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In Albania and Kosovo, this understanding of the Balkan Wars is part of the educational curriculum. [211] In 1998–99, war crimes similar to those in 1912 against the Albanian population were committed. [166] These events have deeply affected Albania–Serbia relations. [212]
The Bela Crkva massacre ( Albanian: Masakra e Bellacërkës) was the mass-killing of Kosovo Albanian villagers from Bellacërkë, Kosovo by Yugoslav armed forces on 24–25 March 1999. Twelve hours after NATO had started bombing strategic Yugoslav targets, Yugoslav armed forces came to the area around Bela Crkva, fired artillery, and set fire ...
W. War crimes in the Kosovo War. Categories: War crimes committed by country. Military history of Albania. Human rights abuses in Albania.
The 2001 insurgency in the Republic of Macedonia was an armed conflict which began when the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) insurgent group, formed from veterans of the Kosovo War and Insurgency in the Preševo Valley, attacked Macedonian security forces at the end of January 2001, and ended with the Ohrid Agreement, signed on 13 August of that same year.
The Lake Radonjić massacre or the Massacre at Lake Radonjić (Serbian: Масакр на Радоњићком језеру, Albanian: Masakra e Liqenit të Radoniqit) refers to the mass murder of at least 34 Kosovo Serb, Kosovo Albanian and Roma civilians near Lake Radonjić, by the village of Glodjane, in Kosovo, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on 9 September 1998.
Part of Balkan Wars. Date. 8 October 1912 - 21 February 1914. Location. Kosovo vilayet, Scutari vilayet, Janina vilayet, Manastir vilayet. Result. Albanian Declaration of Independence. Formation of the Provisional Government of Albania and the Independent State of Albania. Massacres of the Albanians from the Balkan League forces.
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, hospitals, schools, cultural monuments, and private businesses, as well as barracks and military installations.
The fall of communism in Albania, the last such event in Europe outside the Soviet Union, started in December 1990 with student demonstrations in the capital, Tirana, although protests started in January that year in other cities like Shkodra and Kavaja. [1] The Central Committee of the communist Party of Labour of Albania allowed political ...