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Crime in Kosovo. Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country. [1] Following the Kosovo War (1999), the region had become a significant center of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking and organ theft. There is also an ongoing ethnic conflict between Kosovar Albanians and Kosovan Serbs.
UNODC calculated a rate of 6.9 in 2010. [9] UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) reported a global average intentional homicide rate of 6.2 per 100,000 population for 2012 (in their report titled "Global Study on Homicide 2013"). [10] [11] In the 2019 edition, the global rate was estimated at 6.1 per 100,000 for 2017.
Demographics. North Kosovo consists of four municipalities, Leposavić, Zvečan, Zubin Potok and North Mitrovica. It covers 1,007 km 2 (389 sq. mi.), or 9.97% of Kosovo's land area. [35] Owing to its border with Serbia proper, North Kosovo is not, strictly speaking, a "Serb enclave " or "Serb exclave ".
It accuses Kosovo's central government of trampling on the rights of ethnic Serbs but denies accusations of whipping up strife within its neighbour's borders. Explainer-Why Kosovo's stand-off with ...
The Kosovo Police is the national policing law enforcement agency of Kosovo.It was established in 1999 and took its current form with the 2008 police law. It consists of five departments and eight regional directorates and is represented at the political level by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration of the Republic of Kosovo.
Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew this weekend after Kosovo’s police raided Serb-dominated areas in the region’s north and seized local municipality buildings. There have been ...
Ruins of a Kosovo Serb house in Prizren that was destroyed by rioters. On 17 and 18 March 2004, a wave of violent riots swept through Kosovo, triggered by two incidents perceived as ethnically motivated acts. Demonstrations, although seemingly spontaneous at the outset, quickly focused on Serbs throughout Kosovo.
War crimes in the Kosovo War. US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.