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  2. War crimes in the Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    Widespread rape and sexual violence occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women. In 2000, Human Rights Watch documented 96 cases while adding that "it is likely that the number is much higher". Years after the war, the figure put forward for the number of rape victims was 10,000–20,000.

  3. Women in Kosovo - Wikipedia

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    Women in Kosovo are women who live in or are from the Republic of Kosovo. As citizens of a post-war nation, some Kosovar (or Kosovan) women have become participants in the process of peace-building and establishing pro-gender equality in Kosovo's rehabilitation process. [1] Women in Kosovo have also become active in politics and law enforcement ...

  4. Pastasel massacre - Wikipedia

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    Pastasel massacre. The Pastasel massacre was a mass execution of 106 Kosovo Albanian civilians during the Kosovo war, which took place on 31 March 1999. Serbian forces surrounded the village and upon entering they expelled the women to Albania whilst they gathered the males and summarily executed them. The victims were mostly above the age of ...

  5. Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars - Wikipedia

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    Leon Trotsky and Leo Freundlich estimated that about 25,000 Albanians died in the Kosovo Vilayet by early 1913. Serbian journalist Kosta Novaković, who was a Serbian soldier during the Balkan wars, reported that over 120,000 Albanians were killed in Kosovo and Macedonia, and at least 50,000 were expelled to the Ottoman Empire and Albania.

  6. Kosovo inaugurates 'Wall of Honor' statue for 23 Albanians ...

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    A statue bearing the names of 23 Kosovo Albanians who rescued Jews from the Holocaust during World War II was inaugurated Wednesday in the capital, Pristina. The “Wall of Honor” statue was ...

  7. Drenica massacres - Wikipedia

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    83 civilians dead, including at least 24 women and children in the villages of Ćirez, Likoshan, and Prekaz [1] Perpetrators. FR Yugoslavia security forces. The Drenica massacres ( Serbian: Масакри у Дреници, Masakri u Drenici, Albanian: Masakra në Drenicë) were a series of killings of Kosovo Albanian civilians committed by ...

  8. Kosovo War - Wikipedia

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    The Kosovo War ( Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës, Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [56] [57] [58] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the ...

  9. Meja massacre - Wikipedia

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    Yugoslav security forces and Serbian police. The Meja massacre ( Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 [2] [3] Kosovo Albanian civilians during the Kosovo War, which took place on 27 April 1999. Of the victims, 36 were under 18 years old. It was committed by Serbian police and Yugoslav Army forces in the Reka ...