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Kosovo refugees in Albania refers to the mostly ethnic Albanians of Kosovo (at the time part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia) fleeing the Kosovo War into neighboring Albania in 1999. This crisis was exceptional at the time, as a movement of population this big in such a short period of time was unseen since WWII . [ 1 ]
The Stenkovec camps were a series of refugee camps established by NATO and UNHCR in April 1999 near Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, meant to accommodate the recent influx of Kosovar Albanian refugees fleeing oppression and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. [1] [2] The camps became infamous for their poor conditions, for instance the reported police ...
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. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian ...
The NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Gjakova occurred on 14 April 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when NATO planes bombed refugees on a twelve-mile stretch of road between the towns of Gjakova and Deçan in western Kosovo. 73 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed. [1] [2] Among the victims were 16 children.
[5] [6] Milosevic claimed that refugees who fled Mališevo could return safely, but the townspeople had no homes to return to, given that most of the houses were set on fire after the Serbian police crackdown on the Albanian militants but By November 11th, 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army had returned its presence in Malisheva.
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In Kosovo, a state-owned energy company plans to destroy a village to make way for expanded coal mining as the government and the World Bank plan for a proposed coal-burning power plant. The government has already forced roughly 1,000 residents from their homes. Many former residents claim officials violated World Bank policy requiring borrowers to restore their living conditions at equal or ...
[33] [34] The Yugoslav police had led the refugees to the depot promising them refuge and passage to Albania, although the survivors claimed that the police asked for money and made threats before escorting them. [33] After the bombing of Koriša, Yugoslav troops took TV crews to the scene shortly after the bombing. [35]