Today marks 27 years since the start of the war in Kosovo, which began in the villages of Drenica - Likoshan and Qirez, where fighting took place between the Kosovo Liberation Army and Serbian criminal forces at a place called "Te tre lisat".

Several Serbian police officers were killed in the fighting. As a result, enemy forces surrounded both villages, where they executed 24 innocent civilians.

In surrounding the villages, the enemy used heavy artillery, including helicopters and many other armored vehicles, including tanks, KosovaPress reports.

Already on the first day of the fighting, the enemy carried out massacres against civilians, killing 11 people in the Ahmeti family alone.

A few days later, on March 5, the Serbian army and police surrounded the family of legendary KLA commander Adem Jashari. The Jashari family resisted for three days and three nights in the fighting against the enemy.

With the Prekaz war, everything was now clear - the fight for freedom in Kosovo would not stop.

During the fighting until the liberation of the country, about 1 million Albanians were expelled from Kosovo, 15.000 were killed, 2.400 of them became martyrs.

Serbian forces committed many massacres, such as those in Abri, Recak, Meje, and many others.

During the last war in Kosovo, around 5.000 people disappeared and the fate of over 1600 people is still unknown. Over 20.000 women were raped.

During the period March 1998 - June 1999, criminal units and Serbian heavy artillery partially or completely destroyed and burned about 1.100 Albanian settlements, looted, burned and destroyed over 200.000 houses, apartments, business premises, craft workshops, factories, schools, libraries, cultural-historical monuments, cultural, scientific and religious objects.

NATO bombing began on March 24, 1999, on Yugoslav military targets. NATO, with the ground support of the KLA, forced Serbian forces to withdraw from Kosovo, and the so-called Butcher of the Balkans - Slobodan Milosevic - to sign the capitulation in Kumanovo./KosovaPress

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