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	Washingtonpost.com: Kosovo Exiles Document Atrocities
		The testimony of Djakovica's survivors may prove central to efforts by the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague as it seeks to bring charges against the civilian and military leadership of both Yugoslavia and its dominant republic, Serbia.
		Djakovica is a historic industrial city of dark-stained wooden buildings that date to the Ottoman Empire.
		Djakovica "is a Sahara," said Luljeta Morina, 32, who fled the city with her three children.
	sitesearch.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/djakovica043099.htm (1932 words)

	Talk:Djakovica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Djakovica - User:Nikola Smolenski is repeatedly deleting large chunks of material (approximately 75% of the article) without discussion or explanation, apparently for partisan reasons.
		This apparently is a reference to yesterday's violence in Kosovo, which (as far as I know) had nothing to do with Djakovica and certainly had nothing to do with the article in question.
		I don't believe you that it is a coincidence, and even if it is, you could have waited.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Djakovica (1113 words)

	Kosova Crisis Center
		Djakovica is a historic industrial city of dark-stained wood buildings that date to the Ottoman Empire.
		A month before the NATO bombing began, Djakovica, which is named after the Biblical Patriarch Jacob, had a population of 100,000, swollen from 60,000 by refugees fleeing Yugoslav troops and Serbian police and paramilitary units that had swept through nearby villages.
		One Yugoslav army base in Djakovica was a key logistics center for troops responsible for guarding the nearby border with Albania, across which the Kosova Liberation Army, the main rebel group, was trying to to smuggle weapons and combatants into the country.
	www.alb-net.com /kcc/043099e.htm (6968 words)

	KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - HEART OF SERBIA - terrorism
		AUGUST 2 Yugoslav army unit, stationed nearby Lake Radonjic, northeast of Djakovica, was fired by mortars and automatic weapon early in the morning.
		Krvavac (33) in Krusevo village, municipality Pljevlja, was policeman in Djakovica.
		Djakovica municipal authorities conduct cAMpaign for return of Albanians that fled the area, previouslyinsuring their complete safety.
	members.fortunecity.com /crnaruka/terrorism3.html (11004 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: One Witness Kept a Record of Horror
		Ordered by the Serbs to dispose of the dead because of his job as the city's director of public works, the ethnic Albanian was in an exceptional position to document the brutality as it unfolded.
		Their testimony may prove critical in coming months for war crimes investigators piecing together the extent and pattern of murders in Djakovica, a once-proud city that has been reduced in large part to scorched rubble.
		Some residents in Djakovica refer to these days as the "looting period." Serbs entered houses, first stealing cars and electrical equipment, and later returning for carpets, furniture and even baby clothes.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/djakovica062099.htm (2685 words)

	UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo - 6. Djakovica Municipality
		Djakovica's proximity to the Albanian border was one factor in the intensity of violence.
		Djakovica residents named Sreten Camovic, who was the local head of state security, as the officer responsible for the city, although nobody witnessed him committing any crimes.
		In Djakovica, sections of the Roma neighborhood Brekoc were burned down and throughout mid-1999 approximately 600 Roma were living in a refugee camp on the outskirts of the city.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/kosovo/undword-06.htm (10679 words)

	KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - HEART OF SERBIA - terrorism
		Djakovica municipal authorities claimed that three Albanians had been kidnapped because they had been trying to persuade the Albanians to come back to Batusa and that the Yugoslav Army soldiers would guarantee security to them.
		In village Rakovina, Djakovica municipality, at 4.55PM and 6.20PM, there were terrorist attacks carried out from the infantry weapon on the police officers on duty on a security checkpoint.
		In village Rakovina, Djakovica municipality, a terrorist attack was carried out from the automatic fire weapons on the police officers on duty on the security checkpoint.
	members.fortunecity.com /crnaruka/terrorism2.html (10601 words)

	Kosovo's 156 lawless: Biographies of the men in the Albanian-dominated Serbian province of Kosovo \| Serbianna.com ...
		He actively participated in the forced expulsion of non-Albanian population from the region of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani, and is responsible for setting fire to the church in the village of Gornji Rasic.
		He is the organizer of the forced deportation of the population from the region of Djakovica, Pec and Dechani, and the perpetrator of the burning down of the church in the village of Gornji Rati.
		Berisha is also responsible for the kidnapping of Sadri Camaj on February 9th, 1999, in the vicinity of Djakovica, as well as for inflicting severe injuries to, and the murder of, Shkelzen Kamberi, from the village of Ponoevac, who was kept detained in an improvised prison located in the region of Djakovica.
	www.serbianna.com /features/lawless/index.shtml (19475 words)

	NewStandard: 6/17/99
		Djakovica, which numbered 80,000 before the start of the conflict, has paid dearly for those sympathies.
		Meanwhile, most of Djakovica's old Albanian Quarter, a quaint area of small shops, narrow stone streets and 500-year-old buildings dating back to the years of Turkish rule, is reduced to piles of scorched rubble.
		Djakovica's most respected physician, Dr. Izet Hima, was killed by Serbian militiamen in his home, said optician Hasimja.
	www.s-t.com /daily/06-99/06-17-99/d07wn150.htm (845 words)

	[A-PAL] Special Report - May 24, 2000
		He also explained that the nitrate and nitrite particles could be transmitted by a handshake, or come from cigarette ashes, artificial fertilizer, urine, and even certain cosmetic products and detergents, although in that case the number of particles is much smaller and their disposition is different.
		He explained that Djakovica was divided in several sectors and that he was in charge of a part of the town.
		Although the indictment listed three separate attacks on police in the Kosovo town of Djakovica (Gjakova) on 10 April, 7 and 9 May 1999, little attempt was made at the trial to connect the accused with all or any one of the attacks.
	www.alb-net.com /pipermail/a-pal/2000-May/000028.html (4185 words)

	Guardian \| 'Disappeared' Kosovans emerge
		Djakovica's high-rise blocks of flats, as well as the Ymeragas' suburb of wide streets and affluent homes, survived surprisingly intact.
		Now that people are opening up their shutters and emerging into the daylight, it appears that reports by refugees arriving in Albania that Djakovica had been 'cleansed' of Albanians were false.
		In Djakovica, Ymeraga is sure the Serbs knew many Albanians were still at home.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3880486-103558,00.html (887 words)

	[No title]
		Djakovica was one of the Serbs' first major targets.
		The burning and killing in the center of Djakovica went on for three weeks beginning in the narrow streets and small Ottoman-style houses of the Old Town, and then moved on to the newer high-rise buildings in the more modern sectoin.
		As Djakovica suffered, other Serbs were at work nearby purging a wide area they regarded as a rebel highway.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/bosnia/readings/Kifner1.html (4557 words)

	BBC News \| Inside Kosovo \| Clickable Map
		Refugees in Albania reported that Yugoslav army units shelled the streets of Djakovica while paramilitary police armed with knives moved through neighbourhoods, expelling families in late April.
		An international monitor told the BBC's Panorama programme that the Djakovica atrocities were the "heart of darkness" in Belgrade's Kosovo policy.
		Nearby in the village of Meja, the United Nations says that there is "verified and confirmed" evidence of one of the worst massacres of the conflict.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/djakovica.stm (209 words)

	CNN - War crime clues beneath Kosovo rubble - June 25, 1999
		DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Investigating a crime scene is standard duty for an FBI agent, but when the scene is a house in Kosovo, burned down after 20 people inside were shot to death, even experienced agents are stunned.
		The site -- in Djakovica, a city in western Kosovo -- is one of six named in an indictment from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, accusing Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and four of his military and government aides with crimes against humanity.
		Residents of Djakovica say the 26 deaths under investigation are just part of the story.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9906/25/kosovo.war.crimes (709 words)

	ALBANEWS Archives -- April 1999, week 2 (#255)
		The flood of refugees from Kosovo increased dramatically three weeks ago when NATO began air raids on Yugoslav military targets in an attempt to halt what it said was a Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing in the troubled province.
		The young man, who declined to give his name, said his brother had lost a leg and was left behind after the attack, during which low-flying aircraft dropped bombs on the convoy, destroying two tractors.
		Near a military camp at Djakovica, Berisha said he watched a woman resist rape by Serbs only to be shot dead in front of her husband and children.
	listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9904B&L=albanews&P=R73608 (13257 words)

	Kosovo Returnees Pursue Clues to Fate of Loved Ones
		DJAKOVICA, Yugoslavia--In better times, Nazmi Hoxha was a university student working toward a degree in German.
		On the night of April 2, his parents and younger siblings were asleep in their home on the outskirts of Djakovica when Serbian police broke into the house and woke everyone up.
		In the southern part of Kosovo, in Prizren, Suva Reka, Djakovica and surrounding villages, it is still common for journalists to stumble across bloated bodies or skeletons that have not been buried.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/1999/Detectives.html (1137 words)

	Trial of 145 Ethnic Albanians Continues in Yugoslavia
		The defendants were detained in the western Kosovo town of Djakovica last year when Kosovo was still under Yugoslav rule, and have been accused of forming a unit of the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army last April.
		Defense attorney Teki Bokshi, an ethnic Albanian from Djakovica, said the defendants were being used to explain Serb treatment of Kosovar Albanians.
		Ethnic Albanians in Djakovica say that 20 people were killed during fighting in the area during early May, of whom five were KLA guerrillas.
	www.freeserbia.net /Articles/2000/Trial.html (617 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Djakovica was among the hardest-hit cities in Kosovo's fighting, targeted well before the NATO bombing started March 24.
		International organizations have yet to put together a tally of the city's dead; a cemetery worker, speaking on condition his name not be used, said he buried as many as 200 people, slain in mass killings of up to 70 at a time.
		Djakovica's people said Serb paramilitary troops went on a rampage Saturday, after the peace deal and two days before their withdrawal.
	www.usatoday.com /news/index/kosovo/koso897.htm (871 words)

	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): International officials flout international law
		At the GRF office in Djakovica, according to Ahmad Sa'id and Dr Abdul Raqiz, at least nine adults and several children were detained from 1pm to 5.30pm on 14 December 2001.
		Ahmad Sa'id alleges that when they arrived at the Italian KFOR base in Djakovica, he was taken out of the vehicle by force and that the woollen hat he was wearing was pulled over his eyes "in a violent way".
		Neither were the three men provided with a reason for their arrest when they arrived at the detention facility in Djakovica or when they first arrived at BDF on the night of 14 December 2001.
	www.amnestyusa.org /countries/serbia_montenegro/document.do?id=48F6DE4932C4D88A80256C3D00486B4F (9015 words)

	Policy or Panic: Phase 1
		With the exception of refugees who crossed into Albania on foot at the unofficial border points at Tropoja and Krume,14 the majority passed through the southwestern city of Prizren, which is 15 kilometers from Morina on the Albanian border.
		The route from Djakovica to Prizren was especially dangerous, with mass killings documented in many of the small towns along the road.
		The second NATO attack on Djakovica, on 5 April, occurred just as the first big wave of refugee flow was subsiding from more than 5,000 to fewer than 500 in each two-day period.
	shr.aaas.org /kosovo/policyorpanic/phase1.html (2936 words)

	strana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		According to the testimony of Smajljo Pajaziti, from the village of Dobroљ, Djakovica Municipality, on the first trailer, which is completely destroyed, there were some 20-30 men, women and children from the village of Nivokaz, Djakovica Municipality.
		The investigative judge of the Municipal Court in Djakovica was informed of the found bodies and he authorized the OSL of the Secretariat of the Interior in Djakovica to conduct an on-site investigation.
		Village of Madanaj, Djakovica Municipality, and on the Djakovica-Prizren road in the village of Bistraћin and the village of Gradiљ
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/yugoslavia/milosevic/bela/bela/01.htm (2961 words)

	News @ Serbian Unity Congress \| Demographic history of Kosovo, Wikipedia, July 22, 2005
		According to his data, Albanians were majority population in southern Drenica (Muslim Albanians), and in region around Djakovica (Catholic Albanians), while the city was majorly Serbian.
		The most populous western districts of Djakovica and Pec were said to have between 20,000 and 25,000 Albanian households, as against some 5,000 Serbian ones.
		Metohija with the town of Djakovica is furthermore defined as almost exclusively Albanian by Weigand.
	news.serbianunity.net /bydate/2005/July_22/18.html (1492 words)

	S/1999/293
		The body of a Kosovo Albanian male, dead from gunshot wounds, was found in his car in the Djakovica area, near the village of Trakanic.
		The result of these attacks is the growing alienation of the Serb and Albanian communities, a pervasive feeling of insecurity and the shrinking of the remaining ground for coexistence.
		Following these grenade attacks and a number of killings in Pristina and in the areas of Pec and Djakovica, UNHCHR field staff have expressed concern that, particularly in these three urban areas, civilians known for open-mindedness and flexibility in community relations, as well as professionals, intellectuals and moderate community activists, have been targeted.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/security/s-1999-293.htm (3855 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		DJAKOVICA, YUGOSLAVIA - With the flick of his pen, Maslon Kumanova, the head of Djakovica's provisional government, signs documents with the ease of a veteran bureaucrat.
		Djakovica - Gjakova in Albanian - is a microcosm of the immense problems facing the whole of Kosovo, where reconstruction is expected to cost at least $1.03 billion over three years.
		Kumanova, a former school administrator, is a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo led by Ibrahim Rugova, the moderate scorned by KLA leaders for holding talks with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic as his forces killed and looted.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/1999/06/25/f-p1s2.shtml (1054 words)

	In Kosovo: Refugees Tell of Eviction by Serbs, Then a Bombing by Jets
		Qela and two dozen other refugees, who were forced from their homes at gunpoint by Serbian officials and interviewed in four separate groups Thursday, all detailed a range of atrocities aimed at civilians that occurred before and after the bombing, early Wednesday afternoon.
		However, their version of what happened was somewhat different from the story told by those who arrived last night because they said it occurred on the road north of Djakovica, rather than south of that town.
		Kumrije and Haxhe Krasniqi, cousins from Junik, a city northeast of Djakovica, arrived Thursday afternoon and said that they had been on a tractor when a low flying, fl jet swooped over the column and started dropping bombs.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/041699kosovo-attack.html (1733 words)

	Serbia Info News / Albanian terrorism after Milosevic-Holbrooke accord
		Body of Karaci Gasper (1961) from the village of Ujza, Djakovica municipality, shot by Albanian terrorists, found in the yard of the Orthodox church, in the village of Bistrazin, Djakovica municipality, on January 30, at 10.30 a.m.
		A body of an unidentified male, aged between 50 and 60, shot by the Albanian terrorists, found in the village of Marmule, Djakovica municipality, on February 5, at 9.40 a.m.
		Their bodies were found on February 8, at around 7.30 near the bridge of the river Lukavac in Djakovica.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-02/25/9237.html (2140 words)

	Online NewsHour: NATO Briefing on civilian bombing -- April 19, 1999
		The second area was east-southeast of Djakovica, where NATO attacked lead elements of a large convoy.
		Remember that the convoy east-southeast of Djakovica was very large and covered several kilometers, and it was moving east- southeast.
		The 24-hour delay in showing the large convoy to the press would have allowed sufficient time for Serb forces to remove any military vehicles or personnel from the area, and we simply cannot verify exactly what type of vehicles were struck by whom.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/nato_bomb_4-19.html (6047 words)

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