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Today in history, 21 September: The killing of the Deliaj family in Abri e Epërme

On 26 September 1998, during the government offensive in Drenica, special police forces killed 21 members of the Deliaj family, all civilians; 14 of them, including six women and five children, were killed in a forest…

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Date of the event
Place
Abri e Epërme
Evidence status
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.

On 26 September 1998, during the government offensive in Drenica, special police forces killed 21 members of the Deliaj family, all civilians; 14 of them, including six women and five children, were killed in a forest where they were sheltering from shelling.

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Historical context

1998

The attacks in Drenica in February and March 1998 turned a limited insurgency into open war. By October, hundreds of thousands of people had been displaced and international diplomacy was directly engaged.

Read the chapter “1998: from Drenica to open war”

Sources

  1. [1]Peter Bouckaert (me kontribut dhe redaktim të Fred Abrahams). A Week of Terror in Drenica: Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo. 1999-02-01. https://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/kosovo/. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. [2]Fred Abrahams, Benjamin Ward. Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. 2001-10-26. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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