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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".
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
There were 48 victims of the Suva Reka massacre, including fourteen who were under 15 years old. Forty-six were members of the Berisha family - who were targeted because they had rented one of their homes to the OSCE observers in Suva Reke/Suharekë, who provided a sense of security to the local Albanians but withdrew from the area when NATO ...
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 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.
Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has warned that opening a bridge to traffic in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica without NATO's coordination risks a conflict between police and U.S. troops.
Kosovo is still not a member of United Nations and all arrest warrants for Interpol are handled through a UN mission that arrived in Kosovo in 1999 when the war ended. (Reporting by Fatos Bytyci ...
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 ...