Friday, April 17th 2026
Today marks 27 years since the massacre in the village of Poklek i Vjetër and Čikatovo i Vjetër, municipality of Drenas, where the Serbian army massacred and killed, then burned the corpses of 77 unarmed Albanian civilians, ranging from six-month-old babies to 75-year-old elders. they killed, massacred and some of them were burned. Even after two decades, none of the order givers and executioners was punished by justice.
Only in the village of Old Poklek, the barbaric Serbian army massacred and killed, then burned the corpses of 53 unarmed civilian Albanians, ranging from six-month-old babies to 75-year-old old men.
According to many witnesses, the Poklek massacre had this flow:
-On April 17, around five o’clock in the morning, the Muqolli, Caraku and Elshani families started to go from Old Poklek to Drenas, where the population of the villages around Drenas was gathered and held hostage. Somewhere 1.5 km away from the village, a picgauer with Serbian police came and ordered them to return to the house. They have returned because they have been threatened, and they have even been shot from the side. When the family returned home, two policemen with black headbands came there. They killed the dog in the yard, then they called Sinan outside and spoke to him in Serbian. After that, these two policemen went to the courtyard of the village school, to the other policemen who were there. In the meantime, Sinan has returned and told the families that they asked him, “are there terrorists here”? In this state of anxiety and terror, the family members were kept all day until around 5:30 p.m., then one of those policemen came and in the room of Sinan’s house, where all the families, children, women and old people were gathered, the policeman threw a bomb which did not explode. After that, the police threw the other bomb, which fell and exploded in the lap of Miradije Rifat Muqolli (55). Immediately after that, the policeman fired seven rounds of the machine gun at all those who shot in the room. The criminal who had committed the massacre entered the room and turned the corpses around with his feet, lest by chance someone was left alive. In the meantime, the wounded Elhemja jumped from the window of the slaughter room and ran away. After two and a half hours of the massacre, Lumnija also ran away with her little four-year-old daughter, leaving slightly injured Eminen and two-year-old Fatos. Later, Emine’s jacket was found in the well of the house. After three hours, since the massacre was carried out, the police returned and burned the room with all the corpses that were in it. On the second night of the massacre, we went to the house and there we found the remains of the massacred, when we went a day later, we could not even see human remains. Not only the room and the corridor had been burned, but the whole house.
The complete list of the massacre in Poklek i Vjetër on April 17, 1999
1. Sinan Rexhep Muqolli (52), Poklek i Vjetër
2. Elheme Rifat Muqolli (50), Poklek i Vjetër
3. Emine Sinan Muqolli (22), Poklek i Vjetër Old
4.Elife Sinan Muqolli (18), Old Poklek
5.Sherife Sinan Muqolli (17), Old Poklek
6.Hafije Sinan Muqolli (10), Old Poklek
7.Feride Selman Muqolli (33), Old Poklek
8.Shehide Fadil Muqolli (13), Old Poklek
9. Naser Fadil Muqolli (12), Old Poklek
10.. Ylber Fadil Muqolli (10), Old Poklek
11.. Egzon Fadil Muqolli (4), Old Poklek
12.. Hyle Selman Muqolli (22), Old Poklek
13.. Florentina Qamil Muqolli (3), Old Poklek
14.. Lirie Qamil Muqolli (six months old), Old Poklek
15.. Mehreme Muqolli (58), Old Poklek
16.. Bahrije Halil Muqolli (24), Old Poklek
17.. Naime Halil Muqolli (22), Old Poklek Old
18.. Hidajete Nebih Muqolli (33), Old Poklek
19.. Menduhi Liman Muqolli (11), Old Poklek
20.. Mirsad Liman Muqolli ( Old Poklek
21.. Mergim Liman Muqolli (5), Old Poklek
22.. Bahtije Halil Caraku (34), from Dobrosheci
23.. Besart Ejup Caraku (13), from Dobrosheci
24.. Hasan Ejup Caraku (12), from Dobrosheci
25.. Bahtije Halil Caraku’s sister-in-law – her name is unknown (45),
26.. Miradije Rifat Muqolli (55), Poklek i Old
27.. Zarife Rrahman Muqolli (23), Old Poklek
28.. Arife Rrahman Muqolli (20), Old Poklek
29.. Florije Salih Muqolli (23), Old Poklek
30.. Eronita Xhavit Muqolli (4), Old Poklek
31.. Fatos Xhavit Muqolli (1,5), Old Poklek
32.. Shemsije Muqolli (42), Old Poklek
33.. Vizire Ilmi Muqolli (20), Old Poklek
34.. Fatmire Ilmi Muqolli (17), Old Poklek
35.. Rexhep Ilmi Muqolli (12), Old Poklek Old
36.. Agron Ilmi Muqolli (10), Old Poklek
37.. Albulena Ilmi Muqolli (5), Old Poklek
38.. Nexhmije Ramadan Muqolli (25), Old Poklek
39.. Hasime Ramadan Muqolli (37), Old Poklek
40.. Avdullah Fehmi Muqolli (12), Old Poklek
41.. Shehrije Xhemail Muqolli (27), Old Poklek
42.. Vahide Mehdi Muqolli (4), Old Poklek
43.. Mehdi’s two sons, one 10 months, the other two years old,
45.. Nafije Elshani (50), Poklek i Old
46.. Shukrije Elshani (37), and the four sons of Ymer
47.. Kimete Fadil Muqolli (20), Poklek i Vjetër
48.. Lindita Skender Hoxha (25), from Korrotica e Eperme
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Source: prizrenpost
Etiketa: Brief
