Country Kosovo Elevation 538 m (1,765 ft) Car plates 04 Postal code 24000 Area code +381 | District District of Prizren Time zone CET (UTC+1) Area 306 km² Population 56,889 (2014) | |
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Website Municipality of Mališevo Weather 13°C, Wind SW at 31 km/h, 61% Humidity | ||
Uck malisheva liberation day 1999
Mališevo or Malishevë (Albanian Malishevë or Malisheva; Serbian: Малишево) is a town and municipality in the Prizren District of central Kosovo. The town itself has approximately 2,300 inhabitants while the municipality has an estimated 56,889 inhabitants.
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History
The population of the town has historically been predominantly ethnic Albanian. The town was largely destroyed by Serbian forces in 1998. Town residents only returned following the 1998 withdrawal of Serbian paramilitary police and military, in response to international pressures.
The town became a stronghold for the ethnically Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army during the Kosovo War in 1999. The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) formally re-established the municipality of Mališevo in July 2000. During the war, a number of atrocities were committed by both Albanian and Yugoslav forces. One such incident occurred in Mališevo, the execution of no fewer than seven Serbian men, named the Mališevo Massacre. The UN-run Office on Missing Persons and Forensics began the excavations at the site in May 2005.