Krushë e Madhe

Krushë e Madhe (Serbian: Velika Kruša) is a village in the municipality of Rahovec of western Kosovo.

[3] On 25 March 1999, it was the site of a massacre by the Army of Serbia and Montenegro in which 205 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed.

[4] The village Krushë e Madhe was mentioned as 'Gorna Krusha' in the Ottoman register of the Sanjak of Prizren in 1591.

[5] In 1862 Bajram Curri, an Albanian activist from the Highlands of Gjakova was born in Krushë e Madhe while his family was being transferred by the Ottoman authorities from Gjakova to the prison in Prizren.

[6] On March 26, 1999, two days after NATO began bombing the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the village of Krushë e Madhe in Kosovo was the site of a mass killing, during which over 200 ethnic Albanian civilians were executed by Serbian forces.