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Serbian military, paramilitary and police forces in Kosovo have committed a wide range of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other violations of international humanitarian and human rights law: forced expulsion of Kosovars from their homes; burning and looting of homes, schools, religious sites and healthcare facilities; detention, particularly of military-age men; summary execution ...
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.
An estimated twelve men killed in round-up, 29 men gathered into three houses and gunned down. [66] Unclear motive. [67] Bilbildere massacre: 16 May 1999 Prizren 2 Serbian paramillitaries Albanians 2 men were captured by Arkan's Tigers and were summarily executed. [68] Dubrava Prison massacre: 22–23 May 1999 Dubrava 79–82 Serbian prison guards
It can be done to prove one's body count in battle, [1] to boast of one's prowess and achievements to peers, [2] or as a status symbol of superior masculinity. [3] Serial killers' collection of their victims' body parts have also been described as a form of trophy-taking. [4]
The highest mortality rates were in men between 15 and 49 (5,421 victims of war) as well as for men over 50 (5,176 victims). For persons younger than 15, the estimates were 160 victims for males and 200 for females. [281] For women between 15 and 49 the estimate is that there were 510 victims; older than 50 years the estimate is 541 victims.
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 ...
The victims were pulled from refugee convoys at a checkpoint in Meja and their families were ordered to proceed to Albania. Men and boys were separated and then executed by the road. [6] [7] It is one of the largest massacres in the Kosovo War. [8] Many of the bodies of the victims were found in the Batajnica mass graves.
Appeals judges at the Kosovo tribunal in The Hague confirmed on Thursday the conviction of a former Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla commander who ran a torture prison during Kosovo's 1998 ...