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The KLA was formed in the early 1990s to fight against the discrimination of ethnic Albanians and the repression of political dissent by the Serbian authorities, which started after the suppression of Kosovo's autonomy by Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević in 1989. [59] .
Although the roots of the Kosovo conflict can be traced back many years, substantial fighting began in 1998. NATO intervention led to a peace accord ending the conflict in June 1999. What were the effects of the Kosovo conflict?
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- The Kosovo conflict occurred in 1998–99 when ethnic Albanians fought ethnic Serbs and the government of Yugoslavia in Kosovo. The conflict gained w...
- Following the peace accord that ended the Kosovo conflict in 1999, Kosovo came under UN administration, and UN peacekeeping forces were deployed th...
Jan 19, 2012 · Although bombing did not begin until March 24, 1999, NATO's path to war in Kosovo wound its way through much of the region's troubled recent history. The following chronology traces the roots...
Mar 18, 2016 · In 1999, Kosovo's ethnic Albanians fought Serbs in another brutal war to gain independence. Serbia ended the conflict beaten, battered and alone. A brief guide to the war in the Balkans...
Jul 9, 2021 · By the 1990s several generations of ethnic Albanians and Serbs had grievances against each other. That type of resentment is dangerous, to say the least. The 1999 Kosovo war belongs to the larger story of the death throes of the former Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia. While the world focused on Bosnia, life in Kosovo kept getting worse.
- Mary Elizabeth Walters
NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999.
This report provides a chronology of major events related to the conflict in Kosovo from September 1998 through March 1999. It continues from an earlier CRS Report, Kosovo Conflict Chronology: January - August 1998. A map is included.
