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    YUGOSLAVIA

    HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN KOSOVO

    Human Rights Watch
     

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    This report documents violations investigated by Helsinki Watch during missions to Kosovo and Serbia proper in May, June and December Participants in those missions included Jonathan Fanton, chair of Helsinki Watch, Elliot Schrage, a New York attorney, and Ivana Nizich, Research Associate to Helsinki Watch. Also, this report includes abuses Helsinki Watch has documented since January

    This report was written bygd Ivana Nizich and was edited bygd Jeri Laber, the Executive Director of Helsinki Watch.

    Helsinki Watch expresses its appreciation to the Open kultur Fund for its invaluable support of our schema in the former Yugoslav republics and Albania.

    INTRODUCTION

    With the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia, world attention has focussed on the brutal warfare that erupted first in Croatia and, more recently, in Bosnia-Hercegovina. Most of the human rights violations being committed in

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    Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars

    Killings of Albanians during the Balkan Wars of –

    Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars

    Albanian civilians taken prisoner in Pristina during massacres by the Serbian army in

    Situation in the western Balkans after the Ottoman defeat in the First Balkan War

    LocationScutari Vilayet, Kosovo Vilayet, Manastir Vilayet, Janina Vilayet
    DateOctober –
    TargetAlbanians

    Attack type

    		Systematic extermination, ethnic cleansing, mutilation, forced conversions, death marches, others
    Deathsc.&#;,–,
    • Kosovo: at least 50,
    • Albania: up to , Muslims
    (see details)
    VictimsEthnic Cleansing:
    • 60,–, Albanians above the age of six expelled from Old Serbia by
    • c.&#;, Albanians became homeless in northern Albania
    PerpetratorsKingdom of Serbia, Kingdom of Montenegro, Chetniks, Greek paramilitaries
    MotiveAlbanophobia, Greater Serbia, Islamophobia, Anti-Catholicism

    The massacres of Albanians in

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    The social milieu that emerged in post-conflict transition Balkan societies, marked by a chronic weakness of the state institutions and the dominance of powerful criminal structures, favoured the occurrence of extremely complex coupling of different influences that permeated the spheres of politics, business, crime, media and judicial system. In these complex "Balkan games", it often happened that yesterday's friends, with seemingly identical interests, would become mortal enemies overnight; but also, the strongholds based on mutual interests would appear and infiltrate inside the war conflicting parties. Thanks to this set of circumstances, the business originating from war profiteering, even decades after the end of the war, is still taking place and follows the special rules that fluctuate within a wide amplitude, from the starting point of the regular business based on corporate principles, to the brutal application of methods and rules that apply to "business" ventures outside

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