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The Ljubenić massacres were a series of killings committed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces in the village of Ljubenić (alb. ''Lybeniq'') near Peć, during the Kosovo War 1998-1999. On 25 May 1998, at least eight villagers of Ljubenić, mostly Hamzaj family members, were extrajudicially executed by a group of police officers.〔 On 1 April 1999, Ljubenić was the site of a mass killing of about 66 men.〔 == First massacre == At around 6:45am, on 25 May 1998, there was an incident on the road between Dečani and Peć, near the village of Ljubenić, in which a car was shot at by armed men, supposedly Kosovo Liberation Army (UÇK) insurgents. Three men travelling in the car were hit by the bullets, including the driver, a police officer and a reserve police officer, who was apparently off-duty.〔 That afternoon, sometime after 1 p.m., Serb police forces travelling in various vehicles, some of which were armoured, arrived at Ljubenić. The police-officers positioned themselves in the outskirts of the village and fired on the Albanian villagers using artillery and other weapons, before entering the village itself.〔 Most of the villagers had fled to the nearby forest. Those who could not flee sheltered in the houses as best they could. After a short while, police patrols conducted house to house searches.〔 The police officers then discovered fourteen people hiding in a large house. They forced them into the yard and then separated the men from the women and children.〔 The women and children were instructed to go to Albania. The police then started to beat the men, who were unarmed, and then ordered them to run and shot them while they were running.〔 Altogether, four men were killed this way: Ibrahim Hamzaj (64), Imer Hamzaj (53), Dervish Hamzaj (51) and Bashkim Hamzaj (23).〔(Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: A human rights crisis in Kosovo Province )〕 The police had also entered the house of Zeqë Hamzaj (aged 68 years). They took him and his sons, Gani Hamzaj (25) and Rifat Hamzaj (24) out of the building, made them strip to their underwear, then beat them and killed them. Another man, Haxhi Goga (22) from the town of Dečani, who was a guest of one family, was also extrajudicially killed.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ljubenić massacres」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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