Young ethnic Albanian refugees from Kosovo wait for a bus to unload at the Stenkovec Refugee Camp near Skopje, Macedonia , April 23, 1999
𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 & 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘉𝘺 𝘈𝘮𝘪 𝘝𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘦
#KosovoWillNeverForget

21 April 1999. An Italian NATO soldier carries a small refugee baby from Kosovo during an evacuation outside Kukes.

𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘&𝙲𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝙲𝙷𝚁𝙸𝚂𝚃𝙾𝙿𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙸𝙼𝙾𝙽/𝙰𝙵𝙿

22 April 1999.Two ethnic Albanian refugee children turn back to look at the photographer as they cross with their family into Albania on the border checkpoint of Morina,near Albanias town of Kukes.

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 & 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘕𝘑𝘈 𝘕𝘐𝘌𝘋𝘙𝘐𝘕𝘎𝘏𝘈𝘜𝘚/𝘈𝘍𝘗

During the Kosovo war in April (21)1999, Serbian forces seized 16 men and boys from the same family, murdered them and hid their remains in a secret mass grave .
Safet Mirena shows where Serbian forces abducted this relatives.
Photo & Caption by Ejup Gojnovci/BIRN.

20 April 1999. An ethnic Albanian refugee child reaches out for bread in the center of Kukes, a northern Albanian border town.
#KosovoWillNeverForget
𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚢 𝙰𝙽𝙹𝙰 𝙽𝙸𝙴𝙳𝚁𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙷𝙰𝚄𝚂/𝙰𝙵𝙿

A young girl looks at the pictures of 53 people killed by Serbian security forces on April 17,1999 in the village of Poklek near the town of Drenas, to mark the 25th anniversary of Poklek massacre. April 17, 2024.

𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 &𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘕𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘪/𝘈𝘍𝘗

19 April 1999.Gravedigger digs a new grave at a cemetery in Kukes, a northern Albanian border town.Many ethnic Albanian refugees were already buried here in the past three weeks,after dying when reaching Albania.
𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 & 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘈𝘯𝘫𝘢 𝘕𝘪𝘦𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘩𝘢𝘶𝘴

Kosovar Albanian refugee in a camp in Blace North Macedonia.
15 April,1999 .
𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘 𝚋𝚢 𝙽𝚊𝚖 𝙷𝚞𝚗 𝚂𝚄𝙽𝙶

12 April 1999. An eldery Kosovar woman cries upon her arrival at the Stenkovec refugee camp in Macedonia . The Stenkovec camp was set up by NATO troops holding more than 26,000 Kosovar refugees.
𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘 & 𝙲𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝙴𝚁𝙸𝙲 𝙵𝙴𝙵𝙴𝚁𝙱𝙴𝚁𝙶 / 𝙰𝙵𝙿

Two Kosovo Albanian boys playing football with a British NATO soldier in the Brazda refugee camp,Republic of Macedonia. April 8,1999.

𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘 & 𝙲𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝚈𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚒𝚜 𝙺𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚘𝚜/𝚂𝚢𝚐𝚖𝚊

April 1999,Albania.
Fear and sadness shows in the faces of Kosovars expelled from their country.

𝙿𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚘 & 𝙲𝚊𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚋𝚢 𝙱𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚛𝚍 𝙱𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚗/𝚂𝚢𝚐𝚖𝚊

A refugee girl from Kosovo,Emira Berisha (5) is embraced by her mother Kimete in the military hospital in Tirana 06 April 1999. Emira's left leg was hit by Serbian gun fire.
Photo & Caption 𝚋𝚢 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚙𝚙𝚘 𝙼𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚎/𝙰𝙵𝙿
#KosovoWillNeverForget

On April 5,1999,Serbian forces entered village of Rezalla near Skenderaj and killed 98 ethnic Albanian civilians.
One day after,Serbs returned to take the bodies away, transporting many of them to mass graves near Raska in southern Serbia in an attempted cover-up operation.

A woman carrying a baby arrives in Albania 03 April 1999 with fellow ethnic Albanian refugees fleeing Serb repression in Kosovo via the tiny border crossing of Pashtriku,north of Kukes.
𝘗𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 & 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘦𝘭 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘦/𝘈𝘍𝘗