Gnjilane Group

Gnjilane Group (Serbian: Гњиланска група, Gnjilanska grupa) is the name of a subgroup part of the Kosovo Albanian UÇK (Kosovo Liberation Army). During the Kosovo War, the Gnjilane Group were accused of being the perpetrators of more than 153 physical abuses, of civilian Serbs between June–October 1999 in the town of Gnjilane, Kosovo after the international forces of NATO troops and KFOR arrived.^[1] The killings are noted for their inhumanity.^[2]

The group consisted of ethnic Albanians from Preševo, Bujanovac and Medveđa, home to Albanians of southern Serbia, bordering Kosovo, and Albanians of western Republic of Macedonia. They were a special group of UÇK tasked with the ethnic cleansing of the remaining Serbs of Gnjilane.

The victims included little children, babies,^[3] pregnant women^[4] and old and weak people.^[5]

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