NOTA: Le notizie che seguono non sono in alcun modo esaustive degli
avvenimenti nella provincia di Kosovo-Metohija, e vengono qui riportate
solo come esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
---
PREMIER ALBANESE ATTACCA LEADER UCK SU GIORNALE TEDESCO
> Spectacular
> Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano Accuses the former KLA leader, now
> a leading political leader, Ramush Haradinaj for human trafficking,
> ethnic violence and other crimes. Nano openly rejects creation of
> Greater Albania, indirectly confessing that such idea is current among
> some Kosovo Albanians.
>
> EPOKA E RE (Kosovo Albanian Daily, Pristina)
>
> Nano Against Haradinaj
>
> Berlin, 11 Sept (Epoka e Re) - Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano
> condemned the Albanian extremism in the Balkans on Wednesday, and
> refuted the idea for creating "Greater Albania."
>
> In an interview for the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine
> Zeitung", Nano told reporters that his country wants to cooperate with
> Albanian political parties in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro, but
> the purpose of this cooperation is not the creation of Greater
> Albania, but that they should all contribute to fulfill the needed
> reform in the road towards European integration.
>
> Regarding the political situation in Kosovo, Nano said, "When persons
> that possessed political protection or alibi for their involvement
> into human trafficking, ethnic violence, or other crimes, would be
> arrested, then it is a duty of all everyone in the region to oppose
> the efforts of these problematic persons to utilize the arrest in a
> political way and to "drop" the people in protests." In this context,
> Nano specifically mentioned AAK President, Ramush Haradinaj.
---
13/9: ATTENTATO DINAMITARDO CONTRO CASA DI SERBI
+++ BOMBENANSCHLAG AUF SERBISCHES HAUS +++
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA. Am gestrigen Freitag Abend haben
albanische Terroristen einen erneuten Anschlag auf
ein serbisches Haus in der Nähe von Kosovska
Kamenica verübt. Die Albaner warfen einen
Sprengsatz aus ihrem fahrenden Auto auf das Haus.
Verletze forderte der Anschlag keine. Der
UNMiK-Polizei und der KFOR gelang es nicht die
albanischen Attentäter zu verhaften.
STIMME KOSOVOS
AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER 14.9.2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
---
RIFUGIATI DAL KOSOVO - DI OGNI NAZIONALITA' - VENGONO
RISPEDITI A CASA DAI GOVERNI TEDESCO ED AUSTRIACO
Si veda:
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20021004151632345216.html
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20021003194432344618.html
+++ DEUTSCHLAND: JUGOSLAWISCHE FLÜCHTLINGE WERDEN ABGESCHOBEN
BERLIN. Der jugoslawische Innenminister Zoran Zivkovic hat heute
in Berlin mit seinem deutschen Amtskollegen Otto Schily ein
Abkommen unterzeichnet, wonach 50.000 "ausreisepflichtige"
serbische Flüchtlinge schnell abgeschoben werden sollen.
Weiterhin verpflichtete sich Zivkovic im Namen Jugoslawiens, alle
"illegale Einwanderer" aus dem Nahen Osten aufzunehmen, die über
sein Territorium nach Deutschland kamen und zukünftig kommen
werden. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation ProAsyl und die PDS
protestierten gegen dieses Abkommen, von dem auch vertriebene
Serben aus Kosovo und Metochien betroffen sind, die sich in
Deutschland aufhalten und in ihre Heimat nicht zurückkehren
dürfen. SRPSKEVESTI.COM +++
Balkan-Telegramm, 16. September 2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
---
CINQUE FERITI IN ESPLOSIONE A PRISTINA
http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/September_16/5.html
Explosion Wounds Five in Kosovo Capital, Reuters,
September 16th 2002
---
LA NATO RILASCIA DUE ARABI PRESI IN KOSMET SOSPETTATI DI TERRORISMO
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=22486108
The Times of India September 18, 2002
Nato frees 2 Algerians suspected of terrorism in Kosovo
---
AI SERBI NEGATO L'ACCESSO AL CIMITERO CAUSA RITROVAMENTO FOSSE COMUNI
KOSOVO SERBS DENIED ACCESS TO SERBIAN GRAVEYARD
About 80 graves were found in Kosovo
The exhumation of the remains that were found in an Orthodox graveyard
in Orahovac (Kosovo) will be performed without the participation of the
Serbian community in the region and without the Serbian Orthodox Church.
This was reported by Radio Jugoslavija.
Representatives of the UN civil mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) started the
official examination of the orthodox graveyard in Orahovac. A new
unknown burial site was discovered there last Thursday, which contains
about 80 graves.
Allegedly, the newly-found burial site might be a place wher the bodies
of Kosovo Serbs were buried. These people were either missing or
kidnapped. According to eyewitnesses, an UNMIK helicopter filmed the
graves after they were discovered. The official examination of the grave
started two days ago. Neither Serbs, nor the Socialist Party of Serbia
were notified, yet, the Albanians were rather active. The Belgrade
newspaper Danas reported that no access to the gravesite is allowed for
Serbs. They were not given any information about the process of the
investigation either.
Local Serbs have not been buried there since NATO's bombing in the
spring of 1999. The graveyard is situated in an Albanian area of the
town. A Serbian delegation managed to visit the graveyard on June 10th
last year. This only became possible after numerous appeals to KFOR
representatives. That visit was the first since foreing soldiers were
forces deployed in Kosovo.
The gravesite is horrible. Over 100 tombstones have been either damaged
or completely demolished. Some of the tombstones had symbols or writings
of the terrorist Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army written on them in red
paint.
Serbian priests recently noticed new graves during their visit to the
burial ground. It could be seen that these new graves appeared not long
ago. Representativs of the Socialist Party of Serbia stressed that the
bodies were not buried according to Serbian Orthodox tradition. It is
not ruled out that there is also another mass grave near a church in
Orahovac. New graves have also been found in a gypsy graveyard in
Orahovac.
According to Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the autonomous
region of Kosovo has turned into a breeding ground of international
terrorism. Albanian armed groups continue to grow stronger, and the
"international community" does nothing. Assaults on civilians in
Macedonia and on the Serbian border have increased lately as well. In
this connection, the Serbian government promised to raise the question
pertaining to the arrest of the leaders of the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army. The issue is to be touched upon within the scope of the
"war on terrorism."
Sergey Yugov
PRAVDA.Ru
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/20/36939.html
---
PROFUGHI SERBI ORGANIZZANO RIENTRO DI MASSA
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ax/Q
Serb refugees stage roadblock to demand entry to Kosovo
MERDARE, Yugoslavia, Sept 21 (AFP)
---
ONU IMPEDISCE IL RIENTRO DI MASSA DEI PROFUGHI SERBI,
COVIC ED UNMIK TIRANO IL FIATO
KOSOVO: DA MEZZANOTTE CHIUSO CONFINE CON SERBIA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 20 SET - L'amministrazione delle Nazioni Unite
per il Kosovo (Unmik) ha annunciato che, a partire dalla prossima
mezzanotte, potrebbe essere ordinata la chiusura del confine tra
Kosovo settentrionale e Serbia. La decisione, ha puntualizzato
l'Unmik, e' stata adottata per motivi di sicurezza, in vista di
una manifestazione di protesta che alcune migliaia di profughi
serbi hanno in programma per domani. I manifestanti hanno
minacciato di bloccare il posto di frontiera di Merdare per
protestare, tra l'altro, contro il loro mancato rientro in Kosovo,
da dove sono stati costretti a fuggire nel giugno del 1999, dopo
la fine della guerra. (ANSA). BLL 20/09/2002 17:55
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020920175532333696.html
KOSOVO: ANNULLATA MANIFESTAZIONE SERBI PER RIENTRO PROFUGHI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 20 SET - Il Comitato per il rientro dei profughi
serbi e montenegrini, un'associazione che raggruppa i profughi
dal Kosovo, ha annullato una manifestazione di protesta in
programma per domani al confine serbo-kosovaro. Il comitato, che
voleva organizzare un rientro in massa dei profughi serbi e
montenegrini nella provincia ora amministrata dall'Onu, e' stato
dissuaso dal vicepremier serbo Nebojsa Covic, incaricato della
questione kosovara, e dai vertici delle forze armate jugoslave e
della polizia. Stando all'agenzia Beta, ai dimostranti sono state
fornite informazioni su possibili ''provocazioni da parte albanese''
che avrebbero potuto sfociare in violenze. La questione del
rientro in Kosovo dei circa 250.000 profughi di etnia slava resta
in sospeso nonostante le insistenze di Belgrado, che si appella
alla risoluzione 1.244 dell'Onu per il ritorno di tutti i
fuoriusciti. Il leader del comitato, Miroslav Solevic, ha sottolineato
che la decisione di rinunciare alla manifestazione di domani ''non
significa che i serbi del Kosovo abbiano abbandonato la partita''.
Solevic ha chiesto un urgente incontro ''con gli ambasciatori delle
grandi potenze''.
(ANSA). OT 20/09/2002 18:36
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020920183632333798.html
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KOSOVO: SEQUESTRATO A CONFINE MACEDONE CARICO D' ARMI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA (JUGOSLAVIA), 22 SET - Un carico di armi
proveniente dalla Turchia e diretto a Pristina e' stato
sequestrato nel pomeriggio di oggi dalla polizia della Missione
delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik) al confine tra Macedonia e Kosovo:
lo ha detto all'Ansa Andrea Angeli, portavoce dell'Unmik a
Pristina. Il carico era composto da 140 mitragliette nuove
di fabbrica nascoste a bordo di un camion che trasportava
bagagli e che viaggiava al seguito di un autobus di linea
partito da Istanbul e diretto a Pristina. La polizia ha
arrestato un autista bulgaro e un kosovaro albanese che si
trovava a bordo dello stesso camion. Sono in corso indagini
per identificare i destinatari delle armi e tentare di
individuare in che modo dovevano essere impiegate.(ANSA).
BLL/ARS 22/09/2002 22:34
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020922223432334938.html
---
IN KOSOVO L'OSCE BOICOTTA LE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI JUGOSLAVE
OSCE NOT INTERESTED IN ELECTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF SERBIA IN KOSOVO
PRISTINA, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - OSCE spokesman in Pristina
Swen Lindholn said Saturday that that the organization will
neither support nor impede the elections on Sunday president
of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija. He told Tanjug that OSCE
is making preparations for the local elections due to be held
in province on October 26 and that they are not interested
in the elections for president of Serbia.
---
SEQUESTRATI SEICENTO CHILI DI MARIHUANA
IN SOUTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA SEIZED 600 KG OF MARIHUANA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - UNMIK police and
the Kosovo police service seized in the southern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica 600 kg of marihuana, international police
said Saturday. Suspected of drug possession are ethnic Albanians,
brothers Ajet and Servet Huseni, who were not present at the
time when the police searched their house. This is the largest
quantity of drugs seized in Kosovo and Metohija since 1999.
---
STUPRATE DUE GIOVANISSIME SERBE A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
STEINER CONDEMNS RAPE OF TWO GIRLS FROM NORTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) - UNMIK chief Michael Steiner
condemned in the strongest terms the kidnapping and rape of two
underage girls from the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and
underlined that international police will form a special group
to investigate the case and arrest the perpetrators of that
criminal act.
The two girls, aged 14 and 17, for which Steiner on Tuesday
said were of Serbian nationality, were kidnapped last week-end
in Kosovska Mitrovica, and then taken to Pristina, where, as it
was reported earlier, they were raped by six ethnic Albanians.
After the kidnapping, it was said that the girls were
ethnic Albanian, then on Monday UNMIK said that one was of
Serbian, and the other of Muslim nationality. Tanjug's sources
in Pristina confirmed that the girls were kidnapped from a
so-called mobile cultural container for young people aged 14-21
on Ibar bridge organized for young people to get to know each
other by the UN, under Steiner's auspices.
However, UNMIK police spokesman in Pristina Barry Fletcher
told Tanjug that the girls were kidnapped in the southern part
of Kosovska Mitrovica. Meanwhile, international police stated
that two kidnappers have been arrested - ethnic Albanians.
---
SUBENTRA COMANDO ITALIANO PER LA KFOR
Fabio Mini to replace Marcel Valentin
PRISTINA, October 4 (Tanjug) - Kosovo KFOR commander, French
Gen. Valentin Marcel, handed over office to new commander Fabio Mini
in Pristina on Friday. Mini told the press that KFOR had two tasks -
to operate in keeping with the UNMIK policy, and to rationalise the
number of soldiers in Kosovo. Mini also supported UN Kosovo mission
Michael Steiner's plan for this province. The ceremony was attended
by NATO commander in chief for South-East Europe, Gregory G. Johnson.
---
KOSOVO: STRAGE DI SERBI
T. D. F. - "il manifesto" 5 Ottobre 2002
Gli esperti delle Nazioni unite, giovedì, hanno
riesumato nel Kosovo occidentale 28 corpi trovati
sepolti vicino a un cimitero nel villaggio di
Brekovac, presso Djakovo. I cadaveri erano
contenuti in sacche della Kfor, la forza di pace
a guida Nato presente nella provincia dal giugno del
1999. Sin dall'inizio della missione Kfor, l'area
era sotto il controllo dei soldati italiani.
Le sepolture, tutte in fosse singole, risalgono
ai giorni immediatamente successivi alla fine del
conflitto. «I cadaveri sono stati trasferiti
all'obitorio di Rahovec - ha detto all'Ansa
Andrea Angeli, portavoce della missione Onu -
ora gli esperti medico legali tenteranno di identificare
le vittime e di accertarne l'etnia». Secondo
rappresentanti serbi in Kosovo - e fonti dell'Onu
da noi ascoltate direttamente -, i corpi sono di
civili serbi e rom uccisi dai miliziani albanesi
dell'Uck, quelli per cui il Tribunale dell'Aja
non esiste. Il «mistero» riguarda anche l'impiego
delle sacche nere della Kfor per la sepoltura:
quando la forza Nato giunse in Kosovo, distribuì a
privati e organizzazioni non governative quel tipo
di sacche, normalmente utilizzate per avvolgere gli
eventuali caduti in combattimento. Resta tuttavia
da capire perché chi ha provveduto alle sepolture,
non ne abbia data comunicazione alle autorità civili
che già da allora stavano indagando - a senso unico?
- sui crimini di guerra. Forse perché erano tra i
risultati, da nascondere, della grande «guerra
umanitaria».
---
MA I CORPI IN REALTA' SONO 35
REMAINS OF 35 BODIES FOUND
Belgrade, Oct 2 (Beta) - Pathologists of the Coordinating
Center for Kosovo and Metohija and UNMIK found remains
of 35 bodies, presumably of Kosovo Serbs and Roma, in the
Brekovac hamlet, near Djakovica.
The head of the Coordinating Center's exhumation bureau,
Slavisa Dobricanin, told BETA that "according to certain
items found at the site, the victims were most probably
Serbs, and it is possible that some of them were Romas".
"We also found some evidence of torture and physical abuse,
such as handcuffs," Dobricanin said and announced an
autopsy for next week, when the identity of the victims
will be known in detail.
So far, the experts of the Coordination Center have exhumed
remains of 43 Serb victims, of whom two thirds have been
identified.
REMAINS OF 35 BODIES FOUND IN KOSOVO, BELIEVED TO BELONG TO SERBS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Oct 3 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija
coordination centre and UNMIK forensic experts found in the hamlet of
Brekovac near Djakovica the remains of 35 bodies, believed to belong
to Kosovo Serbs. Head of the coordination centre's exhumation office
Slavisa Dobricanin said on Thursday that traces of torture and
abuse, including handcuffs, had been found on the bodies.
Dobricanin told the Kontakt Plus radio of Kosovska Mitrovica
that the exhumation had lasted for the past three days. "Thirty-five
bodies were exhumed. It is not completely certain, but I believe that
they belong to Serbs," Dobricanin said and added that the bodies
had been transferred to the Autopsy Centre in Orahovac and that
autopsy and identification of the bodies would be completed next
week.
---
REDZEPI ("PREMIER" DEL KOSOVO) PROMETTE L'INDIPENDENZA
+++ REDZEPI: UNABHÄNGIGKEIT MUSS ERREICHT WERDEN
PARIS/PRISTINA. Die europäische Agentur für Wiederaufbau (EAR)
wird in den kommenden drei Jahren 500 Millionen Euro Kosovo und
Metochien zukommen lassen, erklärte gestern Bajram Redzepi,
"Premier" von Kosovo und Metochien, und fügte hinzu, dass diese
Gelder für die Prioritäten der Regierung eingesetzt werden.
Heute erklärte Redzepi, dass die Unabhängigkeit Kosovo und Metochiens
"erreicht werden muss", heißt es in einer Meldung von INET-NEWS.
INET-NEWS/TANJUG +++
Balkan-Telegramm, 11.Oktober 2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
---
ATTENTATO: UCCISA MADRE DI DUE BAMBINI
+++SERBIN IM KOSOVO GETÖTET
PRISTINA. Heute wurde in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
die 43-jährige Serbin Snjezana Stankovic getötet. Sie wollte
Feldarbeit verrichten als sie auf eine von den ethnisch albanischen
Terroristen gelegte Mine getreten ist. Sie war die Mutter zweier
Kinder.
Die Serben in der Ortschaft Klokot wo die Untat geschah und wo
Snjezana Stankovic gelebt hatte, haben Proteste angekündigt. Die
NATO-Truppe KFOR und die UNMIK habe "ihr bedauern Ausgesprochen und
Ermittlungen angekündigt". Bis jetzt wurde wie schon oft niemand
verhaftet. TANJUG+++
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 15/10/2002
---
ALTRA DOCUMENTAZIONE SIGNIFICATIVA:
- SUL TRAFFICO DI BAMBINI
Trafficking in Children Still a Problem in Albania
(by A. Bala & V.O. A. Cupi)
http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/020930-ALBAN-001.htm
- SUL TRAFFICO DI DROGHE
The Balkan Route: New Trends and Old Challenges in the Fight
Against Drugs (by Emil Tsenkov)
http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/020826-EMIL-001.htm
- SULLA "PULIZIA ETNICA UMANITARIA"
The Roma and "Humanitarian" Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo
(by Sani Rifati)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Rifati_Kosovo.htm
avvenimenti nella provincia di Kosovo-Metohija, e vengono qui riportate
solo come esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
---
PREMIER ALBANESE ATTACCA LEADER UCK SU GIORNALE TEDESCO
> Spectacular
> Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano Accuses the former KLA leader, now
> a leading political leader, Ramush Haradinaj for human trafficking,
> ethnic violence and other crimes. Nano openly rejects creation of
> Greater Albania, indirectly confessing that such idea is current among
> some Kosovo Albanians.
>
> EPOKA E RE (Kosovo Albanian Daily, Pristina)
>
> Nano Against Haradinaj
>
> Berlin, 11 Sept (Epoka e Re) - Albanian Prime Minister Fatos Nano
> condemned the Albanian extremism in the Balkans on Wednesday, and
> refuted the idea for creating "Greater Albania."
>
> In an interview for the German newspaper "Frankfurter Allgemeine
> Zeitung", Nano told reporters that his country wants to cooperate with
> Albanian political parties in Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro, but
> the purpose of this cooperation is not the creation of Greater
> Albania, but that they should all contribute to fulfill the needed
> reform in the road towards European integration.
>
> Regarding the political situation in Kosovo, Nano said, "When persons
> that possessed political protection or alibi for their involvement
> into human trafficking, ethnic violence, or other crimes, would be
> arrested, then it is a duty of all everyone in the region to oppose
> the efforts of these problematic persons to utilize the arrest in a
> political way and to "drop" the people in protests." In this context,
> Nano specifically mentioned AAK President, Ramush Haradinaj.
---
13/9: ATTENTATO DINAMITARDO CONTRO CASA DI SERBI
+++ BOMBENANSCHLAG AUF SERBISCHES HAUS +++
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA. Am gestrigen Freitag Abend haben
albanische Terroristen einen erneuten Anschlag auf
ein serbisches Haus in der Nähe von Kosovska
Kamenica verübt. Die Albaner warfen einen
Sprengsatz aus ihrem fahrenden Auto auf das Haus.
Verletze forderte der Anschlag keine. Der
UNMiK-Polizei und der KFOR gelang es nicht die
albanischen Attentäter zu verhaften.
STIMME KOSOVOS
AMSELFELD NEWSLETTER 14.9.2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
---
RIFUGIATI DAL KOSOVO - DI OGNI NAZIONALITA' - VENGONO
RISPEDITI A CASA DAI GOVERNI TEDESCO ED AUSTRIACO
Si veda:
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20021004151632345216.html
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20021003194432344618.html
+++ DEUTSCHLAND: JUGOSLAWISCHE FLÜCHTLINGE WERDEN ABGESCHOBEN
BERLIN. Der jugoslawische Innenminister Zoran Zivkovic hat heute
in Berlin mit seinem deutschen Amtskollegen Otto Schily ein
Abkommen unterzeichnet, wonach 50.000 "ausreisepflichtige"
serbische Flüchtlinge schnell abgeschoben werden sollen.
Weiterhin verpflichtete sich Zivkovic im Namen Jugoslawiens, alle
"illegale Einwanderer" aus dem Nahen Osten aufzunehmen, die über
sein Territorium nach Deutschland kamen und zukünftig kommen
werden. Die Menschenrechtsorganisation ProAsyl und die PDS
protestierten gegen dieses Abkommen, von dem auch vertriebene
Serben aus Kosovo und Metochien betroffen sind, die sich in
Deutschland aufhalten und in ihre Heimat nicht zurückkehren
dürfen. SRPSKEVESTI.COM +++
Balkan-Telegramm, 16. September 2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
---
CINQUE FERITI IN ESPLOSIONE A PRISTINA
http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/September_16/5.html
Explosion Wounds Five in Kosovo Capital, Reuters,
September 16th 2002
---
LA NATO RILASCIA DUE ARABI PRESI IN KOSMET SOSPETTATI DI TERRORISMO
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=22486108
The Times of India September 18, 2002
Nato frees 2 Algerians suspected of terrorism in Kosovo
---
AI SERBI NEGATO L'ACCESSO AL CIMITERO CAUSA RITROVAMENTO FOSSE COMUNI
KOSOVO SERBS DENIED ACCESS TO SERBIAN GRAVEYARD
About 80 graves were found in Kosovo
The exhumation of the remains that were found in an Orthodox graveyard
in Orahovac (Kosovo) will be performed without the participation of the
Serbian community in the region and without the Serbian Orthodox Church.
This was reported by Radio Jugoslavija.
Representatives of the UN civil mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) started the
official examination of the orthodox graveyard in Orahovac. A new
unknown burial site was discovered there last Thursday, which contains
about 80 graves.
Allegedly, the newly-found burial site might be a place wher the bodies
of Kosovo Serbs were buried. These people were either missing or
kidnapped. According to eyewitnesses, an UNMIK helicopter filmed the
graves after they were discovered. The official examination of the grave
started two days ago. Neither Serbs, nor the Socialist Party of Serbia
were notified, yet, the Albanians were rather active. The Belgrade
newspaper Danas reported that no access to the gravesite is allowed for
Serbs. They were not given any information about the process of the
investigation either.
Local Serbs have not been buried there since NATO's bombing in the
spring of 1999. The graveyard is situated in an Albanian area of the
town. A Serbian delegation managed to visit the graveyard on June 10th
last year. This only became possible after numerous appeals to KFOR
representatives. That visit was the first since foreing soldiers were
forces deployed in Kosovo.
The gravesite is horrible. Over 100 tombstones have been either damaged
or completely demolished. Some of the tombstones had symbols or writings
of the terrorist Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army written on them in red
paint.
Serbian priests recently noticed new graves during their visit to the
burial ground. It could be seen that these new graves appeared not long
ago. Representativs of the Socialist Party of Serbia stressed that the
bodies were not buried according to Serbian Orthodox tradition. It is
not ruled out that there is also another mass grave near a church in
Orahovac. New graves have also been found in a gypsy graveyard in
Orahovac.
According to Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, the autonomous
region of Kosovo has turned into a breeding ground of international
terrorism. Albanian armed groups continue to grow stronger, and the
"international community" does nothing. Assaults on civilians in
Macedonia and on the Serbian border have increased lately as well. In
this connection, the Serbian government promised to raise the question
pertaining to the arrest of the leaders of the so-called Kosovo
Liberation Army. The issue is to be touched upon within the scope of the
"war on terrorism."
Sergey Yugov
PRAVDA.Ru
http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/20/36939.html
---
PROFUGHI SERBI ORGANIZZANO RIENTRO DI MASSA
http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ax/Q
Serb refugees stage roadblock to demand entry to Kosovo
MERDARE, Yugoslavia, Sept 21 (AFP)
---
ONU IMPEDISCE IL RIENTRO DI MASSA DEI PROFUGHI SERBI,
COVIC ED UNMIK TIRANO IL FIATO
KOSOVO: DA MEZZANOTTE CHIUSO CONFINE CON SERBIA
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 20 SET - L'amministrazione delle Nazioni Unite
per il Kosovo (Unmik) ha annunciato che, a partire dalla prossima
mezzanotte, potrebbe essere ordinata la chiusura del confine tra
Kosovo settentrionale e Serbia. La decisione, ha puntualizzato
l'Unmik, e' stata adottata per motivi di sicurezza, in vista di
una manifestazione di protesta che alcune migliaia di profughi
serbi hanno in programma per domani. I manifestanti hanno
minacciato di bloccare il posto di frontiera di Merdare per
protestare, tra l'altro, contro il loro mancato rientro in Kosovo,
da dove sono stati costretti a fuggire nel giugno del 1999, dopo
la fine della guerra. (ANSA). BLL 20/09/2002 17:55
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020920175532333696.html
KOSOVO: ANNULLATA MANIFESTAZIONE SERBI PER RIENTRO PROFUGHI
(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 20 SET - Il Comitato per il rientro dei profughi
serbi e montenegrini, un'associazione che raggruppa i profughi
dal Kosovo, ha annullato una manifestazione di protesta in
programma per domani al confine serbo-kosovaro. Il comitato, che
voleva organizzare un rientro in massa dei profughi serbi e
montenegrini nella provincia ora amministrata dall'Onu, e' stato
dissuaso dal vicepremier serbo Nebojsa Covic, incaricato della
questione kosovara, e dai vertici delle forze armate jugoslave e
della polizia. Stando all'agenzia Beta, ai dimostranti sono state
fornite informazioni su possibili ''provocazioni da parte albanese''
che avrebbero potuto sfociare in violenze. La questione del
rientro in Kosovo dei circa 250.000 profughi di etnia slava resta
in sospeso nonostante le insistenze di Belgrado, che si appella
alla risoluzione 1.244 dell'Onu per il ritorno di tutti i
fuoriusciti. Il leader del comitato, Miroslav Solevic, ha sottolineato
che la decisione di rinunciare alla manifestazione di domani ''non
significa che i serbi del Kosovo abbiano abbandonato la partita''.
Solevic ha chiesto un urgente incontro ''con gli ambasciatori delle
grandi potenze''.
(ANSA). OT 20/09/2002 18:36
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020920183632333798.html
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KOSOVO: SEQUESTRATO A CONFINE MACEDONE CARICO D' ARMI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA (JUGOSLAVIA), 22 SET - Un carico di armi
proveniente dalla Turchia e diretto a Pristina e' stato
sequestrato nel pomeriggio di oggi dalla polizia della Missione
delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik) al confine tra Macedonia e Kosovo:
lo ha detto all'Ansa Andrea Angeli, portavoce dell'Unmik a
Pristina. Il carico era composto da 140 mitragliette nuove
di fabbrica nascoste a bordo di un camion che trasportava
bagagli e che viaggiava al seguito di un autobus di linea
partito da Istanbul e diretto a Pristina. La polizia ha
arrestato un autista bulgaro e un kosovaro albanese che si
trovava a bordo dello stesso camion. Sono in corso indagini
per identificare i destinatari delle armi e tentare di
individuare in che modo dovevano essere impiegate.(ANSA).
BLL/ARS 22/09/2002 22:34
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20020922223432334938.html
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IN KOSOVO L'OSCE BOICOTTA LE ELEZIONI PRESIDENZIALI JUGOSLAVE
OSCE NOT INTERESTED IN ELECTIONS FOR PRESIDENT OF SERBIA IN KOSOVO
PRISTINA, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - OSCE spokesman in Pristina
Swen Lindholn said Saturday that that the organization will
neither support nor impede the elections on Sunday president
of Serbia in Kosovo and Metohija. He told Tanjug that OSCE
is making preparations for the local elections due to be held
in province on October 26 and that they are not interested
in the elections for president of Serbia.
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SEQUESTRATI SEICENTO CHILI DI MARIHUANA
IN SOUTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA SEIZED 600 KG OF MARIHUANA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Sept 28 (Tanjug) - UNMIK police and
the Kosovo police service seized in the southern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica 600 kg of marihuana, international police
said Saturday. Suspected of drug possession are ethnic Albanians,
brothers Ajet and Servet Huseni, who were not present at the
time when the police searched their house. This is the largest
quantity of drugs seized in Kosovo and Metohija since 1999.
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STUPRATE DUE GIOVANISSIME SERBE A KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
STEINER CONDEMNS RAPE OF TWO GIRLS FROM NORTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
PRISTINA, Oct 1 (Tanjug) - UNMIK chief Michael Steiner
condemned in the strongest terms the kidnapping and rape of two
underage girls from the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica and
underlined that international police will form a special group
to investigate the case and arrest the perpetrators of that
criminal act.
The two girls, aged 14 and 17, for which Steiner on Tuesday
said were of Serbian nationality, were kidnapped last week-end
in Kosovska Mitrovica, and then taken to Pristina, where, as it
was reported earlier, they were raped by six ethnic Albanians.
After the kidnapping, it was said that the girls were
ethnic Albanian, then on Monday UNMIK said that one was of
Serbian, and the other of Muslim nationality. Tanjug's sources
in Pristina confirmed that the girls were kidnapped from a
so-called mobile cultural container for young people aged 14-21
on Ibar bridge organized for young people to get to know each
other by the UN, under Steiner's auspices.
However, UNMIK police spokesman in Pristina Barry Fletcher
told Tanjug that the girls were kidnapped in the southern part
of Kosovska Mitrovica. Meanwhile, international police stated
that two kidnappers have been arrested - ethnic Albanians.
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SUBENTRA COMANDO ITALIANO PER LA KFOR
Fabio Mini to replace Marcel Valentin
PRISTINA, October 4 (Tanjug) - Kosovo KFOR commander, French
Gen. Valentin Marcel, handed over office to new commander Fabio Mini
in Pristina on Friday. Mini told the press that KFOR had two tasks -
to operate in keeping with the UNMIK policy, and to rationalise the
number of soldiers in Kosovo. Mini also supported UN Kosovo mission
Michael Steiner's plan for this province. The ceremony was attended
by NATO commander in chief for South-East Europe, Gregory G. Johnson.
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KOSOVO: STRAGE DI SERBI
T. D. F. - "il manifesto" 5 Ottobre 2002
Gli esperti delle Nazioni unite, giovedì, hanno
riesumato nel Kosovo occidentale 28 corpi trovati
sepolti vicino a un cimitero nel villaggio di
Brekovac, presso Djakovo. I cadaveri erano
contenuti in sacche della Kfor, la forza di pace
a guida Nato presente nella provincia dal giugno del
1999. Sin dall'inizio della missione Kfor, l'area
era sotto il controllo dei soldati italiani.
Le sepolture, tutte in fosse singole, risalgono
ai giorni immediatamente successivi alla fine del
conflitto. «I cadaveri sono stati trasferiti
all'obitorio di Rahovec - ha detto all'Ansa
Andrea Angeli, portavoce della missione Onu -
ora gli esperti medico legali tenteranno di identificare
le vittime e di accertarne l'etnia». Secondo
rappresentanti serbi in Kosovo - e fonti dell'Onu
da noi ascoltate direttamente -, i corpi sono di
civili serbi e rom uccisi dai miliziani albanesi
dell'Uck, quelli per cui il Tribunale dell'Aja
non esiste. Il «mistero» riguarda anche l'impiego
delle sacche nere della Kfor per la sepoltura:
quando la forza Nato giunse in Kosovo, distribuì a
privati e organizzazioni non governative quel tipo
di sacche, normalmente utilizzate per avvolgere gli
eventuali caduti in combattimento. Resta tuttavia
da capire perché chi ha provveduto alle sepolture,
non ne abbia data comunicazione alle autorità civili
che già da allora stavano indagando - a senso unico?
- sui crimini di guerra. Forse perché erano tra i
risultati, da nascondere, della grande «guerra
umanitaria».
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MA I CORPI IN REALTA' SONO 35
REMAINS OF 35 BODIES FOUND
Belgrade, Oct 2 (Beta) - Pathologists of the Coordinating
Center for Kosovo and Metohija and UNMIK found remains
of 35 bodies, presumably of Kosovo Serbs and Roma, in the
Brekovac hamlet, near Djakovica.
The head of the Coordinating Center's exhumation bureau,
Slavisa Dobricanin, told BETA that "according to certain
items found at the site, the victims were most probably
Serbs, and it is possible that some of them were Romas".
"We also found some evidence of torture and physical abuse,
such as handcuffs," Dobricanin said and announced an
autopsy for next week, when the identity of the victims
will be known in detail.
So far, the experts of the Coordination Center have exhumed
remains of 43 Serb victims, of whom two thirds have been
identified.
REMAINS OF 35 BODIES FOUND IN KOSOVO, BELIEVED TO BELONG TO SERBS
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Oct 3 (Tanjug) - Kosovo-Metohija
coordination centre and UNMIK forensic experts found in the hamlet of
Brekovac near Djakovica the remains of 35 bodies, believed to belong
to Kosovo Serbs. Head of the coordination centre's exhumation office
Slavisa Dobricanin said on Thursday that traces of torture and
abuse, including handcuffs, had been found on the bodies.
Dobricanin told the Kontakt Plus radio of Kosovska Mitrovica
that the exhumation had lasted for the past three days. "Thirty-five
bodies were exhumed. It is not completely certain, but I believe that
they belong to Serbs," Dobricanin said and added that the bodies
had been transferred to the Autopsy Centre in Orahovac and that
autopsy and identification of the bodies would be completed next
week.
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REDZEPI ("PREMIER" DEL KOSOVO) PROMETTE L'INDIPENDENZA
+++ REDZEPI: UNABHÄNGIGKEIT MUSS ERREICHT WERDEN
PARIS/PRISTINA. Die europäische Agentur für Wiederaufbau (EAR)
wird in den kommenden drei Jahren 500 Millionen Euro Kosovo und
Metochien zukommen lassen, erklärte gestern Bajram Redzepi,
"Premier" von Kosovo und Metochien, und fügte hinzu, dass diese
Gelder für die Prioritäten der Regierung eingesetzt werden.
Heute erklärte Redzepi, dass die Unabhängigkeit Kosovo und Metochiens
"erreicht werden muss", heißt es in einer Meldung von INET-NEWS.
INET-NEWS/TANJUG +++
Balkan-Telegramm, 11.Oktober 2002 - http://www.amselfeld.com
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ATTENTATO: UCCISA MADRE DI DUE BAMBINI
+++SERBIN IM KOSOVO GETÖTET
PRISTINA. Heute wurde in der serbischen Provinz Kosovo und Metochien
die 43-jährige Serbin Snjezana Stankovic getötet. Sie wollte
Feldarbeit verrichten als sie auf eine von den ethnisch albanischen
Terroristen gelegte Mine getreten ist. Sie war die Mutter zweier
Kinder.
Die Serben in der Ortschaft Klokot wo die Untat geschah und wo
Snjezana Stankovic gelebt hatte, haben Proteste angekündigt. Die
NATO-Truppe KFOR und die UNMIK habe "ihr bedauern Ausgesprochen und
Ermittlungen angekündigt". Bis jetzt wurde wie schon oft niemand
verhaftet. TANJUG+++
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ALTRA DOCUMENTAZIONE SIGNIFICATIVA:
- SUL TRAFFICO DI BAMBINI
Trafficking in Children Still a Problem in Albania
(by A. Bala & V.O. A. Cupi)
http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/020930-ALBAN-001.htm
- SUL TRAFFICO DI DROGHE
The Balkan Route: New Trends and Old Challenges in the Fight
Against Drugs (by Emil Tsenkov)
http://www.balkantimes.com/html2/english/020826-EMIL-001.htm
- SULLA "PULIZIA ETNICA UMANITARIA"
The Roma and "Humanitarian" Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo
(by Sani Rifati)
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Rifati_Kosovo.htm