The Meja ambush was an incident that occurred during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and 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 ...

when members of the

Kosovo Liberation Army The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA; , UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the ...

(KLA) ambushed and killed five Serbian policemen and one officer on 21 April 1999 near Mejë, a village in

Kosovo Kosovo ( sq, Kosova or ; sr-Cyrl, Косово ), officially the Republic of Kosovo ( sq, Republika e Kosovës, links=no; sr, Република Косово, Republika Kosovo, links=no), is a partially recognised state in Southeast Euro ...

. The Serbian policemen were ambushed in a car on a road near the center of Mejë. One of the officers killed was police commander, Milutin Prašević. This ambush was used as a motive for the following

Meja Massacre The Meja massacre ( sq, Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Kosovo Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War, which took place on 27 April 1999. Of the victims, 36 were under 18 years old. It was committed by Serbian police ...

, that happened on 28 April of that year.

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{{Reflist Military operations of the Kosovo War Battles involving FR Yugoslavia 1999 in Kosovo Conflicts in 1999 Gjakova Kosovo Liberation Army

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