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The Chetniks, a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationalist movement and guerrilla force, committed numerous war crimes during the Second World War, primarily directed against the non-Serb population of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, mainly Muslims and Croats, and against Communist -led Yugoslav Partisans and their supporters.
A Kosovo victims support group reported that of the local prostitutes, a third were under 14, and 80% were under 18. Amnesty said the victims were routinely raped "as a means of control and coercion" and kept in terrible conditions as slaves by their "owners"; sometimes kept in darkened rooms unable to go out.
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
Pages in category "Albanian war crimes in the Kosovo War". The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Srebrenica massacre, [a] also known as the Srebrenica genocide, [b] [8] was the July 1995 genocidal [9] killing of more than 8,000 [10] Bosniak Muslim men and boys in and around the town of Srebrenica, during the Bosnian War. [11] The killings were perpetrated by units of the Bosnian Serb Army of Republika Srpska (VRS) under the command of ...
Starvation (crime) Starving woman during the blockade of Biafra, an event that contributed significantly to the criminalization of starvation. Starvation of a civilian population is a war crime, a crime against humanity, or an act of genocide according to modern international criminal law. [1] [2] [3] Starvation has not always been illegal ...
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Pages in category "War crimes in the Kosovo War" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...