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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]
The Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA; Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës [uʃˈtɾija t͡ʃliɾimˈtaɾɛ ɛ ˈkɔsɔvəs], UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the 1990s.
Casualties. 19–23 (bombings) 79–82 (summary execution) Property damage. Prison bombed. The Dubrava Prison massacre was the war time killing of at least 99 Kosovo Albanian prisoners and the wounding of around 200 more in the Dubrava Prison, in north-western Kosovo between 22 and 24 May 1999. Initially, NATO claimed that the prison was a ...
Feride Rushiti. Feride Rushiti is a Kosovan activist, director of the "Kosovo Center for the Rehabilitation of Torture Survivors" (QKRMT) and is one of the pioneering human rights activists in Kosovo. [1] Rushiti received the U.S. Secretary of State's International Women of Courage Award from US First Lady Melania Trump on 23 March 2018.
Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) ( Serbian: Fond za Humanitarno pravo, Albanian: Fondi për të Drejtën Humanitare) is the Serbian non-governmental organisation with offices in Belgrade, Serbia, and Pristina, Kosovo. [1] It was founded in 1992 by Nataša Kandić to document human rights violations across the former Yugoslavia in armed conflicts ...
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) (Albanian: Dhomat e Specializuara të Kosovës; Serbian: Специјализована већа Косова, Specijalizovana veća Kosova) is a court of Kosovo, located in The Hague (Netherlands), hosting four Specialist Chambers and the Specialist Prosecutor's Office, which may perform their activities either in the Netherlands or in Kosovo.
The Ten-Day War ( Slovene: desetdnevna vojna ), or the Slovenian War of Independence ( Slovene: slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna ), [8] was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. [9] It was fought between the Slovenian Territorial Defence together with Slovene Police and the ...
31 July 2022 – 1 January 2024. Location. North Kosovo and Merdare border crossing; spillover into Serbia. Status. Kosovo Serbs withdraw from Kosovo government institutions. Kosovo Serbs barricade roads from 10–30 December 2022. Serbian boycott of local elections; ethnic Albanian mayors elected in all four North Kosovo municipalities in ...