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Conflict started
The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999 -
seribian police...
Serbian police conduct a series of raids in the Drenica region of Kosovo. Houses are burned, villages emptied, and dozens of ethnic Albanians killed. -
Serbs claim...
Serbs claim more than 30 ethnic Albanians are killed in a series of engagements along the border. -
Racak
The bodies of 45 people -- presumably ethnic Albanians -- are discovered in the village of Racak. -
Who Fought
It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Albanian rebel group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with air support from NATO. -
driving Albanians out of their homes...
The day after the Paris peace talks are suspended, Yugoslav armed units launch an offensive, driving thousands of ethnic Albanians out of their homes and villages, summarily executing some, displacing many others, and setting fire to many houses. -
conflict ended
war ended