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Almost 435,000 refugees had to leave Kosovo for Albania, according to the UNHCR. [7] Most of them arrived directly in Albania and some of them were transferred from Macedonia. [6]: 95 At the height of the Kosovo War, refugees were crossing the border into Albania at the rate of 4,000 people per hour. [8]
The NATO bombing of Albanian refugees near Gjakova occurred on 14 April 1999 during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, when NATO planes bombed refugees on a twelve-mile stretch of road between the towns of Gjakova and Deçan in western Kosovo. 73 Kosovo Albanian civilians were killed. [1] [2] Among the victims were 16 children.
The primary purpose of the operation was to supply the Refugee camp around the northern Albanian town of Kukës, near the border with Kosovo. The mountainous region in the northeast and Albania was deposited on the road is very difficult to achieve. About 50 volunteer army personnel were involved on site, a total of nearly 150 people.
The Stenkovec camps were a series of refugee camps established by NATO and UNHCR in April 1999 near Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, meant to accommodate the recent influx of Kosovar Albanian refugees fleeing oppression and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. [1] [2] The camps became infamous for their poor conditions, for instance the reported police ...
Serbian Television claimed that huge columns of refugees were fleeing Kosovo because of NATO's bombing, not Yugoslav military operations. [108] [109] The Yugoslav side and its Western supporters claimed the refugee outflows were caused by a mass panic in the Kosovo Albanian population, and that the exodus was generated principally by fear of ...
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 ...
On April 14, during daylight hours, NATO aircraft repeatedly bombed Albanian refugee movements over a twelve-mile (19 km) stretch of road between Gjakova and Dečani in western Kosovo, killing 73 civilians and injuring 36 others.
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. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ] It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and ...