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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".
Due to the involvement of the United States armed forces, a separate US military decoration, known as the Kosovo Campaign Medal, was established by President Bill Clinton in 2000. The Kosovo Campaign Medal (KCM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces established by Executive Order 13154 of President Bill Clinton on 3 May 2000 ...
Those buried include Kosovo Serbs and possibly Kosovo Albanians sometime around July 1999. [1] [2] At the time, it was the only case which involved in the Kosovo war crimes tribunal the investigation of a crime against civilians which was possibly committed by Albanians against Serbs. No perpetrators have been found.
During the early stages of the Kosovo War, Salih Mustafa formed a special guerilla unit within the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) known as Skifterat also recognized as the Guerrilla BIA , which name "BIA" is an acronym formed from the initials of Bahri Fazliu, Ilir Konushevci, and Agron Rrahmani, who were deployed in the Operational Zone Llap and Gollak, including the village of Zllash, with an ...
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.
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 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.
Podujevo massacre Location Podujevë, Kosovo, Yugoslavia Date 28 March 1999 (Central European Time) Target Kosovo Albanians Attack type Massacre Deaths 14 civilians, including women, children and the elderly Injured 5 Perpetrators Special Anti-Terrorism Unit, Scorpions The Podujevo massacre is the name generally used to refer to the killing of 14 Kosovo Albanian civilians, mostly women and ...