A column of about 1,000 refugees were travelling in a convoy of about 100 tractors, who were fleeing fighting between the KLA and Serbian forces east of Vučitrn, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (now Vushtrri, Kosovo).

[1] Serbian Police and paramilitary forces caught up with the convoy that traveled south.

[2] ICTY investigator Romeu Ventura said that 120 civilians were murdered on 2 May by Serb forces and buried two days later in a mass grave five miles east of Vushtrri.

[1] After the war, ICTY forensic teams discovered 98 bodies in Gornja Sudimlja.

[2] The Vushtrri case was raised at the trial of Serbian police general Vlastimir Đorđević.