This report was researched and written by Ben Ward and Fred Abrahams, researchers at Human Rights Watch. The report was edited by Wilder Taylor, general counsel at Human Rights Watch, Holly Cartner, executive director of the Europe and Central Asia division, and Cynthia Brown, program director of Human Rights Watch. Invaluable production assistance was provided by Alexandra Perina and Natalia Ermolaev, associates in the Europe and Central Asia division.

Human Rights Watch would like to thank all of the individuals who were interviewed for this report. Now that many of them have returned home, we hope this report will help lead to holding accountable those who committed terrible crimes.

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Human Rights Watch Reports on Kosovo:

NATO's Use of Cluster Munitions, 5/99.
A Week of Terror in Drenica, 2/99.
Detentions and Abuse in Kosovo, 12/98.
Humanitarian Law Violations in Kosovo, 10/98.
Persecution Persists: Human Rights Violations in Kosovo, 12/96.
Human Rights Abuses of Non-Serbs in Kosovo, Sandzak & Vojvodina, 10/94.
Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo, 3/94.
Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo, 10/92.
Yugoslavia: Crisis in Kosovo, 3/90 (out of print).

For further reports and press releases, as well as the "Kosovo Human Rights Flashes," see the Kosovo pages on the HRW website: http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/kosovo98/index.htm.

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Its Europe and Central Asia division was established in 1978 to monitor and promote domestic and international compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accords. It is affiliated with the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, which is based in Vienna, Austria. Holly Cartner is the executive director; Rachel Denber is the deputy director; Elizabeth Andersen is the advocacy director; Fred Abrahams, Cassandra Cavanaugh, Julia Hall, Malcolm Hawkes, Bogdan Ivanisevic, André Lommen, Acacia Shields, and Diane Paul are research associates; Diederik Lohman is the Moscow office director, Alexander Petrov is the assistant Moscow office director; Pamela Gomez is the Caucasus office director; Marie Struthers is the Dushanbe office director; Alexander Frangos is coordinator; Liudmila Belova, Alexandra Perina, Josh Sherwin, and Natasha Zaretsky are associates. Peter Osnos is the chair of the advisory committee and Alice Henkin is vice chair.

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