Kosovo

In 1989 when Serbian President Slobodan Milošević officially revoked Kosovo's autonomous status within the Republic of Serbia a violent confrontation between the Kosovar Albanians and the Yugoslav government ensued. Allegations of widespread and systematic human rights violations, including deportations, destruction of homes and property, murder and rape, were made against Serbian forces. Ultimately NATO intervened to repel Serb forces from Kosovo.

While at AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), members of the HRDAG team wrote several reports on the conflict in Kosovo. With partners at ABA CEELI (American Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative) a report was issued which was used in the prosecution of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević at the ICTY (International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) at The Hague. This report looked at possible reasons for the mass exodus of refugees from Kosovo occurred and concluded that the patterns of leaving were so regular that they must have been coordinated. In the context of qualitative accounts given by refugees, the most likely explanation for the migration is that Yugoslav authorities planned and implemented a centrally organized campaign to ethnicly cleanse at least certain regions of Albanians..

LINKS:

Kosovo Migration Study

Policy or Panic? The Flight of Ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, March-May 1999

Political Killings in Kosovo (PDF)

Dr. Patrick Ball's testimony before ICTY (see 13-14 March)

• Responses to questions from ICTY office
  icty-notes-020219.pdf
• Corrigendum to ICTY
  corrigendum-021115.pdf

Killings and Refugee Flow in Kosovo March - June 1999

"Statistics and Slobodan," Chance vol 15, No. 4. Pg. 17-24

Statistical data from reports

• Kosovo - Data Migration
• Kosovo - Data on Killings
• Kosovo - Other Data

Originally based at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), HRDAG has provided technical assistance in the following countries:

Africa

• Chad
• Ghana
• Liberia
• Sierra Leone
• South Africa

Asia

• Afghanistan
• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Timor-Leste
• Sri Lanka

Europe

• Kosovo

Middle East

• Iran

Central America and Caribbean

• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Haiti
• México

South America

• Colombia
• Perú

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