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KLA Kosovo Liberation Army

Why was the KLA created?

What is the KLA?

What was the role of the KLA?

  • An ethic-Albanian paramilitary organization which sought the separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia during the 1990s.
  • They grew out of independence demonstration staged in the early 1980s by Kosovo's ethic Albanian majority.
  • Formed in 1991.
  • The KLA was created due to racial tension between Albanians and Serbians.
  • Tensions were created when Slobodan Milosevic was elected president of Serbia. He replaced all Albanians officials with Seriban officials.
  • Yugoslavian civil war ends but Kosovo's issues wasn't solved.
  • Founded in the early 1990s but began activly engaging in coordinated attacks in 1996, targeting several Serbian police stations.
  • In 1997 the KLA made its first public statement which was a call to arms outlining the KLA's objectives which included the secession of Kosovo from Serbia.
  • Reports of massacres by the Serbians police only increased support for the KLA which attracted thousands of new recruits.
  • They tried to over throw the government and create their own Albanian ran government.

The end of the KLA.

  • Eventually NATO intervened and brought delegations from the Serbian government and from kosovo into truce negotiations.
  • The Kosovar delegation, lead by a KLA leader, was eventually persuaded to sign the treaty, but the Serbian delegation refused.
  • In June of 1999 Yugoslavia agreed to terms of peace ending the bombing campaign directed by NATO.

By: Harley George and Raven Pepperday!

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