Battle of Lođa

Battle of Lođa
	Part of the Kosovo War
Date	First Battle: 6–17 July 1998; Second Battle: 10–17 August 1998
Location	Logjë, near Pejë, FR Yugoslavia
Result	First Battle: KLA and FARK victory; Second Battle: Yugoslav victory; 284 houses and mosque are destroyed by the Serbian Police;
Belligerents
KLA; FARK; Civil resistance of Lođa	FR Yugoslavia; Civil volunteers; Special Operations Unit
Commanders and leaders
Tahir Zemaj; Sali Çekaj; Luan Shala;	Nebojša Pavković; Srđan Perović ; Milorad Ulemek
Casualties and losses
2 killed	3 killed, 8 wounded
	2 civilians killed, 25 wounded

1998 battle of the Kosovo War

The Battle of Lođa (Serbian: Boj na Lođi, Serbian Cyrillic: Бој на лођи, Albanian: Beteja e Logjës) was fought during the Kosovo War in the village of Logjë first on 6-12 July 1998^[5] and again later on 10-17 August 1998.^[6]^[7] The battle was fought between the Yugoslav Army against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosova (FARK).^[8] The first battle was an operation launched to counterattack the Albanian rebels after two Yugoslav policemen patrolling the area had been killed.^[7] The first battle ended in an KLA victory,^[5] while the second operation ended in a Yugoslav victory.^[7]^[4] All of the village's 284 houses and mosque were destroyed by the Serbian Police with bulldozers.^[9]

References

^ a b c McAllester, Matthew (November 2003). Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo. NYU Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8147-5661-4.
^ a b "Godišnjica stradanja kapetana Srđana Perovića, kojeg je OVK mučila pet dana". Kosovo Online (in Serbian). 6 July 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
^ "West Corner of Kosovo tense after village battle". reliefweb. 12 July 1998. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
^ a b "Refugees In Kosovo Are in Peril". The New York Times. 17 August 1998. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
^ a b "West Corner of Kosovo tense after village battle - Serbia". ReliefWeb. 12 July 1998. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
^ "Serbian artillery pounds ethnic Albanian villages in Kosovo - Albania". ReliefWeb. 10 August 1998. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
^ a b c "Serbia: Kosovo fighting dies out after rebel loss | ReliefWeb". Reliefweb.int. 1998-08-17. Retrieved 2012-01-21.
^ "Kosovo PM: Solve Post-War Political Murders". Balkan Insight. 7 July 2015.
^ Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2001). Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. pp. 542–. ISBN 978-1-56432-264-7.

[:1-1] McAllester, Matthew (November 2003). Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War Inside Kosovo. NYU Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-8147-5661-4.

[kosovoonline-2] "Godišnjica stradanja kapetana Srđana Perovića, kojeg je OVK mučila pet dana". Kosovo Online (in Serbian). 6 July 2024. Retrieved 13 March 2025.

[3] "West Corner of Kosovo tense after village battle". reliefweb. 12 July 1998. Retrieved 28 April 2022.

[NYT-4] "Refugees In Kosovo Are in Peril". The New York Times. 17 August 1998. Retrieved 28 November 2012.

[:0-5] "West Corner of Kosovo tense after village battle - Serbia". ReliefWeb. 12 July 1998. Retrieved 2022-04-28.

[6] "Serbian artillery pounds ethnic Albanian villages in Kosovo - Albania". ReliefWeb. 10 August 1998. Retrieved 2022-04-28.

[Relief_Web-7] "Serbia: Kosovo fighting dies out after rebel loss | ReliefWeb". Reliefweb.int. 1998-08-17. Retrieved 2012-01-21.

[8] "Kosovo PM: Solve Post-War Political Murders". Balkan Insight. 7 July 2015.

[9] Human Rights Watch (Organization) (2001). Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. Human Rights Watch. pp. 542–. ISBN 978-1-56432-264-7.