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The Izbica massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Izbicës; Serbian: Pokolj u Izbici) was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo War. Following the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found that the massacre resulted in the deaths of about 93 Kosovar Albanians, mostly male non-combatant civilians between the ages of 60 and 70.
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 ...
On May 12, to mourn the deaths of the bombing victims, American flags were ordered to be lowered to half-staff at U.S. diplomatic missions in mainland China and Hong Kong. The photo above shows the lowered American flag at the American consulate in Hong Kong. [35] "The lives of those killed and injured was secondary to the escalating tensions ...
In addition, Singal took a more nuanced stance on the Kosovo War than many of the book's critics, who saw Albanians merely as victims of the conflict. He observed that while the opposing Serbian forces had perpetrated the majority of wartime atrocities, the KLA had also murdered civilians and committed other war crimes.
Siege of Sarajevo; Part of the Bosnian War and the Yugoslav Wars: Clockwise from top left: Crashed civilian vehicle after being fired upon with small arms; UNPROFOR forces in the city; Government building hit by tank shelling; U.S. airstrike on VRS positions; Overview of the city in 1996; VRS soldiers before a prisoner exchange.
Ruins near Morinë in the White Drin valley, at the border between Albania and Kosovo. Morina was attacked on 23/24 May 1998 by the Yugoslav Army. [23]Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack date Operation Horseshoe's effective beginning to the summer of 1998, when hundreds of thousands of Kosovar Albanians were driven from their homes. [24]
In the aftermath of the 1998-1999 Kosovo war Rushiti mobilized a team of 45 health professionals from Kosovo, for post-war returnees and survivors of torture. After more than a decade of lobbying by women activists, including Feride Rushiti, survivors are entitled to compensation as victims of war.
The Ten-Day War (Slovene: desetdnevna vojna), or the Slovenian War of Independence (Slovene: slovenska osamosvojitvena vojna), [7] was a brief armed conflict that followed Slovenia's declaration of independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. [8]