In this article, we analyze the patterns of sexual violence against Albanian women during the Kosovo conflict (1998–1999) as a weapon of the Milosevic regime’s campaign of ethnic cleansing. We used a broad combination of sources: a secondary literature of history and social science, human rights reports, trial records, our oral history of survivors, interviews with advocates and psychologists handling hundreds of survivors, and a subset of survey data of reported discrete incidents of sexual violence. Our focus on Kosovo as a single-case study rich in data allowed us to discern patterns that offer important insights for understanding how women’s bodies come to be sites of militarized violence in the context of ethnic exclusion and destruction. This carries policy implications for preventing the use of sexual violence in other conflicts, or, in the case of Myanmar military’s sexual violence against Rohingya women, to offer a roadmap for the prosecution of perpetrators.

在本文中，我们分析了在科索沃冲突（1998-1999年）期间针对阿尔巴尼亚妇女的性暴力行为，这是米洛舍维奇政权进行种族清洗运动的一种武器。我们使用了多种来源：历史和社会科学的二手文献，人权报告，审判记录，幸存者的口述历史，与处理数百名幸存者的倡导者和心理学家的访谈以及报告的离散事件的调查数据的子集性暴力。我们将科索沃作为具有大量数据的单例研究的重点，使我们能够辨别出模式，这些模式为理解在种族排斥和破坏的背景下妇女的身体如何成为军事暴力场所提供了重要的见识。这对防止在其他冲突中使用性暴力有政策影响，或者