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Human Rights Watch estimate: 489–528 civilians killed (60% of whom were in Kosovo) [27] Yugoslav estimate: 1,200–2,000 civilians killed [27] and about 6,000 civilians wounded [28]
Kosovo on Wednesday celebrated what it considers a liberation day, marking the 25th anniversary of the withdrawal of Serb forces. During the 1998-1999 war with ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation ...
Yugoslav Wars; Part of the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's Army during the siege of Dubrovnik ...
On December 14, 1998, the Yugoslav Army (VJ) ambushed a group of 140 Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) militants attempting to smuggle weapons and supplies from their base in Albania into the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. A five-hour battle ensued, ending with the deaths of 36 militants and the capture of a further nine.
He is a former officer and leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), and previously served as Prime Minister of Kosovo between 2004 and 2005. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Haradinaj was the KLA's commander for western Kosovo. [1]
In 1992–1993, ethnic Albanians created the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) [1] which started attacking police forces and secret-service officials who abused Albanian civilians in 1995. [2] Starting in 1998, the KLA was involved in frontal battle, with increasing numbers of Yugoslav security forces.
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked. Soon after, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was formed to fight the Yugoslav establishment. After a string of minor attacks, the KLA's mission became much more aggressive, which led to them claiming areas that were key to Serbia's fuel-supply, near the town of Orahovac.
Kosovo: KLA Veteran Under Investigation, IWPR, 1 December 2001. Gani Imeri, a former commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA, has become the first of the now disbanded organisation's veterans to be arrested on suspicion of involvement in serious crimes against Kosovo Serb civilians during and after the war.