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The Hunt: Me and the War Criminals (Italian: La caccia: Io e i criminali di guerra) is a book written by Carla Del Ponte, published in April 2008.According to Del Ponte she received information saying about 300 Serbs were kidnapped and transferred to Albania in 1999 where their organs were extracted. [1]
Siege of Sarajevo; Part of the Bosnian War and the Yugoslav Wars: Clockwise from top left: Crashed civilian vehicle after being fired upon with small arms; UNPROFOR forces in the city; Government building hit by tank shelling; U.S. airstrike on VRS positions; Overview of the city in 1996; VRS soldiers before a prisoner exchange.
On May 12, to mourn the deaths of the bombing victims, American flags were ordered to be lowered to half-staff at U.S. diplomatic missions in mainland China and Hong Kong. The photo above shows the lowered American flag at the American consulate in Hong Kong. [35] "The lives of those killed and injured was secondary to the escalating tensions ...
The 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and Insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year.
War crimes witnesses to the Kosovo War (1998–99) have been victims to threats, violence, and murder.Those who spoke out about the abuses of their side in the conflict were seen as traitors to their community, and therefore, only a few became witnesses in war crime trials.
The head of the ICTY Demographic Unit, Ewa Tabeu, has called it "the largest existing database on Bosnian war victims". [83] [84] More than 240 000 pieces of data were collected, processed, checked, compared and evaluated by an international team of experts to tabulate the names of the victims. According to the RDC, 82% or 33,071 of the ...
During the Kosovo War, the Clinton administration and NATO officials were accused of inflating the number of Kosovar Albanians killed by Serbs [101] to justify US involvement in the conflict. [102] US President Bill Clinton compared the events of Kosovo to The Holocaust and the persecution of Jews during World War II. [103]
In addition, Singal took a more nuanced stance on the Kosovo War than many of the book's critics, who saw Albanians merely as victims of the conflict. He observed that while the opposing Serbian forces had perpetrated the majority of wartime atrocities, the KLA had also murdered civilians and committed other war crimes.