Affected Albanian settlements in Kosovo, 1998-1999
Operation Horseshoe is a plan for ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Albanians by the Serbian police and the Yugoslav army , so named by the Bulgarian government [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] . Allegations that this plan has actually been implemented have served as a pretext for NATO to launch the bombing of Yugoslavia during the war in Kosovo [9] .
Human Rights Watch notes that in early 1999, the Yugoslav army and the Serbian police “organizedly, using state resources,” carried out a widespread violent action against Albanian citizens in order to expel them from Kosovo and thus maintain political control over Belgrade [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Ramet, Sabrina P. Thinking about Yugoslavia: Scholarly Debates about the Yugoslav Breakup and the Wars in Bosnia and Kosovo . Cambridge University Press (December 8, 2005). Date of treatment December 14, 2018.
- ↑ Florian Bieber, Zidas Daskalovski. Understanding the War in Kosovo . Taylor & Francis (April 1, 2003). Date of treatment December 14, 2018.
- ↑ Raju GC Thomas. Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention . Lexington Books (October 27, 2017). Date of treatment December 14, 2018.
- ↑ David N. Gibbs. First Do No Harm: Humanitarian Intervention and the Destruction of Yugoslavia . Vanderbilt University Press (October 27, 2017).
- ↑ Kosovo one year later: from Serb repression to NATO-sponsored ethnic cleansing . spectrezine.org . Date of treatment February 17, 2018.
- ↑ Peter Schwarz. "Operation Horseshoe" - propaganda and reality . World Socialist Web Site (July 29, 1999). Date of treatment February 17, 2018.
- ↑ Samuel Totten, Paul Robert Bartrop, Steven L. Jacobs. Dictionary of Genocide: MZ Greenwood Publishing Group (October 27, 2017).
- ↑ Tom Gallagher. The Balkans in the New Millennium: In the Shadow of War and Peace . Routledge (October 27, 2017).
- ↑ Milošević and Operation Horseshoe (English) // The Guardian : newspaper. - 1999 .-- 18 July.
- ↑ Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo (Human Right Watch report)