Likoshane massacre

Likoshane Massacre
Location	Likoshane in central Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia
Date	28 February 1998 (Central European Time)
Target	Kosovo Albanians
Attack type	Massacre
Deaths	14
Perpetrators	Serbian police

The Likoshane Massacre refers to the killing of 14 members of the Ahmeti family by Serbian police in the village of Likoshane in central Kosovo, FR Yugoslavia on 28 February 1998.

Nataša Kandić of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center, accused Danica Marinković, formerly investigating judge of the Priština District Court, for the murders of the Ahmeti family. Kandić stated that some former Serbian policemen witnessed that "Danica Marinković personally ordered several wounded members of the Ahmeti family to be shot on 28 February 1998 in the village of Likošane". According to the allegations, Marinković came, as an investigating judge, to conduct an on-site investigation. There was a pile of bodies outside the Ahmeti house in which some men were still giving signs of life. In the presence of about 30 members of the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Yugoslavia, she allegedly said: "I'm not taking them - kill them" and the men were executed with a Heckler weapon. In response, Marinković accused Kandić of lying.

On 1 March 1998, 14 corpses were taken to a morgue in Priština. There was no investigation and the investigating judge did not order autopsies to be performed. After they were identified, the bodies were claimed by relatives.

Some members of the police who were assigned to the Likošane operation said that rifles and grenades were placed next to the bodies, after which photographs were taken to give the impression that the dead were UÇK insurgents.

See also

• Drenica massacres
• War crimes in the Kosovo War
• List of massacres in the Kosovo War

External links

• Massacres by Serbian Forces in 3 Kosovo Villages (NY Times)