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All the victims were killed in their homes and yards, most in the presence of their families. (<i>In the photograph: A view of the town of Skenderaj.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text<\/strong>: <i>Encyclopedic Dictionary of Kosovo &#8211; Vol. II<\/i>, Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, Pristina, 2018, page 1060.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo<\/strong>: \u00a9 https:\/\/www.atdheu.com\/skenderaj.html<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic Processing<\/strong>: AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8216;Skenderaj Massacre&#8217; was carried out, a massacre by Serbian police and military forces against the Albanian civilian population in the town of Skenderaj<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Skenderaj Massacre - 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