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War crimes in the Kosovo War

US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999.

Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. According to Human Rights Watch, the vast majority of abuses were attributable to the government of Slobodan Milošević, mainly perpetrated by the Serbian police, the Yugoslav army, and Serb paramilitary units. During the war, regime forces killed between 7,000–9,000 Kosovar Albanians,[1] engaged in countless acts of rape,[2] destroyed entire villages, and displaced nearly one million people.[1] The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or the UÇK) has also been implicated in atrocities, such as kidnappings and summary executions of civilians.[3] Moreover, the NATO bombing campaign has been harshly criticized by human rights organizations and the Serbian government for causing roughly 500 civilian casualties.[4][5]

In 2015, the Humanitarian Law Center released a list of people who were killed or went missing from 1 January 1998 to 31 December 2000, including 8,676 Kosovo Albanian civilians, 1,196 ethnic Serbs and 445 civilians who were members of other ethnicities such as Romani people and Bosniaks.[6][7]

  1. ^ a b Simons, Marlise (10 July 2006). "Tribunal focuses on Serbia's Kosovo war – Europe – International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  2. ^ Kakissis, Joanna (6 April 2018). "In Kosovo, War Rape Survivors Can Now Receive Reparations. But Shame Endures For Many". NPR. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
  3. ^ "Kosovo War Crimes Chronology". Human Rights Watch. Archived from the original on 28 August 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2016.
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  6. ^ "Kosovo Memory Book Database Presentation and Expert Evaluation" (PDF). Humanitarian Law Center: 2. 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 January 2019.
  7. ^ "The Kosovo Memory Book Database" (PDF). recom.link. Reconciliation Network.

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