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The web page covers the atrocities committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 1998 to 1999. It focuses on the ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kosovo Albanians by Serbian forces, and the international response and consequences.
Learn about the status, challenges and achievements of women in Kosovo, a post-war nation in Southeastern Europe. Find out how women participate in politics, business, peace-building and gender equality, and how they face violence and discrimination.
The Kosovo Specialist Chambers (KSC) is a court of Kosovo, located in The Hague, that deals with war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The court was established in 2016 and has international judges and prosecutors, and is funded by the EU.
In 2016, former KLA local commander Bedri Curri was shot dead, and in 2017 his daughter was killed in a car crash, the two deaths linked in Kosovo media to Curri's planning to testify against KLA crimes. The ICTY Trial Chamber acknowledged during the Trial Judgement of Haradinaj et al. that:
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war , grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half later.
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict between Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from 1998 to 1999, which ended with NATO intervention. The war resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of civilians, mostly Albanians, but also Serbs and other ethnic groups.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1244, [1] adopted on 10 June 1999, after recalling resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998), 1203 (1998) and 1239 (1999), authorised an international civil and military presence in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [2] [3] and established the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). [4]
The massacres marked the beginning of the Kosovo War. After 28 February 1998, the fighting become an armed conflict. [2] Once armed conflict broke out, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) became involved. On March 10 the ICTY proclaimed that its "jurisdiction covers the recent violence in Kosovo". [2]