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Meja massacre
The Meja massacre ((アルバニア語:Masakra e Mejës)) was the mass execution of 377 Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Serbian police and paramilitaries and Yugoslav Army forces as an act of retaliation for the killing of six Serbian policemen by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The executions occurred on 27 April 1999 in the village of Meja near the town of Gjakova, during the Kosovo War. The men were pulled from refugee convoys at a checkpoint in Meja and their families were ordered to proceed to Albania. Men and boys were separated and then executed by the road.〔 The massacre is considered to have been the largest of the war. As of 2008, the number of identified victims has reached 345 and 32 bodies are yet to be discovered.
==Background==
Meja is a small Catholic village in Kosovo, located a few kilometers northwest of the town of Gjakova. On 21 April, a week before the massacre, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed a Serb police vehicle near the centre of Meja, killing five policemen and one officer. One villager from Meja told Human Rights Watch researchers: "The five policemen were killed in one car, a brown Opel Ascona. They came to us a few minutes before they were killed, asking,“where is the KLA?” They left and then we heard the bazooka."〔(Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo )〕 One of the officers killed was police commander Milutin Praseviv,〔 the leader of a unit that, according to witness testimony, carried out the ethnic cleansing of Albanians in the area.〔(ICTY: Pavkovic case )〕 The attack on Praseviv is listed as a probable motive for the mass shootings that followed.〔
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