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Attack type. Mass killing. Deaths. 48 [1] Perpetrators. Serbian law enforcement. The Suva Reka massacre ( Albanian: Masakra e Suharekës, Serbian: Masakr u Suvoj Reci) refers to the mass murder of Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by Serbian police officers on 26 March 1999 in Suva Reka, Kosovo, during the 1999 NATO bombings of Yugoslavia. [2]
On May 7, 1999, during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Operation Allied Force), five U.S. Joint Direct Attack Munition guided bombs hit the People's Republic of China embassy in Belgrade, killing three Chinese journalists and outraging the Chinese public. [2] According to the U.S. government, the intention had been to bomb the nearby Yugoslav ...
The Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA; Albanian: Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës [uʃˈtɾija t͡ʃliɾimˈtaɾɛ ɛ ˈkɔsɔvəs], UÇK) was an ethnic Albanian separatist militia that sought the separation of Kosovo, the vast majority of which is inhabited by Albanians, from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Serbia during the 1990s.
In 2010, Swiss politician Dick Marty authored a Council of Europe-report in which he noted war crimes had been committed by the KLA. Partly based on that report, the prosecutor of the Special Investigative Taskforce (SITF) of the European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo (EULEX Kosovo) concluded sufficient evidence existed for prosecution of "war crimes, crimes against humanity as well as ...
Stjepan Mesić on Belgrade's intentions in the war In August 1990, an unrecognized mono-ethnic referendum was held in regions with a substantial Serb population which would later become known as the Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK) (bordering western Bosnia and Herzegovina) on the question of Serb "sovereignty and autonomy" in Croatia. This was an attempt to counter changes made to the ...
12. Spanish–American War. 1898. 2,246. 9.6. 62,022,250. 0.004% (1890) "Deaths per day" is the total number of Americans killed in military service, divided by the number of days between the commencement and end of hostilities.
These included the Circassian genocide, which was the deadliest ethnic cleansing campaign of the 19th century. [16] Between 1.5 to 2 million Circassians were mass murdered, [17] and approximately 1.5 million Circassian natives were forcibly driven out of their homeland by the Russian imperial army during the 1860s.
23 September 1941 – 12 June 1944. Kruševac. 1,642. German war crime [12] Mačva massacres. 24 September – 9 October 1941. Mačva region. c. 6,000. Serbian civilians killed in reprisals during anti-Partisan operations led by German, Ustaše and Hungarian forces.