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| | Kosovo War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | For Serbs, it was the center of their culture [1] as well as the site of the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, which resulted in a catastrophic defeat of Serbia at the hands of the invading Ottomans (traditionally interpreted as Serbia's sacrifice for Christianity). | | | It claimed that Kosovo's status in 1986 was a worse historical defeat for the Serbs than any event since liberation from the Ottomans in 1804, thus ranking it above such catastrophes as the Nazi occupation or the First World War occupation of Serbia by the Austro-Hungarians. | | | With Kosovo's Communist Party effectively broken up by Milošević's crackdown, the position of dominant Albanian political party passed to the Democratic League of Kosovo, led by the writer Ibrahim Rugova. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War
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| | Independent International Commission on Kosovo: The Kosovo Report |
| | Kosovo was not included in the Dayton negotiations because Tudjman and Izetbegovic were not interested in Kosovo and Milosevic would have refused to consider it. | | | The combination of large-scale Albanian political and economic emigration from Kosovo, the collapse of the Albanian state, and the criminal nature of Serbian police and para-military oppression, all contributed to the self-proclaimed “Robin Hood” image of Albanian organized crime. | | | The origins of the crisis have to be understood in terms of a new wave of nationalism that led to the rise of Milosevic and the official adoption of an extreme Serbian nationalist agenda. |
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http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/thekosovoreport.htm
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| | Religious aspects of the Yugoslavia - Kosovo Conflict |
| | There have been allegations that the Serbs were engaged in genocide in Kosovo before and during the NATO bombing. | | | As NATO troops moved into Kosovo, there were many reports of the KLA and other ethnic Albanians assaulting and killing Serbians. | | | According to Raschke, the Serbs looked upon the present conflict over Kosovo as "a kind of final battle for their national identity...The Serbs are likely to let the country be destroyed before they give it up." Dennis Sandole of George Mason University in Virginia disagrees. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/war_koso.htm
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| | INCORE : Services: ECRD |
| | Part III presents the Commission's conclusions, which are offered not only in the hope of ensuring lasting peace and security for Kosovo and the Balkan region, but also of identifying the lessons that may assist in dealing with ethnic strife and humanitarian intervention elsewhere in the world. | | | Though the resulting report was to be submitted to the U.N. Secretary-General, it was a broader audience of interested people all across the world that was to be its primary focus. | | | Part I, "What Happened", documents the facts of the Kosovo crisis, beginning with its remote ethnic origins. |
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http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/services/ecrd/hegarty.html
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| | Kosovo Conflict |
| | Why: -In the begging, where NATO was on the verge of bombing Kosovo, Clinton spoke in a public meeting about why we were getting involved. | | | -This is a quote from a military spokesman, NATO strikes continue to cause serious damage to the Serb military and will further degrade their capability to commit atrocities against the Kosovo Albanian population We are also seeing increased evidence of ethnic cleansing-Same spokesman, same briefing, same day, one minute later. | | | Stats: -Milosevic has been doing this subtlety for years, and as of last fall has increased his killing of ethnic Albainians. |
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| | NATO - Kosovo Conflict |
| | If this is to be a valid example of human rights violations to be used in evaluating the importance of state sovereignty, then the first inquiry to be probed is of the very nature of the ethnic conflict in Kosovo. | | | Often when there is internal ethnic conflict there is a strong potential for human rights to be violated. | | | In the case of the NATO bombings in Kosovo, it can be contested that NATO’s actions were illegal and excessive force by NATO in turn violated human rights. |
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http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~carman/courses/nato_proposal.html
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| | Kosovo - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum |
| | This article argues that the UN has helped fuel ethnic conflicts in Kosovo by offering political posts in the province "on the basis of balancing ethnic groups." Dire economic conditions, such as high unemployment rates, have also played a role in stirring the violence in the province, says the Socialist Worker. | | | The new Foreign Minister of Serbia and Montenegro, Vuk Draskovic, claims that an independent Kosovo is "impossible" and "very dangerous" as it might generate an unending circle of violence between Serbs and Albanians in the province. | | | Human Rights Watch documents how Serb, Roma and Ashkali communities in Kosovo were abandoned by UN peacekeepers and NATO troops, many of whom simply locked the gates to their bases during the violence in March. |
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http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/ksvindx.htm
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| | UNDP Kosovo - Conflict Prevention and Reconciliation Initiative |
| | Kosovo is in a period of delicate transition — politically, economically, and socially. | | | Whilst easing overall, tensions remain in Kosovo as evidenced in the protests of Kosovan Albanians after the arrest of alleged Kosovan Albanian war criminals, and the recent grenade attack by Kosovan Serbs against international police. | | | This achievement is especially relevant as Skenderaj is viewed as the center of ant-Serb sentiment in Kosovo and was the birthplace of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). |
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http://www.kosovo.undp.org/Projects/CPR/cpr.htm
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| | Kosovo Web Links: Library and Links: Jeannette Rankin Library Program: U.S. Institute of Peace |
| | The web site provides analysis and reports on Kosovo, including the October 2000 Kosovo Report and September 2001 update. | | | ReliefWeb, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has a database of the latest news and reports on the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo and the Balkans. | | | Archived U.S. Department of State's site to material released prior to January 21, 2001 includes official statements, press briefings, fact sheets, reports on ethnic cleansing and the situation in Kosovo (special reports entitled: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo: An Accounting, December 1999 and Erasing History, Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo, May 1999). |
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http://www.usip.org/library/regions/kosovo.html
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| | Kosovo & Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis |
| | Hearing on Atrocities in Kosovo (Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe, September 17, 1998) | | | Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War. | | | Progress reports on re-establishing the rule of law in Kosovo, from UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo) and the OSCE (Organization for Co-operation and Security in Europe). |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/kosovo.htm
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| | CNN - Kosovo conflict maims Albanian-American fighter - June 23, 1999 |
| | In Kosovo, Dervisholli said he was in charge of heavy machine guns for the ethnic Albanian guerrilla group. | | | Dervisholli added that he dreams that his family members who are now in Albania will one day return to Kosovo. | | | Dervisholli, posing in his KLA uniform, top, was hit by a grenade while fighting in Kosovo and the lower part of his right leg was amputated |
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http://www.cnn.com/US/9906/23/kla.return
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| | HRW: Tragedy in Pictures |
| | This collection also presents an essay documenting the destruction of civilian homes in February 1999, and photos of the hardships the ethnic Serb community has faced in Kosovo since the end of the NATO bombing. | | | These photos and documents accompany "A Village Destroyed", a Human Rights Watch report that is the first to name and provide pictures of people who may be responsible for or have first-hand knowledge of war crimes in Kosovo. | | | The researchers have conducted over a thousand interviews in northern Albania and Macedonia with recently arrived Kosovar Albanians in an attempt to reconstruct a picture of the horrors these refugees faced as they fled their homes. |
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http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kosovo98/photo.shtml
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| | BBC NEWS Special Report 1998 Kosovo |
| | The government denies a leaked report that suggests that British forces nearly ran out of munitions in Kosovo. | | | The war crimes tribunal announces inquiries into the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) guerrilla group for the first time. | | | The trial of the two men accused of committing war crimes in Kosovo has been adjourned amid continuing tension in Mitrovica. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/kosovo
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| | NATO Handbook: Background to the Conflict in Kosovo |
| | Kosovo lies in southern Serbia and has a mixed population of which the majority are ethnic Albanians. | | | During 1998, open conflict between Serbian military and police forces and Kosovar Albanian forces resulted in the deaths of over 1 500 Kosovar Albanians and forced 400 000 people from their homes. | | | This move was designed to support diplomatic efforts to make the Milosevic regime withdraw forces from Kosovo, cooperate in bringing an end to the violence and facilitate the return of refugees to their homes. |
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http://www.nato.int/docu/handbook/2001/hb050301.htm
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| | UNDP Kosovo - UNDP Role in Post-Conflict in Kosovo |
| | Kosovo has the youngest population in Europe-more than half of its people are under the age of 25. | | | Approximately 13,000 Kosovans were employed by the project in a 17-month period. | | | For several years, official statistics in Kosovo have been unreliable. |
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http://www.kosovo.undp.org/emergency/emergency.htm
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| | Kosovo |
| | Press Conference, Presidents Clinton and Chirac, on Kosovo, 19 February 1999 | | | United States Information Agency, Archived Materials on Kosovo | | | JANE PERLEZ, "NATO Stance Is Said to Hurt Both Alliance and Kosovo," New York Times, September 21, 1998 |
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http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/kosovo.htm
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| | frontline: war in europe |
| | Twelve months ago, in the skies above Kosovo, NATO went to war. | | | FRONTLINE correspondent Peter Boyer undertakes the first in-depth examination of a European war rife with diplomatic infighting and military stumbling. | | | It was a war that unleashed terrible brutality. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/kosovo
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| | CNN In-Depth Specials - Focus on Kosovo |
| | But by private investors, not by government institutions." -- Oleg S. "I think rebuilding is going to be hard with all the bad feelings between the two groups, but I think in time, NATO will be able to make some progress a least toward getting living conditions acceptable for winter. | | | "Of course, something has to be done to rebuild Kosovo and Serbia. | | | Watch CNN for coverage of the situation in Kosovo |
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/10/kosovo
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| | Genocide in Kosovo Index Page |
| | Perspectives from Serbia on the Conflict in Kosovo | | | Economic and Financial Aspects of the Kosovo Conflict |
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http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/Kosovo/Kosovo-index.htm
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