Editorial status: Awaiting verificationDrafted from the cited sources; not yet fully reviewed by the editors.
Key facts
- Date
- 26 September 1998
- Place
- Abri e Epërme
- Coordinates
- Approximate location
- Sources
- 2
- Evidence status
- Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.
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This point is disputed. HRW notes that the precise units responsible have not been identified.
How do we know this?
On 26 September 1998 special police forces killed 21 civilian members of the Deliaj family in Abri e Epërme, 14 of them in a forest.
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.Last reviewed: 16 September 2026HRW notes that the precise units responsible have not been identified.
Sources
- [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]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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