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Ethnic cleansing
Serbian and other non-Albanian refugees
During the
Kosovo War, over 90,000 Serbian and other non-Albanian refugees fled the war-torn province. In the days after the Yugoslav Army withdrew, over 164,000 Serbs (around 75%) and 24,000 Roma (around 85%) left Kosovo and many of the remaining civilians were victims of abuse.
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Yugoslav Wars, Serbia became home to the highest number of refugees and
IDPs (including Kosovo Serbs) in Europe.
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In 2000, German
war photographer Frauke Eigen created an exhibition about the clothing and belongings of the victims of
ethnic cleansing in the Kosovo War.
[98] Eigen's photographs were taken onsite during the
exhumation of
mass graves, and were later used as evidence by the
War Crimes Tribunal in
The Hague.
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According to a 2001 report by
Human Rights Watch (HRW):
In 2007, tens of thousands of Serbs were preparing to flee the province of Kosovo, packing their bags, fearing a new wave of "ethnic cleansing" at the hands of the Kosovo's new Albanian-led administration.
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