Ćuška is a village close to the city of Peć. The village had 200 houses and about 2,000 residents, predominantly Albanians.[4] In the early morning of May 14, 1999, Serbian security forces descended on the small village of Ćuška.[2] Once there the women and children were separated from the men, private property was systematically stolen, and identification papers were destroyed.[3] The forces then divided the men into three groups of about ten and taken into three separate houses, where they were gunned down with automatic weapons.[3] Each of the houses were then set on fire.[3] In each of the three houses, one man survived.[3]