The Jackals ( sq, Cakali, sr, Šakali, italics=yes, sr-Cyrl, Шакали) were a Serbian
paramilitary
A paramilitary is an organization whose structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not part of a country's official or legitimate armed forces. Paramilitary units carr ...
group that operated during the
Kosovo War
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...
1999.
Ćuška massacre
Nine members of the group were arrested on March 13, 2010 on suspicion of having committed war crimes in
Ćuška on May 14, 1999. A trial in
Belgrade
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started on 20 December 2010. The trial included:
* Srećko Popović
* Slaviša Kastratović
* Boban Bogićević
* Radoslav Brnović
* Vidoje Korićanin
* Veljko Korićanin
* Abdulah Sokić
They are accused of committing murders, rapes and robberies in an "extremely brutal" way, with "the main goal to spread fear among Albanian civilians in order to force them to leave their homes and flee to Albania."
Hasan Çeku, father of former Kosovo
prime minister
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and wartime commander of the
KLA,
Agim Çeku
Agim Çeku ( sh, Agim Čeku, born 29 October 1960) is a Kosovan politician, the former minister of Security Forces in Kosovo and formerly the prime minister. Of military background, he was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) that f ...
, as well as several members of his family were among the murdered people.
The leader, Nebojša Minić, was arrested in
Argentina
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in 2005 under a warrant of the
Hague Tribunal, but died shortly of
AIDS
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after the arrest.
Zoran Obradović was arrested in
Germany
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on 25 December 2010.
Milojko Nikolić, nickname ''Šumadija'', was arrested on 28 December 2010 in
Montenegro
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See also
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Serbia in the Yugoslav Wars
Serbia was involved in the Yugoslav Wars, which took place between 1991 and 1999—the war in Slovenia, the war in Croatia, the war in Bosnia and in Kosovo. From 1991 to 1997, Slobodan Milošević was the President of Serbia. Serbia was part of ...
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Agim Çeku
Agim Çeku ( sh, Agim Čeku, born 29 October 1960) is a Kosovan politician, the former minister of Security Forces in Kosovo and formerly the prime minister. Of military background, he was a commander of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) that f ...
References
Paramilitary organizations based in Serbia
Serbian war crimes in the Kosovo War
Anti-Albanian sentiment
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