[4] After a string of minor attacks, the KLA's mission became much more aggressive,[5] which led to them claiming areas that were key to Serbia's fuel-supply, near the town of Orahovac.

Beginning in March 1998, the KLA under the command of Ramush Haradinaj mounted a campaign north of Lake Radonjić to seize control over the area between Glodjane and Deçan.

[7] He noted that he personally witnessed looting and burning of houses by Serbian forces and that the village of Prilep was razed to 18 inches about the ground.

[12][13] The Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and forensic records showed that they had been killed over a period of six months from April to September 1998 during the beginning of the armed conflict in Kosovo.

[14][15] please see Hague Tribunals report why KLA was not find guilty After talks between Yugoslavia and the West broke down at the Rambouillet peace accords,[16] NATO commenced a 78-day-long bombing campaign of Serbian military and infrastructure targets.

[18] The 30 to 37 bodies discovered were widely viewed as victims of the KLA and they formed the basis of the ICTY indictment of three ethnic Albanians.