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In December 2008 Serbian police arrested ten former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), in an Albanian-populated area bordering Kosovo. Serbia's war crimes prosecution office stated that it had evidence that the ten KLA members had killed 51 people and kidnapped 159 civilians in Kosovo between June and October 1999. [11]
During this period, a Kosovo Albanian irredentist organization that came to be known as the Kosovo Liberation Army first emerged. [14] From 1991 to 1992, Jashari and about 100 other ethnic Albanians wishing to fight for the secession of Kosovo from Yugoslavia underwent military training in the municipality of Labinot-Mal in Albania. [16]
Kosovo Albanian Roman Catholic Bishop and philosopher Pjetër Bogdani returned to the Balkans in March 1686 and spent the next years promoting resistance to the armies of the Ottoman Empire, in particular in his native Kosovo. He and his vicar Toma Raspasani played a leading role in the pro-Austrian movement in Kosovo during the Great Turkish ...
Kosovo was part of the Ottoman Empire from 1455 to 1912, originally as part of the eyalet of Rumelia, and from 1864 as a separate Kosovo Vilayet.. During this period several administrative districts (known as sanjaks ("banners" or districts) each ruled by a sanjakbey (roughly equivalent to "district lord") have included parts of the territory as parts of their territories.
Albania–Yugoslavia relations (Albanian: Marrëdhëniet Shqipëri-Jugosllavi; Serbo-Croatian: Albansko-jugoslavenski odnosi, Албанско-југословенски односи; Slovene: Odnosi med Albanijo in Jugoslavijo; Macedonian: Односите Албанија-Југославија) were historical foreign relations between Albania (both Kingdom of Albania 1928-1939 and the ...
Reports of sexual violence during the Bosnian War (1992–1995) and Kosovo War (1998–1999) perpetrated by the Serbian regular and irregular forces have been described as "especially alarming". [141] The NATO-led Kosovo Force documented rapes of Albanian, Roma and Serbian women by both Serbs and members of the Kosovo Liberation Army. [146]
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.
As citizens of a post-war nation, some Kosovar (or Kosovan) women have become participants in the process of peace-building and establishing pro-gender equality in Kosovo's rehabilitation process. [1] Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement in the Republic of Kosovo. An example of which is the election of Atifete ...