Nel periodo che va dal gennaio 1998 al novembre 2001, le milizie
fondamentaliste dell'UCK hanno ucciso 1835 persone (Albanesi, Serbi, Rom
ecc.).
Di altre 1441persone, sempre vittime dell'UCk, non si ha traccia
alcuna.
La maggioranza degli uccisi e degli scomparsi vanno pero' riferiti al
periodo
successivo all'ingresso delle truppe internazionali (KFOR), cioe' da
giugno 1999
in poi.

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Deutsche Presse Agentur

Belgrade: 3,276 Victims of Albanian Militia in Kosovo,
DPA, Feb 21
DPA, 20 February 2002

BELGRADE -- A total of 3,276 Serbs, Albanians and
others disappeared or were killed by ethnic Albanian
rebels between January 1998 and November 2001, a
Yugoslav committee said Wednesday.
"They are victims of Albanian terrorism in Kosovo ...
before and after the arrival of international civil
and military missions," Ilija Simic, of the body in
charge of collecting evidence of crimes against
humanity, told a press conference.
In his words, 1,835 people were killed and 1,441
disappeared. These included ethnic Albanians who
opposed their compatriots in the Kosovo Liberation
Army militia or refused to be drafted by them.
A United Nations administration and a NATO-led
peacekeeping mission arrived in Serbia's southern
province in June, 1999, after NATO intervened against
Yugoslavia to force former Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic into pulling the security forces out.
Simic, who led the data-gathering team over the
previous three years, said the majority of Serbs,
Montenegrins and other non-Albanians - 1,154 of them -
disappeared since then.
The investigation produced a 500-page book, including
360 summarized testimonials that were filed to the UN
war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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DI SEGUITO:
LINK A DUE ARTICOLI SULLA CONDIZIONE DELLE MINORANZE
KOSOVARE E DEI PROFUGHI DAL KOSMET

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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cj/Qyugo-kosovo-refugees.RfaW_CuO.html

Three years after their exodus, Kosovo Serbs impatient
to return
AFP / Aleksandar Mitic

-The meeting is aimed at presenting a plan for return
and collecting funds to prevent a "humanitarian
catastrophe" next winter for the Serbs displaced from
Kosovo as well as for more than 500,000 Serb refugees
from Bosnia and Croatia who are currently in Serbia.

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http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/
story.asp?id={EF184AEF-BE18-4476-8A7F-D0D0E9E490CD}

'The most dangerous place on Earth'

Secret guerrilla armies. Neighbours stoning
schoolbuses. Two peoples living
in terror and hatred: Three years later,
war-ravaged Kosovo remains a powderkeg.

Scott Taylor
The Ottawa Citizen

Saturday, June 22, 2002

Photos:
* Monuments and tributes to the Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA), like this mural
in the village of Kline, have been erected
all across Kosovo. For the Serbs
living in NATO-protected enclaves, this
militant Albanian nationalism is
viewed as intimidation.
* In Kosovo-Polje, formerly a Serbian suburb of
Pristina, Albanians construct
a 'monster' home. Many humanitarian aid
workers in Kosovo question the scale
of accommodations being provided to these
former refugess as a 'basic human
necessity.' Throughout the Albanian sectors
Albanians are building these
large homes, many of which are larger than
7,000 square feet.
* Following NATO's 1999 entry into Kosovo,
Albanian extremists embarked on a
large-scale 'revenge campaign' aimed at
forcing Serbs from the province and
preventing their return. Since the 14th
century, Kosovo has been the
religious heartland of Serbia, and many of
the historical landmark Orthodox
churches - like this one near Pec -- were
destroyed.

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