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Widespread rape and sexual violence by the Serbian army, police and paramilitaries occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women, [320] [321] numbering an estimated 20,000. [322] The crimes of rape by the Serb military, paramilitary and police amounted to crimes against humanity and a war crime of torture ...
It is dedicated to the female victims of sexual violence during the Kosovo War Widespread rape and sexual violence occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] In 2000, Human Rights Watch documented 96 cases while adding that "it is likely that the number is much higher".
Victims Description 1878 attacks: 1878 Kosovo vilayet: Albanian refugees Serbs Incoming Albanian refugees to Kosovo who were expelled by the Serb army from the Sanjak of Niș were involved in revenge attacks and hostile actions to the local Serb population. [1] 1898–1899 attacks: 1898-1899 Old Serbia: Albanians Serbs [2] 1901 massacres of ...
The Batajnica mass graves are mass graves that were found in 2001 near Batajnica, a suburb of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. The graves contained the bodies of 744 [ 1 ] Kosovar Albanians civilians that were killed during the Kosovo War. [ 2 ] The mass graves were found on the training grounds of the Yugoslav Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ ...
The Meja massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War with the purpose of ethnic cleansing, which took place on 27 April 1999. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The majority of the victims were Muslim Albanians, while the rest ascribed to the Catholic faith.
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 ...
During the war Yugoslav strike aircraft J-22 Oraos and G-4 Super Galebs performed some 20–30 combat missions against the KLA in Kosovo at treetop level [117] causing some casualties. During one of those missions on 25 March 1999, Lt. Colonel Života Ðurić was killed when his J-22 Orao hit a hill in Kosovo.
Attack on Prekaz. The Attack on Prekaz, also known as the Prekaz massacre, [12] was an operation led by the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Serbia which lasted from 5 to 7 March 1998, whose goal was to eliminate Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspects and their families. [13][14] During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz ...