Kosmet: Subito prima dei pogrom
1 febbraio -- 15 marzo 2004

Rassegna degli avvenimenti dei quali la stampa non ha parlato


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AVVERTENZE
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Questa cronologia si riferisce alle settimane che hanno immediatamente
preceduto i violentissimi pogrom contro i serbi e le altre minoranze
del Kosmet nel marzo 2004.

Come al solito, la nostra rassegna cronologica sul Kosmet non ha alcuna
pretesa di completezza: le notizie qui riportate sono da considerare
solo come esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.

I precedenti "bollettini di guerra" dal Kosmet (da maggio 2002 in poi)
si possono recuperare partendo dalla URL:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3206
che riporta anche gli avvenimenti di Gennaio 2004.

In generale, un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime
di terrore instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali
(KFOR) e dai neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare nell'archivio del
nostro notiziario JUGOINFO:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
(qui abbiamo recentemente fatto circolare, ad esempio, le notizie
relative all'arresto ed immediata liberazione del criminale
pan-albanese Agim Ceku).

Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija si
vedano in particolare:

http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1029
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1030
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2978
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2986
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3107
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/3090

ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti. Molti dei materiali che riportiamo
nelle nostre rassegne provengono dalle mailinglists:

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e dal bollettino della chiesa ortodossa in Kosmet ERP KIM:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo.html
Ulteriori informazioni si trovano sul sito curato dalla chiesa
serbo-ortodossa:
http://www.kosovo.com

Segnaliamo infine la rassegna curata da Babsi Jones per EXJU.ORG, che
riporta anche brevi testi riassuntivi in italiano:
http://www.exju.org/

(a cura di A.M.)


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NEWS
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PRIMI DI FEBBRAIO...

http://www.exju.org/comments/647_0_1_0_C/
[ex-nju] jugonews 2-9 feb '04

a djakovica, monaci in attesa della kfor sotto assedio

[dopo gli incidenti del 21 gennaio scorso a djakovica, quando un gruppo
di una trentina di albanesi ha attaccato un convoglio tedesco della
kfor con a bordo i monaci ortodossi del monastero dei santi arcangeli,
i monaci sono rimasti pressoch� senza scorta, ed isolati nel�edificio.
senza luce elettrica n� la possibilit� di procurarsi del cibo. la
ragione per cui � stata loro negata la scorta kfor � che �deve essere
richiesta dalla polizia albanese"]

following the incident in djakovica on january 21 when a group of about
30 albanians attacked a german kfor vehicle transporting monks of the
holy archangels monastery, kfor escorts for the monastery have been
discontinued with the explanation that all future escorts must be
requested from albanians in the kosovo police service. the monks are no
longer able to use the german military electrical generator they have
been using until now, and being denied food...

See:
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo07feb04.html#2

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IL KOSOVO COME TEST PER LA NATO
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3732-2004Feb1.html
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=47644&LangID=1
Associated Press - February 1, 2004

Kosovo Seen As Test of New NATO Approach

By FISNIK ABRASHI

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro - NATO's top commander in
Europe said Sunday he views the alliance's mission in
Kosovo as a testing ground for how it will operate in
future missions around the world.
Gen. James L. Jones made the comment at the end of a
two-day visit to this U.N.-run province.
NATO's Kosovo mission, known as KFOR, is currently the
alliance's largest military mission. It consists of
some 18,500 troops from 35 contributing NATO and
non-NATO nations - down from an initial deployment of
50,000 troops.
The planned transformation of KFOR into an even
smaller force with greater flexibility reflects NATO's
larger transformation, Jones said.
"NATO has signaled that it desires to be much more
flexible and have a greater role on a global basis,"
he said. "It has been wonderful to see this transition
occur right here in Kosovo, which I consider to be one
of the great testbeds for how the operational forces
and the alliance worldwide will have to work in the
future."
NATO is planning to create its first multinational
military unit combining air, land and sea power for
use anywhere in the world on short notice. Known as
NATO Response Force, it was first proposed by U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2002.
Counterterrorism is one of the main tasks of the
force, which will be 20,000 strong when it becomes
fully operational by the end of 2006. Troops will be
able to deploy within five to 30 days to deal with
operations including peacekeeping, evacuations and
embargoes, NATO has said.
NATO, an alliance forged during the Cold War to
protect Western Europe from the perceived threat of
the Soviet Union, has in recent years redefined its
mission, taking on peacekeeping tasks in war-torn
regions outside its traditional sphere of interest.
It saw military action for the first time in 1999 when
it launched air strikes against Serb targets to end
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's crackdown on
ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Since then, NATO has
joined the mission in Afghanistan and the 19 member
states are mulling a U.S. proposal for the alliance to
take on military tasks in postwar Iraq.

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LA KFOR NEGA CHE AL QAIDA SIA ATTIVA IN KOSOVO
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http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=47694&LangID=1
Seeurope.net - February 3, 2004

KFOR Dismisses Claims Al-Qaida Present in Kosovo

The international peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR)
has dismissed claims by the Serbia-Montenegro army�s
intelligence chief that al-Qaida and other terrorist
groups are present in the UN-governed province, media
in Pristina report.
Media quote Colonel Horst Pieper, the head of the KFOR
information office, as saying the comments by Momir
Stojanovic ring of propaganda.
Stojanovic claimed in an interview this weekend that
Osama bin Laden�s al-Qaida and other terrorist groups
are present in the Balkans and planning to increase
their activity there.

"We have information that al-Qaida has strongholds in
Kosovo, northern Albania ... and that they are active
in western Macedonia," he told Tanjug news agency.

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L'UNMIK NON SI DEGNA NEMMENO DI RISPONDERE
ALLE QUESTIONI POSTE DA BELGRADO
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http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=26761&style=headlines
Beta - February 3, 2004

No response from UNMIK to Belgrade claims

BELGRADE -- Tuesday � The head of Belgrade�s Kosovo
Coordination Centre said today that there had been no
response from the international administration in
Kosovo to proposals for repatriation and the return of
usurped Serbian property in the province.
Covic was commenting on the drafting of implementation
plans for the standards drawn up by the international
community for Kosovo.
Serb political representatives in the province have
boycotted the drafting process.
Covic also said today that he will not be attending
Friday�s sitting of the UN Security Council in New
York, at which Kosovo governor Harri Holkeri will
present a report to the UN secretary-general.
�Nothing new will be happening at the Security Council
session,� said Covic, adding that Belgrade had already
presented its position on Kosovo on several occasions.

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MACEDONIA: POLIZIA SEQUESTRA SU CAMION 51 CHILI DI EROINA

(ANSA) - SKOPJE, 4 FEB - La polizia macedone ha scoperto e confiscato
a bordo di un Tir un carico di 51 chili di eroina. La droga,
confezionata in pani da 500 grammi, era nascosta nella parte
superiore del cassone all'interno di una struttura metallica
costruita appositamente. Il sequestro e' avvenuto alle porte di
Skopje: il camion, che normalmente viaggiava sulla rotta
Turchia-Grecia-Macedonia, era entrato sul territorio macedone il
primo febbraio. L'autista, del quale non e' stata finora rivelata
l'identita', e' stato arrestato. La polizia ritiene che lo
stupefacente fosse destinato al mercato dell'Europa occidentale. La
scorsa settimana la polizia albanese aveva sequestrato un altro
carico di 55 chili di eroina appena giunto dal Kosovo.(ANSA)
BLL-COR 04/02/2004 17:28

http://www.ansa.it/balcani/macedonia/20040204172832834050.html

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il manifesto - 17 Febbraio 2004
KOSOVO

Presi 4 Uck per crimini di guerra

Ieri sono stati catturati a Pristina dalle forze della polizia Onu e
dalla forza di pace Nato 4 kosovari albanesi, ex membri dell'Uck,
accusati di avere commesso crimini di guerra contro i serbi durante la
guerra civile del Kosovo negli anni `98-'99, che vide l'attacco
risolutivo delle forze Nato contro la Jugoslavia di Milosevic. Uno dei
4 � Salim Krasniqi, che dopo essere stato uno dei leader dell'Esercito
di liberazione del Kosovo, si ricicl� come dirigente del Corpo di
protezione del Kosovo, l'organismo di polizia civile kosovaro, nella
citt� di Prizren. Dal `99 il Kosovo � sotto controllo dell'Onu e della
Nato.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27027&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - February 18, 2004

Protection Corps members interrogated

PRISTINA -- Wednesday � An international investigative
magistrate today began interrogating four members of
the Kosovo Protection Corps who were arrested in
southeast Kosovo on Monday.
One of those arrested is the commander of the Corps�
Second Zone, Selim Krasniqi.
The four are suspected of committing war crimes
against Albanian civilians in Kosovo in 1998, while
members of the former Kosovo Liberation Army.
Associations of former Liberation Army members said
today that they will protest in a number of Kosovo
municipalities over the arrests, accusing the UN
mission in Kosovo of an attack on the values of the
former guerrilla organisation.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27057&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - February 19, 2004

Former guerrillas protest in Kosovo

PRISTINA -- Thursday � Three associations of former
members of the Kosovo Liberation Army this evening
protested in central Prizren, demanding the release of
four local Kosovo Protection Corps officers arrested
on Monday.
Several thousand demonstrators called for the release
of Selim Krasniqi, now regional commander of the
Kosovo Protection Corps.
Krasniqi and three associates were arrested on the
orders of international prosecutors in Kosovo.
Organisers said similar protests will be held tomorrow
in Malisevo, followed by other places in Kosovo over
the next few days.

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LA KFOR SI RIFIUTA DI SCORTARE GLI AIUTI UMANITARI
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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27034&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - February 18, 2004

KFOR refuses escort for aid deliveries

GRACANICA -- Wednesday � Humanitarian aid packages
delivered this week by the Serbian Red Cross to a
monastery near Prizren cannot be delivered to the
town�s Serbian population because KFOR has refused to
provide a security escort, Serbian Orthodox Church
representatives said today.
More than eight thousand Serbs lived in Prizren before
the NATO war of 1999. Now only 68 remain, relying on
aid packages of food and toiletries.
The Church says the monks in the monastery have
received no reply to their numerous requests for an
escort in order to deliver the aid packages to the
remaining Prizren Serbs.

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KFOR ED UNMIK INDULGENTI CON
L'"ESERCITO NAZIONALE ALBANESE" (ANA)
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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - February 19, 2004

Kfor, UNMIK do not wish to catch ANA members, SNV

16:24 KOSOVSKA MUTROVICA , Feb 19 (Tanjug) - The
Serbian National Council for northern Kosovo-Metohija
accused on Thursday representatives of UNMIK and Kfor
that they do not wish to catch members of the Albanian
National Army (ANA) who are behind the attacks on
Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija.
The key man in organising ANA is Ismail Latifi, deputy
in the Kosovo Assembly, it is said in SNV's statement,
and pointed out that Serbs know for a fact that the
leader of one group is Adem Gecaj from Pecka Banja, a
professor of the Albanian language in Istok, and that
in the group are Astrit Delijaj from Suvo Grlo, Adem
Delijaj from the same village.

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PRESSIONI E MINACCE CONTRO RADA TRAJKOVIC
"DEPUTATO" SERBO NEL "PARLAMENTO KOSOVARO"
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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27056&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - February 19, 2004

Jailed guerrilla commander sues for libel

[For background on the KLA's - and Kosovo Protection
Corps' - *Commander Remi,* see:
http://www.antiwar.com/malic/?articleid=862]

PRISTINA -- Thursday � A former regional commander of
the Kosovo Liberation Army has filed a complaint
against Kosovo Serb MP Rada Trajkovic alleging slander
and the dissemination of false information.
Rustem Mustafa � better known as Commander Remi � is
serving a prison sentence for crimes against fellow
Kosovo Albanians.
Lawyer Tom Gasi told journalists today that his
client�s complaint concerns a statement made by
Trajkovic last December in a debate on Radio
Television Kosovo.
In the course of that debate, said Gasi, Trajkovic had
claimed that witnesses who were to testify against
Remi and other Albanians were being killed.
Noting today that �all of us in Kosovo� knew that no
witnesses in the Remi case had been killed, Gasi said
that Trajkovic had obviously had a specific intention
in making the remark.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - February 19, 2004

Albanians threaten Rada Trajkovic

14:37 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Feb 19 (Tanjug) - Return
Coalition representative in the Kosovo Parliament and
high official of the Serb National Council of the
central Kosovo and Metohija Rada Trajkovic has
received threating e-mail messages sent by Albanians
over the past 24 hours.
"Recognize independent Kosovo," "We'll kill you," and
various swear words are only part of the contents of
the messages that have arrived to my e-mail address
from London," Trajkovic told a news conference in
Kosovska Mitrovica.

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20 FEBBRAIO: DUE CRIVELLATI DI PROIETTILI PERCHE' SERBI. PROTESTE.
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http://www.exju.org/comments/666_0_1_0_C/
[ex-nju] jugonews 16-23 feb '04

due giovani serbi, miljana markovic e zlatimir kostic, sono stati
uccisi nel villaggio staro gradsko vicino a lipljan, nella parte
centrale del kosovo, popolata in prevalenza da albanesi. il ragazzo e
la ragazza sono stati trovati morti in un�auto sulla strada staro
gradsko-lipljan, assassinati con colpi d�arma da fuoco dopo essere
caduti vittima di un�imboscata. il vicepresidente del parlamento del
kosovo, oliver ivanovic, ha dichiarato che l�omicidio dei due serbi a
lipljan � l�ennesimo crimine di cui sono responsabili l�unmik e la
kfor, che non hanno ancora aperto delle inchieste efficaci nonostante
la catena ininterrotta di attentati ai danni della comunit� serba nella
zona. in seguito all�assassinio, i serbi nel villaggio di staro gradsko
hanno duramente protestato
[http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo22feb04.html%5d. anche
il capogruppo dei deputati della coalizione serba povratak (ritorno),
dragisa krstovic, ha severamente accusato la missione internazionale in
kosovo. nel villaggio di staro gradsko sono rimasti solo 300 serbi e la
ragazza uccisa questa settimana � la ventiduesima vittima in questo
piccolo paese dall�arrivo dell�unmik e della kfor in kosovo. al
funerale dei due giovani uccisi non si sono presentate le autorit�
albanesi. [nello stesso villaggio, nel luglio del �99, furono uccisi 14
serbi, ed i colpevoli della strage (
http://www.kosovo.com/gracko_victims.html ) non sono mai stati
identificati. non cliccate il link se siete sensibili alle immagini di
cadaveri]:

http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo20feb04.html

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il manifesto - 24 Febbraio 2004
KOSOVO

Uccisi 2 serbi Ferito ministro

Un ministro del governo del Kosovo [SIC] e altre quattro persone sono
rimaste ferite sabato scorso in seguito all'esplosione di un ordigno
posizionato nell'auto sulla quale viaggiavano. Secondo le fonti
ufficiali di Pristina che hanno dato la notizia, Ethem Ceku, ministro
dell'ambiente kosovaro-albanese, stava rientrando dalla citt� di Pec,
dove aveva assistito a una partita di basket, quando � esplosa la
bomba. Ceku, che non � in pericolo di vita, � membro del terzo partito
albanese del Kosovo, l'Alleanza per l'avvenire, formazione di Ramush
Haradinaj, uno degli ex leader dell'Uck, i miliziani albanesi gi�
alleati della Nato nella guerra �umanitaria� del 1999. Sabato un uomo e
una donna serbi erano stati trovati morti in un'auto presso il
villaggio di Suvidol; un duplice delitto attribuito che per
l'Amministrazione Onu (Unmik) � di matrice etnica. Dalla fine della
guerra in Kosovo nel giugno 1999 infatti si sono ripetuti senza sosta
atti di violenza di estremisti albanesi contro la minoranza serba, i
rom e gli albanesi moderati.

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KOSOVO: TROVATI UCCISI IN AUTO UOMO E DONNA SERBI

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 20 FEB - Un uomo e una donna serbi sono stati
trovati uccisi all'interno della loro vettura nei pressi del
villaggio di Suvidol, non distante dalla citta' di Lipljan in Kosovo.
Secondo le prime informazioni diffuse dalla polizia delle
Nazioni Unite, l'uomo e' stato identificato con certezza mentre
sull'identita' della donna ci sarebbero ancora dei dubbi. Il
ritrovamento e' stato effettuato da una pattuglia della Kfor (forza
di pace a guida Nato) su segnalazione di alcuni abitanti della zona
che ieri sera avevano sentito l'eco di raffiche di mitra provenienti
dalla stradina in cui sono sono stati poi rivenuti i due corpi.
La polizia sta investigando sul duplice delitto che non si esclude
possa avere una matrice etnica. Dalla fine della guerra in Kosovo
(giugno 1999) si sono ripetuti senza sosta atti di violenza di
estremisti albanesi nei confronti della minoranza serba. Il
tragico episodio di sangue giunge a pochi giorni dall'annunciata
ripresa del dialogo fra Pristina e Belgrado al quale dovrebbero
prendere parte anche i rappresentanti dei serbi del Kosovo.(ANSA)
BLL 20/02/2004 13:48
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20040220134832850167.html

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=27065&style=headlines
Beta - February 20, 2004

Serbs killed in Kosovo village

LIPLJAN -- Friday � Two Serbs are reported to have
been murdered last night in the Kosovo village of Lipljan.
Beta news agency names the victims as Zlatimor Kostic
from Kosovo Polje and Miljana Markovic from Staro Gacko.
A senior Kosovo Serb MP this morning described the
killings as �horrific,� and blamed the �inaction� of
the United Nations administration, UNMIK, and the
international peacekeeping force, KFOR.
�They haven�t established law and order in Kosovo or
shed light on crimes committed before,� said Oliver
Ivanovic, a member of the Kosovo Parliament
Presidency.
He claimed the murders would �encourage extremists�
and were aimed at driving out the remaining Serbs.
Ivanovic warned of �tragic consequences� for efforts
to improve the situation in the UN-governed province.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
EYug.htm#Kosovo%20Serbs%20riddled%20with%20bullets
Tanjug - February 20, 2004

Kosovo Serbs riddled with bullets

12:28 LIPLJAN , Feb 20 (Tanjug) - Two Kosovo Serbs
were riddled with bullets near Lipljan late on
Thursday, while they were driving down the Staro
Gradsko - Lipljan road.
Milijana Markovic (24) from Staro Gradsko and
professor of electronics Zlatimir Kostic from Susice
were found dead in the car, following the late
Thursday firing from automatic weapons.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - February 20, 2004

UNMIK and KFOR responsible for murder in Lipljan -
Ivanovic

15:11 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Feb 20 (Tanjug) - Kosovo
and Metohija Parliament Presidency member Oliver
Ivanovic said on Friday that the Thursday killing of
two Serbs in Lipljan was a "terrible crime," accusing
UNMIK and KFOR that they are not keeping peace in
Kosovo and Metohija.
I find UNMIK and KFOR directly responsible, because by
failing to carry out their mandate, which is peace and
order keeping, as well as by failing to reveal the
perpetrators of earlier crimes, they are responsible
for such crimes, said Ivanovic.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/
index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27071&order=priority&style=headlines
Beta - February 20, 2004

Serbs protest Kosovo murders

<< Twenty-two Serbs have killed in the Lipljan
municipality since the arrival of peacekeepers and the
United Nations administration in mid-1999. >>

LIPLJAN/STARO GRACKO -- Friday � Several hundred Serbs
protested in Kosovo today at the murder of two Serbs
last night in the village of Lipljan.
They gathered in the village of Staro Gracko, not far
from the site where Zlatomir Kostic and Miljana
Markovic were killed when their car came under gunfire.
Zoran Cirkovic, a local official, claimed Serbs in the
village were being systematically attacked in an
attempt to drive them out. He called for support from
the authorities in Belgrade and Serbs in central Serbia.
The protest was attended by three senior Serb MPs in
the Kosovo Parliament � Oliver Ivanovic, Dragisa
Krstovic and Milorad Todorovic.
The protestors called on international peacekeepers in
the province to re-establish checkpoints at the
entrance to the village.
Twenty-two Serbs have killed in the Lipljan
municipality since the arrival of peacekeepers and the
United Nations administration in mid-1999.
The head of Belgrade�s Coordination for Centre
condemned the killings, and accused the international
authorities of failing to do their job.

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http://www.tanjug.co.yu/
Tanjug - February 20, 2004

Serbs protest in Staro Gradsko

14:40 STARO GRADSKO , Feb 20 (Tanjug) - In response to
Thursday's killing of two Serbs near Lipljane, Serb
population demonstrated in the village of Staro
Gradsko on Friday.
Some 300 Serbs have remained in the village, while
girl Milijana Markovic, killed on Thursday evening, is
the 22nd victim from the village since the arrival of
UNMIK and KFOR in Kosovo and Metohija.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=27089&style=headlines
B92 - February 22, 2004

Outcry over Serb murders in Kosovo

PRISTINA, LIPLJAN -- Saturday (B92) -- More than a
thousand people gathered in the Kosovo village of
Staro gracko today for the funeral of Milijana
Markovic.
Twenty-four-year-old Markovic and her companion,
Zlatomir Kostic, were killed on Thursday night when
unknown gunmen fired at their car on the outskirts of
the village.
Twenty-two Serbs have killed in the Lipljan
municipality since the arrival of peacekeepers and the
United Nations administration in mid-1999.
Zoran Cirkovic, a local official, claimed Serbs in the
village were being systematically attacked in an
attempt to drive them out. He called for support from
the authorities in Belgrade and Serbs in central
Serbia.

�Apparently they don�t want peace�

The head of Belgrade�s Kosovo Coordination Centre,
Nebojsa Covic, was conspicuous by his absence from the
funeral today.
He told Radio B92 that international peacekeepers had
said they could not guarantee his safety.
�I really can�t believe that the whole world, the
whole international community in Kosovo can�t resolve
the problem of normal living conditions, normal
safety, normal freedom of movement for Serbs and
non-Albanians.
�Believe me, I am certain that, if they wanted it,
peace and safety would win in a moment. Apparently
they don�t want this. There are honourable
exceptions, but to a great extent they have been
successfully got at.,� said Covic.

Locals reject political glad-handing

The murders have sparked protests throughout Kosovo
and from all sides.
Serbian journalists today refused to accompany UN
governor Harri Holkeri and Kosovo President Ibrahim
Rugova on a photo-opportunity tour of thirty Serb
families who have been repatriated to villages in the
Klina district.
The local Serbs were openly hostile, greeting Holkeri
and Rugova with banners carrying slogans such as �We
want the truth told,� �We are imprisoned� and �Give us
our freedom�.-
Local Albanians were similarly enraged by the visit,
with scores of them demonstrating outside the Klina
council offices while the Pristina guests spoke to
local politicians.
They protested against the return of Serbs to Kosovo
and demanded that light be shed on the fate of missing
Albanians.

�No evidence of racial motivation�

KFOR responded to the murders by claiming that there
was no evidence that this was an ethnic attack.
A statement from the international peacekeepers�
Multinational Brigade warned that speculation
following the murders was �unsubstantiated,
unconfirmed and not in the interests of anyone�.
The 22 murders in Lipljan and the way they have
occurred did not point to any coordinated and
systematic campaign, said KFOR.
An investigation is under way, said the peacekeepers,
but neither motive nor perpetrators have yet been
discovered.

Ombudsman lambastes police

Kosovo�s ombudsman, Marek Antoni Nowicki reacted
sharply, saying that it would be reasonable to raise
the issue of confidence in the work of the province�s
UN police.
�It�s important the public and the families of those
killed get an answer to the question of whether their
had been any progress in investigating the murders of
their loved ones,� he said.
The ombudsman cited the case of an attack on the
Nis-Express bus in Podujevo in which fourteen Serbs,
including a baby, were killed. After three years, he
said, the police have no results.
�It�s not important for the police to respond to me or
to the institutions, but to the families of the
victims and the public, said Nowicki, adding that it
was very important for the public to have some insight
into what had been done in three years.
�This is not the first case of murder, but I hope
that, contrary to experience up to now and given that
this is murder on an inter-ethnic basis, that the
police will find the killers,� he told journalists.

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Tanjug - February 21, 2004

Protest against murder of two Serbs near Lipljan

16:28 LIPLJAN , Feb 21 (Tanjug) - In the courtyard of
the Orthodox church in Lipljan, on Saturday some 500
Serbs protested against the murder Thursday evening of
two Serbs, and from the protest, on behalf of the
citizens of Staro Gradsko and Lipljan a letter was
sent to UNMIK chief Harri Holkeri.
In the protest letter it is said that the since the
arrival of the UN mission in June 1999, 22 Serbs have
been killed in the village of Staro Gradsko, including
the two who lost their lives Thursday evening on the
road Staro Gradsko - Lipljan.

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Tanjug - February 22, 2004

UNMIK, Kfor continue with manipulations

19:30 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Feb 21 (Tanjug) -
Representatives of UNMIK and Kfor, following the
latest murders of Serbs in the Province, are
continuing with manipulations, Eparchy of Raska and
Prizren information service said on Saturday.
By their statements about the murder Thursday evening
of two Serbs in Lipljan representatives of UNMIK
police and of the multinational Kfor brigade Centre
are pointing out something that is not true, that
allegedly there is no evidence that the crime in
Lipljan was ethnically motivated.

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SRNA - February 23, 2004

Kosovo Serbs protest over murders

GRACANICA -- Monday � More than a thousand Serbs have
taken to the streets in the Kosovo town of Gracanica
today to protest over the murder of Zlatomir Kostic
and Milijana Markovic last Thursday.
The demonstrators called on the Serbian Government to
suspend dialogue with Kosovo�s UN administration
unless guarantees are issued that Kosovo will remain a
sovereign part of Serbia-Montenegro.
They are also calling for a Ministry for Kosovo to be
established in the new Serbian Government and for the
Serbian Parliament to urgently discuss the Kosovo
issue.
The Kosovo Serbs are also calling for the resignation
of KFOR commander Holger Kammerhoff and international
police commissioner Stefan Feller.
The list of demands also includes the re-establishment
of police checkpoints, information on kidnapped and
missing Serbs, suspension of the transfer of powers to
Kosovo institutions, that Serb Return Coalition MPs
withdraw from the Kosovo Parliament and that Serbs
employed in Kosovo institutions resign.
International and Kosovo police have strong security
measures in place for the demonstration. No violence
has been reported.

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Tanjug - February 23, 2004

Kosovo Serbs protest over murder of Milijana Markovic,
Zlatomir Kostic

15:48 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Feb 23 (Tanjug) - Several
thousands of Kosovo Serbs gathered in Kosovska
Mitrovica on Monday to protest over the murder of
Milijana Markovic and Zlatomir Kostic, killed near
Lipljan last Thursday.
President of the Executive Committee of the North
Kosovo Serb National Council Momir Kasalovic demanded
that the Serbian Army and police returned to the
province, that Kfor provided safety in the imperilled
Serb villages, and that Return coalition MPs walked
out of the Kosovo parliament and Serb representatives
out of the bodies of the UN, judicature and customs.

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Tanjug - February 23, 2004

Svilanovic files protest with UN for murder of two
Serbs in Kosmet

19:25 BELGRADE , Feb 23 (Tanjug) - Serbia and
Montenegro Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic has sent
a protest note to the United Nations Security Council
President following the heinous murder from an ambush
of Zlatomir Kostic (36) of Kosovo Polje and Milijana
Markovic (24) from the village of Staro Gracko in
Kosovo and Metohija.
Expressing his deepest indignation over the fact that
22 Serbs have been killed in Lipljan alone since the
deployment of the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) and
international peace-keeping forces (KFOR) in June 1999
and that not a single murder had been solved so far,
Minister Svilanovic underlined that the proclaimed
goals of the UN to secure safety, freedom of movement,
respect of human and ethnic minority rights for all
the inhabitants of the province have seriously been
challenged.

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Tanjug - February 23, 2004

Council for Kosovo-Metohija for consistent
implementation of Resolution 1244

17:31 BELGRADE, Feb 23 (Tanjug) - The Serbian Assembly
Council for Kosovo and Metohija adopted on Monday
conclusions which call on the international community
to consistently implement Resolution 1244 of the UN
Security Council and the protection of Serbs in that
Province.
At the session, convened following the recent murder
of two Serbs in Lipljan was also adopted a supplement
of conclusions which were proposed by the Serbian
Radical Party (SRS) - that to Kosovo-Metohija return
Serbian military and police forces, which, as it is
said, is provided for under Resolution 1244 and the
Kumanovo military-technical agreement.

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AGIM CEKU - LO STRAGISTA DELLA SLAVONIA, CHE VA IN GIRO CON UN
PASSAPORTO CROATO - VUOLE DIVENTARE IL CAPO DI UN PROSSIMO "ESERCITO
KOSOVARO": IL NUCLEO E' L'ATTUALE "CORPO DI PROTEZIONE". CIOE' L'UCK
TRAVESTITO
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THE BUDAPEST SUN
March 4, 2004

Former KLA general held

THE former leader of the ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA),
Agim Ceku, was briefly detained at Ferihegy airport on Sunday, February
29.
Ceku was held by Hungarian border guards on an international arrest
warrant issued by Interpol.
The international law enforcement agency had been asked by
Serbia-Montenegro to issue the warrant, because the former Yugoslav
nation accuses Ceku of war crimes, including genocide, committed during
the Kosovo Crisis in 1999.
Ceku had arrived in Budapest from Prague en route to Pristina,
accompanied by a US soldier. He was released several hours later into
the custody of Croatian diplomats after he was able to produce a
Croatian passport.
He was, in fact, a general in the Croatian army until the 1999
crisis, when he took over as Chief of Staff in the KLA. He now heads
the Kosovo Protection Force.
Ceku was also briefly detained a few months ago in Slovenia on the same
warrant, but was again released.
Technically, Kosovo remains part of Serbia-Montenegro but has been
under the protection of the UN and NATO since the 1999 crisis.

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Tanjug - February 20, 2004

KZK wants to be "protection force," not gendarmerie - Ceku

11:06 PRISTINA , Feb 20 (Tanjug) - Commander of the
Kosovo Protection Corps (KZK) General Agim Ceku has
said that KZK sees itself as the province's future
"protection force" - a Kosovo-Metohija army.
In an interview for the Thursday issue of the Pristina
daily Zeri, Ceku said that KZK had made a project on
setting up military police forces, something like a
gendarmerie, as part of the future "protection forces"
which would derive from the corps.

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SRNA - March 16, 2004

Kosovo Protection Corps proposes �military strategy�

PRISTINA -- Tuesday � The Kosovo Protection Corps
(KPC) has drafted a �Military Strategy� in response to
the threat of Serb forces returning to the province
and the danger posed by the creation of Serb enclaves,
Pristina daily Zeri reports.
Quoted by Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti, Zeri
reports that the document has been submitted to the
United Nations mission, KFOR international
peacekeeping force and other international offices in
Pristina.
It warns that the �enclavisation� of the Serb minority
represents a security threat to the province, as does
the continuing influence of the regime in Belgrade and
its refusal to accept the laws and rules of the
international presence.
The KPC, which was created by the UN from the
disbanded guerrilla army, proposed the creation of a
10,000-strong Kosovo army, with 20,000 reservists. The
focus will be on rapid reaction units.

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IN KOSOVO I GIOVANISSIMI NON ALBANESI
NON POSSONO ANDARE NORMALMENTE A SCUOLA
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Tanjug - February 20, 2004

Tragic fate of Serbian pupils in Kosovo - Voice of
Russia

13:47 MOSCOW , Feb 20 (Tanjug) - The Serbian education
in Kosovo is going through difficult times in Kosovo,
because pupils are faced daily with the fear for their
or whether they will lose their classrooms, Moscow's
radio the Voice of Russia comments on Friday.
"The Serbian part of the education in Kosovo and
Metohija is sharing the destiny of its people that
remained in Serbia's southern province. While children
in all other parts of Serbia had started the second
term without fear that someone might take over their
classrooms or endanger their lives, pupils and their
teachers in Kosovo and Metohija are struggling for
things that the people leading a normal life don't
even think about," the Moscow radio said.

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I SERBI DI GOJBULJE NON CE LA FANNO PIU', MINACCIANO DI ANDARSENE
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Tanjug - February 21, 2004

Collective displacement from Gojbulja if protection
not ensured

16:40 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , Feb 21 (Tanjug) - If Kfor,
UNMIK police, but also our state bodies do not
undertake something, we will be forced to move out
collectively, said on Saturday representatives of
Gojbulje, Serb enclave in the vicinity of Vucitrn.
Gojbulje representative Bratislav Kostic said that, if
Serbs do not return to the neighbouring village of
Miroc and if Kfor does not return control posts, more
than 270 Serbs including 69 children, will be forced
to leave.

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KOSOVO: UN MINISTRO E QUATTRO PERSONE FERITI IN ESPLOSIONE

(ANSA-AFP) - PRISTINA (SERBIA/MONTENEGRO), 22 FEB - Un ministro del
govErno del Kosovo e altre quattro persone sono rimaste ferite ieri
sera nell'esplosione di un ordigno sull'auto nella quale viaggiavano.
Lo hanno detto fonti ufficiali a Pristina secondo le quali Ethem
Ceku, ministro dell'Ambiente, stava tornando da Pec (ovest della
provincia) dove aveva assistito ad un incontro di pallacanestro,
quando e' avvenuta l'esplosione. ''Ceku e' stato ricoverato a Pec e
si trova fuori pericolo come le altre quattro persone rimaste
ferite''. Ceku e' membro del terzo partito albanese del Kosovo,
l'Alleanza per l'avvenire del Kosovo, di uno degli ex leader dei
geurriglieri albanesi, Ramush Haradinaj. La polizia non e' ancora in
grado di dire se l'esplosione sia stata un attentato diretto contro
il ministro. (ANSA-AFP). TV
22/02/2004 09:25

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The Scotsman - February 22, 2004

Kosovo Minister and Four Others Injured in Blast

A minister from Kosovo and four associates were
injured in a car explosion late today, police said.
The explosion injuring Ethem Ceku, the environment and
spatial planning minister in Kosovo�s government, and
four others, occurred shortly after 10pm local time
(9pm GMT) as their vehicle started to move, Refki
Morina, a police spokesman, told The Associated Press.
The blast took place following a basketball game which
the minister and his associates had attended in the
city of Pec, 50 miles west of Pristina, the capital of Kosovo.
All five were injured and were immediately transported
to the hospital. Their condition was not
life-threatening, Mr Morina and hospital officials said.
Police cordoned off the area and could not immediately
say what had caused the blast.
The minister is a member of the third biggest ethnic
Albanian party in the province, which is led by a
prominent, former ethnic Albanian rebel leader turned
politician, Ramush Haradinaj.
Kosovo is legally part of Serbia-Montenegro � the
union that replaced Yugoslavia last year � but has
been administered by the UN and Nato since mid-1999,
after an alliance air war ended a crackdown by Serb
forces on ethnic Albanians.

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IL BOMBARDIERE XAVIER SOLANA, IN VISITA DI CORTESIA IN KOSOVO, AFFERMA
CHE TUTTO VA BENE
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Tanjug - February 23, 2004

Javier Solana to visit Kosovo on Tuesday

19:47 BRUSSELS , Feb 23 (Tanjug) - European Union High
Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Javier
Solana will visit Pristina on Tuesday, where he is
scheduled to meet with the leaders of the provisional
institutions of Kosovo and Metohija, the local
Albanian and Serb political leaders and
representatives of the United Nations. The press
release Tanjug received from the High Representative's
office said that Solana will meet with Kosovo
President Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovo Parliament President
Nedzet Daci, as well as with special representative of
UN Secretary-General in Kosovo Harri Holkeri.

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Tanjug - February 26, 2004

Kosovo SNV strongly condemns Solana's statement

10:30 GRACANICA , Feb 26 (Tanjug) - The Serbian
National Council (SNV) of Kosovo and Metohija late
Wednesday most strongly condemned a statement by
European Union (EU) foreign policy and security chief
Javier Solana, who said progress was evident
everywhere in the province.
This statement ignores the fact that two young Serbs
were murdered in Lipljan just four days ago, and that
terrorist attacks on Serbs so far have not been
resolved, the SNV statement said.

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A BELGRADO DINANZI ALL'AMBASCIATA USA
PROTESTANO I PROFUGHI SERBO-KOSOVARI:
NESSUN GIORNALE ITALIANO NE HA PARLATO
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Beta - February 24, 2004

Kosovo Serbs continue US embassy protest

BELGRADE -- Tuesday � Around 100 displaced Kosovo
Serbs continued their protest today outside the US
embassy in Belgrade.
The demonstration began yesterday, prompted by the
killing of two Serbs in the Lipljan municipality of
the UN-governed province.
The organisers of the protest said they would
eventually go on hunger strike to secure guarantees of
action on the security front in Kosovo.

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Beta - February 26, 2004

Kosovo Serbs submit demands to parliament

BELGRADE -- Thursday � The deputy speaker of the
Serbian Parliament, Predrag Markovic, today received a
list of demands from Kosovo Serbs.
The list was submitted after more than a thousand
protesting Kosovars had blocked traffic in central
Belgrade streets, marching from the US Embassy to the
parliament.
�You don�t have to worry, the parliament will do all
in its power to fight for the rights of all citizens,
and you are among them,� he told the protesters in
front of the parliament.
�We will not allow Serbia to be split in two,� said
Markovic, referring to concerns that the international
community is moving closer to the idea of an
independent Kosovo.
The demands submitted by the protesters include the
arrest of former Albanian guerrilla commanders, and
guarantees in Kosovo for Serbs� right to life and
freedom.
The protest will resume in front of the US Embassy on
Monday.

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Beta - February 26, 2004

Kosovo Serbs block central Belgrade traffic

BELGRADE -- Thursday � Hundreds of demonstrating
Kosovo Serbs have arrived at the Serbian Parliament
after marching through central Belgrade from the US
Embassy.
More than a thousand marchers were a short time ago
blocking traffic on at least two central city streets.
The protestors are demanding to see Parliament Speaker
Dragan Marsicanin and bring his attention to the
unsolved murders of Serbs in Kosovo.
The protest began on Monday, spurred by the murder of
two Serbs near Lipljan last week.
The demonstrators say they want to bring attention to
unsolved murders in the province and the obstacles to
repatriation of Serbs displaced from their homes.

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DEPOSITO DI ARMI SCOPERTO A BUJANOVAC
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Tanjug - February 26, 2004

Arms cache discovered near Bujanovac

20:04 BELGRADE , Feb 25 (Tanjug) - The
Security-Information Agency (BIA) has discovered an
arms cache belonging to members of the disbanded
Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac
(UCPMB) in the territory of Mali Trnovac village, near
Bujanovac, southern Serbia proper.
"The intention of the members of this ethnic Albanian
army was to use the concealed weaponry at a favorable
moment for carrying out terrorist acts in South Serbia
in order to destabilize the security situation in this
area," a statement said.

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STRAGE DI STARO GRACKO (1999, 14 MORTI):
ANCORA NESSUN COLPEVOLE
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Tanjug - February 27, 2004

Talks with UNMIK police about crimes against Serbs

19:01 LIPLJAN , Feb 27 (Tanjug) - UNMIK police
regional commander for Lipljan Jean Leroux announced
on Friday that from the relevant UNMIK police
department he would request the report about the
murder of 14 harvesters from Staro Gracko, who were
killed in July 1999 in the field by Albanian
extremists.
Lipljan municipal assembly president Borivoje
Vignjevic told Tanjug that Lerroux and UNMIK police
regional criminal department chief Paul Niven, at a
meeting with representatives of Serbs did not offer
any data about the crime.

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COVIC CONTESTA L'OPERA DI DISINFORMAZIONE DELL'INTERNATIONAL CRISIS
GROUP
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Beta - February 27, 2004

Covic slams ICG report

BELGRADE -- Friday � Nebojsa Covic, the head of
Belgrade�s Coordination Centre for Kosovo, has accused
the International Crisis Group (ICG) of inflaming
tensions in the Balkans, after the influential
Brussels-based thinktank advocated �conditional
independence� for Kosovo in a report published this
week.
�The latest ICG report in no way contributes to
calming the situation or resolving the problems, but
presupposes an independent Kosovo, that is, secession
from Serbia,� Covic said in a statement sent to Beta
news agency.
The report, entitled �Pan-Albanianism: How big a
threat to Balkan stability?� said that conditional
independence for Kosovo and decentralisation in
Macedonia, �in return for an assurance from all the
Albanian entities in the Balkans that the present
borders of south-eastern Europe will remain
unchanged,� would encourage stability in the region.
In response, Covic claimed that decentralisation in
Macedonia would only lead to further tensions, and
asked who would police the border between Kosovo and
Albania in order to prevent their unification into an
�expanded Greater Albania.�
If the principle advocated by the ICG can be applied
to Kosovo, wrote Covic, �then we can also expect it to
be applied in the case of the Republika Srpska, which
by that logic would get conditional independence with
the assurance it would unit unite with Serbia.�

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KOSOVO: DISINNESCATO POTENTE ORDIGNO DAVANTI A SEDE ONU

(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 6 MAR - Un potente ordigno con innesco elettrico
e' stato disinnescato nelle prime ore di questa mattina davanti alla
sede della missione delle Nazioni Unite (Unmik) a Pristina: lo ha
detto all'Ansa la portavoce della missione, Isabel Karlovic. La
bomba, segnalata da una telefonata anonima, e' stata successivamente
localizzata dagli artificieri della polizia a ridosso della
recinzione del quartier generale dell'Unmik nel centro del capoluogo.
''Si tratta di una vicenda molto preoccupante - ha detto Karlovic -
e' la prima volta che accade''. La polizia a Pristina ha elevato
lo stato di allerta, tutti i principali incroci della citta' sono
presidiati dagli agenti e la tensione e' alta. L'episodio accade
mentre a Pristina sono appena ripresi i negoziati tra serbi e
albanesi su alcune questioni cruciali che riguardano
l'amministrazione del Kosovo. Per martedi' e' previsto un nuovo
incontro tra le due delegazioni che devono discutere sul problema
degli scomparsi: di centinaia fra serbi e albanesi si sono infatti
perse le tracce da quando nella primavera 1999 la Nato lancio' un
attacco contro l'ex Jugoslavia per liberare il Kosovo dalle violenze
etniche delle milizie serbe. (ANSA). BLL/TER 06/03/2004
15:02
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FoNet - March 6, 2004

Bomb planted near UNMIK headquarters

PRISTINA -- Saturday � Kosovo police have discovered
an explosive device in a building near the UN mission
headquarters in Pristina.
UNMIK reported that the bomb, which was discovered
early this morning, was removed without incident by
international peacekeepers.
Kosovo governor Harri Holkeri strongly condemned the
incident which, he said, had endangered the public of
Kosovo.
Expressing regret that extremists continue to threaten
citizens, he announced that new security measures
would prevent any repetition of the incident.

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The Herald Sun (Australia)
March 7, 2004

Explosives found near UN building

From correspondents in Pristina, Serbia-Montenegro

Police and NATO-led peacekeepers found explosives
placed close to the UN mission headquarters in Kosovo
early today after receiving a bomb threat.
The homemade bomb was found in a black sports bag by a
fence adjacent to the UN mission headquarters' parking
lot in the centre of the province's capital, Pristina,
said UN police spokesman Derek Chappell.
The find was made after police received a phone call
tipping them off that a bomb had been planted near the
UN building, he added.
"The sports bag was found to be an improvised
explosive device containing a quantity of explosive
connected to a timer and battery."
The device was disarmed by NATO-led bomb disposal
teams two hours after police received the tip-off.
Police declined to disclose the amount and type of
explosives found. The area was cordoned off and a
search was launched, Chappell said.
Harri Holkeri, Kosovo's UN administrator, condemned
the action and said: "Additional security measures are
being implemented to prevent future attacks of this
nature." He did not elaborate.
Kosovo officially remains part of Serbia-Montenegro,
the successor state to Yugoslavia. But it has been run
by a UN mission and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
peacekeepers since mid-1999, when a NATO bombing
campaign forced Serb military and police to end their
crackdown on the independence-seeking ethnic Albanian
majority and pull out of the province.

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KOSOVO: CAPO UNMIK A BELGRADO INCONTRA NUOVO PREMIER

(ANSA) - BELGRADO, 8 MAR - Il responsabile dell'amministrazione
dell'Onu per il Kosovo (Unmik) Harry Holkeri ha incontrato oggi a
Belgrado il neo primo ministro serbo Vojislav Kostunica, per parlare
del secondo round di trattative dirette fra serbi e albanesi
kosovari, in programma domani a Pristina sul tema delle persone
scomparse. Holkeri e Kostunica hanno approfittato dell'incontro per
quello che in linguaggio diplomatico viene definito un ''franco
scambio di opinioni'': un serrato confronto su temi come la
cantonizzazione della provincia, recente proposta del premier serbo
che l'amministrazione dell'Onu ha respinto e che ha suscitato l'ira
della leadership kosovara albanese. Gli interlocutori hanno
ribadito la validita' della risoluzione 1244 del Consiglio di
sicurezza delle Nazioni unite sul Kosovo, ma si sono trovati in
disaccordo su alcune interpretazioni. Fonte di incomprensione fra
l'Unmik e il nuovo governo serbo - piu' conservatore e nazionalista
di quello precedente - e' stata soprattutto la politica degli
standard legati allo status della provincia serba a maggioranza
albanese. Kostunica si e' detto scettico sulla possibilita' di
applicare standard minimi di sicurezza e diritti umani per le
minoranze serbe, Holkeri ha chiesto di rimandare ogni giudizio al
2005, data nella quale il Consiglio di sicurezza dell'Onu dovra'
verificare i passi fatti. ''Se dovessero rivelarsi insufficienti - ha
sottolineato il diplomatico finlandese - il discorso sullo status
verra' posticipato ulteriormente''. (ANSA). OT 08/03/2004 18:10

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Dal quotidiano "Glas javnosti" (LA VOCE PUBBLICA,�
quotidiano di Belgrado), dell'11 marzo�2004, con sottotitolo:

"Non abbelliamo la realt�"

COVIC: HOLKERI� CONTRO LA RISOLUZIONE DELLE� N.U.

Il capo dell'UNMIK tiene lezioni

Belgrado - Il presidente della DA, capo del Centro di
coordinamento per il Kosovo e Metohija ha annunciato che pu� succedere
facilmente che i serbi del Kosovo non partecipino alle elezioni per i
deputati parlamentari regionali�ad ottobre prossimo. Covic afferma che
dalle ultime elezioni nel 2001, quando i serbi del Kosovo hanno
partecipato ad esse, niente � cambiato per loro.
"Belgrado e la Coalizione Ritorno sono stati molto costruttivi, hanno
fatto molti passi avanti e che hanno ottenuto? Non�si sono fermati i
massacri, i serbi non sono tornati. Un passo indietro sarebbe la non
partecipazione dei serbi alle prossime elezioni, ma ci� potrebbe
avvenire" ha detto Covic.
L'UNMIK non ha ancora risposto alle osservazioni dei deputati serbi sul
piano per la stabilizzazione ("standard") nel Kosovo, ha inoltre
osservato Covic. "Holkeri viene a Belgrado per darci lezioni�su che
cosa c'e' e che cosa non c'e' nella Risoluzione 1244,�facendo di tutto
per non essere secondo la Risoluzione", ha spiegato Covic.
�
LA DECISIONE SPETTA AL VERTICE DELLA SCG (Serbia - Montenegro)
Molti i�candidati alla funzione di presidente del Centro di
coordinamento KM (Kosovo e Metohija)
�
Belgrado - Il dilema, se Nebojsa Covic rimarr� o no a capo del Centro
di coordinamento KM o sar� eletto uno nuovo, verr� risolto alla
riunione del Consiglio dei ministri.
I candidati che vengono citati, oltre a Covic�che questa carica la
ricopre dall'agosto del 2001,�sono Milorad Todorovic,�vice primo
ministro�nel Governo di KM, il direttore del Forum per le relazioni
etniche Dusan Janjic, il capo Sezione del Centro�per la giustizia del
Kosmet (Kosovo e Metohija) Vladimir Bozovic, e�Sobodan Samardzic,
professore alla Facolta di Scienze Politiche.
Da fonti vicine al Governo, "Glas" apprende che sar� eletta la persona
meno conflittuale, accettabile per i serbi cos� come per l'UNMIK.

[a cura di Ivan]

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SASSAIOLA CONTRO LA KFOR E BLOCCHI STRADALI DOPO IL FERIMENTO DI UN
ALTRO GIOVANISSIMO SERBO
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1067305.htm
Agence France-Presse - March 16, 2004

Serbs riot after teen's shooting

Hundreds of angry Serbs have thrown stones at NATO-led
peacekeepers and UN police after a Serb teenager was
shot and wounded by unknown attackers.
Police say the shooting took place in the village of
Caglavica, just outside the provincial capital
Pristina, shortly before 8:00pm on Monday local time.
"A 19-year-old Serb male was shot several times and
this started off a small riot with several hundred
inhabitants of the area," UN police spokeswoman Angela
Joseph said.
Ms Joseph says they set a car on fire and NATO troops
were forced to call in reinforcements to deal with the crowd.
The villagers are still blocking the main road
connecting Pristina to Macedonia, demanding action
from the UN administration in the province.
Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority accuses NATO and the UN,
who have run the southern Serbian province since the
end of the 1998-1999 war here, of failing to protect
them from attacks by the ethnic Albanian majority.
The victim of the shooting, Jovica Imvic, has been
rushed to hospital.
He has undergone surgery for multiple gunshot wounds.
He told the Beta news agency in Serbia that he
believes his attackers were young ethnic Albanians
armed with a silenced pistol.
"I was returning from a grocery shop when a red Golf
stopped and some young people called me over to ask me
something," he is quoted as saying.
"When I approached I saw a silenced gun and felt a
strong pain. From their accents I can say they were
Albanians."

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
B92 - March 16, 2004

Kosovo Serbs protest drive-by shooting

CAGLAVICA -- Tuesday � Hundreds of Serbs from the
village of Caglavica in Kosovo are continuing to block
roads leading to the capital Pristina, following the
shooting of a teenage boy last night.
Eighteen-year-old Jovica Ivic has been transferred to
the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica. His condition is
reported to be stable following surgery during the night.
Local Serbs last night took to the streets of
Caglavica and Gracanica in protest at the shooting.
This morning, they continued to block roads around the
two villages, not far from the capital.
Eye-witnesses say the shots were fired from a red Golf
which came from the direction of Skopje and sped off
towards Pristina.
Police say that eight shots were fired at Ilic from a
pistol fitted with a silencer. Ivic was hit twice in
the abdomen and once in the arm.

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http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?order=priority
FoNet - March 16, 2004

Protest to Security Council over Kosovo

BELGRADE -- The charge d�affaires of the
Serbia-Montenegro mission to the UN, Roksanda Nincic,
is to lodge a stern protest to the UN Security Council
over the wounding of Kosovo teenager Jovica Ivic in a
drive-by shooting yesterday.
The federal Foreign Ministry said today that Nincic
will tell UN officials that the shooting of the
eighteen-year-old medical student is proof that the
Serb community is still not safe in Kosovo, four years
after international peacekeepers were deployed in the
province.

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SRNA - March 16, 2004

Serbs say roadblocks will stay until shooter is arrested

GRACANICA -- Tuesday � Serbs in Kosovo have insisted
they will maintain blocks on two of the province�s
main roads until police find whoever was responsible
for shooting a Serb teenager last night near the
village of Caglavica.
Local Serbs set up roadblocks on the Skopje-Pristina
and Pristina-Gnjilane roads after 18-year-old Jovica
Ivic was shot hit times in a drive-by shooting.
Meanwhile, Serbs in Gracanica have set up a crisis
group and called for the urgent decentralisation of
power in the UN-governed province.

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B92 - March 16, 2004

Shot fired during Kosovo Serb protest

CAGLAVICA -- Tuesday � A student in Caglavica near
Pristina was lightly wounded this morning when a
gunshot was fired from an Albanian house during a
protest in the village.
The alleged shooter and the owner of the house were
taken away by international peacekeeping troops.
Serbs in the village began protesting after a local
teenager, 18-year-old Jovica Ivic, was shot three
times in a drive-by shooting last night.
The shot this morning was fired after an argument
broke out with members of the local high school.
Protestors then stoned the house.

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DISINNESCATA UNA GRANATA AD OBILIC
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Beta - March 16, 2004

KFOR defuses grenade in Obilic

OBILIC -- Tuesday � KFOR troops have defused a hand
grenade thrown into the yard of an elderly couple in
the village of Obilic.
The couple say they became aware of the grenade during
the day, but have no idea how it got there.
Only fifteen Serbian families remain in the part of
Obilic where the couple live. Three members of one
family were killed in the village last year, before
their house was set on fire.
Police and international peacekeepers have failed to
find those responsible.

===

ESPLOSIONE A MITROVICA
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Tanjug - March 16, 2004

Explosion in Kosovska Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- Tuesday � The northern part of
Kosovska Mitrovica was shaken by a powerful explosion
just after 7.00 p.m. this evening, barely twenty
minutes after international peacekeepers had
deactivated another bomb in front of a nearby
apartment building.
The explosion caused panic among both Serbs as well as
among the exclusively Albanian residents of three
nearby high-rise buildings.
UNMIK police had earlier sealed off part of the area
when the first explosive device was discovered.
A quantity of explosives was found at almost the same
site a little less than a year ago.


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*** most important / general ***

BLOOD FEUDS REVIVE IN UNSTABLE KOSOVO
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200402_481_4_eng.txt

2003: Kosovo Albanian Terrorism continued (by Carl Savich)�
http://www.serbianna.com/columns/savich/050.shtml

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Interim
Administration Mission in Kosovo
http://ods-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N04/216/64/IMG/
N0421664.pdf?OpenElement

ICG: Pan-Albanianism: How Big a Threat to Balkan Stability?
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?l=1&id=2523

Sedition in the military: Learn from Yugoslavia (by Julia Gorin)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/julia/gorin_2004_03_11.php3


*** news and more ***

Bishop Artemije: No participation to the detriment of Serbia's
sovereignty
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79393#1

If KFOR leaves we demand return of "Serbian personnel" in accordance
with Resolution 1244
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo06feb04.html#2

APIS: Balkans targeted by Albanian terrorists - How a country is being
created by the use of force
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo06feb04.html#3

Vecernje Novosti: Interview: Bishop Artemije: The world knows and is
silent
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79473

Lt. Col. Brinkmann's revenge for reporting truth about Djakovica
incident
http://www.kosovo.com/archangels_report.pdf

CNS: Bishop Artemije:� "When a Serb goes beyond the enclave, he runs
the risk of being killed or being kidnapped" (by Stephen Steele)
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo08feb04.html#2

German KFOR still depriving Serbs of their basic religious rights
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo08feb04.html#1

Plain Dealer: Cleric asks for U.S., international action to stop
violence (by Sandra Livingston)
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo08feb04.html#6

Implementing 'standards before status' policy core political project
for UN Kosovo mission
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2004/sc7999.doc.htm

President of the Institute for religious and public policy: Human
rights in Kosovo a catastrophe
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79545

Kosovo Serbs Return to Foreign Country (T. Matic & O. Stojanovic)
http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl?archive/bcr3/bcr3_200402_480_2_eng.txt

Dagens Nyheter: A naive trust in a U.S. created myth about genocide (Bo
Pellnas)
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo14feb04.html#2

Panorama: Prisoners of Peace (by Francesca Folda)
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo14feb04.html#1

Brinkmann ordered food to be thrown away rather than to be shared with
a Serbian priest who cannot buy it
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79592

Epoka e Re: Ibrahim Rugova involved in narco-mafia too
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo14feb04.html#4

BIA: Report: Albanian Terrorism and Organized Crime in Kosovo and
Metohija
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79602

Serbs from Miroc village leave their homes in Kosovo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79616

Removal of KFOR checkpoints leads to ethnic cleansing of remaining Serbs
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo17feb04.html

"Crucified Kosovo" (by Archpriest V. Potapov)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79633

Belgrade-Pristina dialogue to resume in early March
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/cgi-bin/printpage.cgi?filename=/news/2004-
02/17/333152.html

German KFOR still not providing escorts for distribution of
humanitarian aid
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo19feb04.html

Serbian Patriarch calls on Solana, Holkeri to protect Church interests
in Kosovo
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo18feb04.html

Two Serbs murdered in Lipljan
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo20feb04.html

German KFOR officially refuses to provide escort for monks, referring
them to UNMIK police
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo20feb04b.html

Enough theatrics! The time has come for concrete action
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo21feb04b.html

Belgrade Patriarchate: Still no order and justice in Kosovo and Metohija
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_feb04/erpkiminfo22feb04.html#7

UNMIK police commissioner Stephan Feller's work yields no results
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79741

Rugova did not visit church in Bicha or meet with an Orthodox priest
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79757

Glas: Albanians cleaning their own (by Ljiljana Staletovic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79801

Politika: Under the eyes of KFOR and UNMIK (by B. Radomirovic)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79802

USAID Mission in Kosovo: Strategic plan 2004-2008
http://www.usaid.gov/missions/kosovo/pdf/kosovo_strategy_final.pdf

New Talks Between Belgrade And Pristina Scheduled for March (by Igor
Jovanovic)
http://www.balkantimes.com/
default3.asp?lang=english&page=process_print&article_id=23257

Ignoring Kosovo's reality does not lead to stability
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/79858

Kosovo-Serbian Dialogue Will Pave Way for Status Talks (by Lundrim Aliu)
http://www.balkantimes.com/
default3.asp?lang=english&page=process_print&article_id=23308

Politika: Interview: Kosovo parliament member: Understandable caution
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_mar04/erpkiminfo03mar04.html#2

New Serbian PM on Kosovo and Metohija issue: Kosovo's independence
under no circumstances
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_mar04/erpkiminfo03mar04.html#1

Bishop Artemije receives UNMIK regional administrator for Pristina Jean
Guinard
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_mar04/erpkiminfo05mar04.html#1

Bishop Artemije: Serbs will not sign their own death sentence
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_mar04/erpkiminfo06mar04.html#1

Bishop Artemije: aerophotogrammetric survey a prelude to revision of
land registry books in Kosovo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/decani/message/80008

Dnevnik: Interview: Bishop Artemije: We support the cantonization of
Kosovo
http://www.kosovo.com/erpkiminfo_mar04/erpkiminfo09mar04c.html#1

The Friedrich Naumann Foundation: The Kosovo Serbs: An ethnic minority
between collaboration and de?ance (by A. Matveeva & W.C. Paes)
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