The ethnic cleansing of Kosovo had begun on March 25, the day after the start of the NATO bombing on Yugoslavia.
These rare film footage of the Albanian exodus have been broadcast by the French TF1 television.
The video shows columns of hundreds of Pristina Albanians leaving the country to flee to Macedonia.
During the armed conflict in 1998, the Yugoslav Army and Serbian police used excessive and random force, which resulted in property damage, the displacement of the population and the death of civilians. Belgrade unleashed the alleged Operation Horseshoe in the Summer of 1998, in which hundreds of thousands of Albanians were driven from their homes.