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Encirclement of the Jashari house by Serbian Police

The siege of Prekaz was an encirclement of the Jashari family house on December 30, 1991, by heavily armored Serbian police (MUP).

Their goal was to capture or kill Adem Jashari, who had committed several acts of sabotage against the Serbian administrative apparatus in Kosovo.

Background

In late 1990, the People's Movement of Kosovo (LPK) and Albanian PresidentRamiz Alia agreed to train volunteers from Kosovo in the hope of starting an armed uprising.^[2][3] The volunteers received strict instructions to avoid detection by Yugoslavia's secret police (UDBA).^[4] They first flew to Zürich, then Trieste, and finally boarded a boat to Durrës.

On October 1, 1991, a group of 53 volunteers began 30 days of military training in the village of Surrel, near the Albanian capital. A second, more diverse group, including members from Kosovo and Macedonia such as Adem Jashari, Sahit J