All terrorist attacks comitted by "KLA"
in 1996 and 1997


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Albanian terror prior to 1989
Albanian terror in 1998


1996

April 22: Blagoje Okulic, a Serb refugee from Croatia, was sitting with a friend in a cafe when a
masked member of the KLA opened fire on the customers with an automatic weapon. Okulic
and two other guest latter died in hospital. He was the first victim of the KLA. Armand Daci (20), an ethnic Albanian student in dentistry school, was shot and killed by a sniper fire.

June 16: In an attack against a police patrol near Podujevo police officer Goran Mitrovic was heavily wounded.
June 17: Around 11:55 PM a police patrol in the village of Sipolje near Kosovska Mitrovica was attacked, resulting in the killing of Predrag Djordjevic (28) from Krusevac, and the wounding of Zoran Vukocic (30) from Nis. Police officer Predrag Djordjevic left his wife and child. The same day a bomb was hurled at the police station in Luzani, and the police officers on duty in the station were fired on by automatic weapons. No one was injured. 

July 11: One hour after midnight in the center of Podujevo terrorists carried out an armed 
attack against police officers, resulting in a heavy wounding of police officer Sredoje Radojevic.

August 2: Armed attack on three police stations in Pristina, Podujevo and the village of 
Krpimej around 10 PM 
August 28: Three bombs were hurled in the village of Celopek (border of the towns 
Pec-Klina-Decani), around 3 AM. No one was injured. In the village of Donje Ljupce police 
inspector Ejup Bajgora (44), an ethnic Albanian who worked at the Pristina Precinct, was shot 
and killed. 
August 31: In the night hours two bombs were hurled into the courtyard of the Yugoslav 
Army's barracks in Vucitrn. In the village of Rudnik, Srbica municipality an armed attack was 
carried out on the police station. In Podujevo, police officers at the juncture of the road 
Pristina-Podujevo-Kursumlija were fired on. No one was hit. The police station in Glogovac was 
fired on with automatic weapons. 

October 25: Two police officers were killed by automatic weapons near the village of Surkis in 
the Podujevo municipality Milos Nikolic (34), a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct, and 
Dragan Rakic from the village of Velika Reka, who was a police officer in the reserves and a 
manager of a company in Podujevo. KLA terrorist killed police officer Milos Nikolic in the front 
of his house. 

November 16: In the village of Rznic, Decani municipality, around 10:30 PM a terrorist attack 
was carried out on the police station. No one was killed. 

December 26: Faik Belopolja, an ethnic Albanian from Podujevo who was a forest worker in the 
Serbia Forest Service - "Srbija Sume", was shot and killed. 


 

1997

January 9: In the center of Podujevo at 5:30 PM Malic Saholi (52), an ethnic Albanian who was 
the manager of the superamarket "Vocar" and a deputy in the municipal council of Podujevo as 
a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia, was shot and killed. 
January 11: In the Vucitrn village of Mijalic, around 7 PM more than 26 bullets were fired at the 
house of Ljubisa Mitrovic. No one was killed. 
January 13: Fazil Hasani, an ethnic Albanian forest worker from the village of Brabonic, Srbica 
municipality was shot in the neck. KLA terrorists killed him and issued a statement denouncing 
Hasani as a "traitor". 
January 16: Using remote-controlled explosives, the KLA attempted to assassinate the Dean 
of Pristina University, Mr. Radovan Papovic, at 8 AM as he was driving to the University. Both 
he and his driver Nikola Lalic were heavily wounded. The explosives were set off when their car 
was some 50 meters from Dean Papovic's apartment in Pristina. 
January 17: In the village of Reketnica, Srbica municipality, at 1 AM, ethnic Albanian Zen 
Durmisi (52) was shot and killed and his son Nazmi Durmisi was heavily wounded. The Durmisi 
family was labeled "pro-Yugoslav" by the terrorist KLA. 
 

February 1: KLA terrorists from a moving vehicle fired on police officers. The officers fired back 
and killed all three terrorists. 
 

March 5: At 10:47 AM, in front of the Pristina University School of Languages, a bomb in a 
container exploded. Four people were wounded, two ethnic Albanians Adrijana Dremka and 
Lindita Maksuti and two ethnic Serbs, Borivoje Popovic and Ivan Maksimovic. A second 
explosives device weighing 4.2 kilograms, which had been placed at the base of the Vuk 
Karadzic monument in front of the School of Languages, was found and deactivated by 
members of the Anti-Ballistics Unit of the Pristina Precinct. 
March 21: Around 8 PM, in the center of Podujevo, KLA terrorists fired five shots at police 
officer Branislav Milovanovic, wounding him heavily. In a statement, the KLA claimed 
responsibility denouncing officer Milovanovic as a "Serbian policeman, well known 
blood-sucker and anti-Albanian". 
March 25: Near the village Sicevo, Klina municipality, a group of attackers killed ethnic 
Albanians Jusuf Haljiljaj and Fehmi Haziraj (who were well known as loyal citizens of Serbia) 
and wounded ethnic Albanian Mehmet Gasi. 
 

April 10: In the village of Banjica near Glogovac, using automatic firearms, KLA terrorists killed 
ethnic Albanian Ramiz Ljeka, who worked at the Glogovac Municipal Council. 
 

May 6: Around 10:30 PM in the village of Lozica near Klina, ethnic Albanian Hetem Dobruna 
(30), a farmer from the village, was shot and killed. 
May 16: In Srbica near Kosovska Mitrovica police officers Miomir Kicovic and Radisav Blanic 
were shot and heavily wounded. 
 

June 19: On the Pristina - Podujevo - Nis road near the village of Donje Ljupce in the Podujevo 
municipality, terrorists fired 12 bullets from automatic weapons at a police patrol. No one was 
injured. 
 

July 3: In the village of Trstenik, Glogovac municipality, in the early morning hours the KLA 
shot and killed ethnic Albanian Ali Calapek, a farmer who was a member of the Socialist Party 
of Serbia and a member of the local Election Commission in the 1996 elections. 
July 21: The Assistant District Attorney in Pec, Miroljub Petrovic, was shot and killed. 
 

August 3: A police vehicle was fired on at 7 PM, in the village of Bradis, which is 10 kilometers 
from Podujevo. 
August 4: At 9:30 AM, on the road from the village of Rudnik to Srbica, KLA terrorists from 
Drenica fired on a police vehicle using automatic weapons. Police officers Milomir Dodic and 
Zoran Boskovic were heavily wounded, and a civilian who was in the car was lightly wounded. 
August 23: Forest worker Sadi Morina, employee in Serbian Forest Service - "Srbija Sume", an 
ethnic Albanian, was killed in Srbica. Mr. Morina had already been receiving threats from KLA 
terrorists for a long time because he remained to work "in the service of Serbia". 
August 24: In the village of Zub near Djakovica an ethnic Albanian, Kcira Ndue (32), was shot 
and killed, while his brother Bekim Ndue was wounded. The police station in the village of Rznic 
near Decani was sprayed with gunfire. 
 

September 2: At 10:55 PM Ljimon Krasnici, an ethnic Albanian denounced by the KLA 
terrorists as a "traitor", was killed in his home. 
September 12: A dozen attacks were carried out on police stations in the municipalities of Pec, 
Glogovac, Decani, and Djakovica around 11 PM No one was injured. 
September 13: Around 10 PM a hand grenade was hurled at the police station in Luzano, near 
Podujevo. 
September 14: A hand grenade was hurled at the police station in Kijevo, near Klina. 
September 23: Around 11 AM in the vicinity of the village of Kijevo, the KLA opened fire on a 
motorized police patrol. Milan Stanojevic, the commander of the Djakovica Precinct, was in the 
vehicle. No one was injured. 
 

October 13: The police station in Calopek near Pec was attacked. 
October 16: Around 1:30 AM there was a terrorist attack on the police station in the village of 
Klincina, which lies on the road Pec-Pristina. Adrijan Krasnici (25) from Vranovci near Pec died 
in the ensuing gun battle. 
October 17: Around 1 AM the residential community Babaloc, located between Decani and 
Djakovica, where 120 Serbian refugee families who fled from Albania several years ago are 
situated, was attacked. 
October 20: The KLA claimed responsibility for attacks on police stations in Babaloc, Calopek, 
and Klincina, as well as police patrols in Gerlica near Urosevac and Balinac near Klina. 
 

November 18: Around 7 PM in the village of Komoran near Glogovac, Camil Gasi, an ethnic 
Albanian deputy in the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the chairman of 
the Municipal Board of the Socialist Party of Serbia for Glogovac, was wounded heavily. His 
driver was wounded as well. 
November 25: KLA terrorists held the police station in Srbica surrounded for 15 hours. 
Around 7 PM in Decani, and after midnight in the village of Rznic, two terrorist attacks were 
carried out in which police officer Dragic Davidovic (32) from Berane was killed, and Ljubisa Ilic 
from Srbica, also a policeman, was heavily wounded. Police officer Dragic Davidovic was father 
of three children. Bojan Trboljevac from Leposavic, Srdjan Pavlovic (26) from Zubin Potok, and 
Nedeljko Aksentijevic (30) from Kragujevac were lightly wounded. 
 

December 4: The KLA claimed responsibility for an attack on Pristina Airport, claiming that it 
shot down a "Cessna 310" on November 26 killing all five people on-board. 
December 15: Around 1 AM on the road Srbica-Klina three masked KLA terrorists stopped a 
convoy of three cars with 16 Serbian civilian passengers. According to the civilians' 
testimonies, the terrorists who were armed with machine-guns and hand grenades threatened 
them with death. 
December 19: Around 6 PM on the road Klina-Srbica, near the village of Josanica, eight 
masked and heavily armed KLA terrorists stopped the car of the civilian Milan Sapic from 
Lazarevac threatening, insulting, and searching his family and him. 
December 25: Two terrorist attacks were carried out shortly after 3 PM against police officers 
in the Podujevo municipality: In the village of Zakut a police vehicle was fired on, and in the 
center of Podujevo explosives devices were hurled at the residential building where police 
officers live. There were no victims. 

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