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Attacks On Likoshane And Çirez
The Attacks on Likoshan and Qirez (, sr-Latn, Napadi na Likošane i Ćirez) were large-scale police attacks that took place at the onset of the Kosovo War in the villages of Likoshan and Qirez. 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 villages. The attack on Likoshan and Qirez was followed by the Attack on Prekaz on the following days. The attacks on Likoshan and Qirez, as well as Prekaz, marked the beginning of the Kosovo War. Background According to HRW (1998) On 28 February 1998, according to Serbian police, armed Albanians attacked a police patrol near the village of Likoshan, killing four policemen and seriously wounding two. A pro-government report told that there were t ...
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Kosovo War
The Kosovo War (; sr-Cyrl-Latn, Косовски рат, Kosovski rat) was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo. The KLA was formed in the early 1990s to fight against the discrimination of ethnic Albanians and the repression of political dissent by the Serbian authorities, which started after the suppression of Kosovo's autonomy and other discriminatory policies against Albanians by Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1989. The KLA initiated its first campaign in 1995 ...
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Serbian War Crimes In The Kosovo War
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List Of Massacres In The Kosovo War
This is a list of massacres that happened in Kosovo throughout history. Ottoman period World War I Interwar period World War II Kosovo War Aftermath of Kosovo War See also * Serbian–Ottoman Wars (1876–1878) * Balkan Wars (First Balkan War • Second Balkan War) * World War I * Interwar period * World War II * Kosovo War * North Kosovo crisis (2011–2013) References Sources * * * * * * * * * External links OSCE: ''Kosovo/Kosova - As Seen, As Told'', 1999Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo(Human Right Watch) ICTY: Indictment of Milutinović ''et al.'', "Kosovo", September 5 2002Kosovo massacre trialJudgment in the Vlastimir Djorjevic case, February 23, 2011 {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Massacres In Kosovo Massacres Kosovo * Massacres A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe a targeted killing of civilians en masse by an armed group or person. The word i ...
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War Crimes In The Kosovo War
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 Police of Serbia, Serbian police, the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslav army, and Serb paramilitary units. During the war, regime forces killed between 7,000–9,000 Kosovar Albanians, engaged in countless acts of rape, destroyed entire villages, and displaced nearly one million people. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA or the UÇK) has also been implicated in atrocities, such as kidnappings and summary executions of civilians. Moreover, the NATO bombing campaign has been harshly criticized by human rights organizations and the Serbian government for causing roughly 500 civilian casualties. In 2015, the Humanitarian Law Center released a list of people who were killed or went missing from 1 January 1 ...
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says that it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for "a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments". The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders. AI was founded in London in 1961 by the lawyer Peter Benenson. In what he called "The Forgotten Prisoners" and "An Appeal for Amnesty", which appeared on the front page of the British newspaper ''The Observer'', Benenson wrote about two students who toasted to freedom in Portugal and four other people who had been jailed in other nations because of their beliefs ...
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Humanitarian Law Center
Humanitarian Law Center (HLC) ( sr-Latn, Fond za Humanitarno pravo, ) is a Serbian non-governmental organisation with offices in Belgrade, Serbia, and Pristina, Kosovo.Humanitarian Law Center website
, accessed 22 January 2011
It was founded in 1992 by Nataša Kandić to document violations across the former Yugoslavia in armed conflicts in ,

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Belgrade
Belgrade is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city of Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers and at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin, Pannonian Plain and the Balkan Peninsula. The population of the Belgrade metropolitan area is 1,685,563 according to the 2022 census. It is one of the Balkans#Urbanization, major cities of Southeast Europe and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, third-most populous city on the river Danube. Belgrade is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Europe and the world. One of the most important prehistoric cultures of Europe, the Vinča culture, evolved within the Belgrade area in the 6th millennium BC. In antiquity, Thracians, Thraco-Dacians inhabited the region and, after 279 BC, Celts settled the city, naming it ''Singidunum, Singidūn''. It was Roman Serbia, conquered by the Romans under the reign of Augustus and ...
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Nataša Kandić
Nataša Kandić ( sr-cyr, Наташа Кандић; born 16 December 1946) is a Serbian human rights activist and coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network, founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an organization campaigning for human rights and reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the Serbian role in the conflict. It was formed in 1992. The HLC's research was integral to the war crimes prosecutions of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), particularly the "smoking gun" video linking Serbian military forces to the Srebrenica massacres. She has won numerous international awards for her human rights work (Amnesty International's Objective Observer Award, among others). She is a figure of controversy in Serbia where she was the subject of a defamation lawsuit by former President of Serbia Tomislav Nikolić. Career Humanitarian Law Center Kandić is a sociologist by training. In 1992, she foun ...
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Hamëz Jashari
Hamëz Jashari (19 February 1950 – 7 March 1998) was an Albanian commander and guerrilla fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army. He was the brother of the well-known founder of the organization, Adem Jashari. Together, they fought against Serbian forces during the uprising from 1995 to 1998, leading up to the Kosovo War. Early life Hamëz Jashari was born into a large Albanian family. His father was Shaban Jashari and his mother was Zahide Jashari. Hamëz completed his primary education at the village school, attended secondary school in Skenderaj, and pursued studies at the higher economic school. He worked at the ammunition factory in Skenderaj and had a strong affinity for the arts, excelling in writing, drawing, theater, and music. Hamëz was married to Feride Mecini from Klina e Epërme in Skenderaj, and together they had nine children. Despite opportunities to live abroad, including a brief stay in West Germany in 1973, Hamëz remained deeply rooted in Kosovo and dedic ...
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Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization that conducts research and advocacy on human rights. Headquartered in New York City, the group investigates and reports on issues including War crime, war crimes, crimes against humanity, Child labour, child labor, torture, human trafficking, and Women's rights, women's and LGBTQ rights. It pressures governments, policymakers, companies, and individual abusers to respect human rights, and frequently works on behalf of refugees, children, migrants, and political prisoners. The organization was founded in 1978 as Helsinki Watch, whose purpose was to monitor the Soviet Union's compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords. Its separate global divisions merged into Human Rights Watch in 1988. The group publishes annual reports on about 100 countries with the goal of providing an overview of the worldwide state of human rights. In 1997, HRW shared the Nobel Peace Prize as a founding member of the International C ...
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Attack On Prekaz
The Attack on Prekaz, also known as the Prekaz massacre, was an operation led by the Special Anti-Terrorism Unit of Serbia which lasted from 5 to 7 March 1998, whose goal was to eliminate Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) suspects and their families. During the operation, KLA leader Adem Jashari and his brother Hamëz were killed, along with nearly 60 other family members. The assault came two months after a smaller, ill-fated attack on January that year with the same objectives. The attack was criticized by Amnesty International, which wrote in its report that: "all evidence suggests that the attack was not intended to apprehend armed Albanians, but to eliminate the suspects and their families." Serbia, on the other hand, claimed the raid was due to KLA attacks on police outposts. The attack and subsequent death of Jashari became an integral part of the local Albanian national narrative. The operation was accompanied by use of summary executions and excessive force by Serbian ...
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