Reading lists

Oral testimony: individual memory, not verified fact. The archive itself acknowledges the interviewer's influence and that translation is “another layer of representation”.

An intergovernmental report. After 20 March it relies on refugee statements taken outside Kosovo, so the experiences of internally displaced people and areas with few refugees are under-represented.

Adopted at the 4011th meeting on 10 June 1999: it establishes international civil (UNMIK) and security (KFOR) presences under UN auspices, provides for “substantial autonomy within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia” during the interim period, and for the demilitarisation of the KLA.

A project by non-governmental organisations with a public methodology evaluated by HRDAG. Figures are updated over time; always cite them with date and version.

A single-author synthesis written before and during the 1998–1999 crisis; contested in Serbian historiography (the SANU Institute of History published a response volume in 2000).

A single-author synthesis written before and during the 1998–1999 crisis; contested in Serbian historiography (the SANU Institute of History published a response volume in 2000).

A history of Kosovo focused on Serb–Albanian relations up to the 1990s.

An author with extensive field reporting experience; the book's contents were not inspected when the record was verified.

Reviews quoted by the publisher call it “sympathetic to the Kosovar cause” and written largely from the insurgents' perspective. The author knew many of the leaders personally.

An international human rights organisation working from field interviews. The report itself warns that the killings it documents (3,453) are a floor, not an estimate.

An intergovernmental report. After 20 March it relies on refugee statements taken outside Kosovo, so the experiences of internally displaced people and areas with few refugees are under-represented.

Authors from a US think tank, focused on Western decision-making; Daalder later served as US Ambassador to NATO.

The same report as “oup-book-26245”; a second record for citations referring to the Commission as author.

The official page of the case against six senior political, military and police officials for crimes in Kosovo in 1999, with the trial judgment (26 February 2009) and the appeal judgment (23 January 2014).

The official page of the case concerning the Llapushnik prison camp (1998), with the trial judgment (30 November 2005) and the appeal judgment (27 September 2007).

The official page of the case against Serbia's Assistant Minister of Internal Affairs, including findings on the concealment of bodies at Batajnica, Petrovo Selo and Lake Perućac.

A copy hosted by a participating government; it carries no date, signature block or indication of which parties signed.

A field-mission report under the UNMIK framework, focused on postwar violence. It should be read together with Volume I.

Independent statistical experts, commissioned by the database owner. It evaluates enumeration completeness, not perpetrator responsibility.

A journalistic and educational presentation anchored in ICTY material; it reflects only what was investigated and adjudicated (the site itself notes the ICTY covered only a small part of the killings).

Selection and introduction reflect an international-law perspective; documents run to 1999/2000.