The American organization for Human Rights "Human Rights Watch", 25 years ago published the report entitled "Terror Week in Drenica."

In this report, which was published on February 8, 1999, it is described how Serbian special forces towards the end of September 1998 massacred 21 civilians in Abri e Eperme, and killed 13 men in the nearby village of Golluboc.

Extract from the Human Rights Watch Report - Week of terror in Drenica: Violations of humanitarian laws in Kosovo          

The fighting in Upper Abri. In mid-July 1998, the Yugoslav army and Serbian police launched a general offensive against the KLA. It had almost lost control, according to one estimate, in over a third of Kosovo's territory. The offensive, which was accompanied by heavy artillery, tanks, air force, had a high effect in forcing KLA forces to withdraw from most of their positions towards the wooded mountains.

And at the end of this offensive, only a few KLA fighters were killed or captured. The Albanian civilian population, who lived in the war zones, experienced the greatest suffering. More than two hundred villages have been destroyed and at least 300 people have been left homeless. Most of the more than 2.000 killed during September are civilians. The danger to civilians in Kosovo was articulated in a public statement of the International Committee of the Red Cross issued in September: "At the present moment, a grave and unchanging situation reigns for several weeks in a row. Tens of thousands of civilians are surrounded by iron of attacks and displaced from their lands.They have been exposed to violence, even threats to their lives, destruction of houses, separation from families and abduction.

Thousands of Sikhs have no place to shelter or seek self-defense..." By mid-September, international pressure on Milosevic to stop this offensive had increased. However, the government had already managed to destroy the centers and locations of the KLA, pushed them towards the mountains. The destructive actions had also remained unfinished in an important area: Drenica, the central part of Kosovo, where the most fighting between the KLA and the government forces had taken place. It was suspected that the final days of the offensive were calculated carefully.

Milosevic and his military leaders knew they had little time to complete their objective in Kosovo and then to manipulate a request for a quick withdrawal of forces from Kosovo, as demanded by the West. The village of Abri e Eperme is located in the territory of the municipality of Gllogovci in Drenica. The old 500-year-old village, which had about 300 houses divided into several large family compounds (neighborhoods), with fields and woods between them, including the Deliu and Hysenaj neighborhoods, which occupy a special place in this report. Three kilometers to the north, at the top of the coast, there is Likoci, which was in the service of the KLA, but since September 13 (1998 - US) it has been re-occupied by Yugoslav forces. During the month of September, government forces launched an offensive in the Drenica region aimed at displacing the KLA from this powerful territory. The police and the army attacked from the direction of Klina, southwest of Gllogovci, then also from Qyçavica, the mountains to the east and will effectively surround the KLA forces on the coast of Abria.

According to Naim Maloku, a KLA commander and former Yugoslav army officer interviewed by the New York Times, Yugoslav forces encountered KLA resistance between Abria and Likoci... After the capture of Likoci, the forces and the Serbs were heading towards Abri. According to Zejnije Deliu, who was with her family in Abri, at the beginning of the offensive, government forces began bombarding the Deliu neighborhood from Likoci in the morning, around eight o'clock, on Friday, September 26, with various types of artillery. and mortars. Most of the residents of the neighborhood had taken refuge in the forest to escape the shelling.

The only civilian who remained in the neighborhood during the shelling was Bashkim Deliu, 21 years old, who had to take care of his father Fazliu, 94 years old and disabled. The Union clarifies that the attacks continued again on Saturday morning, after the police returned to Likoc on Friday evening. Half of the convoy of tanks in Likoc, which were about 68 in total, had moved towards the Deliu neighborhood.

They continuously fired shells from tank cannons over our neighborhood. The infantry came behind the tanks and most of them had beards. I continued to stay with my father, who needed my help, for water and food. We were smoking a cigarette when the grenade fell on the roof of the house. I jumped out of the second floor of the house and ran across the yard. I looked through a hole in the door of the yard and saw that soldiers and paramilitaries had entered the neighbor's house. I saw the soldiers coming towards my house not more than thirty meters away. They wore brown military uniforms and many of them had large knives or small axes in addition to firearms. I continued to run with all the strength I had towards Badërlaki (neighboring neighborhood)... For several days in a row, the Yugoslav forces will keep Abrija under control, committing the crimes mentioned in this report.