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The Paraćin massacre (Vorlage:Lang-sh / Параћински масакр) was a mass shooting which targeted Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) soldiers in the military barracks in Paraćin, Yugoslavia on 3 September 1987. The perpetrator was Aziz Kelmendi, a 20-year-old Kosovo Albanian conscript. Kelmendi fired an automatic weapon into two sleeping rooms before he fled and committed suicide. The shootings left four soldiers killed and five wounded.

Background

Aziz Kelmendi (Vorlage:Lang-sr; born 15 January 1967 in Lipljan, SFR Yugoslavia) was a Kosovo Albanian conscript in the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). Yugoslav authorities described him as a "misfit and loner".Vorlage:Sfn Prior to his military service, he was arrested and imprisoned from 2–17 April 1984 for allegedly attempting to leave Yugoslavia and go to Albania.Vorlage:Sfn At his trial hearing he reportedly said "Albania is my country, not Yugoslavia. I want to go there and live and fight for our goals!".Vorlage:Sfn His conviction also included nationalistic behaviour at high school and university.Vorlage:Sfn He disliked learning Serbo-Croatian.Vorlage:Sfn Prior to the killings, he had two arguments with a soldier named Safet Dudaković.Vorlage:Sfn

Attack

On 3 September 1987, Kelmendi's mother and father came to Paraćin to visit their son.Vorlage:Sfn Next morning, Kelmendi broke into a firearm cabinet and stole ten 7.62 mm bullets. He loaded these into his military-issued automatic weapon and went from the living facilities to a guard post. According to the JNA inquiry, Kelmendi threatened to kill the watchman, corporal Riza Alibašić, and took two rounds of ammunition from him. Pointing his weapon at Alibašić, Kelmendi took the corporal back to the living facility and demanded to know where Dudaković slept. When Alibašić refused to answer, Kelmendi told him to step aside and went into the sleeping quarters. There, he shot and killed the sleeping Dudaković before killing Srđan Simić and Goran Begić and wounding two other soldiers. He went into the adjacent sleeping quarters and fired randomly at the soldiers there, killing Hasim Dženanović and wounding two others.Vorlage:Sfn Kelmendi then fled the barracks.Vorlage:Sfn He was found dead Vorlage:Convert away and his death was later declared a suicide.Vorlage:Sfn A total of four soldiers were killed and five were wounded in the shooting.Vorlage:Sfn Two of those killed were Bosniaks, one was a Serb, and one was half-Slovene and half-Croat.Vorlage:Sfn

Aftermath

It was claimed that "Kelmendi was assisted by eight associates, members of a hostile Albanian separatist and irredentist group".Vorlage:Better source These eight, six ethnic Albanians, an ethnic Muslim and a Roma, were later convicted for helping the attack.Vorlage:Sfn Yugoslav authorities concluded that Kelmendi had planned the attack shortly before it occurred. They stated that the military unit in which he served had no reason to suspect that he was mentally unstable and that he was "a loner who had a personal complex because he was ugly and quite nervous". He apparently socialized only with other Albanians and sometimes acted aggressively.Vorlage:Sfn

The Paraćin massacre shocked Yugoslavia, where mass shootings were very uncommon.Vorlage:Sfn Media reported the attack as a "shot at Yugoslavia".Vorlage:Sfn It prompted Yugoslav authorities to send 400 federal police officers to Kosovo at the end of 1987.Vorlage:Sfn Despite those killed having been mostly non-Serbs, the Serbian media presented the shootings as an anti-Serbian attack.Vorlage:Sfn An estimated 10,000 people attended the funeral of Srđan Simić, the Serb soldier who was killed.Vorlage:Sfn Senior JNA officers and the mayor of Belgrade were in attendance. The crowd followed Simić's casket in silence, with some complaining that neither Ivan Stambolić nor Slobodan Milošević had attended the funeral. Afterwards, crowds began denouncing Yugoslavia and chanting "Serbia, Serbia!".Vorlage:Sfn They shouted "better the grave than a slave!", "we want freedom", "Kosovo is Serbia", "we shall not give Kosovo away" and "enough of resolutions". Simić's father repeatedly asked for the crowd to stop chanting, but to no avail. After the funeral, an estimated 20,000 people visited Aleksandar Ranković's grave in the same cemetery and sang "Hey, Slavs", the national anthem of Yugoslavia.Vorlage:Sfn The crowd shouted "down with Azem Vllasi" and "all Shiptars out of Serbia, Kosovo is ours!".Vorlage:Sfn

Mobs responded to the killings by destroying Albanian-owned kiosks and shops in Paraćin, Subotica, and Valjevo. Yugoslav authorities arrested Kelmendi's family members and questioned them in a Prizren jail. Kelmendi's sixteen-year-old sister, Melihata, was expelled from her school. The Partisan organization in Kelmendi's birthplace, Dušanovo, demanded that all villagers isolate his family. Kelmendi's high school tutor, Agish Kastrati, was forced from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia and five of his teachers received "final warnings" for failing to record Kelmendi's absence from school during his imprisonment three years earlier.Vorlage:Sfn

See also

• List of massacres in Serbia
• Vranje shooting

References

• Dejan Jović: Yugoslavia: A State that Withered Away. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana 2009, ISBN 978-1-55753-495-8 (google.com). 
• Tim Judah: Kosovo: War and Revenge. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2002, ISBN 978-0-300-09725-2 (google.com). 
• Marko Lopušina: Ubij bližnjeg svog: Akcije Državne bezbednosti protiv špijuna od 1946. do 1997. Narodna knjiga–Alfa, 1997 (google.com). 
• Viktor Meier: Yugoslavia: A History of Its Demise. Routledge, New York 1999, ISBN 0-415-18595-5 (google.com). 
• Julie A. Mertus: Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1999, ISBN 0-520-21865-5 (archive.org). 
• Sabrina P. Ramet: The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-34656-8 (google.com). 
• Louis Sell: Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina 2002, ISBN 978-0-8223-8525-7 (archive.org). 

Further reading

• The New York Times, November 1, 1987, Late City Final Edition (p. 14) "In Yugoslavia, Rising Ethnic Strife Brings Fears of Worse Civil Conflict" by David Binder

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