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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. [ 59 ][ 60 ][ 61 ] 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 ...
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999. The bombings continued until an agreement was reached that led to the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army from ...
In 1992–1993, ethnic Albanians created the KLA [7] which started attacking Yugoslavian police forces and secret-service officials who abused Albanian civilians in 1995. [8] Starting in 1998, the KLA was involved in frontal battle, with increasing numbers of Yugoslav security forces. Escalating tensions led to the Kosovo War in February 1998.
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.
Contents. 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.
Serbian civilians. More than 100 Serbian and Roma civilians from Orahovac and its surrounding villages - Retimlje, Opterusa, Zočište and Velika Hoca - in western Kosovo were kidnapped and placed in prison camps by KLA fighters; 47 were massacred. Lake Radonjić massacre. Before 9 September 1998.
2 Kosovo Albanian civilians killed, 6 wounded and c. 8,000 displaced. The Battle of Belaćevac Mine [a] was a week-long clash between the Yugoslav Army (VJ), Serbian police (MUP) and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in June 1998, during the Kosovo War. It was fought over the Belaćevac coal mine, which powered two generating stations that ...
2 Serbian police officers were killed in an ambush by Albanians in the town of Drenas, Kosovo. [4] 27 October A Serbian police inspector and a Serbian policeman were killed by the KLA in an ambush in the village of Surkish in Podujevo. [5] 21 April: Kosovo Albanian student Armend Daci was shot by a Serb civilian sniper in Sunny Hill, Prishtina ...