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The Batajnica mass graves are mass graves that were found in 2001 near Batajnica, a suburb of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The graves contained the bodies of 744 [1] Kosovar Albanians civilians that were killed during the Kosovo War. [2] The mass graves were found on the training grounds of the Yugoslav Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ). [3] Dead bodies were brought to the site by trucks ...
War crimes in the Kosovo War. US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked. [3] Soon after, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was formed to fight the Yugoslav establishment. [4] After a string of minor attacks, the KLA's mission became much more aggressive, [5] which led to them claiming areas that were key to Serbia's fuel-supply, near the town of Orahovac. Years of ethnic tension had preceded the Kosovo War ...
The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the ...
The Rudnica mass grave is a site in Rudnica, southern Serbia where Kosovo Albanian victims of Serbian operations were transferred from several areas in Kosovo and buried in the site during the Kosovo War.
The public affairs office of the American troops in the region issued a statement which designated the victims buried in the site as Serbs who were killed after the war and Albanians who were killed before the war. The spokesman of Hague war crimes tribunal reported that two of the bodies might belong to Kosovo Serbs who were kidnapped after war.
The Mališevo mass grave is a grave found in 2005 in the town of Mališevo, Kosovo. The grave contained the bodies of 12 Serb civilians and 1 ethnic Bulgarian, executed during the Kosovo War by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
The Bytyqi brothers were American - Kosovo Albanian members of the Kosovo Liberation Army who were killed by Serbian Police shortly after the end of the Kosovo War, while they were in custody in Petrovo Selo, Kladovo, Serbia. The bodies of the three brothers were discovered in July 2001 in a mass grave containing 70 Albanians, near Special Anti–Terrorist Unit (SAJ) training facility. The ...