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==Kosovo War==
{{see also|Kosovo War}}
Expelled [[Kosovar Albanians]] were systematically stripped of identity and property documents including [[passport]]s, [[land title]]s, [[automobile license plate]]s, [[identity card]]s and other documents.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=htfEczkCHjcC&q=%22Identity+cleansing%22&dq=%22Identity+cleansing%22&client=firefox-a&cd=12 Human geography in action, by Michael Kuby, John Harner, Patricia Gober]</ref> In conjunction with the policy of expelling [[ethnic Albanians]] from the province—"[[Operation Horseshoe]]", as it came to be known—the Yugoslav forces would confiscate all documents that indicated the identity of those being expelled. [[Physicians for Human Rights]] reports that nearly 60 percent of respondents to its survey observed Yugoslav forces removing or destroying personal identification documents.<ref>[http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/kosovo/reports/document.html Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo: An Accounting] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522100942/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/Kosovo/Reports/document.html |date=2011-05-22 }}</ref> [[Human Rights Watch]] also documented the common practice of "identity cleansing": refugees expelled toward [[Albania]] were frequently stripped of their identity documents and forced to remove the [[license plates]] from their vehicles.<ref name="Under orders">[https://books.google.com/books?id=1n8DrZg2rb8C&pg=PA6 Under orders: war crimes in Kosovo]</ref> This criminal practice suggesting the government was trying to block their return.<ref name="Under orders"/>
In addition to confiscating the relevant documents from their holders, efforts were also made to destroy any actual [[birth record]]s (and other archives) which were maintained by governmental agencies, so as to make the "cleansing" complete<ref>[http://belgrade.usembassy.gov/policy/regional/030331.html Human Rights Practices - 2002] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060923021126/http://belgrade.usembassy.gov/policy/regional/030331.html |date=September 23, 2006 }}</ref> (this latter tactic sometimes being referred to as "archival cleansing"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=d1deR-jiYJgC&pg=PA64&dq=%22archival+cleansing%22&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22archival%20cleansing%22&f=false Libricide: the regime-sponsored destruction of books and libraries in the twentieth century, by Rebecca Knuth]</ref>).
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