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A sustained air campaign targeting infrastructure in Serbia and Serbian forces in Kosovo with the aim of getting the 'Serbs out [of Kosovo], peacekeepers in, refugees back' in the eyes of one NATO spokesman. The bombing lasted for nearly 3 months before all sides accepted the Kumanovo Treaty which ended the Kosovo War and the deployment of KFOR.
Date Event 11 March: 1981 protests in Kosovo: Student protest starts at the University of Pristina: 1 April: Between 5,000 and 25,000 demonstrators of Albanian nationality call for SAP Kosovo to become a constituent republic inside Yugoslavia, as opposed to an autonomous province of Serbia.
In post-war Kosovo, distinguishing between crimes as such and ethnically motivated crimes is difficult. [30] Because of that, there are no reliable figures concerning inter-ethnic crime. [30] Another major problem in exploring these crimes is the inconsistency between UNMIK data and the Kosovo Police. [30]
In 2010, Swiss politician Dick Marty authored a Council of Europe-report in which he noted war crimes had been committed by the KLA. Partly based on that report, the prosecutor of the Special Investigative Taskforce (SITF) of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX Kosovo) concluded sufficient evidence existed for prosecution of "war crimes, crimes against humanity as well as ...
Escalating tensions led to the Kosovo War in February 1998. [17] [18] [19] After the end of the Kosovo War in 1999 with the signing of the Kumanovo agreement, [20] a 5-kilometre-wide Ground Safety Zone (GSZ) was created. It served as a buffer zone between the Yugoslav Army and the Kosovo Force (KFOR).
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 ...
Following the conflict, Haradinaj went into politics but soon resigned after becoming one of the KLA commanders charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with war crimes and crimes against humanity against Serbs, Romani and Albanians between March and September 1998 during the Kosovo War.
Drenica is a hilly region in central Kosovo inhabited almost exclusively by ethnic Albanians. [1] The inhabitants of the region have a long tradition of strong resistance to outside powers, dating back to Ottoman rule in the Balkans. [1]