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The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or the UÇK) has also been implicated in atrocities, such as kidnappings and summary executions of civilians. [3] Moreover, the NATO bombing campaign has been harshly criticized by human rights organizations and the Serbian government for causing roughly 500 civilian casualties. [4] [5]
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 ...
By the end of the war, the Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 [37] to 2,131 combatants. [38] 10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. [39] The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. It destroyed or damaged bridges, industrial plants ...
Civilian casualty ratio. In armed conflicts, the civilian casualty ratio (also civilian death ratio, civilian-combatant ratio, etc.) is the ratio of civilian casualties to combatant casualties, or total casualties. The measurement can apply either to casualties inflicted by or to a particular belligerent, casualties inflicted in one aspect or ...
Many human rights groups criticised civilian casualties resulting from military actions of NATO forces in Operation Allied Force. Both Serbs and Albanians were killed in 90 Human Rights Watch -confirmed incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. It reported that as few as 489 and as many as 528 Yugoslav civilians were killed in the NATO airstrikes. Kenneth Roth, the ...
Timeline of the Kosovo War. Abbreviations: ... 8 May: Yugoslav Police attack a civilian van in Dečan. 1 civilian dead and 4 civilians injured. 25 May and 1 April: ...
World War I Event Date Location Deaths Perpetrator Victims Description Astrazubi massacre 1914 Malisheva 227 Serbian army Albanians 90% of the houses in Astrazubi were destroyed. [16] Peja massacres 1914 Peja Serbian army Albanians 25 civilians were killed each day. [17] Lubishtë massacre 1914 Lubishtë 104 Serbian army Albanians [18] Julekar massacre 1914 Viti 24 Serbian army Albanians [18 ...
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.