In response to the outbreak of the Kosovo War in February 1998, the KLA under the command of Ramush Haradinaj mounted a campaign north of Lake Radoniq/Radonjić to seize control over the area between Gllogjan/Glođane and Deçan/Dečani in March 1998.

By April 1998, almost every Serb civilian in the KLA operational zone had been either killed or expelled from the area, while ethnic Albanians accused of "collaborating" with Yugoslav forces also faced attacks.

[1] KLA forces had grown stronger and tended to control villages away from the main roads while the Yugoslav military was positioned on the hills around Lake Radoniq/Radonjić.

[1][2] Colonel John Crosland, a British military officer attached to the VJ, witnessed this first hand and commented on the destruction caused by those forces.

In March 2005, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia indicted three members of the KLA in relation to acts of ethnic cleansing, harassment, abduction, sexual assault, and homicide near Lake Radoniq/Radonjić: Ramush Haradinaj, Idriz Balaj and Lahi Brahimaj.