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Albania at War, 1939-1945. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. ISBN 978-1-85065-531-2. Frei, Norbert (2006). Transnationale Vergangenheitspolitik: der Umgang mit deutschen Kriegsverbrechern in Europa nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg [Past International Policy: Associations with German War Crimes in Europe after the Second World War (in German). Wallstein Verlag.
According to legal experts, as of early 2008, 45 Serbs, 12 Croats and 4 Bosniaks were convicted of war crimes by the ICTY in connection with the Balkan wars of the 1990s. [23] Both Serbs and Croats were indicted and convicted of systematic war crimes (joint criminal enterprise), while
Hashim Thaçi (Albanian pronunciation: [hä'ʃɪm 'θɑ:t͡ɕɪ] ⓘ; born 24 April 1968) is a Kosovar Albanian politician who was the president of Kosovo from April 2016 until his resignation on 5 November 2020 to face a war crimes tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity.
The fall of communism in Albania, the last such event in Europe outside the Soviet Union, started in December 1990 with student demonstrations in the capital, Tirana, although protests started in January that year in other cities like Shkodra and Kavaja. [1]
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...
The Holocaust in Albania consisted of crimes committed against Jews in Albania while Albania was under Italian and German occupation during World War II.Throughout the war, nearly 2,000 Jews sought refuge in Albania-proper.
The vast majority of the Catholic clergy in Croatia supported the Ustaše at the moment they succeeded in forming Independent State of Croatia; but later when it was clear the Allies would win, the Catholic hierarchy tried to distance the Church from the regime which involved itself in various abuses and war crimes. [147]
Thopia recaptures capital of Durrës and reestablished the Princedom of Albania. Albanian-Epirote War of 1385 [8] Despotate of Arta: Despotate of Epirus: Ceasefire. Albanians besiege Ioannina. Shpata withdraws due to strong city defences. The two sides later negotiate peace. Albanian-Epirote War of 1389–90 [9] Despotate of Arta (all four battles)