Siege Of Prekaz (1991)
The siege of Prekaz was an encirclement of the Jashari family house on December 30, 1991, by heavily armored Serbian Militia. Their goal was to capture or kill Adem Jashari, who had committed several acts of sabotage against the Yugoslav administrative apparatus in Kosovo. Background In late 1990, the People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK) and Albanian President Ramiz Alia agreed to train volunteers from Kosovo in the hope of starting an armed uprising. The volunteers received strict instructions to avoid detection by Yugoslavia's secret police (UDBA). They first flew to Zürich, then Trieste, and finally boarded a boat to Durrës. On October 1, 1991, a group of 53 volunteers began 30 days of military training in the village of Surrel, near the Albanian capital. A second, more diverse group, including members from Kosovo and Macedonia such as Adem Jashari, Sahit Jashari, Murad Jashari, Fadil Kodra, and Ilaz Kodra, arrived on November 1. Plans for a third group were thwarted by ...
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Yugoslav War
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia). The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia, which began in mid-1991, into six independent countries matching the six entities known as republics that had previously constituted Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia (now called North Macedonia). SFR Yugoslavia's constituent republics declared independence due to rising nationalism. Unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries led to the wars. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of new states, they resulted in a massive number of deaths as well as severe economic damage to the region. During the initial stages of th ...
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