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Kosovo 16 Albanians Serbian civilians On 17 and 18 March 2004, a wave of violent riots swept through Kosovo, 16 Serbs and 11 Albanians were killed during the unrest. Over 935 Serbian houses and 35 Churches were burned and destroyed. Over 4000 Serbs were expelled from Kosovo. Talinoc Killings: 6 July 2012 Talinoc i Muhaxhirëve: 2 Serbian civilians
During the armed conflict in 1998, the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police used excessive and random force, which resulted in property damage, the displacement of the population and the death of civilians. [19] Belgrade unleashed the alleged Operation Horseshoe in the summer of 1998, in which hundreds of thousands of Albanians were driven from ...
The Kosovo War (Albanian: Lufta e Kosovës; Serbian: Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. [ 59 ] [ 60 ] [ 61 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian ...
On 28 February 1998, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) ambushed a unit of the Serbian police near Likoshan, killing four and seriously wounding two policemen. This prompted large-scale police operations in the villages of Likoshan and Qirez in the following day, leading to the killing of 4 KLA members and 26 Kosovo Albanian civilians in both ...
[4] [5] The broader mission in Kosovo remained focused on ensuring the safety of returning refugees and maintaining the fragile peace between ethnic groups. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] U.S. brigadier general John Craddock, the commander of Task Force Falcon , which was responsible for the American sector in Kosovo, described the incident as part of a ...
In 1990, Kosovo's autonomy within Yugoslavia was revoked.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.
The Battle of Llapashtica was a key conflict in the Kosovo War between the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and Serbian forces. Serbian troops launched an offensive on the KLA base in Llapashtica, breaking a 2 month ceasefire. [1] Despite being outnumbered, the KLA used anti-tank weapons to inflict heavy damage on Serbian forces.
Pages in category "Civilian casualties in the Kosovo War" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .