little awareness or concern has appeared for the cultural heritage belonging to kosovo albanians that was damaged during the war. the serbian government only once officially acknowledged that albanian cultural heritage had been damaged within the context of an assessment of nato war crimes, that also entailed the aerial bombing of several albanian historical monuments. meagre legal attention toward severely damaged islamic heritage has occurred apart from the icty's documentation of destroyed and damaged kosovo mosques. there has been a reluctance to acknowledge damage done toward albanian cultural heritage in kosovo by the international community. the international community has viewed its mission in kosovo as a humanitarian one to provide for kosovo's populace and the issue of damaged cultural heritage has been sidelined toward focus on kosovo's "reconstruction".