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The unification of Albania and Kosovo is a political idea, revived before and after Kosovo declared independence in 2008. [2] This idea has been connected to the irredentist concept of Greater Albania. [3] [4] [5] As of the 2021 estimate, approximately 97% of Kosovars are ethnic Albanians. [6]
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 ...
Cemetery of Albanians killed by Serbs during the Kosovo war in Gjakova KLA representatives met with American, British, and Swiss intelligence agencies in 1996, [23] [27] and possibly "several years earlier" [27] and according to The Sunday Times , "American intelligence agents have admitted they helped to train the Kosovo Liberation Army before ...
Destruction of Albanian heritage in Kosovo. Damaged and destroyed Islamic monuments during the Kosovo conflict (1998-1999) The architectural heritage of the Kosovo Albanians during Yugoslav rule was shown institutionalised disregard for decades prior to outright conflict at the end of the 20th century. [1] [2] Numerous Albanian cultural sites ...
The massacres of Albanians in World War I were a series of war crimes committed by Serbian, Montenegrin, Greek and Bulgarian troops against the Albanian civil population of Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo during and immediately before the Great War. These atrocities followed the previous massacres committed during the Balkan Wars.
Shots fired from Albanian village on the Serb enclave kills two, an adult and a child, and wounding four. 2004 unrest in Kosovo: 17-18 March 2004 Kosovo 16 Albanians Serbian civilians On 17 and 18 March 2004, a wave of violent riots swept through Kosovo, 16 Serbs and 11 Albanians were killed during the unrest.
During the Kosovo war (March–June 1999), Serb forces expelled between 800,000 and 1,000,000 Albanians from Kosovo employing tactics such as confiscating personal documents to make it difficult or prevent any future return. Kosovo Albanians later returned following NATO intervention and the end of the war.
Yugoslav victory. 28 February: Serbian police killed 14 Albanians of the Ahmeti family. 5 March: 4 Yugoslav policemen killed in an ambush by KLA in Prekaz. 5–7 March: Attack on Prekaz. Yugoslav victory. 28 militants and 30 civilians killed by VJ. 7-10 March: Battle of Llapushnik KLA victory.