[3] On 28 February 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed a unit of the Serbian police near Likoshan, killing four and seriously wounding two policemen.
[7] Albanian witnesses stated that events began on the evening of 27 February, "when the KLA fired at a school housing Bosnian or Croatian Serb refugees in the nearby town of Srbica".
[8] According to Amnesty International: The vehicle carrying KLA men was chased by police towards Likoshan and a short firefight ensued.
Amnesty International believes that most of the ethnic Albanians who died were killed after the KLA had withdrawn as the police moved into the villages.
[9] In a quick and well-organized manner, suggesting that the attack was planned,[7] the special police focused on two neighboring households, of the Gjeli and Ahmeti families.
[9] The only Ahmeti brother to survive was away at the time, returning to Likoshan after hearing of the incident; according to him, as told to HRW, when he arrived at 8 AM on 1 March, looking from a hill, he saw "an APC in our compound and another outside.
[10] According to him the police left 3:30 PM, he then went to his house and was told that ten male family members and a guest had been taken into custody.
[11] Sefer Nebihu, the father, told the HRW:[11] The police destroyed my front gate with two tanks and came up to the windows of my house.
Four sons of the Sejdiu family were killed in Qirez, those being Bekim, Nazmi, Bedri, and Beqir.
[12] Abdia Sejdiu, the mother of the household, told HRW:[12] They [her sons] came to the field and we sat in one room.
They took all of my sons then I took the kids inside...All 26 people killed in Likoshan and Qirez were buried in a field nearby the two villages.
During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz were killed, along with nearly 60 other family members.
Nataša Kandić of Belgrade's Humanitarian Law Center, accused Danica Marinković, formerly investigating judge of the Pristina District Court, of being responsible for the murders of the Ahmeti family.