15 June 2008; note - amendment 24, passed by the Assembly in August 2015, established the Kosovo Relocated Specialist Institution, referred to as the Kosovo Specialist Chamber or "Specialist Court," to try war crimes allegedly committed by members of the Kosovo Liberation Army in the late 1990s...
Serbian army reservists hurl rocks at police, peacekeepers at Kosovo border checkpointNEBI QENA
who between 2008 and 2014 served as first Prime Minister after independence from Serbia was declared. He is the chairman of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) and was the political leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a paramilitary organisation which was active during the Kosovo...
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has placed the army on full combat alert and ordered units to move closer to the border. Serbs refused to take part in the local elections in April and ethnic Albanian candidates won the mayoralties in four Serb-majority municipalities with a 3.5% turnout...
“We suspect that they were kidnapped by the Serbian army, clearly as revenge by Serbia for yesterday’s arrest of the notorious criminal Milun ‘Lune’ Milenkovic, who represents one of the leaders of organised crime and smuggling,” Kurti wrote on Facebook. The ...
Cfr. Gordon (1999),http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/12/world/crisis-in-the-balkans-news-analysis-kremlin-vs-its-army.html. 117. Cfr. Erlanger (1999) ,http://www.nytimes.com/1999/06/12/world/crisis-balkans-overview-russians-enter-kosovo-early-but-moscow-calls-it-mistake.html. ...
The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) more properly the UCK ( Ushtria lirimitare e Kosovs ) came to international prominence in the late 1990s, as a product of the crisis in the province of Kosovo-Metohija in Serbia. (For its Albanian population the land is known as Kosova; for cartographers...
This provocative analysis makes the case that recent joint military operations between the two are meant to prepare for KFOR's "Plan B"- that is, the possibility of a hasty retreat into inner Serbia, should an Albanian paramilitary offensive stronger than the one ...
Kosovo - Albanian, Serbian, Culture: The cultural lives of Kosovo’s Albanians and Serbs, although distinctive, bear many resemblances to those of the peoples of Albania and Serbia, respectively. For further information on the cultures of those countries
It was in this atmosphere that the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) emerged. The group, which had been founded in the early 1990s, began to actively engage in coordinated attacks in 1996, targeting several Serbian police stations and wounding many officers during that year and the next. The KLA ...