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Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic proceeds to strip rights of autonomy laid down in the 1974 constitution.
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Ethnic Albanian leaders declare independence from Serbia. Belgrade dissolves the Kosovo government.
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Sacking of more than 100,000 ethnic Albanian workers, including government employees and media workers, prompts general strike.
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Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia break away from Yugoslavia and declare their independence.
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War breaks out in the Balkans.
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An academic, Ibrahim Rugova, is elected president of the self-proclaimed republic
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1993-97 - Ethnic tension and armed unrest escalate.
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Nato gives an ultimatum to President Milosevic to halt the crackdown on Kosovo Albanians. Internationally-brokered peace talks fail. Nato launches air strikes against Yugoslavia lasting 78 days before Belgrade yields. Hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanian refugees pour into neighbouring countries, telling of massacres and forced expulsions which followed the start of the Nato campaign.
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Open conflict between Serb police and separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Serb forces launch a brutal crackdown. Civilians are driven from their homes.
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President Milosevic agrees to withdraw troops from Kosovo. Nato calls off air strikes. The UN sets up a Kosovo Peace Implementation Force (Kfor) and Nato forces arrive in the province. The KLA agrees to disarm. Serb civilians flee revenge attacks
