In early mid-September , for the first time , KLA activity was reported in northern Kosovo around Podujevo . Finally , in late September , a determined effort was made to clear the KLA out of the northern and central parts of Kosovo and out of the Drenica valley itself . During this time many threats were made from Western capitals but these were tempered somewhat by the elections in Bosnia , as they did not want Serbian Democrats and Radicals to win . Following the elections , the threats intensified once again , but a galvanising event was needed . They got it on September 28 , when the mutilated corpses of a family were discovered by KDOM outside the village of Gornje Obrinje . The bloody image of a child 's doll and streams of displaced persons rallied the international community to action
the mutilated corpses of a family
Gornje Obrinje massacre
Kosovo War