Academic monograph
Kosovo: A Short History
Noel Malcolm
- Language
- English
- Evidentiary function
- Scholarly analysis
Source registry
Documents
No source is correct simply because it is Albanian, Serbian, international or governmental. For each source we state its type, its function as evidence, its perspective, its limitations and how to access it.
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Three sources to get to know the subject
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- Institutional report
The Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned
Independent International Commission on Kosovo
- Language
- English
- Evidentiary function
- Scholarly analysis
- Human-rights report
Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo
Fred Abrahams, Benjamin Ward
- Language
- English, Albanian, Serbian
- Evidentiary function
- Contemporaneous report
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Court record
Summary of Trial Judgment in Specialist Prosecutor v. Hashim Thaçi, Kadri Veseli, Rexhep Selimi, and Jakup Krasniqi (KSC-BC-2020-06)
The trial judgment summary read in court by Trial Panel II: findings on the armed conflict, the war crimes of which all four accused were convicted, the acquittal on crimes against humanity, and the sentences.
Press statement
Hashim Thaçi and co-defendants found guilty of war crimes
Official announcement of the trial judgment in Thaçi et al.
Contemporary journalism
Hague Court Convicts Kosovo Liberation Army Leaders of War Crimes
Same-day report on the pronouncement of the trial judgment in Thaçi et al.
Contemporary journalism
Hague Prosecutors Seek Six Years for Kosovo's Thaçi for Obstructing Justice
Report on the closing statements in case KSC-BC-2023-12.
Contemporary journalism
Kosovo Detains Third Suspect as Mass Grave Probe Expands in North
An article citing the number of people still missing according to the IKKL report of 29 July 2026.
Contemporary journalism
Kosovo war crimes trial opens against fugitive Serbs
A wire report on the opening in Prishtina of an in-absentia trial over Reçak and on the position of Serbian officials.
Contemporary journalism
Raporti preliminar i IKKL-së dokumenton 13,227 viktima si pasojë e luftës në Kosovë
A report on the preliminary list published by the Institute for Crimes Committed during the War (IKKL) of those killed, forcibly disappeared and deceased from war wounds, 1998–2000.
Documentation portal
Dubrava Prison → 116 → State Crime
An HLC documentary chronology of the events at Dubrava prison, 19–24 May 1999.
Contemporary journalism
Delay to Thaçi War Crimes Verdict Draws Criticism in Kosovo
Report on the extension of the deadline for pronouncing the judgment and reactions in Kosovo.
Press statement
Odgovor na netačne navode Shkëlzena Gashija i organizatora izložbe „Masakri na Kosovu 1998–1999“
An HLC statement claiming that panels of the exhibition “Massacres in Kosovo 1998–1999” wrongly classified detainees killed in Dubrava and the victims of Meja as “armed persons” and misused HLC data; it asks for the exhibition to be removed in its current form.
Contemporary journalism
Kosovo Retrial Again Finds Ex-Policeman Guilty Over Village Massacre
Report on the retrial judgment against Muhamet Alidemaj.
Press statement
Pjetër Shala's appeal against Reparation Order denied
Announcement that the appeal against the reparation order was dismissed.
Contemporary journalism
36th anniversary of LDK's establishment
An anniversary article on the founding of the LDK, with the date and names of founders.
Memoir
Girlhood at War
An account of a girl's childhood during the Kosovo war and after: expulsion from home, displacement, and work as a 13-year-old interpreter for US NATO troops after June 1999, interpreted by a scholar of international relations.
Institutional report
Buletini: Aktgjykimet e periudhës janar – qershor 2025
HLCK newsletter summarising war crimes judgments in Kosovo's courts in the first half of 2025 (including the Alidemaj and Milosavljević cases).
Press statement
Appeals Panel pronounces Judgment in the Pjetër Shala case
Announcement of the appeal judgment affirming the convictions and reducing the sentence to 13 years.
Contemporary journalism
Underground History: BIRN's Reporting House Marks Kosovo Mine's Centenary
An article on the centenary of the Trepça mine, with a paragraph on the 1989 hunger strike.
Edited volume
Kosova 1989–1999 – Organizimi dhe qëndresa për çlirim
Proceedings of a scholarly conference held in Prishtina on 13–14 June 2024: 33 papers on Milošević-era policy, Kosovo's diplomacy, the KLA, the diaspora, NATO's air campaign and humanitarian aid, each freely available as a PDF.
Conference paper
Periodizimi i krijimit dhe i zhvillimit të Ushtrisë Çlirimtare të Kosovës
A conference paper (pp. 159–167) proposing thirteen periods in the pre-history and history of the KLA, starting with the events of 1981 and the founding of the LPK, and arguing that the KLA was created and developed by the LPK.
Conference paper
Burimet bibliografike për luftën e Kosovës: statistika, raporte dhe ditarë lufte
A paper (pp. 559–572) summarising a bibliographic survey of books on the Kosovo war in 45 libraries across 43 countries, with a review of the most-cited reports (HRW, OSCE, the Independent International Commission, KMDLNJ, the Kosovo Memory Book) and a typology of war diaries.