Donje Obrinje —Massacre in the Forest (Part I)

The Deliaj family was sheltering in this makeshift tent when eighteen members of their family were murdered apparently by Yugoslav police. The mutilated bodies of Pajazit Deliaj, sixty-five, and Have Deliaj, sixty-three, were found in the tent.


An elderly villager weeping at the site of the Donje Obrinje, Kosovo massacre. Eighteen members of the Deliaj family were killed in the attack.


The bodies of Gentiona and Donietta Deliaj, seven and five-years old, being removed from the site of the massacre in the forest near Donje Obrinje, Kosovo. Eighteen members of the Deliaj family were killed in the attack.


Valmir Deljiaj, an eighteen-month-old infant girl, was found dead at the Donje Obrinje massacre site in Kosovo. She is partially covered by the body of her mother, Mejhare Deljaij, aged twenty-seven, who died from a gunshot wound to the head.

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