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There were also places that saw no economic benefit from being in Yugoslavia; for example, the autonomous province of Kosovo was poorly developed, and per capita GDP fell from 47 percent of the Yugoslav average in the immediate post-war period to 27 percent by the 1980s. [13]
Shaban Jashari † Units involved; Yugoslav Army. Serbian police Special Operations Unit: Kosovo Liberation Army: Strength; ca 5,000 Yugoslav policemen, soldiers and special forces; at least one attack helicopter, several APCs, armoured vehicles, mortars and artillery [1] [2]
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 executive director of Human Rights Watch, criticized NATO's decision to bomb civilian ...
According to Sabrina P. Ramet, approximately 12,000 Albanians were killed in Kosovo between 1918 and 1921, which coincides with the Albanian claim that 12,346 people were killed. [78] [79] [80] More than 6,000 Albanians were killed by Yugoslav forces in January and February in 1919. [81]
Of that number, Žerjavić estimated that 78,000 were killed by the Ustaše at Jasenovac and in "prisons, pits and other camps", 45,000 were killed by German forces, 15,000 by Italian forces, 34,000 were killed in battles between the Ustaše, the Chetniks, and the Partisans, and 25,000 died of typhoid. 20,000 were killed in the German Sajmište ...
Milošević died in detention before he could be sentenced. The Court pronounced the following verdict for war crimes in Kosovo: [55] Milan Milutinović, former President of the Republic of Serbia and Yugoslav Foreign Minister, acquitted. Nikola Šainović, Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, guilty on all counts, sentenced to 22 years in prison.
The last Yugoslav People's Army soldier leaves Slovenia. ... Sarajevo resulting in 10,000 killed by 1995. ... and ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Milošević sends in ...
Leon Trotsky and Leo Freundlich estimated that about 25,000 Albanians died in the Kosovo Vilayet by early 1913. [29] [3] Serbian journalist Kosta Novaković, who was a Serbian soldier during the Balkan wars, reported that over 120,000 Albanians were killed in Kosovo and Macedonia, and at least 50,000 were expelled to the Ottoman Empire and Albania.