Posted by American Radio Works, a project of Minnesota Public Radio, this site examines in depth one incident of Serb atrocities against Albanians in 1999. The site employs slides, photos, audio segments, maps, and substantial print reportage to give visitors one small piece of the picture of Serb-Albanian conflict in Kosovo. There are interviews here with Serb Militia, the complete diary of a...

This week's In the News discusses the current difficulties in Kosovo. The nine resources discussed offer commentary, analysis, and news from a variety of political and cultural viewpoints. Recent clashes in Kosovo have brought to the surface long-simmering tensions in this region of Yugoslavia. Although Serbs have a strong and long-standing attachment to the region, its population is 90% ethnic...

Released on 1999 December 6, two new human rights reports from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) document extensive human rights violations in Kosovo. This page provides access to the reports, a background paper, and a press release. Totalling more than 900 pages, the reports reveal human rights abuses on both sides of the conflict. The first report "presents...

Yesterday, UN forces in Kosovo (KFOR) fired tear gas into a crowd of tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians who were attempting to march across a bridge in Mitrovica that separates the Serb and Albanian populations of this once-integrated city. The marching Albanians want to return to their neighborhoods on the Northern side, but KFOR currently is seeking to keep the two groups apart to avoid more...

This new item from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) comes from the Association's Science and Human Rights Program. The report offers a new approach to human rights analysis by "contextualizing the claims made by witnesses with analysis of objective administrative data," namely statistical records of a particular border post, official records of refugee movements, and...

This week's In the News returns to Kosovo, where humanitarian workers and government officials warn that the refugee crisis is rapidly spinning out of control. What appears to be an organized and systematic expulsion of the ethnic Albanian population from Kosovo has created the worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since World War II. According to UN refugee officials, over 220,000 persons have...