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During the war, regime forces killed between 7,000–9,000 Kosovar Albanians, [ 1 ] engaged in countless acts of rape, [ 2 ] destroyed entire villages, and displaced nearly one million people. [ 1 ] The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or the UÇK) has also been implicated in atrocities, such as kidnappings and summary executions of civilians. [ 3 ]
13,548 fighters and civilians of all ethnicities died in total [31] Aftermath 113,128 [57] to 200,000+ Kosovo Serbs, Romani, and other non-Albanian civilians displaced [58] The Kosovo War (Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June ...
Many human rights groups criticised civilian casualties resulting from military actions of NATO forces in Operation Allied Force. Both Serbs and Albanians were killed in 90 Human Rights Watch -confirmed incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. It reported that as few as 489 and as many as 528 Yugoslav civilians were killed in the NATO airstrikes. Kenneth Roth, the ...
The Izbica massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Izbicës; Serbian: Pokolj u Izbici) was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo War. [1] [3] [4] Following the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found that the massacre resulted in the deaths of about 93 Kosovar Albanians, mostly male non-combatant civilians between the ages of 60 and 70.
KLA suffers heavy losses, but wins the battle. [61] 19-20 May: 14 Yugoslav special forces killed in an ambush by KLA near Junik. 26 May: 2 Yugoslav policemen killed in an ambush by KLA in Tusus. 26-29 May: Tusus massacre. Serbian police kills 27 Albanian civilians. [62] 26 May-3 June: Battle of Pashtrik.
By the end of the war, the Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 [ 37 ] to 2,131 combatants. [ 38 ] 10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. [ 39 ] The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. It destroyed or damaged bridges, industrial plants ...
2 seriously wounded. 16 killed [2] 26 Albanian civilians killed [3][4] The Attacks on Likoshan and Qirez (Albanian: Sulmet në Likoshan dhe Qirez, Serbian: Napadi na Likošane i Ćirez) were large-scale police attacks that took place at the onset of the Kosovo War in the villages of Likoshan and Qirez. [3]
Klečka killings. The Klečka killings were the mass murder of 22 Kosovo Serb civilians, including children, allegedly by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) over a period of several days in July 1998, during the Kosovo War. After the killings, it was alleged that members of the KLA attempted to dispose of the massacre-victims by ...