Ndërhyrja ushtarake e Nato-s në Kosovë: rast precedent apo përjashtim?

In the aftermath of the Cold War, human rights violations and international humanitarian law were considered an international issue rather than simply as a domestic issue. This gave the international community and international organizations a basis to take action and intervene in cases where a state or an entity is either incapable or unwilling to protect its own people, or is actively persecuting them. However, in the case of Kosovo, NATO intervention against Serbian on March 1999 targets took place with the prior authorization of the Security Council, due to the Russian threat to use its veto power. A year before, the Security Council had Adopted three Resolutions 1160 (March 1998), 1199 (September 1998) and 1203 (October 1998) through which it condemned the repressive campaign and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo by Serbian security forces. Witnessing the Serb regime’s grave violation of human rights and genocide in Bosnia in 1995, the international community had a strong reason to believe that the same would happen in Kosovo if a humanitarian intervention would not take place. This happened due to two main reasons: first, because the International Community had already gathered evidence that Milosevic’s government started implementing the “horseshoe” operation, through which all ethnic Albanians from Kosovo would be displaced and moved out of their homes to neighboring countries and elsewhere, to create a “lebensraum” for the Serb minority in Kosovo and second, due to the fact that NATO’s credibility and South Eastern Europe’s security were at stake. NATO’s intervention in Kosovo is legitimate also because of these factors: Belgrade’s direct violation of previous Security Council resolutions which referred to Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter; warnings from the International Community on the dangers of a humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo; threatening of peace and security in the region and also because it was impossible to pass another resolution on the matter due to continuous veto and resistance from ...