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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]
Killed months prior, the bodies were concealed by the KFOR. [74] Klokot killings: 16 August 1999 Klokot: 2 Albanian extremists Serbian civilians On 16 August 1999, after the Kosovo War, a mortar attack carried out by Albanians killed two Serb civilians and wounded five others in the village. There had earlier that month been two mortar attacks ...
t. e. Many human rights groups criticised civilian casualties resulting from military actions of NATO forces in Operation Allied Force. Both Serbs and Albanians were killed in 90 Human Rights Watch -confirmed incidents in which civilians died as a result of NATO bombing. It reported that as few as 489 and as many as 528 Yugoslav civilians were ...
Between 278 and 317 of the deaths, nearly 60 percent of the total number, were in Kosovo. In Serbia, 201 civilians were killed (five in Vojvodina) and eight died in Montenegro. Almost two-thirds (303 to 352) of the total registered civilian deaths occurred in twelve incidents where ten or more civilian deaths were confirmed. [149]
According to the updated 2015 Kosovo Memory Book, 13,535 people were killed or missing due to the Kosovo conflict, from 1 January 1998 up until December 2000. Of these, 10,812 were Albanians, 2,197 Serbs and 526 Roma, Bosniaks, Montenegrins and others. 10,317 civilians were killed or went missing, of whom 8,676 were Albanians, 1,196 Serbs and ...
The Meja massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War with the purpose of ethnic cleansing, which took place on 27 April 1999. [2][3] The vast majority of the victims were Catholic Albanians. It was committed by Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces in the Reka Operation ...
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 incinerating their ...
By share, 65% of the killed were Bosniaks, 25% Serbs, and 8% Croats. [158] In the Kosovo conflict, 13,535 people were killed, including 10,812 Albanians (80%) and 2,197 Serbs (16%). [159] The highest death toll was in Sarajevo: with around 14,000 killed during the siege, [160] the city lost almost as many people as the entire war in Kosovo.