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According to Professor Dr. Katrin Boeckh, the numerous atrocities by Serbian troops against Albanians was the first ethnic cleansing campaign committed in Europe during the 20th century. [ 163 ] [ 161 ] The Carnegie commission stated that the goal of the violence was "the entire transformation of the ethnic character of regions inhabited ...
The Meja massacre (Albanian: Masakra e Mejës) was the mass execution of at least 377 Albanian Muslim and Catholic civilians during the Kosovo War with the purpose of ethnic cleansing, which took place on 27 April 1999.
[219]: 82 For the 1999–2006 period, the European Roma Rights Centre documented numerous crimes perpetrated by Kosovo's ethnic Albanians with the purpose to purge the region of its Romani population along with other non-Albanian ethnic communities. These crimes included murder, abduction and illegal detention, torture, rape, arson ...
In a press conference on 6 April 1999, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer stated that the German government had information that the Yugoslav government had been planning a massive ethnic cleansing operation in Kosovo codenamed "Horseshoe" since 26 February 1999 and had started to implement the operation in March 1999 before the peace talks in France had concluded.
Ethnic cleansing was prevalent during the Age of Nationalism in Europe (19th and 20th centuries). [50] [51] Multi-ethnic European engaged in ethnic cleansing against minorities in order to pre-empt their secession and the loss of territory. [50] Ethnic cleansing was particularly prevalent during periods of interstate war. [50]
[14] [17] [18] The bloodshed, ethnic cleansing of thousands of Albanians driving them into neighbouring countries and the potential of it to destabilize the region provoked intervention by international organizations and agencies, such as the United Nations, NATO and INGOs.
Between 1912 and 1915, 132 Albanian villages were razed to the ground. [5] [6] Many Albanians in the region of Kičevo were killed by Bulgarian forces between 1915-1918. [7] In 1916, many Albanians in Štrpce and Načallnik starved to death or became sick as a result of Bulgarian soldiers seizing the villagers' wheat, which led to a man-made ...
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 ...