Klečka killings
Klečka massacre | |
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Location | the village of Klečka, near Lipljan, Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia |
Date | 17–22 July 1998 |
Target | Kosovo Serb civilians |
Attack type
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Mass Killing |
Deaths | 22[1] |
Perpetrators | Kosovo Liberation Army |
The Klečka killings were the mass murder of 22 Kosovo Serb civilians, including children, by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) over a period of several days in July 1998, during the Kosovo War. After the killings, members of the KLA attempted to dispose of the massacre-victims by incinerating their remains in a lime kiln. The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the killings as a "Nazi-style crime."
The village of Klečka, located approximately 40 kilometers southwest of Pristina, was a significant logistics and training base for the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the summer of 1998.[2] Serbian police took Klečka from the Kosovo Liberation Army on 27 August 1998 after heavy fighting. Afterwards, they quickly gave access to television crews and foreign correspondents, claiming that twenty-two Serb civilians had been killed in the village in the previous month.[3] They alleged that after the killings occurred, members of the KLA attempted to dispose of the massacre-victims by incinerating their remains in a lime kiln.[4]
The Yugoslav Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the international community of double standards over the clashes which were occurring in Kosovo, and condemned the killings in Klečka as a "Nazi-style crime."[5] A representative of the Kosovo Liberation Army denied that the organization had anything to do with the killings,[6] stating that "the KLA has not killed a single Serb civilian."[7]
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