Independent International Commission on Kosovo

The Independent International Commission on Kosovo (IICK)[1] was a commission established in August 1999, in the aftermath of the Kosovo War, by the government of Sweden on the basis of the initiative of its Prime Minister Göran Persson.[2][3] The Commission assessed that NATO bombing of Yugoslavia was "illegal but justified", in order to prevent further atrocities by Yugoslav forces, which intensified during the NATO bombing. The crisis had been caused by ongoing human-rights violations by Yugoslav forces in Kosovo during the 1990s, although when some Kosovar Albanians shifted from unarmed to armed resistance, this exacerbated the Yugoslav response which included many crimes against humanity.[4] The commission also reported that international presence established in Kosovo did not prevent Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and other Albanians to ethnically cleanse Kosovo ethnic minorities.

The decision of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) not to open an investigation against NATO was widely criticized.

  1. ^ Thomas G. G. Weiss (23 April 2012). Thinking about Global Governance: Why People and Ideas Matter. Routledge. p. 293. ISBN 978-0-415-78193-0. Retrieved 28 February 2013.
  2. ^ Israel Yearbook on Human Rights. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 2002. p. 72. ISBN 978-90-411-1892-9. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ Reza Banakar (15 December 2010). Rights in Context: Law and Justice in Late Modern Society. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. pp. 267–. ISBN 978-1-4094-9731-8. Retrieved 25 February 2013.
  4. ^ Independent International Commission on Kosovo. "6". The Kosovo Report.