According to the Milosevic indictment, on or about 27 March, Serb forces attacked the village of Izbica.

Village residents allegedly took refuge in a meadow outside the village.

Within a day, the same forces surrounded the residents and demanded money.

The soldiers and paramilitary police are said to have stolen valuables and then separated men from the women and small children.

These 130 men were then divided into a group sent to a nearby stream and another sent to a nearby hillside. Serb paramilitary units and Yugoslav forces then allegedly shot the two groups of men. War crimes investigators have gathered the names of the dead.

A later report gathered by Nato suggested that chained groups of Kosovo Albanians had been forced to dig mass graves. During the bombing, state-run Serbian television denied this allegation, saying that Nato had deliberately chosen a remote village because it knew that the claims could not be verified.