Podujevo massacre | |
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Location | Podujevë, Kosovo, Yugoslavia |
Date | 28 March 1999 (Central European Time) |
Target | Kosovo Albanians |
Attack type | Massacre |
Deaths | 14 civilians, including women, children and the elderly[1] |
Injured | 5 |
Perpetrators | Special Anti-Terrorism Unit, Scorpions |
The Podujevo massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Podujevës; Serbian: Masakr u Podujevu) is the name generally used to refer to the killing of 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, mostly women and children, committed in March 1999 by the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary organisation in conjunction with the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit of Serbia, during the Kosovo War. One of the survivors of this massacre, Saranda Bogujevci, 13 years old when it occurred, received mass media attention after she successfully managed to bring to justice her case with the help of several organizations from Serbia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.[2]