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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 armed conflict in Kosovo from 1998 to 1999, between Serbian forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and the NATO intervention that ended it. Find out the causes, events, casualties, and aftermath of the war that led to Kosovo's independence.
Victims Description 1878 attacks: 1878 Kosovo vilayet: Albanian refugees Serbs Incoming Albanian refugees to Kosovo who were expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niș were involved in revenge attacks and hostile actions to the local Serb population. [1] 1898–1899 attacks: 1898-1899 Old Serbia: Albanians Serbs [2] 1901 massacres of ...
The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), a nongovernmental organization based in Serbia and Kosovo, published in their research that the total number of killed during the Kosovo war (a length of time in the research studied from January 1998 to December 31, 2000) estimated at 13,517, when of this number of all killed or missing civilians were: 8 661 Kosovo Albanians, 1797 Serbs, 447 Roma, Bosniaks ...
Learn about the aerial campaign by NATO against Yugoslavia in 1999 during the Kosovo War. Find out the causes, consequences, casualties, and controversies of the bombing that lasted for two months.
On May 1, 1999, a Niš-Ekspres bus taking passengers to Kosovo was hit by NATO missiles when it crossed a bridge in the village of Lužane near Podujevo. 2 The number of casualties reported from the Niš-Ekspres bombing vary, with Human Rights Watch recording 39 civilians killed [14] whereas the Minister of Health Leposava Milićević reported ...
The Meja massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War with the purpose of ethnic cleansing, which took place on 27 April 1999. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The majority of the victims were Muslim Albanians, while the rest ascribed to the Catholic faith.
Adem Jashari was a Kosovo Liberation Army leader who resisted a Serbian police raid on his compound in Prekaz in 1998. He and his brother Hamëz, along with 83 other family members, were killed in the operation that sparked international condemnation.