1998 Panda Bar massacre
The Panda Bar massacre (Serbian: Масакр у Панда Бару, romanized: Masakr u Panda Baru), alternatively known as the Panda Café attack (Serbian: Напад на кафић "Панда", romanized: Napad na kafić "Panda"), was an attack on Serbian civilians in the city of Peć, Kosovo, on the night of 14–15 December 1998. Two masked men opened fire into a coffeehouse, killing six Serb youths and wounding 15 others. The attack came at a time of heightened tensions due to an orchestrated ambush by the Serbian police against the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) who were smuggling weapons and supplies from Albania. The Panda Bar attack appeared as a reprisal, and broke the brief cease-fire between the Albanian and Serbian forces during the Kosovo War.
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