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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.
The atrocities that took place constituted ethnic cleansing, [161] [2] [162] [163] however, some scholars, historians and Albanian political parties including PD, Besa and DUI also recognize the violence against Albanians as either a genocide or part of a larger genocide against Muslims during the Balkan Wars.
Kosovo: Ethnic Cleansing (Michigan State University) Human Rights Watch: Rape as a weapon of Ethnic Cleansing; Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo (Report released by the U.S. Department of State) ICTY: Indictment of Milutinović et al., "Kosovo", 5 September 2002; Human Right Watch Photo Gallery
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.
The "Trëndafilat e Çamërisë" Monumental Cemetery in Kllogjer, Konispol, dedicated to the expulsion of Cham Albanians during 1944–1945. [8]The expulsion of Cham Albanians from Greece was the forced migration and ethnic cleansing [3] of thousands of Cham Albanians from settlements of Chameria in Thesprotia, Greece - after the Second World War to Albania, at the hands of elements of the ...
The expulsion of the Albanian population from these regions was done in a manner that today could be classed as ethnic cleansing as the victims included civilians. [5] These Albanian refugees and their descendants became known in Albanian as Muhaxhir ; plural: Muhaxhirë , a generic word for Muslim refugees (borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ...
Independence for ethnic Albanian-majority Kosovo came in 2008, almost a decade after a guerrilla uprising against Serbian rule. However tensions persist mainly in the north where the Serb minority ...
[19] [20] 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, such as the United Nations, NATO and INGOs. [21] [22] NATO conducted a bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces and provided air ...