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In the ensuing siege, large numbers of Kosovo Albanians flocked to Prekaz, forcing the Serbs to withdraw from the village. [17] While in Albania, Jashari was arrested in 1993 by the government of Sali Berisha and sent to jail in Tirana [18] before being released alongside other Kosovo Albanian militants at the demand of the Albanian Army. [19]
The indictment referred to Milošević using mass forced population deportation and transfer, sexual assault, murder, along with damage or destruction of Kosovo Albanian religious sites "to execute a campaign of persecution against the Kosovo Albanian based on political, racial or religious grounds". [13]
Kosovo during World War I was initially, for about a year, completely filled with Serbian military forces, which retreated towards Albania to continue further to Corfu. After the occupation of the territories by Austria-Hungary, the German Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria as allies in the First World War, the occupied territories were ...
Thopia recaptures capital of Durrës and reestablished the Princedom of Albania. Albanian-Epirote War of 1385 [8] Despotate of Arta: Despotate of Epirus: Ceasefire. Albanians besiege Ioannina. Shpata withdraws due to strong city defences. The two sides later negotiate peace. Albanian-Epirote War of 1389–90 [9] Despotate of Arta (all four battles)
Numerous Albanian cultural sites in Kosovo were destroyed during the Kosovo conflict (1998-1999) which constituted a war crime violating the Hague and Geneva Conventions. [13] Of the 498 mosques in Kosovo that were in active use, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) documented that 225 mosques sustained damage or ...
Supporters of the bombing argued that the bombing brought to an end the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo's Albanian population, and that it hastened (or caused) the downfall of Slobodan Milošević's government, which they saw as having been responsible for the international isolation of Yugoslavia, war crimes, and human rights violations.
Albanians in Kosovo felt that Serbian and later Yugoslav rule constituted a foreign conquest. [48] Confiscations of Albanian land and settlement of Serbian colonists throughout the interwar period drove Kosovar Albanians during the Second World War to collaborate with the Axis powers who promised a Greater Albania. [48]
The Kingdom of Serbia occupied most of the Albanian-inhabited lands including Albania's Adriatic coast. Serbian Gen. Božidar Janković was the Commander of the Serbian Third Army during the military campaign in Albania. The Serbian army met with strong Albanian guerrilla resistance, led by Isa Boletini, Azem Galica and other