Attack on Orahovac
"Black Eagles" Unit Wartime events Aftermath Aspects The attack on Orahovac was a 3-day long clash Between 17 and 20 July 1998 and was fought between the forces of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the FR Yugoslavia.[5] The Yugoslav authorities concentrated on guarding the cities and towns and their communication links instead of attempting to counter the spreading of KLA.[5] In order to assert authority for the Kosovo Albanian provisional government, the KLA needed to capture a town, and accordingly attacked Orahovac.The following day, on July 19, they conducted operations in the town, targeting houses of Albanian residents in search of weapons.During these operations, they discharged firearms, threw hand grenades into basements, looted properties, and set houses on fire.[6] With light artillery and machine guns, the KLA attacked for 45 minutes the Zočište Monastery where thirty elderly Serbs had taken shelter, together with seven monks and a nun, and damaged the communal house with two grenades.[8] Journalists were allowed into the town on 22 July, reporting that 15 buildings had been destroyed, most of the population had left and homes and shops had been looted.[5] In April of 1999, Romani witnesses claimed the Serbian forces killed around 50 Albanian civilians, including women, children, and elderly.[6] It was then handed over to the UNMIK, and then EULEX, after which an investigation was launched in September 2010 that led to the arrest of two Kosovo Albanians in April 2011.
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