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TRE MORTI IN REGOLAMENTO DI CONTI TRA BANDE
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TRA LE VITTIME DUE GIOVANI PASSANTI

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/bn/Qkosovo-shooting.R26w_Da2.html

Three dead in western Kosovo shooting

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montentegro, Aug 3 (AFP) - Three
people were gunned down and at least four others
wounded when unknown assailants opened fire in western
Kosovo late Saturday, an official told AFP.
The incident happened after 10 pm (2000 GMT) in the
town of Pec, some 85 kilometers (53 miles) west of
Kosovo's capital Pristina, Andrea Angeli, spokesman
for the UN mission in Kosovo, said.
"There was machinegun fire in the center of Pec. Some
of the victims and those wounded were sitting in
nearby cafes in what is usually a busy night," Angeli said.
A 14-year-old girl was among the victims. The others
were a 24-year-old female and a 30-year-old male. All
of the victims were Kosovo Albanians, but their names
have not been released pending the notification of
their families.
Angeli said no arrests were made and that it was not
clear who or what was the target of the attack. The
wounded were transported to the Pristina hospital, two
of them in critical condition.
The UN police in Pec cordoned off the area and an
investigation was ongoing.
Kosovo has been under UN administration since NATO
bombed Yugoslavia to force the withdrawal of Serbian
troops in early 1999.

UNA TIPICA ESECUZIONE DI STAMPO MAFIOSO

http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4091195
Reuters 3, 2003

Three killed in gangland-style Kosovo shooting

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Gunmen
have unleashed a hail of bullets on a parked car in a
Kosovo town, killing three people, including two young
girls who were passing by, a United Nations official says.
Three people were injured and over 100 rounds were
fired in Saturday's gangland-style attack in the
western town of Pec. The shooting underlined problems
facing U.N.-led administrators struggling to impose
order on the ethnic Albanian-dominated province.
U.N. police spokesman in Pec, Joe Singleton, said on
Sunday the motive for the attack was not known.
"Four males were sitting in a car parked in an alley
in front of a small shop when four suspects approached
the vehicle and opened fire," Singleton told Reuters.
"Three people were killed at the scene, two of them
juvenile females, who were passersby and were
evidently going to the shop."
Singleton said girls' ages had not been confirmed, but
that some reports put them at 11 and 14 years old. The
third dead person was one of the men sitting in the car.
Two other men in the car were injured along with the
owner of the shop, Singleton said. "After the
shooting, the four suspects fled on foot."
He said that a policeman from the Kosovo Police
Service, who had been near the scene, had fired at the
assailants.
"But it is not sure whether he hit anybody. At the
time of the shooting, there was a power outage. It was
dark and the policeman could not see," Singleton said.
U.N. police have stepped up security after a spate of
explosions and other attacks in Kosovo's towns. The
violence has been blamed on ethnic tensions as well as
criminal gangs.

IL TRAFFICO DI EROINA ALL'ORIGINE DELLA STRAGE

http://www.tol.cz/look/BRR/
article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=9&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1&NrArticle
=10370
Transitions Online (Soros), August 4, 2003

Kosovo’s Biggest Heroin Bust

PRISTINA, Kosovo--United Nations police in Kosovo on
29 July arrested three ethnic Albanians and seized 18
kilograms of heroin they say was intended for sale in
Western Europe during a search operation in a private
residence in the village of Komogllave-Ferizaj, some
15 miles south of the capital, Pristina.
United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) police
spokesperson Derek Chappel told journalists that the
mission’s Central Criminal Investigation Unit (CCIU)
had located the heroin stash thanks to tips from local
citizens and cooperation with the local Kosovo Police
Service (ShPK).
Chappel said that police seized 33 packages of heroin
totaling 18 kilograms and arrested two men, aged 21
and 24, and one 29-year-old woman. The search
continues for a fourth suspect, Chappel said during a
press briefing.
According to the initial findings of the police
investigation, Kosovo was the transit route for the
drugs, which were to be sold in Western Europe and had
a value of $920,000.
“Investigators believe that the heroin was intended
for the Western Europe market, because there is no
such market here,” said Chappel.
Chappel said that the search also turned up drug
paraphernalia, two illegal weapons and ammunition,
among other things.
In a recent interview with the KosovaLive news agency,
CCIU drug unit chief Ville Tenhunen said that Kosovo
is being used in a two-step system for drug transfer
to Western Europe. According to Tenhunen, large
quantities of narcotics are transferred from another
location to Kosovo, where they are safely stored
before heading to Western European markets.
The CCIU drug chief says that narcotics are being
smuggled across the Balkans and into Kosovo from
southwestern Asia. From Kosovo, the narcotics are
transported by various means, including tour bus
companies and other transport companies, to Western
Europe.
“The heroin that we seized is the largest single
seizure of heroin in Kosovo since UNMIK entered in
June 1999,” said UNMIK police spokesperson Berry
Fletcher.
Last year police seized about 9 kilograms of
narcotics, including heroin, he said. Heroin and
marijuana are the primary drugs seized in Kosovo,
while cocaine is rarely discovered, said Fletcher.
But Fletcher reminded journalists that Kosovo is not
the black hole of Balkan crime that it is often
referred to as. Smuggling remains a serious problem
across the Balkans, he said, pointing to Greece’s
recent reports of large shipments of narcotics on its
borders with Albania and Serbia’s reports of heroin
seizures on its borders with Bulgaria.
“The Balkans as a whole, including Kosovo, have been a
route for smuggling drugs from East to West for a very
long time. Probably since long before we were alive,”
said Fletcher.
In other news, three people were killed on 2 August
near the bus station in Peja. According to UNMIK
police, four men were parked in front of a shop on the
main street when four unknown suspects approached on
foot and opened fire with automatic weapons.
Reportedly firing more than 100 rounds, they killed
one of men inside the vehicle and injured 3 others.
Two young women who were in the shop at the time were
also killed, and the shop owner was injured.
Joel Singleton, information officer at the Police
Regional Headquarters in the Peja Region, said that
the four suspects escaped on foot. Singleton said that
local ShPK officers were fired upon as the suspects fled.
“The ShPK officers who returned fire showed amazing
fire control due to the intensity of the moment [and
the fact] that the electricity was not on and there
were innocent bystanders in the area,” said Singleton.
Violence also continued on 3 August when a UN police
officer was murdered on the Kosovoska
Mitrovica-Leposavic road. According to Beta news
agency, a UN police patrol was ambushed near the
Zvecan railway bridge and one officer was killed
before the attackers opened fire on a civilian car,
causing only minor damage to the vehicle.
The UN has confirmed the death of one of its officers
but has released no further details regarding the
circumstances.
--by Bekim Greicevci

MURO DI OMERTA' PROTEGGE GLI ASSASSINI

Police Face Wall of Silence (by J. Xharra & T. Matic)

SEE AT:
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200308_455_1_eng.txt


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MITROVICA NORD IN CONTINUO PERICOLO A CAUSA DELLA ELIMINAZIONE DEI
POSTI DI BLOCCO
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KFOR WILL NO LONGER PROVIDE ESCORT, WILL REMOVE
CHECKPOINTS

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Aug 1 (Tanjug) - KFOR Brigade
Northeast Commander Gen Marc Bertuchi told Tanjug on
Friday that as security in the region of Kosovska
Mitrovica was improving, KFOR would no longer provide
escort and would remove fixed security checkpoints.
The security situation in the zone of responsibility
of Brigade Northeast has improved, Bertuchi said and
added that he would keep on discontinuing escorts and
removing checkpoints at less important strategic
places and other fixed checkpoints. He said that the
improvement of the security situation called for a
different way of organization of military presence and
that the fixed checkpoints and systematic controls,
which would be removed, would improve the freedom of
movement, making citizens' lives more pleasant. He
said that numerous patrols that could react quickly in
case of problems had been set up. Bertuchi said that
KFOR would continue reducing the number of its troops
and that by the end of the year their number would be
reduced from the present 25,000 to 20,000.

http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=24031&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta, August 3, 2003

UNMIK act a bridge too far for Kosovo

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA/JAGODINA -- Sunday -- An UNMIK act promoting
multiethnicity backfired in Kosovska
Mitrovica last night as plans to re-open the main
bridge on the Ibar linking the ethnically divided
north and south of the town had to be rethought.
Following the bridge's re-opening, a group of around
30 ethnic Albanian youths were first to make the
crossing, hurling abuse at residents of the northern,
Serb side of the town.
Serb drinkers at a nearby bar reacted, approaching the
Albanian youths with violent intent, but UNMIK and
KFOR managed to diffuse the situation and close the
bridge.
Covic: A kingdom of terrorism and crime
Responding to the recent violent upsurge in the
province, Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic, who head
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo, said
"terrorism and crime are flourishing in that area",
and every citizen is endangered "regardless of
national or ethnic orientation".
Covic insisted to Jagodina-based TV Palma Plus: "The
attack on the bridge in Kosovska Mitrovica is a direct
message that somebody, obviously not Serbs, doesn't
want multiethnic life.
"What happened in Pec is foul. Three young people lost
their lives in a tragic battle within the kingdom of
terrorism and organised crime".
Covic assessed that the international community must
enforce the rule of law and implement human rights in
Kosovo lest "there is no future for the province or
the entire region".

http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=42619&LangID=1
Seeurope.net, August 5, 2003

KFOR Tightens Security Measures in Mitrovica

The UN Police in Kosovo and KFOR upgraded security
measures at the bridge on Ibar river, bridge that
splits the northern and southern part of Mitrovica, in
the wake of late Saturday’s incident.
Late on Saturday, a group of 30 Albanians crossed the
bridge and entered into northern part of Mitrovica,
populated with Serbs. The entering of Albanians into
the northern part of the city caused mass gatherings
of Serbian residents. Shortly afterwards, the
Albanians retreated back to the southern part of the
city.
The bridge is undergoing security measures following
this incident. KFOR and the UN Police stepped up
control on persons that cross the bridge.


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CECCHINI UCCIDONO UFFICIALE UNMIK INDIANO
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http://www.realitymacedonia.org.mk/web/news_page.asp?nid=2706
Reality Macedonia, August 4, 2003

Sniper Assassinates UN Policeman In Kosovo

The family of the United Nations police officer who
was killed overnight in northern Mitrovica region has
been notified of his death.
Major Satish MENON, a police officer from India, gave
his life in the service of the people of Kosovo and
the United Nations. Major Menon was 43 years-old and
was assigned to the UNMIK Border Police. He is
survived by his wife and two children, ages 8 and 6.
The condolences of the United Nations Police and the
Kosovo Police Service are offered to the family of
Major Menon.

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UNITED NATIONS
United Nations Mission in Kosovo
NATIONS UNIES
Mission des Nations Unies au Kosovo

04-08-03
UNMIK Police
PRESS RELEASE

MURDER OF A UNITED NATIONS POLICE OFFICER

A United Nations Police Officer assigned to the
Mission in Kosovo has been murdered in the line of
duty. The crime occurred shortly before midnight on
August 3rd, 2003.
According to Investigators, the officer was in a
marked UN police vehicle on the highway between
Leposavic and Mitrovica when unknown suspects fired at
the vehicle, killing the officer.
UNMIK Police Commissioner Stefan Feller condemned the
murder as “A brutal and unbelievable crime. The reason
is not yet known, but it is clear this was a sniper
attack on an international police officer by cowards
who intended to kill him.”
The name, nationality, and assignment of the officer
are withheld until his family is notified.
The main highway between Leposavic and Mitrovica will
be closed in the area of the crime until further
notice for purposes of the investigation. A detour
will be arranged for travelers to use while the main
highway is closed.
A special investigative team has been established
immediately, comprised of the Mitrovica Regional
Serious Crimes Squad and experts from UNMIK Police
Main Headquarters.

Barry FLETCHER
Deputy Chief of Information
UNMIK Police Main HQ
Pristina Tracy BECKER
Public Information Officer
Police Regional HQ
Mitrovica
For additional information, contact the UNMIK Police
Main HQ Press Office at 038-504-604-5071/FAX 5073,
E-mail: pol-press@...

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UNA RITORSIONE CONTRO GLI ARRESTI DI ALCUNI TERRORISTI UCK

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3122861.stm
BBC News, August 4, 2003

UN policeman shot in Kosovo 'ambush'

By Nicholas Wood
BBC, Mitrovica, northern Kosovo
A United Nations police officer has been killed in
Kosovo.

The officer died when his marked police car came under
fire from a semi-automatic rifle from the side of the
road in the north of the province.
This is the first time a member of the international
police force has been killed on duty in Kosovo since
the UN took over responsibility for the province four
years ago.
UN police are describing the attack as a well-planned
ambush.
Investigators say boulders had been placed in the road
to make the car slow down and give the gunman time to
shoot.
The driver of the officer's car was unscathed.
Police believe the attacker's intention was to kill a
foreign officer serving with the UN.
Members of the international police force travel in
clearly marked red and white cars which distinguish
them from members of the local police service.
The investigation is focusing on three ethnic Albanian
villages close to the scene of the ambush.
Anti-UN sentiment
The area was the scene of another attack earlier this year.
Two members of a guerrilla group known as the Albanian
National Army blew themselves up while attempting to
mine a nearby bridge.
UN officials say it is too early to say what the
precise motive for the attack was.
However there has been an increase in anti-UN
sentiment in Kosovo over the last few weeks.
Some ethnic Albanians are angered by the recent
jailing of four former members of now disbanded
guerrilla group the Kosovo Liberation Army for war crimes.

SOSPETTATI ESPONENTI DELL'UCK

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=431049
Belfast Telegraph, August 6, 2003

KLA link suspected in UN police murder

The United Nations offered a €50,000 (£35,000) reward
yesterday for information leading to the arrest of the
killer of one of its policemen serving in Kosovo, amid
fears that law enforcement agencies had become the
target of an upsurge of violence.
Some fear the killing is linked to recent attacks on
court and police buildings, which followed the
conviction of former members of the Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA) on war crimes charges.
Yesterday, investigators refused to speculate about
who might have killed Major Satish Menon, a
43-year-old Indian officer who was shot by a sniper in
an ambush on Sunday near the village of Slatina, 28
miles north of the capital, Pristina. A British
officer driving the vehicle was unhurt.
Major Menon is the first policeman to die in Kosovo
since the international community took over the
administration after Nato's bombing campaign in 1999.
The shooting took place in a Serb area but within easy
reach of Albanian villages, and the two communities
are blaming each other.
The killing has caused alarm as it follows recent
attacks on symbols of law and order after the
conviction of four ex-KLA members on war crimes
charges. The men, who were sentenced to a total of 45
years, were found guilty of offences including
torture, kidnapping and the inhuman treatment of
civilians during the Kosovo conflict in 1998 and 1999.
In an apparent reprisal for the ruling, a
rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a district court
building in Pristina on 20 July, causing serious
damage. That was followed immediately by an explosion
outside a police station near by.
Three days earlier, a hand grenade exploded outside
another police station, north-east of Pristina, near
the birthplace of the four convicted men. UN police
vehicles have also been vandalised and daubed with
graffiti, and last weekend, gunmen fired into a car in
the mainly Albanian town of Pec, killing three people,
including two girls passing by. The violence has posed
new questions for peace-keepers, who once saw the KLA
as allies of the Nato alliance against the Serb forces
of the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic.
Sven Lindholm, spokesman for the Organisation for
Security and Co-operation in Europe, said the attacks
on court and police buildings "can be seen as an
attack on the rule of law because they were targeted
on the institutions that are trying to instil the rule of law".
While some see the spate of recent attacks as a
political statement by those who retain a loyalty to
former KLA colleagues, others believe that it is the
work of criminal gangs.
Stefan Feller, the UN police chief, linked the earlier
attacks with the trial verdict, but was careful not to
connect the latest death in the same way. He said
Major Menon died "because he was a police officer" and
that he was "apparently selected at random to be killed".
He added: "This was a cold-blooded and deliberate
killing of an officer who had no chance to defend
himself."
More than 4,000 UN police officers patrol Kosovo. Many
former KLA members have joined the unarmed
6,000-strong local police force, the Kosovo Protection
Corps. The region has been administered by UN and
Nato-led peace-keepers from K-For since June 1999,
after a 78-day bombing campaign forced the withdrawal
of Serb forces under the command of Mr Milosevic.


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SUICIDA SOLDATO FRANCESE
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http://www.balkanpeace.org/hed/archive/aug03/hed5935.shtml
AFP, August 6, 2003

French soldier found dead in northern Kosovo

PRISTINA -- Wednesday -- A French KFOR soldier was found dead in
northern Kosovo yesterday afternoon, a NATO official told AFP.
The soldier, whose name and age have yet to be released, committed
suicide whilst on an operation with his unit near the town of
Leposavic, some 70 kilometres (45 miles) north of Kosovo´s capital
Pristina.
A spokesman for KFOR´s French contingent in northern Kosovo told AFP:
"He was alone when he shot himself with his personal weapon. He left a
letter behind".
The spokesman said the soldier was on a regular operation searching for
illegal weapons in the volatile province.
According to a recent UN survey, close to 500,000 illegal weapons,
mostly small firearms, are in the hands of civilians in Kosovo - a
legacy of the 1998-99 Kosovo war.


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ALTRO REGOLAMENTO DI CONTI TRA BANDE MAFIOSE
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09224235.htm

One person killed in Kosovo shooting-U.N. police

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 9 (Reuters)
One person was killed and two injured in a shootout among ethnic
Albanians in a village near Pec in south-western
Kosovo on Saturday, United Nations police in charge of
the province said.
The shooting was the latest in a series of violent
incidents across the province over the past few weeks,
including Sunday's killing of a U.N. officer, the
first in four years.
The U.N. administration took over the province in 1999
after 11 weeks of NATO bombing to halt Serbian
repression of its majority Albanians under then
president Slobodan Milosevic.
"A group of men fired on another group. They were all
Kosovo Albanians. One man was killed and two others
were wounded, one of them seriously," U.N. police
spokesman Barry Fletcher told Reuters. Police were
searching for the perpetrators who fled.
Fletcher said the motive for the shooting was not
known but he believed it was a dispute between two
families. He said it appeared to be different from a
shooting two weeks ago in which three ethnic Albanians
were killed in an apparent dispute between criminal groups.
Even though officials caution against linking the
violent incidents in the province, the shooting is
likely to raise security concerns and highlight the
difficulties the U.N. administration is facing to
establish order in Kosovo.
Kosovo Albanians want independence from Serbia and
Montenegro, a loose union that replaced Yugoslavia
this year. But its minority Serbs say it must remain a
part of Serbia.
Western officials have accused criminal elements of
wanting to derail the progress made in the province.


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LA SCANDALOSA CONDIZIONE DEI PROFUGHI GITANI (ROM ED EGIZI) DEL KOSOVO,
FUGGITI NELLA FYROM
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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EBalkans.htm#Roma%20from%20Kosovo%20agree%20to%20remain%20in%20Macedonia
Tanjug, August 9, 2003

Roma from Kosovo agree to remain in Macedonia

18:47 SKOPJE , Aug 9 (Tanjug) - After several-month
protests near the border with Greece, a group of about
600 Roma, who had fled from Kosovo-Metohija to
Macedonia, started to leave an improvised refugee camp
on Saturday after their stay in Macedonia had been
approved with small financial assistance, UNHCR
spokesman Goran Momiroski said in Skopje.
Roma, who cannot return to Kosovo-Metohija because of
a bad security situation, have been near the Greek
border since May demanding from authorities to let
them leave for some of the EU countries.

http://www.mia.com.mk/ang/
Vest.asp?vest=\1\BALKAN%20EGYPTIANS%20MEETING%20ENDS%20IN.htm
Macedonian Information Agency - August 28, 2003

BALKAN EGYPTIANS MEETING ENDS IN OHRID

Skopje, August 27 (MIA) - The next Balkan Egyptians
meeting will take place in March 2004 in Strasbourg,
was concluded Wednesday at the end of three-day
meeting of the Presidency of Balkan Egyptian
Association that occurred in Ohrid.
Ohrid was proposed as an alternative for the next
meeting place, in case delegates cannot get visa to
Strasbourg.
The meeting aimed at strategy preparation for more
intensive involvement of the Egyptians in government
institutions and other spheres of the society.
Discontent of the Egyptians' situation in almost each
Balkan's country was expressed at the meeting.
Above a million Egyptians live in the Balkan, most of
them, about 400,000, in Albania and 150,000 in Kosovo
before the war, but at the moment 40,000 of them are
refugees.
According to the census from 1994, about 3,500
Egyptians live in Macedonia.


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ATTACCHI TERRORISTICI PAN-ALBANESI ANCHE PRESSO PRESEVO-BUJANOVAC,
NELLA SERBIA MERIDIONALE
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ATTACCO CONTRO BASE MILITARE SERBA

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/ac/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RrA__DaB.html

Army base attacked in southern Serbia, no injuries

DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 11 (AFP) - A
Serbia-Montenegro army base has come under mortar
attack in an area dominated by restive ethnic
Albanians, officials said Monday.
There were no injuries or significant property damage
in the attack late Sunday near the southern village of
Dobrosin, close to the provincial border with Kosovo,
a defence ministry official said.
Three 60-milimetre mortars were fired at the base from
an unknown source [see below], but they missed their
target.
"This is a classic terrorist attack," said Defence
Minister Boris Tadic who visited Dobrosin Monday with
Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko Krga and
Serbian Deputy Prime Minister, Nebojsa Covic.
He said it was still unclear where the mortars had
come from and investigators were trying to determine
who had launched the attack.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which briefly erupted into open conflict
with Serbian security forces in 2000.

SPARATI MISSILI DI FABBRICAZIONE U.S.A.

http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=24141&style=headlines
FoNet, Beta, August 11, 2003

Terrorists attack army base in southern Serbia

BELGRADE -- Monday – Three grenades were discharged
last night at the Serbia-Montenegro Army base near the
village of Dobrosin close to the administrative border
with Kosovo.
This morning the Defence Ministry played down earlier
reports of considerable structural damage, also
confirming that only one soldier was slightly wounded
in the attack.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, army chief of staff
Branko Krga and Deputy Serbian Prime Minister Nebojsa
Covic later toured the facility and Tadic told press
that an investigation has commenced.
Tadic, Krga and Covic met with representatives of
south Serbia's forces, led by commander of the
Pristina Corps General Major Mladen Cirkovic; KFOR
members also visited the base this afternoon.
Minister Tadic described the incident as a "typical
terrorist attack, which has been expected, bearing in
mind the results of monitoring of terrorist
organisations' movements in this area".
Dobrosin was a former stronghold of armed Albanian
extremists and the home of the former Liberation Army
of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac.
The US-made 40-millimetre missiles were fired from the
direction of the village, which is populated solely by
Albanians.
Yesterday's incident was the first attack on a
military facility since the agreement to disband the
Liberation Army was signed in May of last year.

ATTACCATA PATTUGLIA, RIVENDICAZIONE "A.N.A." ("ESERCITO NAZIONALE
ALBANESE")

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/cq/Qserbia-montenegro-
kosovo.RzyT_DaC.html

Serbia-Montenegro army patrol attacked nearby Kosovo
border: ministry

BELGRADE, Aug 12 (AFP) - An army patrol from Serbia
and Montenegro (SCG) was attacked Tuesday by a group
of ethnic Albanian "extremists" in a region near the
province of Kosovo, the defense ministry said.
The reconnaissance patrol was fired on in the
afternoon by a group of 15 "Albanian extremists" near
the military base of Susnjak, the ministry said in a
statement.
Susnjak lies on a 35-kilometer (21-miles) long road
leading from Serbian town of Kursumlija to the Kosovo
town of Podujevo.
The patrol repelled the attack, captured one
assailant, identified as Bajazit Podvorica from
Podujevo, and handed him over to Serbian police, it said.
The ministry said there were no casualties on the army
side, but gave no indication if any of the attackers
were killed or injured.
The incident came just two days after a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for the attack,
saying in a statement that it had fired the mortars at
the base near the southern Serbian village of Dobrosin
on Sunday night.
"Obviously we are talking about an escalation of
attacks against SCG army members that I believe is in
a way synchronized," the Defense Minister Boris Tadic
told Belgrade-based radio B92 late on Tuesday.
"State institutions of SCG and Serbia are doing their
best to respond to these attacks in the toughest way,"
Tadic said. But he added that "the SCG army certainly
will not be a factor in the escalation of conflicts in
this region."
Kosovo has been administrated by a United Nations
mission established at the end of the 1998-99 war
between Belgrade armed forces and the ethnic-Albanian
Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign in the province.

http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/as/Qserbia-montenegro-
attack.RD_v_DaC.html

Ethnic Albanian militants claim responsibility for
attack in Serbia

DOBROSIN, Serbia-Montenegro, Aug 12 (AFP) - An
ethnic-Albanian extremist group claimed responsibility
Tuesday for a mortar attack on a Serbia and Montenegro
army base, warning that more was to come.
The Albanian National Army (ANA), which also operates
in Kosovo and Macedonia, said in a statement that it
had fired the mortars at the base near this southern
Serbian village on Sunday night.
The shadowy militia said its "special forces of the
Adem Jashari division have successfully attacked a
military base of Serbia and Montenegro", adding that
its fighters had withdrawn to prepare new attacks.
Little is known about the ANA, which has also claimed
responsibility for attacks in the neighbouring Serbian
province of Kosovo and nearby Macedonia.
It has been labelled a "terrorist" organisation by the
United Nations mission in Kosovo, where two of its
suspected members are wanted on terrorism charges.
Defence ministry officials in Belgrade said there were
no injuries or significant property damage in Sunday's
attack, the first for more than a year against regular
army troops in the mainly ethnic-Albanian area of
southern Serbia.
The area has been a hotbed of ethnic-Albanian
separatism, which erupted into open conflict with
Serbian security forces from January 2000 to May 2001.
Defence Minister Boris Tadic, who visited Dobrosin on
Monday with Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Branko
Krga and Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic,
called the attack a "classic" act of terrorism.
"The plan is very simple, to destabilise the entire
region, to provoke the army to react inadequately and
contribute to further destabilisation," he said.
Jashari, who the ANA mentions in its statement, was a
leading commander of the ethnic-Albanian Kosovo
Liberation Army (KLA) which waged a separatist
guerrilla campaign against Serbian forces during the
1998-99 Kosovo war.
He was killed by Serbian police in 1998 and the KLA
was disbanded as Kosovo came under UN and NATO
administration after the war.
The ANA says it is fighting to create a greater
Albania including Kosovo and parts of Macedonia and
southern Serbia.

GOVERNO SERBO CHIEDE ALLA KFOR DI RIVELARE L'IDENTITA' DEI RESPONSABILI
DEGLI ATTACCHI

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EYug.htm#Serbian%20premier%20says%20KFOR%20might%20know%20who%20attacked
%20SCG%20Army%20base
Tanjug, August 12, 2003

Serbian premier says KFOR might know who attacked SCG
Army base

18:48 BELGRADE , Aug 12 (Tanjug) - Serbian Premier
Zoran Zivkovic said Tuesday that investigation of the
grenade attack on Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Army base in
Dobrosin must be carried out as soon as possible in
order to identify the culprits.
Zivkovic told a press conference that one might try to
guess whether the grenades were launched from
Kosovo-Metohija or from some ethnic Albanian village
in southern Serbia. However, KFOR, which has all
technical means at its disposal, is the best placed to
say who launched the attack. If they claim they do not
know, they are concealing trhe culprits, Zivkovic
added.

ALTRA BOMBA DEI SECESSIONISTI

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FoNet, August 14, 2003

Bomb attack in south Serbia

BUJANOVAC -- Thursday – There has been another bomb
attack in the south Serbian region of Bujanovac, where
an explosive device was thrown beside the road between
the villages of Lucane Konculj.
There were no casualties in the explosion and police
say the bomb, which was most probably thrown from a
vehicle, was not powerful.
Police have stepped up security measures in the area
after a number of recent incidents.

NUOVI ATTACCHI CONTRO LA POLIZIA AL CONFINE AMMINISTRATIVO CON IL KOSMET

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Renewed attacks on Serbian police around Kosovo

BELGRADE, Aug 16 (AFP) - Serbian police were fired on
by unknown assailants close to a village on the
boundary between central Serbia and the
UN-administered province of Kosovo, the Serbian
government said Saturday.
Assailants armed with automatic weapons shot at a
police post close to the Albanian-populated village of
Konculj late on Friday night.
There were no casualties, but the government dubbed
the incident a "terrorist" act in a statement on Saturday.
This is the third attack in less than a week against
Serbian security forces on the administrative boundary
area between Kosovo and central Serbia.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
Two days later, on August 12, an army patrol was
attacked by a group of 15 ethnic Albanian "extremists"
in broad daylight, near the military base of Susnjak.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic told
Belgrade-based radio B92 that he expected such attacks
by "extremist Albanians" to continue. But also he
warned it was imperative to avoid being provoked into
retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.

NUOVA RIVENDICAZIONE A.N.A.

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Ethnic Albanians claim responsibility for attack on
Serbian police post

BELGRADE, Aug 17 (AFP) - The rebel Albanian National
Army (ANA) in Kosovo said Sunday it was responsible
for firing on a Serbian police station in which no one
was hurt.
In a statement, the group said it had acted in
self-defense Friday after coming under attack by the
Serbian police.
The action at the police post occurred on the boundary
between Serbia and the UN-administered province of
Kosovo.
The Serbian government said it was a terrorist attack.
The UN mission that has run Kosovo since 1999 has also
defined the ANA as a terrorist group.
The ANA seeks the creation of a greater Albania
including Kosovo, which has a huge majority of ethnic
Albanians, and parts of southern Serbia and western
Macedonia.
Although ethnic Albanian forces were made to surrender
their weapons in 2001, armed clashes between Serbian
security forces and Albanian fighters have occurred
regularly since then.
The incident at the police post was the third in less
than a week, and also included a mortar attack on an
army base in southern Serbia and an ambush of an army
patrol.
The ANA said the action at the police post near the
ethnic Albanian village of Konculj was commanded by
"Colonel Alban Shkaba."
The rebels shot at the post with automatic weapons.
The Serbian deputy prime minister Nebojsa Covic
earlier warned it was imperative to avoid being
provoked into retaliation.
Although still legally part of Serbia, Kosovo has been
administered by a United Nations mission established
at the end of the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces
and separatist ethnic Albanian guerrillas.

A.N.A. INVITA AD INSORGERE PER LA GRANDE ALBANIA

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Beta, August 17, 2003

Outlawed army urge southern Serbian uprising

PRESEVO -- Sunday -- Aljban Vjosa, representative of
the outlawed Albanian National Army, has urged
Albanian political representatives in the southern
Serbian districts of Bujanovac, Medvedja and Presevo
to join the terrorist group in its project to create
and Albanian ethnic state.
In an interview for presheva.com website, Vjosa
declared himself a member of the ANA's political wing
– the United Front for National Unity of Albanians –
and insisted that Albanian political leaders do not
deserve the trust of their voters.
He said that the time has come for Albanian political
parties in the Presevo Valley to unit around the
platform of the United Front, declaring those
promoting multiethnicity as "naive".
He insisted that the territory of central Serbia is
occupied territory colonised by Serbs and that
military facilities in the area were constructed
purely with the goal of massacring the Albanian
population.
He said that the violence in the southern Serbian
municipalities that are homes to ethnic Albanians
would continue until they become part of an Albanian
ethnic state.
He said "everybody's eyes shined" after the attack of
the Serbia-Montenegro base at Dobrosin, which he
repeated was merely "colonised" by Serbs.
Former UNMIK chief Michael Steiner declared the
Albanian National Army a terrorist organisation.

COVIC ACCUSA IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE DEL KOSOVO" EREDE DELL'UCK

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B92, August 17, 2003

Gunmen open fire at border, Covic blames Kosovo Corps

BUJANOVAC -- Saturday -- Unknown gunmen shot at the
Konculj police station adjacent to the administrative
border with Kosovo at about 10:00 p.m. last night,
discharging several bursts from automatic weapons.
Deputy Serbian PM Nebojsa Covic pointed the finger at
the Kosovo Protection Corp.
Radoman Ilic, B92's Bujanovac correspondent, reported
that shots also ricocheted off police and customs
posts a few hundred metres from the police outpost
building.
The Serbian Government's Bujanovac press centre said
that this "latest terrorist attack" only caused slight
structural damage to the customs building.
Covic: We cannot be provoked
Deputy PM Covic said in a statement for B92 that he
expects these attacks to continue: "I don't think the
situation is escalating, but there are obviously some
provocations. According to my expectations, these will
increase and it's very important that our security
forces function in accordance with the plans and
operations that were set up".
The Democratic Alternative leader called for maximum
caution and continued action with the highest
professional approach, warning that Serbia cannot
afford to be provoked.
He added: "Probably the phantom ANA [Albanian National
Army, declared illegal] will make an announcement, but
just know that it's high-tech trickery: it is not the
ANA, it's the KZK, and that is the Kosovo Protection
Corps. They are behind it".
Investigation launched
Arriving this morning, Vranje District Court
investigator Slavoljub Mihajlovic and deputy district
prosecutor Radica Ristic began an investigation into
the attack. Members of UNMIK and Belgrade's
Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Southern Serbia
joined them at the scene.
The government's local press centre announced that the
Coordination Centre, headed by Covic, would do
everything in its power to prevent these attacks,
which are endangering the safety and disrupting the
lives of citizens.

http://www.slobodan-milosevic.org/news/tanjug081703c.htm

Covic says ANA trick covering up Kosovo Protection Corps

Tanjug - August 17, 2003
16:59 BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy Premier and Coordinating Center for
Kosovo and Metohija President Nebojsa Covic said on Sunday, ahead of
his departure for New York to attend a United Nations (UN) Security
Council session on Kosovo, that the Albanian National Army (ANA) is an
ordinary trick and that the Kosovo Protection Corps is behind the
terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Metohija.
"ANA is a computerized high-tech trick, a game played with sites, and
the real ANA is in fact the Kosovo Protection Corps," Covic told
Tanjug, commenting on a report that this ethnic Albanian extremist
organization had claimed responsibility for an attack on a Serbian
control-security checkpoint near Konculj village late Friday.
Copyright 2003 Tanjug News Agency
Posted For Fair Use Only

GENERALE U.S.A. TRANQUILLO: "SAPPIAMO CHI SONO"

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Beta, August 19, 2003

KFOR “aware of" terrorist organisations

PRISTINA -- Monday – International peacekeepers in
Kosovo are aware of terrorist organisations operating
in the province, the commander of KFOR’s Multinational
Brigade East said today.
General Jerry G. Beck told media at US Camp Bondsteel
that extremist organisations were also attempting to
export conflict into neighbouring countries.
He warned that terrorists would not be tolerated and
that they would be identified, apprehended and punished.
Beck was unwilling to either confirm or deny the
presence of the outlawed Albanian National Army on the
administrative border between Kosovo and Serbia proper.

ANCORA UN ALTRO ATTACCO DEI TERRORISTI CON BASE IN KOSOVO

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Army patrol under fire in southern Serbia

BELGRADE, Aug 22 (AFP) - A group of ethnic-Albanian
militants posing as illegal woodcutters opened fire on
an army patrol in southern Serbia, sparking a brief
gun battle, the Tanjug news agency reported Friday.
It said the men fled across the provincial border to
Kosovo, which is a United Nations protectorate, after
the fight on Thursday night.
The defence ministry in Belgrade said there were no
casualties on the Serbia-Montenegro army side but made
no comment about injuries to the gunmen.
The ministry said the gunmen were posing as
woodcutters in order to scout Serbian army positions
and "destabilise the situation" in southern Serbia,
which has a restive ethnic-Albanian population.
A similar attack earlier this month was dismissed by
UN police in Kosovo as being a minor incident, but the
defence ministry here said that the two attacks were
far more serious than they appeared.
There has been a spate of attacks on army personnel in
southern Serbia in recent days.
An ethnic-Albanian extremist group, the Albanian
National Army (ANA) that also operates in Kosovo and
Macedonia, claimed responsibility for a mortar attack
on an army base in southern Serbia on August 10.
The ANA also claimed that it had fired automatic
weapons at a Serbian police post near the
ethnic-Albanian village of Konculj a few days later.
On August 12, an army patrol was attacked by a group
of 15 ethnic-Albanian "extremists" in broad daylight,
near the military base of Susnjak.
Serbian officials have warned that they expect such
attacks by "extremist Albanians" to continue but the
army will not be provoked into retaliation.
The southern Serbian province of Kosovo has been
administered by a UN mission established at the end of
the 1998-99 war between Belgrade forces and separatist
ethnic-Albanian guerrillas.
Its ethnic-Albanian majority wants independence from
Serbia.

ALTRE TRE GRANATE, FERITI DUE RAGAZZINI

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Tanjug, August 24, 2003

Three grenades launched on Presevo, children injured

19:15 BELGRADE , Aug 24 (Tanjug) - In a terrorist
attack on Presevo, Saturday evenign at 21.55, three
grenades were launched, and in the attack were
slightly injured two fifteen-year-olds,
Radio-Television Vranje said on Sunday. Two grenades,
it was confirmed to Tanjug in RTV Vranje, fell in the
courtyard of the Cultural Center, while one fell on an
adjacent house.
Member of the government coordination center for
southern Serbia Mica Markovic said that it is not yet
known what was the target of the terroroist attack, as
in the vicinity of the Cultural center is a local
police station, or from where the 40 mm missiles were
fired, as the range of as automatic grenade launcher
is one kilometer.

GENERALE KFOR DIFENDE IL "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE"

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SNRA, August 27, 2003

Corps not hiding KLA and ANA fighters: UNMIK general

VIENNA -- Wednesday -- General Andrew Cumming,
assigned by UNMIK to monitor the Kosovo Protection
Corps, dismissed claims by the Coordination Centre for
Kosovo chief Nebojsa Covic that the Corps is an
organisation set up for hiding former fighters of the
disbanded Kosovo Protection Corps and the Albanian
National Army.
He told Austrian news agency APA there was no evidence
of Corps members' involvement in the attacks in the
last few weeks.
Cumming confirmed that the UNMIK launched
investigations against several members of the Kosovo
Protection Corps, but not because they were members of
the ANA.
He declined to comment on the details of indictments
against seven senior Corps members temporarily
suspended by the Corps Commander Agim Cheku under
suspicion of involvement in the demolition of railway
bridge in northern Kosovo for which the ANA claimed
responsibility.
APA reminded that various measures have been launched
against several hundred Corps members this year, 24 of
which on KFOR's initiative.

ED ARRIVANO ANCHE I PROFUGHI ALBANESI DI MACEDONIA !

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Beta, August 31, 2003

Macedonian Albanians flee to south Serbia

PRESEVO -- Sunday – A number of Albanian families from
the Kumanovo region of Macedonia today have sought
refuge in south Serbia from armed conflicts near their villages.
The families have been accommodated in the Presevo region.
According to the Albanian refugees, tension is rising
in the Kumanovo municipality and uniformed members of
Albanian paramilitary groups have been seen in the
villages of Vaksince and Lojane.
The number of families who have sought asylum is not
yet known.


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E' SERBO, PERCIO' GLI SPARANO IN BOCCA
===

STAVA PESCANDO IN RIVA AD UN FIUME

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B92, August 12, 2003

Serb in critical condition after Kosovo shooting

LIPLJAN -- Tuesday – A Serb from the Lipljan area of
Kosovo is in a critical condition after being shot
last night near a road leading to the Albanian village
of Glavnica.
Dragan Tonic underwent eight hours of surgery for a
wound to the face, a Kosovska Mitrovica hospital
spokesman told B92, adding that he was expected to
regain consciousness during post-operative care.
Tonic was found by shepherds near the bank of the
Sitnica River where he had been fishing.

TRASFERITO IN OSPEDALE A BELGRADO

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Beta, August 13, 2003

Serb shot in Kosovo transferred to Belgrade

BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- Kosovo-Serb Dragan Tonic,
shot in the head whilst fishing in Kosovo, has been
transferred to Belgrade's Serbian Clinical Centre and
not the Military Medical Academy as earlier reported.
Beta were unable to obtain an update of Tonic's
condition, although Milan Ivanovic, deputy head of the
Mitrovica Hospital, did confirm that Tonic was moved
from Mitrovica to Belgrade in a critical condition,
following eight hours of surgery.
According to neighbours from the village of Skulanevo,
Tonic used improvised sign language to explain that
two unknown ethnic Albanians shot him in the mouth.
Skulanevo has around 90 Serb families comprising 350
citizens.
Since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK, two Serbs from
the village have been killed and eight others injured
during ethnically motivated attacks.
Locals insist that none of the cases have been solved.

MUORE DOPO UNA AGONIA DI UNA SETTIMANA

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SNRA, August 18, 2003

Tonic passes away a week after Kosovo shooting

BELGRADE -- Monday -- Dragan Tonic, shot in the face a
week ago today, died last night in Belgrade's Clinical
Centre as a result of his injuries.
Kosovo-Serb Tonic was leisurely fishing on the River
Sitnica around 150 metres from the last Serb homes in
the village of Skulanevo, when unknown attackers,
suspected to be from a neighbouring ethnic Albanian
village, opened fire, hitting Tonic in the mouth.
Responding to the death, Skulanevo villagers have
today blockaded the road linking Prizren, Lipljan and
Kosovo Polje, in the direction of the Slatina airport.
They demand that UNMIK police announce whether or not
any suspects from the neighbouring village of Gavica
have been arrested.
Belgrade's Coordination Centre for Kosovo confirmed
Tonic's death. A funeral is to be held tomorrow.


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ATTACCO CONTRO PATTUGLIA POLIZIA UNMIK
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DOPO AVERE IMPEDITO L'ACCESSO IN CASA DI UN NAZIONALISTA PANALBANESE

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Beta, August 12, 2003

Kosovo police patrol attacked by wanted Albanian

PRISTINA -- Monday -- A police patrol suffered [an]
armed attacked in the village of Ajvalija close to
Kosovo's provincial capital of Pristina today, when
they were fired upon from an Albanian man's house.
UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli confirmed that the
attack ensued after officers approached the house of a
wanted man, saying: "When the police surrounded the
house this person opened the door and opened fire, and
then shouted 'Don't come in'. Not one policeman was
wounded".
Beta report that the attack in the exclusively ethnic
Albanian village took place at around 2.30pm and an
investigation is said to be underway.


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CECCHINI DELLA NATO FANNO IL TIRO A SEGNO
CONTRO I BAMBINI IN RIVA AL FIUME, DUE MORTI
===

[Note: The US government-run Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty chooses to spell Kosovo as Kosova in order to be prepared for
the province's secession.]

SCENDE IN PIAZZA TUTTA LA COMUNITA' SERBA

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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003

LOCAL SERBS AND ALBANIANS PROTEST

A crowd of Serbs blocked an important road in western
Kosova on 14 August to protest the killings,
international and regional media reported. Meanwhile,
in Serbian-controlled northern Mitrovica, unidentified
individuals threw a grenade into the home of an ethnic
Albanian. About 3,000 Serbs demonstrated in that town,
carrying signs reading "Serbia, wake up!" and "Europe,
open your eyes!" Local Serb leader Milan Ivanovic
called for the capture of what he called "Albanian
criminals" and their extradition to the Hague-based
war crimes tribunal. He demanded the return of Serbian
security forces to Kosova, as did another local Serb
leader, Marko Jaksic, adding, "Everyone can now see
with what monsters the Serbs of Kosovo...have to live
with." UN officials previously ruled out the return of
Serbian forces, fearing that they would serve as a
magnet for attacks by ethnic Albanian extremists. In
Prishtina, all leading Kosovar Albanian political
leaders and daily newspapers condemned the killings,
which "Koha Ditore" called "simply a terrorist act."
Hajredin Kuci, who is a member of the Kosova
parliament, told RFE/RL that Serbian Prime Minister
Zoran Zivkovic and other Serbian politicians should
not exploit the incident for political purposes. In
Tirana, the Albanian Foreign Ministry condemned the
shootings as a "serious crime." PM

http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Protesters%20urge%20international%20community%20to%20find%20cri
minals,%20take%20them%20to%20justIce
Tanjug, August 15, 2003

Protesters urge international community to find
criminals, take them to justice

18:04 STRPCE , Aug 15 (Tanjug) - A protest rally of
about 1,000 Serbs was held Friday in Strpce over the
killing of two Serb boys and the wounding of several
other children in Gorazdevac two days ago.
The protesters appealed to KFOR, UNMIK and the OSCE to
find and take to justice the perpetrators of the crime
in Gorazdevac and of all other crimes committed in
Kosovo since the arrival of international forces, and
to start honoring the UN Security Council Resolution
1244, including stepping up of their powers in order
to protect the Serbs remaining in the province and to
secure the return of the displaced.

UN MESSAGGIO ANCHE PER IL NUOVO GOVERNATORE COLONIALE HOLKERI

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Kosovo Serbs shot dead as new UN chief arrives

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, Aug 13 (AFP) - Two
Kosovo Serb teenagers were killed and four others were
injured in a shooting attack Wednesday as new UN
mission chief Harri Holkeri made his first visit to
the province, officials said.
An ethnic Albanian female was also injured when a
crowd of angry Serbs threw stones at her near the
scene shortly after the shooting around 2:00 pm (1300
GMT) at a river near the western village of Zahac.
"A group of people opened fire from machine guns at a
group of young Serbs as they were swimming in the
Bistrica river," Andrea Angeli, the spokesman for the
UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), told AFP.
"We can confirm there are two dead, one of them 19
years old."
UN officials earlier said five Serbs had been injured
in the attack along with the Albanian female.
A UN police spokeswoman said two of the injured Serbs
were in serious condition and had been flown by NATO
helicopter to a hospital in the north of the province.
The victims were from the nearby village of
Gorazdevac, an ethnic-Serb enclave surrounded by
ethnic-Albanian villages some 60 kilometers (40 miles)
west of the provincial capital Pristina.
The attack came an hour after the arrival of Holkeri
on his first visit to the UN-administered province,
which is still wrecked by ethnic violence four years
after a war between Serbs and the separatist Albanian
majority.
Holkeri met with the head of the NATO-led peacekeeping
force in Kosovo (KFOR), Italian Lieutenant General
Fabio Mini, and later condemned the attack in a
statement sent to AFP.
"I am devastated that on my first day in Kosovo there
has been a terrible tragedy in which two Kosovo Serb
children have been killed and a number of other
persons injured," he said.
Mini condemned the attack and said it would damage the
province's image as it struggles to reinvent itself as
a multi-ethnic democracy which respects human rights
and the rule of law.
"I am sad to hear what happened. This is a bad signal
for the possibility for Kosovo to achieve tolerance,"
Mini said after meeting Holkeri.
"This is not the Kosovo we want."
Kosovo technically remains part of Serbia but it
became a UN protectorate after NATO bombed Yugoslavia
to stop troops loyal to then president Slobodan
Milosevic persecuting the ethnic Albanian majority.
UN police said they could not confirm the crime was
ethnically motivated but it appeared to be so.

L'ATTACCO E' AVVENUTO A POCA DISTANZA
DAGLI ITALIANI DELLA KFOR

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B92, Beta, August 13, 2003

Children die in Pec attack

PRISTINA -- Wednesday – UNMIK has confirmed that two
adolescents were killed and six wounded in an attack
near Pec today.
A spokesman for the UN mission said that unknown
gunmen opened fire on a group of young people swimming
and playing at the Bistrica river beach.
A Kalashnikov automatic rifle was used in the attack,
and the number of assailants has not been established.
Two Serbs, one aged eighteen and the other nineteen
died in the attack and a nineteen-year-old Albanian
was among the injured.
Locals told media that the attack had occurred despite
the presence of UNMIK troops guarding the swimmers.

SERBI BLOCCANO STRADE PER PROTESTA

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Kosovska%20Mitrovica%20road
Tanjug, August 14, 2003

Serbs from Osojane build road blocks on Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road

13:33 OSOJANE , August 14 (Tanjug) - More than 400
Serbs on Thursday continued to block the Pec-Kosovska
Mitrovica road and other roads that run through Osojane.
The roads have been blocked since Wednesday afternoon
in protest against the killing of Serb youths in the
village of Gorazdevac near Pec.

SERBI IN PIAZZA A MITROVICA

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EYug.htm#Protest%20rallies%20in%20Kosovska%20Mitrovica
Tanjug, August 14, 2003

Protest rallies in Kosovska Mitrovica

15:15 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , August 14 (Tanjug) -
Several thousands of citizens of Kosovska Mitrovica
gathered in the main square on Thursday to protest
under the slogan "Europe, why are you killing our
children?" expressing their indignation over
yesterday's terrorist attack on Serbs in Gorazdevac.
The protest rally began with a minute of silence in
memory of the murdered boys.

MIGLIAIA DI DIMOSTRANTI A GRACANICA

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SNRA, August 14, 2003

Protests in Gracanica

PRISTINA -- Thursday – Thousands of Kosovo Serbs
yesterday protested in Gracanica over yesterday’s
slaying of two young Serbs near Pec.
Protest organiser Slavisa Kostic called on Serbs to
withdraw from Kosovo institutions and demanded that
the Kosovo Protection Corps be disbanded.
He also called on Serbia-Montenegro to provide
protection for those Serbs remaining in Kosovo and
called for a traffic curfew in Serb areas.

STAZIONARIE LE CONDIZIONI DEI QUATTRO FERITI

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Beta/B92, August 14, 2003

Teenage Kosovo victims stable

BELGRADE/PRIZREN -- Thursday – Bogdan Bukumiric, one
of the teenage victims of yesterday’s shooting at a
Kosovo swimming hole, remains in intensive care after
undergoing surgery at the Military Medical Academy in
Belgrade.
Speaking to B92, head of intensive therapy Predrag
Romic said that the fifteen-year-old suffered injuries
to the head, chest and abdomen: "Surgery on little
Bogdan was completed at 11.30. The surgical operation
– brain surgery – was successful and without problems.
The patient is currently receiving further intensive care".
Romic said that Bogdan, who was transferred to
Belgrade last night, is currently stable: "pressure,
pulse and other vital functions are working fine. His
condition will be monitored and we'll be informing the
public about it".
Eleven-year-old Pantelija Dakic and twenty-year-old
Ivan Jovovic were killed in the attack yesterday while
swimming in the Bistrica River near Gorazdevac.
Four other children, including Bukumiric, were
wounded. Two of them, Dragan Srbljak and Djordje
Obrenovic are recovering from surgery in the Kosovska
Mitrovica hospital where their condition is reported
to be stable.
The fourth, Marko Bogicevic, was transferred to the
German Military hospital in Prizren for surgery
against his parents’ wishes.
The deputy director of the Kosovska Mitrovica
hospital, Milan Ivanovic, told Radio B92 that the
forced transfer was a flagrant violation of human
rights by KFOR and UNMIK officials who had promised
the boy’s parents he would be taken either to
Mitrovica or Belgrade.
“They obviously can’t be trusted,” said Ivanovic.
Siegfried Huben, KFOR's south-west sector spokesman,
later confirmed that ten-year-old Bogicevic is in a
stable condition.
Huben said that although the boy was shot in the
abdominal area and the chest, he is no longer in a
life-threatening condition.
The KFOR official added that he could not understand
the motivation for yesterday's barbaric attack, which
threatens to annul everything so far achieved towards
establishing peace in Kosovo.

NELL'OSPEDALE ("ETNICAMENTE RIPULITO") DI PEC FALSIFICATA LA DIAGNOSI
DI DUE DEI FERITI

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Ministry accuses Albanian doctor of cover-up

Beta - August 20, 2003
BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- The Serbian Health Ministry has today said
that Bujar Vrela, surgeon of the Pec Hospital, was guilty of a serious
violation of medical ethics and fundamental human rights.
On Friday, the Society of Physicians of Serbia accused Vrela of
deliberately misdiagnosing the injuries of two children following
Wednesday's attack on Serb teenagers near Pec.
The Society claimed that Vrela attempted to disguise the fact that one
of the wounded children had been shot by putting a plaster cast on him.
According to today's ministry statement, wounded Serb children Djordje
Ugrinovic and Dragana Srbljaka were not hospitalised, despite needing
to be. The ministry also accuse Vrela of misdiagnosing the injuries in
order to cover-up the real cause of the injuries.
The ministry said: "This way we want to inform the international
professional public and to warn of the unequal status of the Serbs in
Kosovo in tending to the ill and wounded by Albanian medical workers".
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Wrong diagnosis of ethnic Albanian doctors for Serb children wounded in
Gorazdevac

Tanjug - August 20, 2003
19:27 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - Head of the Serbian Ministry of Health
department for Kosovo-Metohija Zdravko Vitosevic presented Wednesday
to the press evidence on the treatment Serb children Dragan Srbljak
and Djordje Ugenovic, wounded in the terrorst attack in Gorazdevac,
received at the Pec hospital, and said the documents were addressed to
the World Health Organization.
Vitosevic accused Pec hospital surgeon Bujar Vrela of concealing a
crime by pursposefully making a wrong diagnosis of fractures, instead
of gunshot wounds.
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CERIMONIA A BELGRADO

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B92, August 26, 2003

Thousands of people pay tribute to Gorazdevac victims

BELGRADE -- Monday - Several thousand people assembled
last night in central Belgrade to pay last tribute to
the two Serb teenagers recently killed in the Kosovo
village of Gorazdevac.
People from a number of Serbian cities lit candles for
the victims and expressed hope that crimes such as
that in Gorazdevac would not be repeated.
Aleksandar Milovanovic, executive director of the
Democratic Youth Association of Kosovo that organised
the rally, said that the death of teenagers Pantelija
Dakic and Ivan Jovovic proves that Kosovo Serbs live
and die in fear.
"We are asking for the right to live, because a Serbia
in which children get killed cannot be a country with
a future”, said Milovanovic.
He said it was time that the international community
started applying in Kosovo the same human rights
standards that are applied in all other European
countries.
The organisers announced peaceful protests in front of
embassies if the killers are not caught in the near future.


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LA PROTESTA DEL MONDO POLITICO SERBO
ED ALTRE REAZIONI
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Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 15, 2003

SERBIAN POLITICIANS SPEAK OUT

The Serbian government declared 15 August a day of
national mourning for the two slain Serbian youths,
international and regional media reported. Serbian
Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic called the killings "an
act of terrorism...[with the message that] Serbs
should be driven out of Kosovo." Serbia and
Montenegro's President Svetozar Marovic said the
killings are "something more than a crime, something
the entire world is horrified at." Speaking after a
meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, he stressed,
"We are not here to make war cries but to try to
influence the United Nations and the European Union to
make concrete decisions." He did not elaborate.
Defense Minister Boris Tadic made similar remarks.
Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic argued that the
killings are a "tragic confirmation of the failure" of
NATO and the UN in the province. Serbian Deputy Prime
Minister Nebojsa Covic said that "fascism has arrived"
in Kosova. General elections are widely expected in
Serbia within the next 12 months, and many politicians
have been seeking to woo nationalist voters recently
with tough talk about Kosova. PM

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Covic calls for urgent Security Council meeting

BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Deputy Serbian Prime Minister
Nebojsa Covic today called for an urgent meeting of
the UN Security Council after two Serb teenagers were
killed and several more wounded in a machine gun
attack at a Kosovo swimming hole this afternoon.
“What happened today in Gorazdevac is the most brutal
form of behaviour and there are no words to describe
it,” said Covic, who heads Belgrade’s Kosovo
Coordination Centre.
“A meeting of the UN Security Council must be called
urgently and Secretary-General Kofi Annan must commit
himself urgently to resolving the problem,” said the
prime minister, adding that UNMIK and KFOR were not in
control of the situation in the province.
“The situation is handling them instead of them
handling the situation, and that’s not acceptable,”
Covic told media.
He also accused official UNMIK spokesman Andrea Angeli
of shameful behaviour by claiming that one of the
victims was Albanian.
“Serb children have been killed and wounded, and
statements like this are manipulation. They should
not be lying. They should be ashamed of what they are
doing to the Serb national community,” said Covic.

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Beta, August 13, 2003

Regrets “not enough” for Kosovo violence

BELGRADE -- Wednesday – Kosovo Serb leader Oliver
Ivanovic said today that now is the last moment for
the international community and UNMIK officials to
respond to attacks on Serbs in the province.
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