Kosovo War

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought between the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY), which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian separatist militia known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). The conflict ended when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervened by beginning air strikes in March 1999 which resulted in Yugoslav forces withdrawing from Kosovo.

Quotes

• We lose something important if we forget Kosovo and the harrowing events that finally led to the self-determination of its nearly 2-million inhabitants. Long deprived of even vestigial national and human rights, then forced at gunpoint onto deportation trains and threatened with the believable threat of mass murder, these people were belatedly rescued by an intervention that said, fairly simply, there is a limit beyond which law cannot be further broken and conscience further outraged.
  • Christopher Hitchens, "Christopher Hitchens: Why Kosovo still matters" (27 July 2010), The National Post

• We as Jews cannot stand idly by when faced with images of Kosovo, with thousands of refugees expelled from their homes, with frightened faces looking out from railway trains, with children who have lost their parents. As Jews, these images touch us more than any other people, and we as Jews have a special responsibility to remember, understand and act.
  • Benjamin Netanyahu, as quoted in "The Israeli Prime Minister's powerful speech on Kosovo in 1999: We have a special responsibility to remember, understand and act" (3 February 2021), Insajderi

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Kosovo War on Wikipedia