NATO Airstrikes In Kosovo

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By 1992 the Federation had
collapsed and nationalism dominated the Balkans again. Conflicts between
different nations broke out sporadically.

Now let's look at the sequence of the Kosovo crisis. In 1989 Serbian
leader Slobodan Milosevic cancelled Kosovo's autonomy for Albanians who
constituted the majority population in Kosovo wanted to independent. The
Kosovo assembly approved this measure and street violence began to break
out. In Feb. 1990 in order to put down the more and more serious violent
clashes in Kosovo, Yugoslavia sent troops, tanks, warplanes and 2000
police to Kosovo. In July, ethnic Albanian legislators in the province
declared independence. Milosevic dissolved Kosovo's assembly. In 1991 the
Bosnian War broke out. Neighbouring Albania's parliament recoginzed Kosovo
as an independent republic which encouraged Abanian separatists . The
violence between Albanians and the police and army became more and more
serious. In 1996 the secret separatist group ...

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give new diplomatic
resolutions for Kosovo crisis. Despite these efforts made by the
international community both sides could not keep calm and the situation in
Kosovo was deteriorating. On 20 March 1999 the UN monitoring force was
withdrawn from the region. NATO gave Milosevic the last notice. Milosevic
ignored NATO's warning and NATO began airstrikes on Yugoslavia to force
Milosevic to accept following conditions:

1. a stop to all military action and the immediate ending of violence and
repression

2. the withdrawal from Kosovo of the Yugoslav military, police and
paramilitary forces

3. the stationing in Kosovo of an international presence

4. the unconditional and safe return of ...

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