The Kosovo War (1998-1999) was the last of the Yugoslav Wars.
Fought between Yugoslav government forces – police, army, paramilitaries – and the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the war crimes committed, mainly by the security forces, shocked the world at the time and continue to be vividly remembered in Kosovo.
They included indiscriminate massacres, revenge killings, the murder of children and the elderly, sexual violence, the destruction and theft of property, and torture.
More than 10,000 civilians died during the war, about three times the number of combatant deaths.
