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The Dubrava Prison massacre is the war time killing of at least 176 Kosovo Albanian prisoners and the wounding of around 200 prisoners in the Dubrava Prison, in north-western Kosovo (then within the Metohija region of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija) between the dates of 22–24 May 1999. Targeting Yugoslav and Serb forces nearby, NATO bombed the prison on 19 May and 21 May 1999, killing at least 19 ethnic Albanian prisoners. On 22 May, the security forces lined up ca. 100 prisoners in the courtyard and fired on them with snipers, machine guns, and grenades from the prison walls and guard towers, killing at least 70 people. At least another twelve prisoners were killed over the next 24 hours as prison guards, special police, and possibly paramilitaries attacked prisoners hiding in the undestroyed buildings, basements, and sewers. The injured were taken away in trucks, while the remaining prisoners were transported to Lipljan prison, where they were beaten. On June 10, they were transferred and held in prisons in Serbia after the war had ended.〔 Witness testimony with details of times and locations indicates that government forces executed a substantial number of ethnic Albanians in the prison.〔 ==Background== Dubrava prison was Kosovo’s largest detention facility. Located a few miles east of Istok in north-western Kosovo (Metohija region), near the frontier with Montenegro, the prison had three pavilions with a capacity of more than 1,000 prisoners. The walled facility contained a cultural center, sports hall, health center, and a hotel for prisoners’ visitors. As with all of Kosovo’s detention facilities, credible reports of torture and abuse emanated from Dubrava prison throughout 1998 and early 1999. Defense lawyers reported restricted access to their clients in Dubrava, and the Kosovo Verification Mission was never allowed access to the prison.〔 There were many complaints of torture and beatings from people held in this prison. Injuries ranged from broken bones to permanent kidney failure. It is believed that at least four or five men died as a result of beatings sustained while they were detained at the prison between October 1998 and March 1999. A witness told HRW prison guards beat the prisoners every day once the NATO bombing began.〔 One former prisoner transferred to Dubrava on April 30, said that approximately 165 ethnic Albanians from Gjakova were brought to Dubrava a short time after he had arrived. This was confirmed during the April–May 2000 trial in Niš of 143 Albanians arrested in Gjakova in May 1999, who testified that they had been transferred from Gjakova to prisons in Peć, Lipljan, and Dubrava.〔 Among the ethnic Albanians in Dubrava was one of Kosovo’s most prominent political prisoners, Ukshin Hoti, who was finishing the last year of a five-year sentence. Three witnesses said that Hoti was released from Dubrava on 16 May because his sentence expired. His current whereabouts, however, are unknown, and many former prisoners and human rights activists fear that he is dead.〔 Witnesses before International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) have testified that Yugoslav army tanks and anti-aircraft cannons had been placed round the jail, which in April were hit by NATO aircraft. Some former prisoners claim that they saw anti-aircraft fire coming from near the prison during the NATO bombing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dubrava Prison massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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