The Jackals (, , sr-Cyrl, Шакали) were a Serbian

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group that operated during the

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in 1999. Paramilitary organizations in the Yugoslav Wars

Ćuška massacre

On 14 May 1999, 41

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male civilians, aged 19 to 69, were killed by the group and other Serbian forces. Serb forces entered the village, during which they began looting houses and expelling woman and children to neighboring villages. The men into three groups and were taken into three separate houses, where they were gunned down with automatic weapons. The houses were then set on fire. Nine members of the group were arrested on 13 March 2010 on suspicion of having committed war crimes in

Ćuška Qyshk (in Albanian) or Ćuška ( sr-Cyrl, Ћушка) is a village near Peja, in western Kosovo. It is inhabited predominantly by ethnic Albanians. History In May 1999, during the Kosovo War, the Jackals paramilitary unit massacred civilians in ...

. A trial in

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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

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and wartime commander of the

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, as well as several members of his family were among the murdered people. The leader, Nebojša Minić, nicknamed ''Commander of Death'', was arrested in

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in 2005 under a warrant of the Hague Tribunal, but died shortly of

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after the arrest. Zoran Obradović was arrested in

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on 25 December 2010. Milojko Nikolić, nickname ''Šumadija'', was arrested on 28 December 2010 in

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Ćuška massacre

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