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The massacres of Albanians in World War I were a series of war crimes committed by Serbian, Montenegrin, Greek and Bulgarian troops against the Albanian civil population of Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo during and immediately before the Great War. These atrocities followed the previous massacres committed during the Balkan Wars.
In April 2014, the Assembly of Kosovo considered and approved the establishment of a special court of Kosovo to try alleged war crimes and other serious abuses committed during and after the 1998–99 Kosovo war. The court will adjudicate cases against individuals based on a 2010 Council of Europe report by the Swiss senator Dick Marty.
The Serbian government has denied reports on war crimes. [better source needed] After this war, Kosovo was part of the Kingdom of Serbia. [better source needed] These events have greatly contributed to the growth of the Serbian-Albanian conflict. Campaign within Albanian declared territory Serbian conquest 1912–1913.
In Albania and Kosovo, this understanding of the Balkan Wars is part of the educational curriculum. In 1998–99, war crimes similar to those in 1912 against the Albanian population were committed. These events have deeply affected Albania–Serbia relations. See also. Albania during the Balkan Wars; Anti-Albanian sentiment
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During World War I (1914–1918), belligerents from both the Allied Powers and Central Powers violated international criminal law, committing numerous war crimes. This includes the use of indiscriminate violence and massacres against civilians, torture, sexual violence, forced deportation and population transfer, death marches, the use of ...
war crimes: firing squad Kosovo: 20 November 1987 (as a province of Yugoslavia) Ahmet Paqarizi: murder firing squad Latvia: 26 January 1996: Rolands Laceklis-Bertmanis: murder: single firearm Liechtenstein: 26 February 1785: Barbara Erni: theft: public beheading Lithuania: 12 July 1995: Boris Dekanidze: murder: single firearm Luxembourg
War crimes witnesses to the Kosovo War (1998–99) have been victims to threats, violence, and murder. Those who spoke out about the abuses of their side in the conflict were seen as traitors to their community, and therefore, only a few became witnesses in war crime trials. [1] The international institutions ICTY, UNMIK and EULEX, and national ...