Trnje, Suva Reka
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Tërnjë
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Village | |
  Tërnjë Location in Kosovo | |
| Coordinates: Coordinates: 42°19′48″N 20°45′56″E / 42.3300°N 20.7656°E | |
| Location |  Kosovo[a] |
| District | Prizren |
| Municipality | Suharekë |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
| • Total | 871 |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Trnje/Termje is a village in the municipality of Suva Reka/Suharekë, Kosovo.
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
- ^ The political status of Kosovo is disputed. Having unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in 2008, Kosovo is formally recognised as an independent state by 100 UN member states (with another 13 states recognising it at some point but then withdrawing their recognition) and 93 states not recognizing it, while Serbia continues to claim it as part of its own sovereign territory.
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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