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It is dedicated to the female victims of sexual violence during the Kosovo War Widespread rape and sexual violence occurred during the conflict and the majority of victims were Kosovo Albanian women. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] In 2000, Human Rights Watch documented 96 cases while adding that "it is likely that the number is much higher".
The killings occurred after Yugoslav troops withdrew from the region in the aftermath of the Kosovo War. [72] Ugljare massacre: Before August 1999 Ugljare 15 KLA Serbs KFOR reports on 25 August 1999 the finding of 15 bodies of killed Serbs. [73] Killed months prior, the bodies were concealed by the KFOR. [74] Klokot killings: 16 August 1999 ...
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 Zhegër incident was a clash between U.S. Marines from the Kosovo Force (KFOR) and armed Serbs in the village of Zhegër on June 23, 1999, during NATO's peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, known as Operation Joint Guardian.
After the war, ICTY forensic teams discovered 98 bodies in Gornja Sudimlja. [2] The Vushtrri case was raised at the trial of Serbian police general Vlastimir Đorđević. [3] The indictment against Đorđević says that some 105 Kosovo Albanians [who?] were killed in the massacre near the village of Sudimlje on 2 May 1999. [4]
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked. [3] Soon after, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) was formed to fight the Yugoslav establishment. [4] After a string of minor attacks, the KLA's mission became much more aggressive, [5] which led to them claiming areas that were key to Serbia's fuel-supply, near the town of Orahovac.
A distraught model allegedly fatally shot her husband before turning the gun on herself in an apparent murder-suicide inside their luxury Florida high-rise that left his family “shattered.”
Serbia's War Crimes prosecutor has charged eight policemen for the massacre, including members of the 37th SPU of the Serbian MUP. Key witnesses of the Office of the Prosecutor are former police members who are able to describe in detail the murder of Albanian civilians and the removal of their bodies from Suharekë.