Ćuška massacre

Wartime events Aftermath Aspects The Ćuška massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Qyshkut, Serbian: Масакр у Ћушкој, romanized: Masakr u Ćuškoj) was the killing of 41 Kosovo Albanian civilians, all men aged 19 to 69, by Serbian security forces, the Yugoslav Army and paramilitaries on 14 May 1999 during the Kosovo War.

[3] Once there the women and children were separated from the men, private property was systematically stolen, and identification papers were destroyed.

Agim Çeku, a Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) commander, was a village native and his father who was residing there was killed in the massacre; however many from the Serb forces stated that his death was not the primary purpose of the attack.

[3] Serbian War crime prosecution office has for now, launched investigation against 26 individuals for murder and theft at Cuska.

[3] On 20 January 2012 a district court in Stockholm, Sweden sentenced Milić Martinović, a 34-year-old former Serb policeman, to lifetime imprisonment for his role in the massacre.