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Račak massacre (or "Operation Račak") on 15 January 1999 – 45 Albanians were rounded up and killed by Serbian special forces. The first forensic report, by a joint Yugoslavian and Belarusian team, concluded that those killed were not civilians. The massacre provoked a shift in Western policy towards the war.
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. [56] [57] [58] 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 ...
Pages in category "Civilian casualties in the Kosovo War". The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Civilian casualties during Operation Allied Force.
Killed months prior, the bodies were concealed by the KFOR. Klokot killings: 16 August 1999 Klokot: 2 Albanian extremists Serbian civilians On 16 August 1999, after the Kosovo War, a mortar attack carried out by Albanians killed two Serb civilians and wounded five others in the village. There had earlier that month been two mortar attacks.
During World War II, the region of Kosovo was split into three occupational zones: Italian, German, and Bulgarian. Partisans from Albania and Yugoslavia led the fight for Kosovo's independence from the invader and his allies. [1] During occupation by Axis powers, Bulgarian and Albanian collaborators killed thousands of Kosovo Serbs and ...
By the end of the war, the Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 to 2,131 combatants. 10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians.
The following is a list of massacres and mass executions that occurred in Yugoslavia during World War II. Areas once part of Yugoslavia that are now parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Serbia, Slovenia, North Macedonia, and Montenegro; see the lists of massacres in those countries for more details.
8 May: Yugoslav Police attack a civilian van in Dečan. 1 civilian dead and 4 civilians injured. 25 May and 1 April: Ljubenić massacres. 1-3 June: Dečan operation Victory for the MUP and the JSO,clearing of most of southwestern Kosovo from KLA units. 15 June: 2 Yugoslav policemen killed and 7 wounded in a KLA ambush.