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The massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars were perpetrated on several occasions by the Serbian and Montenegrin armies and paramilitaries during the conflicts that occurred in the region between 1912 and 1913. [1][2] During the 1912–13 First Balkan War, Serbia and Montenegro committed a number of war crimes against the Albanian population after expelling Ottoman Empire forces from present ...
The Drenica massacres (Serbian: Масакри у Дреници, Masakri u Drenici, Albanian: Masakra në Drenicë) were a series of killings of Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Serbian special police forces [a] in the Drenica region of central Kosovo. [2]
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. It was committed by Serbian police ...
[15] During the occupation, the Serbian army committed numerous crimes against the Albanian population "with a view to the entire transformation of the ethnic character of these regions." [11] The Serbian government denied reports of war crimes. [14]
The KLA received large funds from Albanian diaspora organizations. There have been allegations that it used narcoterrorism to finance its operations. [ 21 ][ 22 ] Abuses and war crimes were committed by the KLA during and after the conflict, such as massacres of civilians, prison camps and destruction of cultural heritage sites. [ 23 ] In April 2014, the Assembly of Kosovo considered and ...
Lake Radonjić massacre. The Lake Radonjić massacre or the Massacre at Lake Radonjić ( Serbian: Масакр на Радоњићком језеру, Albanian: Masakra e Liqenit të Radoniqit) refers to the mass murder of at least 34 Kosovo Serb, Kosovo Albanian and Roma civilians near Lake Radonjić, by the village of Glodjane, in Kosovo ...
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. [ 59 ][ 60 ][ 61 ] 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 Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the ...
War crimes in the Kosovo War. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Military history of Albania. Human rights abuses in Albania.