Incomplete list of massacres by Serb forces in the Kosovo War, listed chronologically:
February 28, 1998, Likošane Massacre — Serb Special Police murdered 14 members of the Ahmeti family.[1]
February 28 and March 1, 1998, Cirez Massacre — Serb Paramilitaries executed several members of the Sejdiu family.[2][3]
April 1, 1999 (and May 25, 1998), Ljubenić massacres — Serb police officers executed at least eight men suspected of being KLA insurgents.[4]* September 26, 1998, Golubovac Massacre - Serb Paramilitaries summarily killed thirteen men who were under the su ion of being KLA insurgents. The men were detained at a compound in the village of Golubovac.[5]
September 28, 1999, Gornje Obrinje Massacre - After 15 Yugoslav soldiers were killed the previous day by sniper-fire coming from the village of Gornje Obrinje, Special Forces entered the village and executed 21 members of the Delijaj family.[6]
January 15, 1999 Račak Massacre - A Serb Special Anti-Terrorism Unit killed 40-45 people in Račak. Investigations were carried out by Belarusian, Finnish and Yugoslavian officials. The Finnish investigators representing EU deemed that these killings were committed on civilians.[7] It is widely accepted as a massacre.[7]. Conversely, the Belarusian and Yugoslavian investigators deemed that those killed were not civilians.
January 29, 1999, Rogovo Massacre — Serb police-officers executed 24 Albanians, supposedly KLA members.[8][9][10]
March 5, 1999, Attack on Prekaz - Serb forces raided the village of KLA leader Adem Jashari and killed him, his brother, and around sixty members of his family.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
25 March 1999, Massacre at Velika Kruša - 90 men were executed in the village of Velika Kruša. Massacres such as this were typical throughout 1999, as the Serb Special Forces attempted to decrease the number of recruits joining the Kosovo Liberation Army.
March 25, 1999, Bela Crkva massacre — Serb Police Officers executed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Bela Crkva, including twenty members of the Popaj family and twenty-five members of the Zhuniqi family, on the grounds that they were suspected KLA members.[18][19]
26 March 1999, Suva Reka massacre - Members of the Berisha family were forced into their family-owned pizzeria, where two hand grenades were thrown. Serb police officers shot anyone who displayed any signs of life. The police officers then took all of the bodies and disposed of them in a mass grave, near an anti-terrorism facility in Batajnica.[20]
March 28, 1999, Izbica Massacre - The Yugoslav Army s ed the village of Izbica. After the s ing killed over a hundred people, Serb Special Forces entered, demanded money from the refugees and told the women, the children and the elderly to go to Albania. After they left, the Special Forces lined about fifty men up against a wall and executed them with automatic weapons.
March 31, 1999, Ljubižda Massacre — security forces reportedly shot 14 men in the village of Ljubižda, northwest of Prizren.[21]
March 31, 1999, Pusto Selo Massacre — Serb Paramilitaries lined 106 ethnic Albanian men against a wall and executed them in Pusto Selo, near Orahovac. The men were allegedely KLA sympathizers.[22]
April 5, 1999, Rezala Massacre — Serb Police Officers allegedly entered the Albanian village of Rezala and gunned down at least 80 villagers suspected of harbouring KLA guerillas.[23]
April 17, 1999, Poklek Massacre — A Montenegrin Unit of the Serb Special Police[clarification needed] forced at least 47 people into one room and opened fire. 23 children under the age of fifteen died in the operation.[23]
April 17, 1999, Ćikatovo massacre — Serb Paramilitaries killed twenty-four men from the Morina family that were suspected of being KLA members.[23]
April 27, 1999, Meja Massacre - Serb police and paramilitary forces killed at least 300 Albanian men in the village of Meja, in Đakovica municipality. On the same day, in the nearby village of Korenica 13 Albanian men were killed and their bodies burned. Another 67 people from Korenica remain missing, as well as fifty-three other villagers from the surrounding area who were seeking refuge in Korenica.[24]
May 2–3, 1999, Vučitrn Massacre - Albanian refugees fleeing the fighting that was occurring between the Serb Army and the KLA were cornered by the Serb Special Forces (who suspected that some KLA members were fleeing the fighting with the refugees). The Special Forces picked out about 120 men who they suspected of being KLA deserters and sprayed them with bullets and later hid their bodies in a mass-grave near Gornja Sudimlja.
May 14, 1999, Cuska Massacre — Serb police and Paramilitary Forces gathered villagers into 3 houses, gunned them down with automatic weapons and burned down the houses, killing all 41. .[25]
May 22, 1999, Dubrava Prison Massacre — Serbian prison guards killed more than 70 Albanian prisoners.[26]
May 26, 1999, Prizren Massacre - Serb Volunteers killed thirty-four people and burned over 100 homes in the Tusus neighborhood of the city of Prizren, in an attempt to eradicate a dozen KLA insurgents.[27]