Kosovo War | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-06

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Kosovo War


00:03:08 1 Background
00:03:17 1.1 Kosovo in Tito's Yugoslavia (1945–1980)
00:06:53 1.2 After the death of Tito (1980–86)
00:10:04 1.3 Kosovo and the rise of Slobodan Milošević (1986–90)
00:14:22 1.4 Constitutional amendments (1989–94)
00:14:33 1.4.1 Events
00:19:01 2 Eruption of War
00:19:10 2.1 The slide to war (1995–1998)
00:25:06 2.2 War begins
00:31:34 2.2.1 Morale
00:32:35 2.3 UN, NATO, and OSCE (1998–1999)
00:37:47 2.4 The Rambouillet Conference (January–March 1999)
00:43:29 3 NATO bombing timeline
00:50:16 4 Yugoslav army withdrawal and the entry of KFOR
00:56:40 5 Reaction to the war
00:57:10 5.1 Support for the war
01:00:43 5.2 Criticism of the case for war
01:03:38 6 Democratic League of Kosovo and FARK
01:08:10 7 Casualties
01:08:19 7.1 Civilian losses
01:10:49 7.1.1 Civilians killed by NATO airstrikes
01:11:48 7.1.2 Civilians killed by Yugoslav forces
01:13:38 7.2 NATO losses
01:15:24 7.3 Yugoslav military losses
01:19:02 7.4 KLA losses
01:19:25 7.5 Aftermath
01:21:24 8 War crimes
01:21:33 8.1 By FR Yugoslav and Serb forces
01:24:20 8.2 By Kosovo Albanian forces
01:26:42 8.3 By NATO forces
01:28:08 9 International reaction to NATO intervention
01:28:19 9.1 Africa
01:28:46 9.2 Asia
01:30:52 9.3 Europe
01:33:54 9.4 Oceania
01:34:13 9.5 United Nations
01:34:38 10 Military and political consequences
01:39:11 11 Military decorations
01:40:13 12 Weaponry and vehicles used
01:40:56 13 See also
01:41:25 14 Gallery



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The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (by this time, consisting of the Republics of Montenegro and Serbia), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), with air support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) from 24 March 1999, and ground support from the Albanian army.The KLA, formed in 1991, initiated its first campaign in 1995 when it launched attacks targeting Serbian law enforcement in Kosovo, and in June 1996 the group claimed responsibility for acts of sabotage targeting Kosovo police stations. In 1997, the organisation acquired a large amount of arms through weapons smuggling from Albania, following a rebellion which saw large numbers of weapons looted from the country's police and army posts. In 1998, KLA attacks targeting Yugoslav authorities in Kosovo resulted in an increased presence of Serb paramilitaries and regular forces who subsequently began pursuing a campaign of retribution targeting KLA sympathisers and political opponents in a drive which killed 1,500 to 2,000 civilians and KLA combatants. After attempts at a diplomatic solution failed, NATO intervened, justifying the campaign in Kosovo as a "humanitarian war". This precipitated a mass expulsion of Kosovar Albanians as the Yugoslav forces continued to fight during the aerial bombardment of Yugoslavia (March–June 1999). By 2000, investigations had recovered the remains of almost three thousand victims of all ethnicities, and in 2001 a United Nations administered Supreme Court, based in Kosovo, found that there had been "a systematic campaign of terror, including murders, rapes, arsons and severe maltreatments", but that Yugoslav troops had tried to remove rather than eradicate the Albanian population.The war ended with the Kumanovo Treaty, with Yugoslav and Serb forces agreeing to withdraw from Kosovo to make way for an international presence. The Kosovo Liberation Army disbanded soon after this, with some of its members going on to fight for the UÇPMB in the Preševo Valley and others joining the National Liberation Army (NLA) and Albanian National Army (ANA) during the armed ethnic conflict in Macedonia, while others went on to form the Kosovo Police. After the war, a list was compiled which documented that 13,517 people were killed ...