Kosovo
Casualties and Victim Assistance
Casualties
Casualties Overview
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All known casualties by end 2014 |
574 mine/explosive remnants of war (ERW) casualties (116 killed; 458 injured) |
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Casualties in 2014 |
5 (2013: 0) |
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2014 casualties by outcome |
1 killed; 4 injured (2013: 0 killed; 0injured) |
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2014 casualties by item type |
2 unexploded submunitions; 3 ERW |
Five cluster submunition and ERW casualties were reported in Kosovo in 2014. All casualties were civilian adult men.[1]
This represented an increase from 2013 when no mine/ERW casualties were reported.[2] In 2012, seven mine/ERW casualties were identified in Kosovo in four separate incidents.[3] No casualties from antipersonnel mines in minefields have been reported in Kosovo since 2004.
Between 1999 and 2014, 574 mine/ERW casualties (116 killed; 458 injured) were identified in Kosovo. More than three quarters of all mine/ERW casualties (438 or 76%) were recorded between 1999 and 2000.[4]
Cluster munition casualties
At least 180 casualties from incidents involving unexploded submunitions were recorded between 1999 and the end of 2014. This total included two new cluster munition casualties recorded in two separate incidents in 2014.[5] An additional 25 casualties, which occurred during the cluster munition strikes in 1999, were also recorded.[6]
[1] Email from Ahmet Sallova, Head, Kosovo Mine Action Center, 4 March 2015.
[2] Email from Andrew Moore, HALO Trust, 25 June 2013.
[3] Email from Ahmet Sallova, Kosovo Mine Action Center, 30 September 2013.
[4] “List of Mine/UXO Civilian Victims in Kosovo 1999–2010,” provided by email from Bajram Krasniqi, Ministry for the Kosovo Security Force (MKSF), 21 March 2011; and email from Ahmet Sallova, Kosovo Mine Action Center, 30 September 2013.
[5] Handicap International (HI), Circle of Impact: The Fatal Footprint of Cluster Munitions on People and Communities (Brussels: HI, May 2007), p. 69; “Mine wounds two children in Kosovo,” Agence France-Presse (Pristina), 9 April 2007; “Land mine explodes in Kosovo; 4 children injured,” International Herald Tribune, 9 November 2007; email from Bajram Krasniqi, UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), 5 May 2009; and telephone interview with Bajram Krasniqi, UNMIK, 1 July 2009.
[6] Handicap International (HI), Circle of Impact: The Fatal Footprint of Cluster Munitions on People and Communities (Brussels: HI, May 2007), p. 69