Trnje, Suva Reka
Trnje/Termje is a village in the municipality of Suva Reka/Suharekë, Kosovo.
Tërnjë | |
|---|---|
Village | |
  Tërnjë Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: | |
| Location |  |
| District | Prizren |
| Municipality | Suharekë |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 871 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Village massacre
On 25 March 1999 the village was the site of a massacre of 42 Albanian civilians, including children, women and elderly people, by members of the 549th Motorised Brigade of the Yugoslav Army, under the command of Major General Božidar Delić. On 8 May 2008, the Serbian human rights NGO Humanitarian Law Center filed criminal charges relating to the massacre against Božidar Delić, by then retired from his army position and deputy speaker of the Serbian National Assembly and a senior member of the Serbian Radical Party, and against another ten members of the Yugoslav Army.[2]
Notes
- Kosovo is the subject of a territorial dispute between the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Serbia. The Republic of Kosovo unilaterally declared independence on 17 February 2008, but Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory. The two governments began to normalise relations in 2013, as part of the 2013 Brussels Agreement. Kosovo is currently recognized as an independent state by 97 out of the 193 United Nations member states. In total, 112 UN member states recognized Kosovo at some point, of which 15 later withdrew their recognition.
References
- 2011 Kosovo Census results
- Humanitarian Law Center website Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 22 January 2011
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