Kosovo
Casualties
Casualties[1] |
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All known casualties (between 1999 and 2017) |
580 mine/unexploded remnants of war (ERW) casualties: 117 killed and 463 injured |
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Casualties in 2017 |
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Annual total |
4 |
Increase from 1 in 2016 |
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Survival outcome |
4 injured |
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Device type causing casualties |
2 antipersonnel mine; 2 ERW |
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Civilian status |
4 civilian |
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Age and gender |
0 adults |
4 children: 3 boys; 1 girl |
Cluster munition casualties
At least 205 cluster munition casualties have been recorded in Kosovo. Between 1999 and the end of 2014, 180 casualties from incidents involving unexploded submunitions were reported. The most recent unexploded submunition casualties were recorded in 2014, when two casualties occurred.[5] An additional 25 casualties, which occurred during cluster munition strikes in 1999, were also recorded.[6]
[1] Casualty data for 2017 is based on emails from Ahmet Sallova, Head, Kosovo Mine Action Center (KMAC), 17 March 2017, and 22 February 2018; and from Ash Boddy, Regional Director Europe, HALO Trust, 12 March 2018.
[2] Email from Ahmet Sallova, KMAC, 22 February 2018.
[3] Ibid., 17 March 2017.
[4] Email from Ash Boddy, HALO Trust, 12 March 2018.
[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] HI, Circle of Impact: The Fatal Footprint of Cluster Munitions on People and Communities (Brussels: HI, May 2007), p. 69.