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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 ...
In the days after the Yugoslav army withdrew, over 164,000 Serbs and 24,000 Roma left Kosovo. Many of the remaining non-Albanian civilians (as well as Albanians perceived as collaborators) were victims of abuse which included beatings, abductions, and murders.
Serbian civilians. More than 100 Serbian and Roma civilians from Orahovac and its surrounding villages - Retimlje, Opterusa, Zočište and Velika Hoca - in western Kosovo were kidnapped and placed in prison camps by KLA fighters; 47 were massacred. Lake Radonjić massacre. Before 9 September 1998.
US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights Watch, the vast majority of abuses were ...
2 Kosovo Albanian civilians killed, 6 wounded and c. 8,000 displaced. The Battle of Belaćevac Mine [a] was a week-long clash between the Yugoslav Army (VJ), Serbian police (MUP) and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in June 1998, during the Kosovo War. It was fought over the Belaćevac coal mine, which powered two generating stations that ...
In 1992–1993, ethnic Albanians created the KLA [7] which started attacking Yugoslavian police forces and secret-service officials who abused Albanian civilians in 1995. [8] Starting in 1998, the KLA was involved in frontal battle, with increasing numbers of Yugoslav security forces. Escalating tensions led to the Kosovo War in February 1998.
On December 14, 1998, the Yugoslav Army (VJ) ambushed a group of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) militants attempting to smuggle weapons and supplies from their base in Albania into the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A five-hour battle ensued, ending with the deaths of 36 militants and the capture of a further nine.
2 Serbian police officers were killed in an ambush by Albanians in the town of Drenas, Kosovo. [4] 27 October A Serbian police inspector and a Serbian policeman were killed by the KLA in an ambush in the village of Surkish in Podujevo. [5] 21 April: Kosovo Albanian student Armend Daci was shot by a Serb civilian sniper in Sunny Hill, Prishtina ...