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In recent years ethnic cleansing within Europe has occurred in portions of former Yugoslavia. The ethic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia is part of a complex pattern of ethnic diversity in the region of southeastern Europe know as the Balkan Peninsula.

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NATO's involvement and Operation Allied Force

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NATO's involvement and Operation Allied Force

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NATO believed that the Kosovo War was a humanitarian war, so they began to push troops into Kosovo. The biggest controversy of the war came from NATO, when they decided to bomb the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from March 23rd to June 10th, 1999, killing between 489 to 528 people, as well as destroying many civilian structures.

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The Kosovo Liberation Army was ethnic army, accepting only Albanians into the army. Their goal was to cleanse those who were not Albanian from Kosovo. This caught the attention of the ethnicities targeted, as well as NATO, who eventually joined the war.

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90% of Kosovar Albanians displaced during the war (848,000–863,000 expelled from Kosovo, 590,000 Kosovar Albanians displaced within Kosovo)

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The war has started after KLA attacked Likoshan, that located in Drenica Valley. 16 fighters, and 4 Serb policeman were killed

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WW1 is an example of Balkanization because of the various nationalities in the Balkans dragged in the larger powers with which they had alliances.

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The process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities

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This is a term that was used to describe a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was made up of so many different ethnicities with long standing anger towards each other

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In 1987 David Binder wrote in The New York Times about the growing ethnic tension in Yugoslavia and rising nationalism among Albanians in Kosovo

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An armed conflict in Kosovo that lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which controlled Kosovo before the war, and the Kosovo Liberation Army, with air support from NATO