Exodus’99:
In the spring of 1999, Serbian forces – then led by Slobodan Milosevic – organized and carried out systematic killings of some 13,000 Kosova Albanian civilians; destroyed over 120,000 of their homes; raped about 20,000 Albanian women and girls, killed over 1,300 children and forcibly expelled and deported nearly 1 million Albanians to Albania and Macedonia.
The mass deportation, ie the Exodus’99, is illustrated through the photographs of Asllan Krasniqi, who travelled from Brussels to Macedonia and Albania to witness with his camera these tragic events of this difficult period of Kosova Albanians who were placed on the borders of existence by Serbia army, police and paramilitaries.
The NATO intervention ended the war on June 12 and brought freedom to Kosova and enabled Albanians to return to their homeland.
Asllan Krasniqi’s photographs also illustrate post-war period in which Kosova Albanians rebuild their lives from scratch.
