Unetchac Observatory on the Field
Kosovo
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Following extensive destruction, uprooting, and fatalities, the Kosovo War (1998–1999) brought in NATO intervention and the creation of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK). Due to geopolitical reasons, Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia was recognized by a number of nations but is still not widely accepted.
"Following local statistics, during the last war (?) 1,230 children killed and 1,647 people are still missing and among them there are many children.
About 20,000 people were raped during the war in Kosovo, among whom 135 were children".
ph.©Sovran Hoti, Children massacred during the Kosovo war.
(Children massacred during the Kosovo War. A thread through pictures! 23 years ago, on this day, Apr.17,2022, 53 Albanians were killed by Serb policemen in what's known as the Poklek massacre, in Old Poklek, Drenas. 23 amongst them were children from 6-months-old to 13.
Available at: https://twitter.com/thisissovran/status/1515622308974583809)
Documentary by Olena Krytska, July 2023
The exhibition "Ones upon a time and never again", organized by the Documentation Centre at the Humanitarian Law Centre Kosovo in 2020, is a memorial dedicated to all the children killed and missing in the war. Within the exhibition, 1133 names have been listed, 1024 children killed, 109 children missing. Humanitarian Law Center Kosovo has published the names in daily newspaper "Danas". Click here to learn more about the initiative
INSTITUTIONAL DATA
Kosovo - The "Kosovo Memory Book 1998-2000", Humanitarian Law Center, Kosovo
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1024 children killed and 109 missing.
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132 schools were destroyed and burned and another 873 schools were damaged.
