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It is dedicated to the female victims of sexual violence during the Kosovo War Widespread rape and sexual violence occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 2000, Human Rights Watch documented 96 cases while adding that "it is likely that the number is much higher".
Widespread rape and sexual violence by the Serbian army, police and paramilitaries occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women, [320] [321] numbering an estimated 20,000. [322] The crimes of rape by the Serb military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture ...
Victims Description 1878 attacks: 1878 Kosovo vilayet: Albanian refugees Serbs Incoming Albanian refugees to Kosovo who were expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of NiČ™ were involved in revenge attacks and hostile actions to the local Serb population. [1] 1898–1899 attacks: 1898-1899 Old Serbia: Albanians Serbs [2] 1901 massacres of ...
The Batajnica mass graves are mass graves that were found in 2001 near Batajnica, a suburb of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The graves contained the bodies of 744 [ 1 ] Kosovar Albanians civilians that were killed during the Kosovo War. [ 2 ] The mass graves were found on the training grounds of the Yugoslav Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ ...
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombings continued until an agreement was reached that led to the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army from ...
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 faith.
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.
War crimes witnesses to the Kosovo War (1998–99) have been victims to threats, violence, and murder. Those who spoke out about the abuses of their side in the conflict were seen as traitors to their community, and therefore, only a few became witnesses in war crime trials. [1] The international institutions ICTY, UNMIK and EULEX, and national ...