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On 25 September, the body of another Serb militant was found by Kosovar authorities, initially reported as the fourth attacker. Kosovo officials later clarified that this report was inaccurate and that it was the third attacker. [19] On 26 September, photos were released showing the bodies of two Serb militants inside a police vehicle. [73]
The Krusha massacres (Albanian: Masakra e Krushës së Madhe dhe Krushës së Vogël, Serbian: Масакр у Великој и Малој Круши, romanized: Masakr u Velikoj i Maloj Kruši) were two massacres that took place during the Kosovo War on the afternoon of 25 March 1999, the day after the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia began, near Rahovec, Kosovo.
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 ...
A battle between police and armed men holed up in a monastery turned a quiet village in northern Kosovo into a war zone, residents and police said on Wednesday, in the first accounts at the scene ...
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked.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.
In May 2001, the Serbian government announced that 86 bodies of Kosovo Albanians were thrown into the river Danube during the Kosovo War. [34] After four months of excavations, Serbian forensic-experts located at least seven mass graves and some 430 bodies (including the corpses of women and children) in Central Serbia. [89]
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Clinton talks on the phone about the Kosovo War. On 9 June 1998, US President Bill Clinton declared a "national emergency" (state of emergency) due to the "unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States" imposed by Yugoslavia and Serbia over the Kosovo War. [175]