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Stjepan Mesić on Belgrade's intentions in the war In August 1990, an unrecognized mono-ethnic referendum was held in regions with a substantial Serb population which would later become known as the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) (bordering western Bosnia and Herzegovina) on the question of Serb "sovereignty and autonomy" in Croatia. This was an attempt to counter changes made to the ...
These included the Circassian genocide, which was the deadliest ethnic cleansing campaign of the 19th century. [16] Between 1.5 to 2 million Circassians were mass murdered, [17] and approximately 1.5 million Circassian natives were forcibly driven out of their homeland by the Russian imperial army during the 1860s.
Foča ethnic cleansing. 7 April 1992 – January 1994. Foča. 2,704. Thousands of Bosniak civilians killed by Serb military, police and paramilitary forces. In a 1997 judgement against Novislav Đajić, the Bavarian Appeals Chamber ruled that the killings in which he was involved in June 1992 were acts of genocide. [10]
23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944. Kruševac. 1,642. German war crime [12] Mačva massacres. 24 September – 9 October 1941. Mačva region. c. 6,000. Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces.
On May 7, 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Operation Allied Force), five U.S. Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs hit the People's Republic of China embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and outraging the Chinese public. [2] According to the U.S. government, the intention had been to bomb the nearby Yugoslav ...
Mustafa was the first person convicted of war crimes by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a branch of Kosovo's court system that was established in the Netherlands to investigate crimes from the ...
A NATO-led Kosovo Force entered the province following the Kosovo War, tasked with providing security to the UN Mission in Kosovo . In the weeks after, as many as 164,000 non-Albanians, primarily Serbs but also Roma, fled the province for fear of reprisals, and many of the remaining civilians were victims of abuse. [130]
Since 1999, immediately after Kosovo became an international protectorate, Malaysia agreed to send peacekeepers as part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. Later that year, in September, Malaysia began to make plans for "a centre to coordinate medical relief aid and missions to help Kosovo war victims," and began ...