KLA victory Unknown Wartime events Aftermath Aspects The Battle of Llapushnik (Serbian:Битка код Лапушника, Albanian: Beteja e Grykës së Llapushnikut) took place on 7-10 May 1998 in the village of Llapushnik, in the district of Pristina, in Kosovo during the Kosovo war.

[2] On 9 May 1998,[3] Ismet Jashari, who still had not fully recovered from the injuries he suffered during an previous ambush, led his forces into Llapushnik, where he defeated the Yugoslav Army and police and captured the town.

[12] On 25-26 July 1998, Serbian military and police forces launched a summer offensive against most of the KLA's major checkpoints and bases, including an attack against the Llapushnik gorge and surrounding villages.

[14] From mid-June to the end of July 1998, KLA forces established a prison camp in Llapushnik where both Serb and Albanian civilian detainees were subjected to mistreatment, torture and murder.

[15][16] When Yugoslav forces retook Llapushnik and the surrounding areas, the KLA abandoned the camp and marched the prisoners towards the mountains, dividing them into groups.