Peć
Peć is an urban settlement and the administrative center of the municipality of the same name in Serbia, located in the western part of Kosovo and Metohija. It belongs to the Peć administrative district. According to the 2024 census, it had 41,171 inhabitants.
The town is situated on the Peć Bistrica River, a tributary of the White Drin, near the Prokletije mountains to the east. The Rugova Gorge, one of the longest and deepest gorges in Europe, is located about three kilometers from the city of Peć.
The city is 250 km north of Tirana, 150 km northwest of Skopje, and 280 km from Podgorica.
In the Middle Ages, the city was the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church from the 13th century. The Peć Patriarchate Monastery is part of UNESCO's World Heritage site of Medieval Monuments in Kosovo
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Svetislav, Zoran, Dragan, Vukota, and two Ivans look innocently from the obituary; Peć has turned into a city of sorrow, while the hypocritical world politics still try to mask the monsters ready to do anything—even flood Kosovo and Metohija with blood—under false names.
Just one day after the United States and the Security Council vetoed a presidential statement condemning the Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija, they, emboldened by such support, carried out the most monstrous terrorist act so far—in the "Panda" café in Peć on Monday, December 14, 1998, shortly after 8 PM—killing six Serbian youths, Serbian falcons. Most of them were high school students, and the owner of the café, Mirsad Šabanović, was also wounded.
In the terrorist attack, Ivan Radević (26), Dragan Trifović (18), Vukota Gvozdenović (16), and Ivan Obradović (15) were fatally shot on the spot, while Zoran Stanojević (18) and Svetislav Ristić (18), all from Peć, later died from severe injuries at the Clinical Hospital Center in Priština.
According to eyewitnesses, a car stopped in front of the café, which had 13 people inside at the time. Two terrorists jumped out, dressed in black uniforms with “balaclavas” covering their faces. They immediately opened burst fire at the guests right at the door.
The first bullets hit Ivan Obradović. Not far from him stood his father, who miraculously remained unharmed. However, it cannot be said that Ivan's father escaped the terrorists’ bullets and bursts; a bullet struck his heart, and now he lives wounded because of the death of his son. Then the terrorists fired at the others.
Read more: The murder of six Serbian young men in the “Panda” café in Peć (1998)