ÇABRAT HILL
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This hill (Kodra e Çabratit, Čabrat brdo) dominates western Gjakova/Đakovica at 440 m above sea level. To get there, follow Sylejman Hadum Aga Street and Izet Hima Street through the large charchia, past the Agron Rama Square roundabout and 30m further on, turn right onto Martirët e Lirisë Çabrat Street at the Blues Brothers barbershop. The hill is very popular with locals who come here for weekend strolls and is a good place to take pictures of the city. Once celebrated by the popular singers Qamili i Vogël (1923-1991) and Mazllom Mejzini (1930-2004), the place houses four bars and restaurants with panoramic views. But the hill is also a place of memory. First of all, there is a memorial to the partisans of the Second World War, a large circular concrete monument that is completely abandoned. 200 m to the north-west, there is the "Cemetery of the Çabrat Martyrs" (Varrezat e martireve Çabrat) where the graves of about 100 KLA fighters of the 137-Gjakova Brigade who fell here on 7-9 May 1999 are lined up. There is also a cemetery of Albanian civilian victims. However, the largest burial site related to the Kosovo war is located 3.5 km west of the town, at the Meja cemetery, along the M9-1 road. It was in the nearby Caragoj ("black valley" in Serbo-Croatian) that the worst massacre in the region took place on 27-28 April 1999, when about 370 men from the villages of Meja, Oriza and Jahoc were killed by Serb-Yugoslav forces.
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