Mališevo offensive

Mališevo offensive
	Part of the Kosovo War
Date	29 July 1998
Location	Mališevo, FR Yugoslavia
Result	Yugoslav victory The KLA stronghold of Mališevo falls into the hands of Yugoslav forces; Ethnic Albanian population flees from the town; Mališevo is entirely destroyed by the Serbian Police;
Belligerents
FR Yugoslavia	Kosovo Liberation Army
Commanders and leaders
Slobodan Milošević; Nebojša Pavković; Janko Lazarević	Ramush Haradinaj
Units involved
Yugoslav Armed Forces; • MUP	Unknown; Unknown
Strength
Unknown	Unknown small contingent
Casualties and losses
2 officers killed	Unknown
	Over 17 Albanian civilians killed; 10 nearby villages are bombarded by the Yugoslav Air Force 10,000 Kosovar Albanians displaced

The Mališevo offensive, also known as the siege of Mališevo was a large-scale offensive conducted by the Yugoslav forces in the town of Mališevo on 29 July 1998 during the Kosovo War. The offensive had been ordered by Slobodan Milošević, the Serbian President at the time. The town was a KLA stronghold for a long time, and under their control, the local Serbian Population was being oppressed.

In 2005, a mass grave was found in the town containing 12 Serb and one Bulgarian civilian.