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The Vushtrri massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Vushtrrisë) was the mass killing of 100 to 120 Kosovo Albanian refugees during the Kosovo War on the 2nd and 3rd of May 1999 near Vushtrri, Kosovo.
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The Vushtrri massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Vushtrrisë) was the mass killing of 100 to 120 Kosovo Albanian refugees during the Kosovo War on the 2nd and 3rd of May 1999 near Vushtrri, Kosovo.
A column of about 1,000 refugees were travelling in a convoy of about 100 tractors, who were fleeing fighting between the KLA and Serbian forces east of Vushtrri. Serbian Police and paramilitary forces caught up with the convoy that traveled south. On 2–3 May between Upper Studime and Lower Studime (Albanian: Studime e Epërme dhe Studime e Poshtme) near Vushtrri, Human Rights Watch estimated that around 100 men were killed by Serbian police and paramilitary forces.
ICTY investigator Romeu Ventura said that 120 civilians were murdered on 2 May by Serb forces and buried two days later in a mass grave five miles east of Vushtrri. After the war, ICTY forensic teams discovered 98 bodies in Upper Studime.
The Vushtrri massacre was raised at the trial of Serbian police colonel general Vlastimir Đorđević. The indictment against Đorđević says that some 105 Kosovo Albanians were killed in the massacre near the village of Studime on 2 May 1999. Đorđević was sentenced to 27 years in prison, for his role in the murder of more than 700 ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. The UN tribunal at The Hague found him guilty of five counts of crimes against humanity, including murder and deportation.
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