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Crime in Kosovo. Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country. [1] Following the Kosovo War (1999), the region had become a significant center of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking and organ theft. There is also an ongoing ethnic conflict between Kosovar Albanians and Kosovan Serbs.
Television in Kosovo was first introduced in 1974. The Radio Television of Pristina was the first Albanian-speaking broadcaster in Kosovo, founded in 1974 following Radio Pristina's founding in 1945. It was forcefully shut down in 1990 by the Yugoslavian government, forbidding the flow of information through Kosovan airwaves during the Kosovo War.
Culture of Kosovo. The mass media in Kosovo consists of different kinds of communicative media such as radio, television, newspapers, and internet web sites. Most of the media survive from advertising and subscriptions. Kosovo's Constitution and laws provide for freedom of expression and press freedom.
The Pastasel massacre was a mass execution of 106 Kosovo Albanian civilians during the Kosovo war, which took place on 31 March 1999. Serbian forces surrounded the village and upon entering they expelled the women to Albania whilst they gathered the males and summarily executed them. The victims were mostly above the age of 55 but also children ...
Podujevo massacre. The Podujevo massacre ( Albanian: Masakra e Podujevës, Serbian: Masakr u Podujevu) is the name generally used to refer to the killing of 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, mostly women and children, committed in March 1999 by the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary organisation in conjunction with the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit of ...
The Attack on Prekaz, also known as the Prekaz massacre, [8] was an operation led by the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Serbia which lasted from 5 to 7 March 1998, whose goal was to eliminate Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspects and their families. [9] [10] During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz were killed, along ...
However, the Serbian War Crimes prosecutors said that they would appeal the verdicts, especially because the prime suspect — the commander of the unit that carried out the massacre — was acquitted. Suva Reka is the first war crimes case in Serbia related to the mass graves discovered after Slobodan Milošević's ouster. See also
Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo (Human Right Watch report) Report of the UN Secretary-General, 31 January 1999; Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing (Michigan State University) Human Rights Watch: Rape as a weapon of Ethnic Cleansing; Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo (Report released by the U.S. Department of State)