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Pierre Bunel, a French military officer in the Balkans was promptly returned to France and retired, after it was found out that he leaked NATO secret military plans for Kosovo to the Serbs. This, of course, although very sad, comes as no surprise, since evidence of French intelligence aiding Serbs date back to the times of UNPROFOR in Bosnia. Earlier in 1998, Herve Gourmelon, another French military officer, according to the U.S. press, warned Radovan Karadzic about a possible action against him (taking him to The Hague War Crimes Tribunal). Paris denied the story, but Gourmelon, whose duties involved maintaining relations with Serb extremists, was still returned to France.
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As important, no one appears to really be trying to recover all of the Kosovo war's reported victims. Of the eight human rights organizations most prominent in Kosovo, none is specifically tasked with recovering victims and determining the cause of death. These groups instead are interviewing refugees and survivors to obtain testimony on human rights violations, sanitizing wells and providing mental health services to survivors. All of this is important work. But it is not the recovery and counting of bodies.
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Will the future of NATO and the UN be determined by the outcome of the War Crimes Tribunals of Bosnia and Kosovo? Several Bosnia war criminals have been convicted. Now that you have a basic understanding of recent events in the Balkans, continue your understanding by following the developments of the KosovoWar Crimes Tribunal.
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NATO forces ejected Serbia from Kosovo in 1999, severing Belgrade’s control over what Serbs view as their homeland. To make a very long and painful story more manageable, most Serbs believe they are not to blame for the Yugoslav wars and instead that they have been the victims of relentless punishment by both the West and their immediate Balkan neighbors. They see Kosovo as simply the latest in a long line of humiliations and now the de facto ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo is pushing the government to the brink.
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The following chronology traces the roots of the war in Kosovo from Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power in the late 1980s and through the diplomatic gambles and military threats that failed to head off the conflict. It charts the escalation of the air war with Serbia and the steps that finally led to NATO's victory in early June 1999.
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After the war ended, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1244 that placed Kosovo under transitional UN administration (UNMIK) and authorized KFOR, a NATO-led peacekeeping force. Resolution 1244 ... delivered that Kosovo will have autonomy within Federal Republic of Yugoslavia[20] (today legal successor of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is Republic of Serbia).
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