The Kosovo War - explained in 3 minutes - mini history - 3 minute history for dummies
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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 (i.e., Serbia and Montenegro), 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) www.vidypedia.com/post/nato-n... from 24 March 1999, and ground support from the Albanian army.
The KLA, formed in the early 1990s to fight against Serbian persecution of Kosovo Albanians, initiated its first campaign in 1995 when it launched attacks against Serbian law enforcement in Kosovo. In June 1996 the group claimed responsibility for acts of sabotage targeting Kosovo police stations. In 1997, the organization acquired a large number of arms through weapons smuggling from Albania, following a rebellion in which weapons were looted from the country's police and army posts. In early 1998, KLA attacks targeting Yugoslav authorities in Kosovo resulted in increased Serb paramilitaries and regular forces who subsequently began pursuing a retribution campaign targeting KLA sympathizers and political opponents; this campaign killed 1,500 to 2,000 civilians and KLA combatants.
After attempts at a diplomatic solution failed, NATO intervened, justifying the Kosovo campaign 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 over 13,500 people were killed or went missing during the two year conflict. The Yugoslav and Serb forces caused the displacement of between 1.2 million to 1.45 million Kosovo Albanians. After the war, around 200,000 Serbs, Romani, and other non-Albanians fled Kosovo and many of the remaining civilians were victims of abuse. Serbia became home to the highest number of refugees and internally displaced persons in Europe.
The NATO bombing campaign has remained controversial, as it did not gain the approval of the UN www.vidypedia.com/post/un-uni... Security Council and because it caused at least 488 Yugoslav civilian deaths, including substantial numbers of Kosovar refugees.
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Wait people not screaming there opinions here and respecting each other am I in Heaven?
The flag of Yugoslavia was incorrectly displayed several times. After 1992 there was no red star in the flag of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
A well-made video, congratulations!
Glad you liked it!
0:21 wrong flag and that picture of soldiers used are early homeland war Croatian soldiers
1:16 picture of ratko mladic (middle picture) who was not involved in the kosovo war. this picture is from the was in bosnia
wonderful video ! helped me a lot with my hw, thank you :)
Wait… thats ue homework??
@@hadjdjfg7987 yep in german class lmao
@@margot9025 u‘re from germany?
@@hadjdjfg7987 nope i’m from france
@@margot9025 hm okay thank u
Why the rush?
Very good video, no biases is what we need in topics like these, very well explained
There is a bias here
No.
@@rodgod2624 where?
@@loangxuong9863 He mentioned how the Serbs persecuted the Albanians, he did not mention how the albanians terrorized yugoslavia even before tito died
@@rodgod2624 well i was talk to the other guy. What a weird and distorted version of what happened.
Not sure why you have Vojvodina as a separate country on your map...
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Albanian Army didn"t give ground support to KLA don't give false information. They only supplied KLA with weapons and Ammunition. KLA did the ground work by itself even tho they were always short on ammunition.
One correction. The bombing campaing was later supported by the UN. UN failed to negotiate peace, so NATO took the matters to its own hands and ended a war. So this was literally humanitarian war. It ended decades of suffering.
It didn't end anything. It only caused more suffering and the Albanian terrorist groups and mafia are still active in Kosovo and Metochia terrorising the Serbs in the north and beating up old ladies
@@Igor-xv8sf the beating of the old lady was proven that was fabricated by the ruling political party of serbia.
@@nainabla Well there's a video of it, not just a 144p photo from 23 years ago 😊
@@Igor-xv8sf in the video you can clearly see that the hematoma was painted on her face. That is like the worst attempt at propaganda
when did the UN later support the bombings? i wanna read more about it
Wikipedia: "NATO bombing of Yugoslavia."
Yugoslavia ceased to exist after 1991-92. How can it bomb in late 90's? Albania is a different country, different from Kosovo, why its bombing is mentioned?
best
You talk about the casualties caused by nato but you don't tal about the genocide carried out by serbian y Yugoslavian army on Muslims they killed 8.000 women men and children I'm glad nato took part and stopped the russian backed killers of Muslims thank u nato❤️✊🏻🇺🇸🇪🇺
the un has already rules that the war in kosovo was not a genocide. another lie by nato was when they said before and during the war that 100k albanians civilians were murdered but after the war ended it turned out to 8k dead. how is it possible to "accidentally" overestimate the number of albanian death by 12 times
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12.000*
@@rimbaud1180 the war in kosovo was not a genocide? Who killed the 12.000 civillinas? Who masacred srebrenica? What happend in vukovar? Everything is a lie? U can‘t be the agressor and start a war with the civillians everywhere u go, masacre everywhere u go, destroy everything u see and set ur selfs as victims.
@@hadjdjfg7987 no the war in kosovo was not a genocide and the un agrees with me. according to the humanitarian law center there were 13.5k killed in total by nato, kosovo liberation army, serbia and montenegro. everyone in committed war crimes, not just serbia. i dont deny the srebrenica massacre however it was the scorpions and the republika srpska who did it, not serbia. a massacre happened in vukovar but again, the croats was not completly innocent in the war of independance and committed war crimes against serbs and bosniaks in osijek, the banija villages, korana, pakracka poljana, gospic, pozega, staro selo, divos, paulin dvor, masicka sagovina, sisak, slavonski brod, medari, golubic, donji lapac, biskupija, kijani, uzdolje, glina, dvor, komic, grubori, kistanje, gosic and varivode. yes, nato and kosovo lied about genocide and exaggerated how many albanian civillians were killed
Wow you explained all wrong. nothing of this is a thrue.
So we sided with the racial terrorists.
find one occasion where any nato member even suggested the idea that the KLA were the good guys, i hope you good luck because you will need it.
Maaaan...Just watch weight of chance and many things will be clear. Not just Kosovo situation all of Yugoslav break up thing
weight of chains
If you look closely at the line in Serbia where the Albanians were settled by the Ottomans, you can only conclude that the main purpose is to separate the Christian population from Serbia with the population in Montenegro And North Macedonia
Where are albanians originally from?
@@giornogiovanna6215 There are several theories, I see that you are of Albanian origin, so I will not engage in a debate, but I can say that no one has been able to confirm the theory about the Illyrian people among the world's scientists.In fact, old Albania still exists in the Caucasus, and modern Albania is tribally mixed with various peoples, you must be familiar with the Albanianization of a part of the population that, in addition to its real name there must be Albanian too, and whoever did not comply with some regulations would end up in long and long prison terms
@@slavicduke Caucasian Albania is something completely different than European Albania, "Alba" just means White, that's why Scotland has also placenames like Albany
@@gewisserjemandEuropean Albania was artificially created by the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Albania is just a name chosen by the great powerful states Austria-Hungary and England or Britain, European Albania was created from more tribes that did not even understand each other linguistically and the European Albanians call their country Shqiperia and the nation Shqiptaret
@@slavicduke they can understand each other, they speak just different dialects just like Serbo-Croatian. Also Albania was named after the Illyrian tribe of "Albanoi" and Shqiperia means land of the eagles in their native Albanian language, which is also considered a sole family tree in the Indogermanic languages, just like Greek and Armenian.
And Albanians wanted to be independent way before the creation of Austria-Hungary in 1866, for example in the 17th and 18th century, when catholic Albanians didn't want to be a part of the Ottoman Empire and started a rebellion against them, even asking Christians for Help, without any success.
After the Balkan Wars, Serbia Greece and Montenegro were heavily favoured by the European Super Powers Great Britain, France, Russia, wo gave them territory, which was inhabited by Albanians, later on they even made plans to partition Albania between Serbia Greece and Italy, with the only objection to this plan coming from the USA, and border wars between Albania and Serbia & Italy, which ensured Albanian independence.
You forgot to mention that NATO used depleted uranium in 1999 which violated every rule and regulation there is about international warfare. Uranium, as a toxic chemical, has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, meaning a large portion of Serbs and Albanians will become victims of cancer and other diseases much further into the future. As for the amount of "Yugoslav" civilians killed, this number is estimated to be more than 1500 as NATO mainly targetted civilian areas, such as schools, hospitals, trains and homes. Yugoslav was not an ethnicity, they were Serbians who were massacred by NATO and US "intervention".
yeah but genocide didnt violate international war regulations? you couldnt possibly sound more hypocritical
@@bigploppa154 You Westeners enjoy throwing the word "genocide" around wherever you can. I think you're the hypocrite for not doing your research when you're supposed to. Serbians are always painted as the villains, whilst the Americans are seen as heroes despite starting wars throughout the whole entire globe. The US has committed acts of genocide in nearly ever country it's supposedly "intervened" in. Just look at what they did to Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Serbia etc. Millions of civilians have been killed because of your "war on terror", revenge will be very sweet indeed.
@@bigploppa154 I get but it was by NATO, not the opposing force.
@@udyfrost6380 Yeah nato was an outside force that decided to interfere, and so their bombings resulted in killings of civilians and so it breaks the international law
@@bigploppa154 So you're saying, the 1999 NATO bombing is justified because of Serbian genocide against Albanians - revenge is ok?
After many years of attacks on the Serbian population by KLA terrorists and after the beginning of terrorist attacks on the Serbian population and the Serbian police in '99, a group of Albanian terrorists who were presented as innocent civilians were killed in a police operation, which was later denied after the autopsy. But that was used to start an illegal action against Serbia. until then, the KLA was on the American list of terrorist organizations and was suddenly deleted, and in that illegal action they were used and presented as freedom fighters. To this day, that part of Serbia is still under the occupation of NATO troops.
TlDr serbians nazi commited genocide, and nato stopped their campaign of terror.
Bro didn’t even watch the video
@@tutlg16 literally summed up the video
@@ShadowKari who asked
@@tutlg16 the guy who accused me of not watching the video, aka you.
@@ShadowKari no one asked
so nato just ruin yugoslavia :)) nice....no petrol found there?😂
First,NATO never supported the KLA forces. It only supported by Albania government to create the greater Albania. Second,the Serbs and Albanians both cleaning they not only Albanians
There is literally photos of Wesley Clark shaking hands with UCK members...
Not true. Albanians didn’t want “Greater Albania ”, it was just a proposed map of how Albania would look like if Slavs weren’t in Balkan.
Albania in Kosovo 🇽🇰 fought for Peace and Independence, they were oppressed by serbs and we’re not given rights.
Same in 🇲🇰 Where Albanians in Macedonia fought for Rights and Justice cuz they were oppressed.
After Albanians🇦🇱 in 🇲🇰 got rights we are living in Peace 🇦🇱❤️🇲🇰.
There is absolutely no such thing as a “Kosovar Albanian”
First off the reason Albanians inhabited the region is because they immigrated there during the Ottoman empire era, when Serbia was freed from the Ottomans, and the Serbs came back they wanted to coexist peacefully, but the Albanians wanted otherwise.
Second Albanians had been terrorizing and massacring Serbs and Kosovo for decades, even when Tito was still alive, they even protested for independence, so you can’t tell me that Albanians are in the right
Serbia committed countless massacres against Albanians and displaced over 50% of Kosovo's population during the war. The KLA's crimes cannot be compared, in any way, to Serbia's genocidal levels of ethnic cleansing which killed thousands and displaced millions.
How should we immigrate there when we used to live there since the beginning of our existence?🤡 we are obviously the follow of the illyrians. Don‘t try to steal our history, culture and land, just because u got none.
@@hadjdjfg7987 You talk a lot for a guy with random letters in his username, I can tell you’re like 12 lmao you have no proof of you being Illyrians
@@rodgod2624 u talk a lot for a guy with a blue pfp, with „rodgod“ on it. I cant tell ur 12, but i can tell u‘re a clown. 1. „Before the South Slavs (Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) arrived in the territory where they now live, other nations composed of many tribes occupied the Balkan Peninsula. These natives are known in history as the Illyrians and Thracians.“ 2. „data drawn from history and from archaeological and anthropological studies have led some researchers to consider the Albanians to be the direct descendants of the ancient Illyrians“
If u look up, u know, that there has been found footage of ancient dardanian graves in north-macedonia“ which leads us to: 3. „The Dardanians are a tribe living in the interior of the Balkans. Their area, which is attributed to the Illyrians by today's scientists, includes today's Kosovo, extends west of it to the valley of the Drin and includes the Albanian landscape of Dukagjin.“
Looooool. You're sayin that turks bought albanians to current albania!? Hahahaha. You're so silly.
Propaganda !
Kosovo and Metohija is south Serbian province 🇷🇸
There it is an uneducated comment
@@potatoradiator5368 what ?
Then where are the serbs?
@@vacamike Where are your brain ?Not in your head.
@@vladimirtrifunovic9367 can you say it in english?