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Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces in Kosovo have committed a wide range of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights law: forced expulsion of Kosovars from their homes; burning and looting of homes, schools, religious sites and healthcare facilities; detention, particularly of military-age men; summary execution ...
The crimes of rape by the Serb military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture. [320] On 27 April 1999, a mass execution of at least 377 Kosovo Albanian civilians, of whom 36 were under 18 years old, was committed by Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces in the village of Meja near the town of ...
In Albania and Kosovo, this understanding of the Balkan Wars is part of the educational curriculum. [211] In 1998–99, war crimes similar to those in 1912 against the Albanian population were committed. [166] These events have deeply affected Albania–Serbia relations. [212]
During the occupation, the Serbian army committed numerous crimes against the Albanian population "with a view to the entire transformation of the ethnic character of these regions." [11] The Serbian government denied reports of war crimes. [14]
The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA; Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës [uʃˈtɾija t͡ʃliɾimˈtaɾɛ ɛ ˈkɔsɔvəs], UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the 1990s.
W. War crimes in the Kosovo War. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Military history of Albania. Human rights abuses in Albania.
Anti-Albanian sentiment, ethnic cleansing. The Meja massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War with the purpose of ethnic cleansing, which took place on 27 April 1999. [ 2 ][ 3 ] The majority of the victims were Muslim Albanians, while the rest ascribed to the Catholic ...
The Lake Radonjić massacre or the Massacre at Lake Radonjić (Serbian: Масакр на Радоњићком језеру, Albanian: Masakra e Liqenit të Radoniqit) refers to the mass murder of at least 34 Kosovo Serb, Kosovo Albanian and Roma civilians near Lake Radonjić, by the village of Glodjane, in Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 9 September 1998.