being 18th month year old girl in Celina village.
Kosovan Prime Minister Albin Kurti commemorated the mass murder of that day.
“A day earlier, a bombing campaign by NATO forces had begun, in order to stop the genocide that the Serbian state was committing against Albanians in Kosovo. Following the start of the air strikes, the RFJ and Serbian forces began their extensive and systematic campaign for the killing and violent expulsion of Kosovo Albanians. NATO bombings stopped Serbia’s genocidal project to exterminate Albanians. With the help of NATO allies we achieved Kosovo’s freedom, rooted in the blood of martyrs and martyrs. May the memory of all fallen for the freedom we enjoy be eternal!”, Kurti said in a press statement.
NATO air-strikes lasted until June 12, 1999 and the war ended on that date.
The western military alliance drove out Milosevic’s forces from Kosovo which slaughtered more than 12000 Albanian civilians, deported more than 800,000 Albanians to Albania and North Macedonia, destroyed more than 120 000 houses and raped around 20 000 Albanian girls and women during the 1998-1999 war.
The launch of NATO air-strikes on Serbia forces is celebrated by Kosovo Albanians each year since, but is commemorated by Serbs in Kosovo and Serbia.
Nine years after the end of war Kosovo declared independence.
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