June of 2024 marked 25 years since the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 brought an end to the humanitarian crisis in Kosovo. June of 2024 also marked the 25th anniversary of the first British forces to lose their lives in the aftermath of the conflict.
Staff Sergeant Balaram Rai, 35, and Lieutenant Gareth Evans, 25, with the 69th Gurkha Field Squadron, 36th Engineer Regiment, were killed June 21, 1999, by unexploded ordnance they were attempting to clear from a school. The incident occurred 14 miles west of Pristina in Negrovce, Kosovo, where a British memorial stands today.
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