Failure to protect: Anti-minority violence in Kosovo, March 2004

This 66-page report documents the widespread attacks against Serbs, Roma, Ashkali (Albanian-speaking Roma) and other minorities that took place in Kosovo on March 17-18. Human Rights Watch details the near-complete collapse during the crisis of Kosovo's security institutions - the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR), international civilian police from the UN Interim Administration Mission to Kosovo (UNMIK), and the locally-recruited Kosovo Police Service (KPS). Based on numerous interviews with minority victims and security officials, the report provides a detailed - and previously unavailable - account of what happened in dozens of communities during the riots.