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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.
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.
Milan Radoičić. Milan Radoičić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Милан Радоичић, Albanian: Milan Radoiçiq; born 21 February 1978) is a Kosovo Serb businessman and politician. A former vice president of the Serb List, he has been involved in organized crime. [1] Most recently, he was implicated in the Banjska attack .
Serbia and its former province, Kosovo, have been at odds for decades. Their 1998-99 war left more than 10,000 people dead, mostly Kosovo Albanians. Kosovo unilaterally declared independence in ...
It was the first time appeals judges have ruled on a war crimes verdict by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, as the tribunal is formally known. ... More than 13,000 people are believed to have been ...
The onset of the 20th century. At the turn of the century, Kosovo lay entirely within the Ottoman Empire. Its status was as a vilayet and it occupied a territory significantly larger than today's entity and with Üsküp (now Skopje) as provincial capital. Its own borders were internally expanded following a local administrations reorganisation ...
Kosovo Police's Special Operations Unit conducting riot control during a demonstration. SOU has its origins in the Regional Street Crimes Unit (RSCU). The first RSCU in Kosovo operated in the Pristina region in early 2002 and was based in Kosovo Polje. It was created and led by CIVPOL Chief Angel G.Queipo (Florida, United States), and Deputy ...
In 2014, the Humanitarian Law Centre in Serbia and Kosovo compiled a list of people who were killed or went missing during the war and in its aftermath, from January 1998 to December 31, 2000. The list totaled 13,517 people and included 8,661 Albanian civilians, 1,196 Serbs, and 447 Roma, Bosniaks and other non-Albanians; the rest were combatants.