A grave in Kosovo: “Unidentified.”
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Chief of the Yugoslav Army General Staff during the Kosovo war Gen. Dragoljub Ojdanic (left), Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic (center), and head of the Third Army Col. Gen. Nebojsa Pavkovic attend a ceremony in Belgrade on March 17, 2000. After the war, Milosevic promoted Ojdanic to Yugoslav Minister of Defense and Pavkovic to Chief of the General Staff. Milosevic and Ojdanic have been indicted by the war crimes tribunal.
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KLA press conference in Kosovo on March 13, 1999. Seated are Fatmir Limaj (left), member of the General Staff,Hashim Thaci (center), member of the General Staff and political representative of the KLA, and Sylejman Selimi (right), member of the General Staff and chief military commander. One month later, Selimi was replaced by Agim Ceku, a former brigadier general in the Croatian Army.
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An ethnic Albanian man surveys the destruction in Kosare (Koshare) village.
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A damaged mosque on the road between Djakovica and Prizren, July 1999.
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Graves in the Djakovica cemetery. According to witnesses, Serbian forces exhumed and moved at least seventy bodies in May 1999.
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A memorial service held in Cuska on July 18, 1999, for the forty-one ethnic Albanian men killed in the village on May 14 by Serbian security forces. Villagers are carrying photographs of the deceased.
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Second from left is a man identified as Srecko Popovic, who multiple witnesses said was a member of the Serbian security forces in Cuska, Kosovo, on May 14, the day forty-one people were executed. Third from left is a man identified as Slavisa Kastratovic, who was seen in Zahac, Kosovo, with Serbian security forces on May 14,when nineteen other men were killed. Their knowledge of the events and other members of their units would make them invaluable witnesses to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. The identities and activities of the other men in the photograph are unknown, as is the date and place of the photograph.
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The man on the right has been identified as Srecko Popovic. The date and location of this picture is unknown, as are the identities of the other men.
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The man at left has been identified as Srecko Popovic. Date and location unknown.
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A damaged home in Velika Krusa (Krusha e Madhe). According to the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, in the village “approximately 105 Kosovo Albanian men and boys were killed by the Serb police.”
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Damage from a NATO bomb along the Pristina-Pec highway.
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Seventy-three civilians died and thirty-six were injured, including this ethnic Albanian man,when NATO bombed a convoy of internally displaced persons on the road between Djakovica and Decan on April 14. “In my tractor fourteen people died,” he said.
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Elderly Serb woman waiting to depart Prizren in a convoy of fleeing Serb civilians on June 14, 1999.
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Serb children leaving Prizren with their families on June 14, 1999. Most of the Serbian population in the municipalities of Prizren, Pristina, Pec, Urosevac, and Istok fled their homes after the war due to revenge attacks.
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Ethnic Albanian children scramble atop the ruins of a Serbian Orthodox Church in Djakovica that was blown up in July 1999.
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ICTY investigators marked bullet holes in the village of Cuska.
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