VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO: Who's Killing Whom? (ICG Balkans Report N°78)
VIOLENCE IN KOSOVO: Who's Killing Whom? (ICG Balkans Report N°78)

Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Inter-Ethnic Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: ICG International Crisis Group
Keywords: Bujar Bukoshi; KLA; KFOR; Roma in Kosovo; Gorani in Kosovo;
Summary/Abstract: In protest at the formation of the KPC, Kosovo Serb leaders walked out of the UN-backed Transitional Council saying that the transformation of the KLA into the KPC had "violated the declared multiethnic nature of Kosovo".5 Kosovo Serb leader, Momcilo Trajkovic, claimed that: "As long as the decision on the formation of the Kosovo Protection Corps was not withdrawn, then the Kosovo Serbs would not return to the Council, nor would they cooperate with those that were the creators of the transformation of the KLA."6 Some Kosovo Serb leaders have also put forward the idea of forming a rival “Serb Protection Force,” though that idea has been rejected by the international community, which insists that the KPC will include 10% minorities.7 The question remains who is doing the killing and, in consequence, furthering the destabilisation of Kosovo? NATO and the UN blame most of the crimes on a small number of extremists. That assumption appears plausible, but there are several distinct groups who may, for different reasons, be responsible for most, or part of, the continuation of violence in Kosovo. They are: radicalised ethnic Albanians; the KLA8; criminals from Albania proper; participants in internal ethnic Albanian conflict; and Serb paramilitary groups,

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