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During the war, regime forces killed between 7,000–9,000 Kosovar Albanians, [ 1 ] engaged in countless acts of rape, [ 2 ] destroyed entire villages, and displaced nearly one million people. [ 1 ] The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or the UÇK) has also been implicated in atrocities, such as kidnappings and summary executions of civilians. [ 3 ]
Klečka killings. The Klečka killings were the mass murder of 22 Kosovo Serb civilians, including children, allegedly by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) over a period of several days in July 1998, during the Kosovo War. After the killings, it was alleged that members of the KLA attempted to dispose of the massacre-victims by ...
By the end of the war, the Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 [ 37 ] to 2,131 combatants. [ 38 ] 10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. [ 39 ] The NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. It destroyed or damaged bridges, industrial plants ...
At least 30 gunmen killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off gunbattles that left three assailants dead and ...
Appeals judges at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague confirmed on Thursday the conviction of a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a torture prison during Kosovo's 1998 ...
The Izbica massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Izbicës; Serbian: Pokolj u Izbici) was one of the largest massacres of the Kosovo War. [1][3][4] Following the war, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) found that the massacre resulted in the deaths of about 93 Kosovar Albanians, mostly male non-combatant civilians between the ages of 60 and 70.
Kosovo announced the indictment of 45 suspects on terrorism charges on Wednesday, almost a year after ethnic Serb gunmen stormed a north Kosovo village and battled police in a shootout that left ...
Gnjilane killings ... The Gnjilane killings was the abduction, torture and mass murder of Kosovo Serb civilians in the town of Gjilan by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army's (KLA) Gnjilane group from June to October 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War.