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[[Image:Racak, Kosovo.jpg|thumb|Mass grave of [[Račak massacre|Račak victims]].]]
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Incomplete '''list of massacres by Yugoslav forces in the Kosovo War''', listed chronologically:
'''The [[Kosovo War]]''' (1998-1999) was a conflict fought between the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo with moderate Serbs and other Kosovar minorities such as [[Turks]], [[Roma]], [[Bosniaks]] and [[Gorani]] on one side, and nationalist Serbs residing in Kosovo backed by the Serbian invading military on the other side. The Serb army which had terrorized Kosovars was lead by [[Slobodan Milosevic]] who had occupied [[Kosovo]] in the break-up of Yugoslavia as part of him lifetime goal of creating a [[Greater Serbia]].

During that war, many war crimes and massacres were commited by the Serbs against innocent civilians. As part of a defence strategy, the [[KLA]] (formed to defend the non-Serbs from Serb aggression) also caused some unintended suffering and death, mostly in the form of colateral casualties. Here is a list of some of the barbaric acts commited by the Serbs, and incidents involving the KLA below that:

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Incomplete '''list of massacres by Yugoslav forces (Serbs) in the Kosovo War''', listed chronologically:
* February 28, 1998, [[Likoshane massacre]] — Serbian special police murdered several members of Ahmeti family.<ref>[http://www.b92.net/feedback/misljenja/kandic/kandic-e.php Natasa Kandic, The disturbing truth]</ref>
* February 28, 1998, [[Likoshane massacre]] — Serbian special police murdered several members of Ahmeti family.<ref>[http://www.b92.net/feedback/misljenja/kandic/kandic-e.php Natasa Kandic, The disturbing truth]</ref>
* February 28 and March 1, 1998, [[Cirez massacre]] — Serbian special police murdered several members of Sejdiu family.<ref>[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/kosovo/Kosovo-Massacres5.htm Drenica Region Massacres (Feb-March 1998)]</ref><ref>[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pbrooke/p&t/Balkans/milosevic/Prosecution/kosovo/0207 Milosevic trial]</ref>
* February 28 and March 1, 1998, [[Cirez massacre]] — Serbian special police murdered several members of Sejdiu family.<ref>[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/kosovo/Kosovo-Massacres5.htm Drenica Region Massacres (Feb-March 1998)]</ref><ref>[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pbrooke/p&t/Balkans/milosevic/Prosecution/kosovo/0207 Milosevic trial]</ref>
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Incomplete list of massacres by KLA:
'''Complete list of massacres by KLA''':
* 14 December 1998, [[Panda Bar incident]] - unidentified gunmen attacked Panda Bar caffe in Peć. 6 teenagers were killed and 15 people wounded. The killing of six young Serbs in an attack on the Panda coffee in Peć was considered to be in revenge for the killing of 30 KLA members few days earlier.<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/holhill2.htm Round-table discussion with representatives of the Serbian independent media, Belgrade, Serbia, December 15, 1998]</ref><ref>[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pbrooke/p&t/Balkans/dmonkosovo/200010 Kosovo: the road to war]</ref>
* 14 December 1998, [[Panda Bar incident]] - unidentified gunmen attacked Panda Bar caffe in Peć. 6 teenagers were killed and 15 people wounded. The killing of six people in an attack on the Panda coffee in Peć was considered to be in revenge for the killing of 30 ALbanian civilians a few days earlier.<ref>[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/holhill2.htm Round-table discussion with representatives of the Serbian independent media, Belgrade, Serbia, December 15, 1998]</ref><ref>[http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pbrooke/p&t/Balkans/dmonkosovo/200010 Kosovo: the road to war]</ref>
* September 1998, [[Lake Radonjic]] - the Serbian police collected 34 bodies of people believed to have been seized and murdered by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, at Lake Radonjic near Glodjane (Gllogjan)<ref>[http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/undword.htm Human Rights Watch report]</ref>
* September 1998, [[Lake Radonjic]] - a Serbian policeman collected 34 bodies of people believed to have been seized and murdered by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, at Lake Radonjic near Glodjane (Gllogjan)<ref>[http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/undword.htm Human Rights Watch report]</ref>
* 1999 - 2000, In 2008, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she alleged that, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs of between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania.[88] The ICTY and the Serbian War Crimes Tribunal are currently investigating these allegations, as numerous witnesses and new materials have recently emerged.<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120812796372611429.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Horrors Alleged in Kosovo]</ref><ref>[http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/04/16/01011-20080416FILWWW00481-trafic-d-organeskosovo-aucune-trace.php Trafic d'organes/Kosovo: "aucune trace"]</ref>
* 1999 - 2000, In 2008, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she alleged that, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs of between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania.[88] The ICTY and the Serbian War Crimes Tribunal are currently investigating these allegations, as numerous witnesses and new materials have recently emerged.<ref>[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120812796372611429.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Horrors Alleged in Kosovo]</ref><ref>[http://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2008/04/16/01011-20080416FILWWW00481-trafic-d-organeskosovo-aucune-trace.php Trafic d'organes/Kosovo: "aucune trace"]</ref>


Revision as of 22:15, 23 September 2010

File:Racak, Kosovo.jpg
Mass grave of Račak victims.

The Kosovo War (1998-1999) was a conflict fought between the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo with moderate Serbs and other Kosovar minorities such as Turks, Roma, Bosniaks and Gorani on one side, and nationalist Serbs residing in Kosovo backed by the Serbian invading military on the other side. The Serb army which had terrorized Kosovars was lead by Slobodan Milosevic who had occupied Kosovo in the break-up of Yugoslavia as part of him lifetime goal of creating a Greater Serbia.

During that war, many war crimes and massacres were commited by the Serbs against innocent civilians. As part of a defence strategy, the KLA (formed to defend the non-Serbs from Serb aggression) also caused some unintended suffering and death, mostly in the form of colateral casualties. Here is a list of some of the barbaric acts commited by the Serbs, and incidents involving the KLA below that:

Incomplete list of massacres by Yugoslav forces (Serbs) in the Kosovo War, listed chronologically:

  • February 28, 1998, Likoshane massacre — Serbian special police murdered several members of Ahmeti family.[1]
  • February 28 and March 1, 1998, Cirez massacre — Serbian special police murdered several members of Sejdiu family.[2][3]
  • May 25, 1998, Ljubenic massacre — Serbian forces extrajudicially executed at least eight men.[4]
  • September 26, 1998, Golubovac massacre - Serbian forces summarily killed thirteen men who were detained at a compound in the village of Golubovac.[5]
  • January 29, 1999, Rogovo massacre — Serbian police forces killed 24 Albanians, supposedly KLA members.[6][7][8]
  • March 25, 1999, Bela Crkva massacre — Serbian forces executed more than 60 ethnic Albanians in Bela Crkva, including twenty members of the Popaj family and twenty-five members of the Zhuniqi family.[9][10]
  • March 31, 1999, Ljubižda massacre — security forces reportedly executed 14 Kosovo civilians in the village of Ljubiñda, northwest of Prizren.[11]
  • March 31, 1999, Pusto Selo massacre — Serbian security forces, including paramilitaries, summarily executed 106 six ethnic Albanian men in Pusto Selo (Pastasel), a village near Orahovac.[12]
  • April 5, 1999, Rezala massacre — Serbian forces entered Albanian village and gunned down villagers.[13]
  • April 17, 1999, Poklek massacre — Serbian special police forced at least 47 people into one room and systematically gunned down. 23 children under the age of fifteen died in the attack.[13]
  • April 17, 1999, Ćikatovo massacre — Serbian forces killed twenty-four men from the Morina family.[13]
  • May 14, 1999, Cuska massacre — Serbian police and paramilitary gathered villagers into 3 houses, gunned them down with automatic weapons and burn them. 41 known victims.[14]
  • May 22, 1999, Dubrava Prison massacre — Serbian prison guards killed more than 70 Albanian prisoners.[15]


Complete list of massacres by KLA:

  • 14 December 1998, Panda Bar incident - unidentified gunmen attacked Panda Bar caffe in Peć. 6 teenagers were killed and 15 people wounded. The killing of six people in an attack on the Panda coffee in Peć was considered to be in revenge for the killing of 30 ALbanian civilians a few days earlier.[16][17]
  • September 1998, Lake Radonjic - a Serbian policeman collected 34 bodies of people believed to have been seized and murdered by the KLA, among them some ethnic Albanians, at Lake Radonjic near Glodjane (Gllogjan)[18]
  • 1999 - 2000, In 2008, Carla Del Ponte published a book in which she alleged that, after the end of the war in 1999, Kosovo Albanians were smuggling organs of between 100 and 300 Serbs and other minorities from the province to Albania.[88] The ICTY and the Serbian War Crimes Tribunal are currently investigating these allegations, as numerous witnesses and new materials have recently emerged.[19][20]


Reference

  1. ^ Natasa Kandic, The disturbing truth
  2. ^ Drenica Region Massacres (Feb-March 1998)
  3. ^ Milosevic trial
  4. ^ Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: A human rights crisis in Kosovo Province
  5. ^ A Week of Terror in Drenica: Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo
  6. ^ Serb Police Kill 24 Albanians in Kosovo
  7. ^ Kosovo/Kosova: As Seen, As Told, "Part V: The Municipalities - Rogovo", OSCE, 1999
  8. ^ New killings in Kosovo
  9. ^ Milosevic Indictment
  10. ^ Kosovo War Crimes Chronology
  11. ^ Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Kosovo): After tragedy, justice?
  12. ^ Human Right Watch: Orahovac (Rrahovec) Municipality
  13. ^ a b c Human Right Watch: Drenica Region
  14. ^ Qyshk victims
  15. ^ Under orders: war crimes in Kosovo
  16. ^ Round-table discussion with representatives of the Serbian independent media, Belgrade, Serbia, December 15, 1998
  17. ^ Kosovo: the road to war
  18. ^ Human Rights Watch report
  19. ^ Horrors Alleged in Kosovo
  20. ^ Trafic d'organes/Kosovo: "aucune trace"

See also

External links

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