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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.
The Pastasel massacre was a mass execution of 106 Kosovo Albanian civilians during the Kosovo war, which took place on 31 March 1999.Serbian forces surrounded the village and upon entering they expelled the women to Albania whilst they gathered the males and summarily executed them.
The massacres marked the beginning of the Kosovo War. After 28 February 1998, the fighting become an armed conflict. [2] Once armed conflict broke out, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) became involved. On March 10 the ICTY proclaimed that its "jurisdiction covers the recent violence in Kosovo". [2]
The Podujevo massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Podujevës; Serbian: Masakr u Podujevu) is the name generally used to refer to the killing of 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, mostly women and children, committed in March 1999 by the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary organisation in conjunction with the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit of Serbia, during the Kosovo War.
The Krusha massacres (Albanian: Masakra e Krushës së Madhe dhe Krushës së Vogël, Serbian: Масакр у Великој и Малој Круши, romanized: Masakr u Velikoj i Maloj Kruši) near Rahovec, Kosovo, were two massacres that took place during the Kosovo War on the afternoon of 25 March 1999, the day after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia began.
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Slobodan Milošević was indicted by the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for crimes against humanity in Kosovo. Charges of violating the laws or customs of war, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions in Croatia and Bosnia and genocide in Bosnia were added a year and a half later.
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict between Serbia and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from 1998 to 1999, which ended with NATO intervention. The war resulted in the displacement and death of thousands of civilians, mostly Albanians, but also Serbs and other ethnic groups.
Meja is a small, predominantly Catholic, village in Kosovo, located a few kilometers northwest of the town of Gjakova.On 21 April, a week before the massacre, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed a Serb police vehicle near the centre of Meja, killing five policemen and one officer. [8]