Background/Overview to
Kosovo Genocide and Conflict

Memorandum on Kosova and the Albanian Question in Former Yugoslavia. Association of Philosophers and Sociologists of Kosova, (December 1991)

Albanian Language Education in Kosova 1990-1998. Commission for Education of Democratic League of Kosova, (12 August 1999)

Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to Resolutions 1160 (1998), 1199 (1998) and 1203 (1998) of the Security Council. UN, (17 March 1999)

Includes information on human rights violations 30 January -17 March 1999

Resolution 1203
Resolution 1199
Resolution 1160

A Final Solution. Kosova Crisis Center/The New Republic. (Accessed 25 May 1999)

Memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986

Ethnic Cleansing of Kosovo is Sixth Wave of Crime Against Albanians in 100 Years. Zeljko Kruselj/Vecernji list (27 April 1999)

Report on the Violation of Human Rights and Freedoms in Kosova in the Course of 1998. Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms. (22 January 1999)

Preventing War in Kosovo. TFF Report from 1992.

The United States and the war in the Balkans: On the road to catastrophe. Editorial Board/WSWS (06 April 1999)

Report on Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Kosovo in 1998. February 1999

The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism (off site) -Lectures by Steven W Sowards

The lectures mirrored here are part of a series of twenty five written by Steven Sowards of Michigan State University.  They are those that I consider most immediately relevant in the context of the genisis of the current conflict in Kosovo and its wider historical setting. However, the informed reader will no doubt wish to access others available at the source site. Please note also the terms of use.

Lecture No. 15: The Balkan causes of World War I
Lecture No. 16: The legacies of 1917 and 1919
Lecture No. 24: The failure of Balkan Communism and the causes of the Revolutions of 1989
Lecture No. 25: The Yugoslav civil war

The Albanians in Yugoslavia in the light of historical documents. S.S.Juka (1984)

The Anatomy of a Purge. Washington Post, (11 April 1999)

Kosovo Crisis Background. United States Information Agency. (Accessed 11 April 1999)

Excerpts: Statements on Causes of Humanitarian Crisis in Kosovo. United States Information Agency, (06 April 1999)

Albanians in Kosovo: Prospects for the Future.  O B Jones. 1994 (off site)

Background to Kosovo Conflict. Patrick Moore RFE/RL (2 April 1999)

Security Council Resolution 1207 (1998)/Kosovo. UN, (17 November 1998)

Security Council Resolution 1199 (1998)/Kosovo. UN, (23 September 1998)

Security Council Resolution 1160 (1998)/Kosovo. UN, (31 March 1998)

Security Council Resolution 1203 (1998)/Kosovo. UN, (24 October 1998)

War Crimes in Kosovo. Powers of ICTY. View of Human Rights Watch.

The Crisis in Kosovo: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms, A-I. USIA.

The Crisis in Kosovo: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms, J-R. USIA.

The Crisis in Kosovo: Glossary of Acronyms and Terms, S-Z. USIA.

Kosovo-Metohija: The Serbo-Albanian Conflict. Dusan T Batakovic.

Albania's Golgotha: Indictments of the Exterminators of the Albanian People

Imperialist war in the Balkans and the decay of the petty-bourgeois left. Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International/WSWS, (14 December 1995)

Expulsions of Albanians and Colonisation of Kosova.   Institute of History, Prishtina

The Serb Blueprint for Cleansing Kosova, Voislav Seselj, October 1995