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KOSMET: BOLLETTINO DI GUERRA MARZO-APRILE 2003
(vedi la NOTA in fondo)
=== LA EPURAZIONE ETNICA DI MITROVICA ===
L'ULTIMA ANZIANA ABITANTE SERBA ABBANDONA "BOSANSKA MAHALA"
LAST SERB LEAVES BOSNIAK SETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 1 (Tanjug) - Vera Staletovic, 75, left her
home in the Bosniak settlement in northern Kosovska MItrovica after
ethnic Albanian extremists looted her home. The last attack, which
took place while Staletovic was at Kragujevac hospital, was the final
straw since extremists took everything that could be taken from her
house.
Staletovic previously called on UNMIK police for protection, but apart
from carrying out an investigation, multinational police did nothing
to protect the old woman, who was the last Serb living in this
settlement in the so-called security zone. Staletovic is now staying
with her children. The Serb People's Council of northern
Kosovo-Metohija said that this case showed that multiethnic Kosovska
Mitrovica could not function at this point.
GRANATA CONTRO VEICOLI UNMIK
Hand-grenade damages three UNMIK vehicles
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 3 (Tanjug) - A hand-grenade has been
thrown onto the motor pool of the UNMIK police station North in
Kosovska Mitrovica, damaging three UNMIK vehicles.
As learned by Tanjug on Monday, the perpetrators of the attack that
took place on Sunday midnight are still unknown. The investigation is
underway.
HAND GRENADE ROCKS UNMIK POLICE STATION, NO CASUALTIES
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 3 (Beta) - Unknown assailants threw a hand
grenade on the UNMIK police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on
March 2, but the explosion claimed no casualties, UNMIK spokesman
Andrea Agneli told BETA.
Agneli also said that three UNMIK police vehicles and one private car
were damaged, while the explosion caused minor damage to the police
building.
The Eparcy of Raska and Prizren and Kosovo and Metohija and the
Serbian National Council most fiercely condemned the bomb attack in
the northern, predominantly Serbpopulated part of Mitrovica.
DOPO LA "UNIFICAZIONE" SI E' AGGRAVATA LA SITUAZIONE A MITROVICA NORD
UNMIK and Kfor step up patrols in northern Kosovska Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 5 (Tanjug) - UNMIK police and Kfor have
stepped up the number of patrols in northern Kosovska Mitrovica due to
the recent incidents in this part of the city, a UNMIK regional
spokesman told the press on Wednesday.
The incidents took place after Kfor removed its checkpoints,
especially those in the Bosnjacka Mahala suburb, populated by ethnic
Albanians and other non-Serbs.
=== VARIE NEFANDEZZE ===
DOPO LE DICHIARAZIONI DI APPOGGIO ALLA AGGRESSIONE USA CONTRO L'IRAQ,
RUGOVA CORREGGE PARZIALMENTE IL TIRO. MA INSISTE SULLA SECESSIONE
IRAQ: RUGOVA, KOSOVO PER SOLUZIONE PACIFICA A TUTTI I COSTI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 MAR - Il Kosovo e' per una soluzione pacifica,
''a tutti i costi'', nella crisi irachena. Lo ha detto il presidente
kosovaro Ibrahim Rugova, parlando oggi a Pristina con alcuni
giornalisti italiani. ''Noi - ha detto - la nostra guerra l'abbiamo
gia' avuta. Per quanto riguarda l'Iraq diamo tutto il nostro
supporto alla comunita' internazionale, all'Europa e agli Usa perche'
si trovi una soluzione pacifica ad ogni costo''. A proposito del
Kosovo, poi, Rugova ha ricordato che ''la situazione e' molto
migliorata.
Ci sono stati grossi progressi durante quest'anno e l'obiettivo e'
sviluppare l'economia, le privatizzazioni e insistere per il
riconoscimento, quanto prima, del Kosovo come provincia indipendente
integrata nell'Europa''. (ANSA). SV/FCC 03/03/2003 16:59
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
SPORTIVI SERBI IMPEGNATI A RICOSTRUIRE LE CHIESE ORTODOSSE DEVASTATE
+++SERBISCHE SPORTLER RENOVIEREN ORTHODOXEN KLOSTER
BELGRAD. Die serbischen Basketballer Vlade Divac und Predrag
Stojakovic(beide spielen in der NBA, Sacramento Kings) haben sich
einer Gruppe weiterer bekannter serbischer Sportler angeschlossen die
das Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi wiederaufbauen und renovieren möchten.
Vlade Divac der zehn Jahre lang für die Los Angeles Lakers spielte
wurde in der Nähe des Klosters geboren und ist dort aufgewachsen.
Das Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi wurde von dem Gross Zupan Stefan Nemanja
im 12. Jahrhundert gegrundet und von den Türken und Vertürkten während
der osmanischen Herrschaft geplündert und zerstört.
Neben den Genannten habe sich noch eine grosse Zahl serbischer
Sportler der Aktion angeschlossen. Unter anderem Fussballer Predrag
Mijatovic (früher Real Madrid), Mateja Kezman (PSV Eindhoven),
Basketballer Dejan Bodiroga (Barcelona), Dejan Tomasevic (Valencia)
und die gesammte Volleyball- und Fussball Nationalmannschaft.
Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi: http://www.kosovo.com/estupovi.html
TANJUG+++
Balkan-Telegramm 5/3/2003 - www.amselfeld.com
TERRORISTI PANALBANESI DELL'ANA CONTROLLANO COLLEGAMENTO CON BUJANOVAC
http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2003/March_04/3.html
Members of illegal ANA armed group control road in northeast Kosovo
GNJILANE, March 3 (Tanjug) - The illegal Albanian
people\'s army (ANA) early on Monday "controlled"
traffic on the road from the northeastern
Kosovo-Metohija town of Gnjilane, which is situated in
the vicinity of Bujanovac, southern Serbia.
The uniformed members of the illegal group stopped a
car carrying a Serb woman and after a thorough search,
which lasted for about 40 minutes, let her continue,
Tanjug has learned.
OCCIDENTALI MINIMIZZANO MA L'IRREDENTISMO PANALBANESE HA LE IDEE
CHIARE
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=38052&LangID=1
Seeurope.net March 4, 2003
New War in Balkans Not Likely, Officials Say
A new extremist group in Macedonia, calling itself the
Albanian National Army (ANA), has threatened a spring
offensive aimed at uniting Albanian-populated Balkan
areas into one state. So far, ANA has claimed
responsibility for a few terrorist attacks, including
bombings in the courtyard of a secondary school in
Kumanovo and at the regional court in Struga. Security
forces have not yet confirmed whether the claims are true.
Macedonian politicians and foreign diplomats believe
the group does not pose a serious threat to stability
and likely consists of a few cells of five to six
members with criminal backgrounds who send fax
messages from a headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Tirana daily Tema interviewed Alban
Vjosa, the self-described political secretary of the
Front for Albanian National Unity, the political wing
of the ANA. He told the newspaper that "Albanians,
like other nations in the Balkans, want to live in a
national state."
"Albania will never be stable without historical
Kosovo, without our lands in Macedonia, Ulcinj, Plav,
and Gusinje in Montenegro and our 300,000 people in
Albanian territories in Greece," he added.
Such statements amount to an old idea of a "Greater
Albania", Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Buckovski
said. He believes extremist groups in the region were
stirred up after the constitutional charter of
Serbia-Montenegro was adopted. A clause in that
charter refers to Kosovo as part of the new loose
union that is replacing Yugoslavia.
The defence ministry estimates that a few criminal
groups are acting in areas around Kumanovo and Tetovo,
two towns in the western and northern parts of
Macedonia, and are extorting money from the
population.
"The Macedonian Army and the Interior Ministry are
closely watching the situation in the field and are
ready to handle any assumed threat," said President
Boris Trajkovski. Gen Metodi Stamboliski, the army
chief of staff, said that although there are some
small armed extremist groups in former crisis regions,
they are incapable of disrupting the security situation.
Recently, Buckovski visited Kosovo, where he met KFOR
Commander Fabio Mini. The two agreed on co-ordinated
monitoring of the border between Macedonia and Kosovo,
and on the exchange of liaison officers between
Macedonia and KFOR. The officers will engage in
intensive co-ordination and a timely response if
extremist groups are detected.
At a recent press conference, US Ambassador to
Macedonia Lawrence Butler downplayed the significance
of the ANA. "They are pathetic losers who sit in a
hole in Kosovo or Macedonia and send faxes," he said,
adding that such groups have no support either in the
country's political structures or amongst the
population.
Source /Balkan Times/
"DEPUTATO" KOSOVARO CHIEDE ANNESSIONE DEL KOSOVO ALL'ALBANIA
Kosovo MP requires that Union of Albania and Kosovo be set up
BELGRADE, March 6 (Tanjug) - Kosovo MP Hasan Meta has put forward an
amendment which requires that a debate be held and decision reached
on setting up a Union of Albania and Kosovo, the National Radio
Television said late on Wednesday.
The amendment demands that the parliaments of Kosovo and Albania reach
a decision on the uniting and drafting of the Constitutional Charter,
and states that the "peoples of Kosovo and Albania" have been
fighting for sovereignty and freedom, as well as that Kosovo "was
separated from Albania by force."
The amendment also says that the Union of Albania and Kosovo would
represent an "optimum and compromise solution for a new order and
stability in the region."
DUE ESTREMISTI UCCISI DALLA BOMBA CHE STAVANO PIAZZANDO
Blast in southern Serbia kills two ethnic Albanians
Associated Press Belgrade, March 7
Two people were killed in an explosion on Friday in a
tense area in Serbia near the boundary with Kosovo
province, a ranking police official said.
The official, who requested anonymity, said the blast
occurred while the two men, apparently ethnic
Albanians, were planting a mine on a key road leading
to Kosovo. The route is frequently used by Serbian
security troops.
There was no immediate word from ethnic Albanian
officials in the volatile region in southern Serbian
which saw an ethnic Albanian insurgency from 2000-2001.
Violent incidents in the area have increased in the
past several weeks following the killing of an ethnic
Albanian who worked for Serbia's security service and
a police raid on two ethnic Albanian strongholds.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians have held several
protests demanding the release of their ethnic kin
arrested in the police raid last month.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_207267,00050003.htm
The Hindustan Times - March 8, 2003
KOSOVO: LITE IN CASERMA, MUOIONO DUE AGENTI POLIZIA ONU
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 10 MAR - Due agenti della polizia delle Nazioni
Unite in servizio in Kosovo sono rimasti uccisi nella tarda serata di
ieri in uno scambio di fuoco seguito ad una lite tra gli stessi
poliziotti all'interno di una loro base. L'incidente e' stato
confermato all'Ansa da Andrea Angeli portavoce della missione delle
Nazioni Unite (Unik). I due poliziotti che appartengono ad un
contingente extraeuropeo, ma dei quali non e' stato specificata la
nazionalita', prestavano servizio in uno dei battaglioni mobili della
polizia Onu. La base, teatro dell'incidente, si trova alle porte di
Pristina. ''Le investigazioni hanno escluso qualunque azione ostile,
proveniente dall'esterno'', ha aggiunto Angeli. In Kosovo le Nazioni
Unite hanno istituito un corpo di polizia internazionale subito dopo
la fine del conflitto nel 1999 che attualmente affianca la polizia
locale. La polizia Onu e' composta al momento da 4.500 agenti, mentre
quella locale da 5.000. (ANSA). BLL/MRY 10/03/2003 10:39
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=53206923-6F60-471F-A73592D6D945=
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Voice Of America - March 10, 2003
2 UN Police Officers Killed in Kosovo
United Nations officials say two officers serving with
the international police force in Kosovo have been
killed in a shootout that followed a heated dispute.
U.N. police force spokesman Derek Chappell says the
incident occurred Sunday at the police camp in the
Kosovo capital, Pristina. He did not release the names
or nationalities of the two officers.
There are more than 4,000 U.N. police officers in
Kosovo. They team with local police to maintain
security in the province.
The United Nations has administered the province since
1999 when NATO airstrikes in response to the Kosovo
crisis forced Serbian security forces from the area.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
=== IL SIGNOR STEINER (UNMIK) PREPARA LA SECESSIONE DEL KOSOVO ===
Steiner's "paper" contrary to Resolution 1244
BELGRADE, March 11 (Tanjug) - The Coordination Center for
Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday that during the interpretation of the
"paper" for establishing "a fundamental self-rule in Kosovo," UNMIK
and its chief Michael Steiner had erased the principle of sovereignty
and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
the Rambouillet Agreement from the provisions of the United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1244.
The Coordination Centre said in a statement that Steiner's document
is also contrary to the UNMIK provision on
Constitutional Framework No, 2001/9, because the powers vested solely
on the special envoy are practically transferred to "the temporary
self-rule institutions" in the shape of "increased involvement of
the Kosovars."
The defining of the "sides" in the realization "of the mandates for
establishing a genuine self-rule" by "promoting cooperation between
UNMIK and the Kosovo institutions," is contrary to Resolution 1244
and excludes from this process the state union of Serbia and
Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia, the statement said.
Steiner's plan is premature
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 11 (Tanjug) - The plan of UNMIK chief
Michael Steiner to transfer powers from UNMIK to the temporary Kosovo
institutions, is premature and will rise political tensions in the
province, members of the Kosovo parliament presidency, Oliver Ivanovic
and Gojko Savic, said on Tuesday. In this way Steiner
is trying to effectively conclude his mission in Kosovo in order to
win points from the ethnic Albanian community and cover up UNMIK's
failure, Ivanovic set out. He stated that Steiner's conduct would
prevent the
return of the displaced and radicalize Serb-ethnic Albanian relations,
causing fear in the former and euphoria in the latter.
Savic pointed out that the possible withdraw of the Povratak
coalition from the Kosovo parliament could occur only following
consultations with the Serbian government and the Coordination Centre
for Kosovo-Metohija.
According to him, it is unrealistic to expect that the talks between
the representatives of UNMIK and Belgrade would be held this week, as
announced.
=== SEGUE MARZO 2003... ===
IDENTIFICATI ALTRI SEI CADAVERI DI VITTIME UCK
INVESTIGATORS IDENTIFY BODIES EXHUMED IN KOSOVO
DJAKOVICA, March 16 (Beta) - In the past two days, investigators have
established the identity of six bodies exhumed from a Muslim
graveyard in Djakovica, Kosovo.
Investigators uncovered items belonging to 37 persons. The personal
belongings helped to identify Milorad Jovanovic, Dragica Bibercic,
Desanka Nisavic, Milica Pantovic, Momcilo Milic and Avdulj Ibrahim.
Pathologist Slavisa Dobricanin said that their remains would be passed
on to their families.
Hose Pablo Barajbar, who heads UNMIK's office for missing persons and
forensics, said about 70 Serb and several Roma families examined the
personal belongings which were placed on display for identification
in Merdare, a place on the border between Kosovo and Serbia.
ESPLOSIONI IN DUE STAZIONE DI POLIZIA A PRISTINA
Blasts Go Off at Kosovo Police Stations
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- Explosions damaged two police
stations in Kosovo in simultaneous attacks,
a U.N. police spokesman said Saturday. No one was injured.
The attacks late Friday targeted Pristina police stations manned by
both U.N. and local police, spokesman Al Garcia said. No motive was
known, and police had no suspects, he added.
The blasts broke windows at both stations and damaged at least one
U.N. police car. Kosovo's police stations were put on alert because of
the attacks, Garcia said. An investigation was underway.
Kosovo has been run by the United Nations and NATO since 1999, when
the military alliance bombed Serb troops loyal to former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic to stop their crackdown on
independence-minded ethnic Albanians. About 4,500 U.N. police officers
and 5,500 local officers provide everyday security in the province.
MANIFESTAZIONE DEI SERBI A MITROVICA NORD
FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE IN NORTHERN PART OF KOSOVSKA
MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 3 (Beta) - Around 4,000 people gathered in
the northern part of the divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica on April 3
at a protest rally entitled "For Serbia No to Independent Kosovo,"
organized because of the announced transfer of additional powers to
the Kosovo institutions.
The transfer is a step further towards an independent Kosovo,
speakers at the rally agreed and sent a message to the international
community that "the Serbs will not allow the formation of another
Albanian state in this part of the Balkans."
The head of the Serbian National Council of Northern Kosovo, Milan
Ivanovic, said that UNMIK chief Michael Steiner is responsible "for
the fact that the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 is not being
implemented, the displaced are not returning, the fate of the
kidnapped has not been established, and there has been no
decentralization."
Ivanovic announced that protest rallies would also be held in other
towns in Kosovo. He demanded that the Serbian Legislature and
SerbianMontenegrin Parliament "become seriously committed to resolving
the Kosovo issue," stressing that the late premier Zoran Djindjic's
strategy ought to be "the state strategy for Kosovo."
MINATO PONTE FERROVIARIO. RIVENDICAZIONE ANA
Railway bridge in Kosovo-Metohija mined
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Apr 12 (Tanjug) - The bridge in Banjska on the
Kosovska Mitrovica - Leposavic railway was mined Friday evening and
seriously damaged, Tanjug has learned from UNMIK police. None was
injured in the explosion and the international police and KFOR and
searching for the culprits.
ILLEGAL ANA ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR MINING KOSOVO RAILWAY BRIDGE
PRISTINA, April 14 (Tanjug) - The terrorist ethnic Albanian National
Army (ANA) on Monday assumed responsibility for the Saturday mining
of an iron bridge on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic railroad, in
northern Kosovo, and confirmed two ANA members had been killed
during the action.
"Special forces of Adem Jashari's division blew up the iron railroad
bridge which connects this Albanian, occupied territory with
Belgrade," ANA said in a website statement.
ANA also announced new similar actions. This is the first time ANA
assumed responsibility for an attack in Kosovo, although it had done
so on several occasions for such events in Macedonia and south
Serbia. An UNMIK regional spokesman said on Saturday that the UN
police had found a body of an unidentified male close to the bridge
which had been seriously damaged in the blast.
PRESIDENTE DEL "PARLAMENTO" KOSOVARO CHIEDE "PIENI POTERI" PER LE
"ISTITUZIONI" LOCALI
Time for Kosovo institutions to assume all powers, Daci
GNJILANE, April 11 (Tanjug) - Kosovo Parliament President Nedzhad
Daci said Friday it is high time for the Kosovo institutions to
assume all powers, including those reserved for UNMIK chief Michael
Steiner. Daci said during a visit to the Gnjilane region that
international officials should remain in the province, but in an
advisory capacity, rather than as the executive powers. Daci
underscored the problem of corruption in the interim institutions,
adding that each year over 100 million euros end up at unknown
destinations, via secret channels which, as he said, is something for
the Guiness Book of Records. Speaking about the rights of the Serb
community in Gnjilane, Daci pointed out that the Serbs should enjoy
all rights as the other citizens of Kosovo, but that no group should
be privileged.
STEINER AMABILMENTE A COLLOQUIO CON IL CRIMINALE UCK HASIM TACI
UNMIK chief confers with Kosovo Albanian party leader
PRISTINA, Apr 11 (Tanjug) - UNMIK chief Michael Steiner has conferred
in Pristina with the President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo
Hashim Thaci on a moratorium on defining the final status of Kosovo
until the eight standards set by Steiner are met, and envisaging that
the province's future is to be decided in negotiations between
Belgrade and Pristina.
Steiner underlined he fully supports the moratorium. Noting that the
moratorium means overcoming existing problems and a speedier
settlement of both the institutional and everyday crises prevailing
in Kosovo, Thaci said that the transfer of additional powers to the
Kosovo interim institutions constitutes above all a commitment for
the Kosovars themselves to face the problems in which they are
engulfed. The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will help Kosovo come out of
the status quo into which it was pushed by both the international
community and the interim provincial institutions, he noted. Thaci
advocated a peaceful settlement of problems in Kosovo and dialogue
with Belgrade.
KOSOVO: ATTENTATO A TESTIMONE PROCESSO A EX UCK, DUE MORTI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 14 APR - Due persone sono morte e tre sono rimaste
ferite, tra cui due bambini, in un attentato oggi pomeriggio nel
villaggio di Osdrim, a 10 chilometri dalla citta' di Pec, nel Kosovo
occidentale, la zona controllata dai militari italiani della Kfor (la
Forza di pace a guida Nato). Lo ha detto all'Ansa il portavoce
dell'Unmik, (amministrazione Onu in Kosovo) Andrea Angeli. Tra le
vittime figura Ilir Selimaj, uno dei testimoni al processo conclusosi
nel dicembre scorso contro cinque ex esponenti dell'Uck (l'Esercito
per la liberazione del Kosovo, gruppo di guerriglia albanese, ora
disciolto). I cinque, tra i quali il fratello di Ramush Haradinaj, uno
dei leader politici del Kosovo, erano accusati di aver rapito e
seviziato cittadini serbi, alcuni dei quali sono in seguito deceduti.
I fatti risalgono a subito dopo la fine del conflitto della
primavera 1999. Il tribunale aveva emesso condanne da tre a 15 anni di
reclusione. Le autorita' dell'Unmik non hanno precisato il movente
dell' agguato. Selimaj, stava viaggiando a bordo di una Seat Ibiza
contro cui sono state sparate raffiche di Kalashnikov (almeno 20
colpi, secondo gli investigatori). Selimaj e sua cognata sono morti
sul colpo, mentre il fratello e i suoi due bambini sono rimasti
feriti. Selimaj e' il secondo testimone al processo contro gli ex
esponenti dell'Uck ad essere ucciso in un attentato. (ANSA). COR
14/04/2003 21:25
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1492002.htm
Gunmen kill two in Kosovo ambush, three injured-UN
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, April 14 (Reuters) -
Gunmen opened fire on a Kosovo Albanian family
travelling by car on Monday, killing two people
including a prosecution witness in a recent trial
against former guerrillas.
U.N. police said they did not know who carried out the
attack, in which a four-year-old boy and two others
were wounded, on a small road near the western town of
Pec, nor the motive.
One of those killed, 24-year-old Ilir Selimaj, was a
witness in a high-profile trial late last year against
five members of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), the guerrilla army that battled Serb
forces in 1998-99.
Another prosecution witness was shot dead in Pec in
January -- less than a month after a Kosovo court
jailed the ex-rebels for a total of 31 years for
abducting and beating four fellow Albanians who
subsequently disappeared, presumed murdered.
The trial, which took place under heavy security in
the provincial capital Pristina, was one of Kosovo's
most sensitive court cases since the 1999 war.
Monday's attack was one of the gravest acts of
violence this year in Kosovo, whose ethnic Albanian
leaders are striving to assert the rule of law in
order to win Western backing for their independence
drive.
A U.N. official at the scene told Reuters by phone
that the car was riddled with 20 bullets.
The boy and his 14-year-old sister were wounded but
their condition was described as stable. Their mother
died in the attack but their father survived. Ilir
Selimaj was the man's nephew.
Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in the
summer of 1999 after three months of NATO air strikes
to halt Serbian repression under Slobodan Milosevic,
ousted by reformers in 2000 and now standing trial at
the U.N. war crimes court.
TWO KILLED,THREE WOUNDED IN ATTACK NEAR PEC
PRISTINA, April 15 (Tanjug) - On Monday afternoon, two people got
killed, and three others wounded, including two children, when a
vehicle was attacked on a road close to Pec, western Kosovo-Metohija,
UN police said. UN spokesman Derrick Chappel qualified the murder as
frighteningly brutal, and said no data as regards eye-witnesses or
motive were available.
4000 I CADAVERI ESUMATI IN QUESTI ANNI IN KOSOVO.
UNA MINIMA PARTE SONO IDENTIFICATI. RESTANO MIGLIAIA DI DESAPARECIDOS
OFFICIAL: 4,000 BODIES EXHUMED IN KOSOVO
PRISTINA,April 16 (Beta) - According to figures of UNMIK's department
for missing persons and forensic medicine, 4,000 bodies have been
exhumed in Kosovo so far, 145 of which have been identified, the head
of the
department, Jose Pablo Baraibar, stated on April 16.
Baraibar said the number of persons listed as missing is constantly
changing and, according to UNMIK data, there are now 4,300 of them.
"We are still working on a consolidated list of missing persons. We
are comparing our numbers with those of the Serbian Coordinating
Center, the Association of Families (of the missing persons) and the
International Red Cross," he said.
UNMIK's missing list includes 909 people of nonAlbanian ethnicity, he
said, adding that the Association has sent a list with 350 more
missing Serbs.
As he said, UNMIK conducted a search for possible illegal prisons in
Kosovo, where the missing Serbs might be held, but this action yielded
no results.
L'ANA FINALMENTE DICHIARATA FUORILEGGE. QUALCHE ARRESTO
UNMIK BRINGS IN SEVERAL ANA MEMBERS
PRISTINA, April 21 (Tanjug) - Immediately after UN Kosovo mission
chief Michael Steiner decided that the ethnic Albanian National Army
(ANA) be proclaimed as a terrorist organization, the international
police put in custody several persons that are suspected of being
connected with the organization, UNMIK spokesman Barry Fleischer has
told Radio Free Europe.
Fleischer also said that the persons had been brought in on suspicion
that they were members of a certain organization, or were helping it,
as well as that they were suspected of having blown up a bridge in the
village of Banjsaka.
However, he was not ready to give any details on the investigation, or
specify the names of the detained, and said he was not aware of the
fact how many of them had already been accused of criminal acts.
He said he was not willing to give any details on the issue, because
of the policy of the international police in Kosovo which did not
give any details on the detained ones until criminal charges were
pressed against them, and until the investigative judge did not
consider those charges.
On April 17, Steiner issued a special administrative order, by which
he proclaimed ANA as a terrorist organization, and threatened that
all who were either its members or were helping the organization's
activities in any way, would be criminally prosecuted.
Ranking representatives of Kosovo international forces backed up the
decision, and said that KFOR had intensified security measures in
those parts of Kosovo in which they believed ANA members were
operating in.
KOSOVO: MUORE SOTTUFFICIALE ITALIANO, FORSE UN INFARTO
(ANSA) - PEC (Kosovo occidentale), 24 APR - Un sottufficiale del
contingente italiano della Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato) e' morto
in Kosovo alle prime luci dell'alba di ieri, forse in seguito a un
infarto. Lo hanno detto oggi all'Ansa fonti militari ufficiali. Il
maresciallo capo Antonio Sparta, 47 anni di Caserta, e' stato colto da
malore mentre dormiva nel proprio alloggio presso il distaccamento di
Decani. Il decesso e' avvenuto mezzora dopo nel reparto sanita' del
contingente, nella citta' occidentale di Pec. I medici hanno
diagnosticato un ''probabile arresto cardiocircolatorio''. Il
maresciallo Sparta, la cui salma e' stata rimpatriata ieri sera,
prestava servizio come infermiere professionale nel team di bonifica
ordigni esplosivi. In Italia lavorava presso il centro militare di
medicina legale a Caserta. Sparta era alla sua quarta missione in
Kosovo.(ANSA) BLL 24/04/2003 11:31
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20030424113132545148.html
SCANDALO COMPAGNIA ELETTRICA, IMPLICATO FUNZIONARIO TEDESCO DELL'ONU
Former UN official in Kosovo on trial for embezzlement
BOCHUM, Germany, April 28 (AFP) - A former UN official
in Kosovo went on trial Monday in Germany accused of
embezzling 4.3 million dollars (3.9 million euros),
which he claims he wanted to use to secretly raise the
salaries of workers.
According to prosecutors, he siphoned off profits from
the KEK electricity company into private accounts in
Gibraltar.
The accused, Joe Trutschler of Essen, western Germany,
went to Kosovo in late 1999 as an adviser before
moving to the public energy ministry.
His responsibilities there included electricity and
water supplies, and he was chairman of the supervisory
board of several companies, including KEK.
The prosecution alleges that when KEK built up larger
than expected profits after a relatively mild winter
in 2001-2002, he took advantage to siphon cash into
personal accounts in Gibraltar.
He has claimed he wanted to use the cash to secretly
raise the salaries of energy workers in the Serbian
province, the court heard.
Trutschler, 37, gave himself up at the end of last year.
Kosovo's economy has struggled since coming under UN
administration in 1999 after NATO military action
ended a crackdown on ethnic Albanians.
Most of its energy imports come from elsewhere in
Serbia and from Bulgaria, but power blackouts are
frequent due to outdated equipment and mismanagement.
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=== NOTA ===
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Lo scorso 4 giugno sono stati ritrovati ad Obilic i cadaveri di una
coppia di coniugi ottantenni e del loro figlio cinquantatreenne,
uccisi a colpi di accetta e poi dati alle fiamme insieme alla loro
casa (vedi:
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/05-Giugno-2003/art30.html)
In seguito a questa ennesima dimostrazione dei reali risultati e
scopi del regime di terrore razzista e di occupazione imperialista
in Kosovo-Metohija, riprendiamo con la cronaca degli avvenimenti
sul campo, che avevamo interrotto da alcuni mesi.
Ricordiamo che gli ultimi numero del "bollettino di guerra" sono
archiviati alle URL:
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, Maggio-Luglio 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1876
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, fine luglio 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1900
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, agosto-settembre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1962
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, settembre-ottobre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2001
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2002
Kosmet, bollettino di guerra: fine ottobre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2055
Macelleria UCKFOR: bollettino di guerra novembre-dicembre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2556
Macelleria UCKFOR: bollettino di guerra gennaio-febbraio 2003
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2557
Un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime di terrore
instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali (KFOR) e
dai criminali neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare sempre nel
nostro archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija
si veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Come al solito, le notizie da noi riportate non sono in alcun modo
esaustive degli avvenimenti nella provincia, e vanno intese solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
(a cura di Andrea)
Macelleria UCKFOR (3)
KOSMET: BOLLETTINO DI GUERRA MARZO-APRILE 2003
(vedi la NOTA in fondo)
=== LA EPURAZIONE ETNICA DI MITROVICA ===
L'ULTIMA ANZIANA ABITANTE SERBA ABBANDONA "BOSANSKA MAHALA"
LAST SERB LEAVES BOSNIAK SETTLEMENT IN NORTHERN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 1 (Tanjug) - Vera Staletovic, 75, left her
home in the Bosniak settlement in northern Kosovska MItrovica after
ethnic Albanian extremists looted her home. The last attack, which
took place while Staletovic was at Kragujevac hospital, was the final
straw since extremists took everything that could be taken from her
house.
Staletovic previously called on UNMIK police for protection, but apart
from carrying out an investigation, multinational police did nothing
to protect the old woman, who was the last Serb living in this
settlement in the so-called security zone. Staletovic is now staying
with her children. The Serb People's Council of northern
Kosovo-Metohija said that this case showed that multiethnic Kosovska
Mitrovica could not function at this point.
GRANATA CONTRO VEICOLI UNMIK
Hand-grenade damages three UNMIK vehicles
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 3 (Tanjug) - A hand-grenade has been
thrown onto the motor pool of the UNMIK police station North in
Kosovska Mitrovica, damaging three UNMIK vehicles.
As learned by Tanjug on Monday, the perpetrators of the attack that
took place on Sunday midnight are still unknown. The investigation is
underway.
HAND GRENADE ROCKS UNMIK POLICE STATION, NO CASUALTIES
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 3 (Beta) - Unknown assailants threw a hand
grenade on the UNMIK police station in northern Kosovska Mitrovica on
March 2, but the explosion claimed no casualties, UNMIK spokesman
Andrea Agneli told BETA.
Agneli also said that three UNMIK police vehicles and one private car
were damaged, while the explosion caused minor damage to the police
building.
The Eparcy of Raska and Prizren and Kosovo and Metohija and the
Serbian National Council most fiercely condemned the bomb attack in
the northern, predominantly Serbpopulated part of Mitrovica.
DOPO LA "UNIFICAZIONE" SI E' AGGRAVATA LA SITUAZIONE A MITROVICA NORD
UNMIK and Kfor step up patrols in northern Kosovska Mitrovica
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 5 (Tanjug) - UNMIK police and Kfor have
stepped up the number of patrols in northern Kosovska Mitrovica due to
the recent incidents in this part of the city, a UNMIK regional
spokesman told the press on Wednesday.
The incidents took place after Kfor removed its checkpoints,
especially those in the Bosnjacka Mahala suburb, populated by ethnic
Albanians and other non-Serbs.
=== VARIE NEFANDEZZE ===
DOPO LE DICHIARAZIONI DI APPOGGIO ALLA AGGRESSIONE USA CONTRO L'IRAQ,
RUGOVA CORREGGE PARZIALMENTE IL TIRO. MA INSISTE SULLA SECESSIONE
IRAQ: RUGOVA, KOSOVO PER SOLUZIONE PACIFICA A TUTTI I COSTI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 3 MAR - Il Kosovo e' per una soluzione pacifica,
''a tutti i costi'', nella crisi irachena. Lo ha detto il presidente
kosovaro Ibrahim Rugova, parlando oggi a Pristina con alcuni
giornalisti italiani. ''Noi - ha detto - la nostra guerra l'abbiamo
gia' avuta. Per quanto riguarda l'Iraq diamo tutto il nostro
supporto alla comunita' internazionale, all'Europa e agli Usa perche'
si trovi una soluzione pacifica ad ogni costo''. A proposito del
Kosovo, poi, Rugova ha ricordato che ''la situazione e' molto
migliorata.
Ci sono stati grossi progressi durante quest'anno e l'obiettivo e'
sviluppare l'economia, le privatizzazioni e insistere per il
riconoscimento, quanto prima, del Kosovo come provincia indipendente
integrata nell'Europa''. (ANSA). SV/FCC 03/03/2003 16:59
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
SPORTIVI SERBI IMPEGNATI A RICOSTRUIRE LE CHIESE ORTODOSSE DEVASTATE
+++SERBISCHE SPORTLER RENOVIEREN ORTHODOXEN KLOSTER
BELGRAD. Die serbischen Basketballer Vlade Divac und Predrag
Stojakovic(beide spielen in der NBA, Sacramento Kings) haben sich
einer Gruppe weiterer bekannter serbischer Sportler angeschlossen die
das Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi wiederaufbauen und renovieren möchten.
Vlade Divac der zehn Jahre lang für die Los Angeles Lakers spielte
wurde in der Nähe des Klosters geboren und ist dort aufgewachsen.
Das Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi wurde von dem Gross Zupan Stefan Nemanja
im 12. Jahrhundert gegrundet und von den Türken und Vertürkten während
der osmanischen Herrschaft geplündert und zerstört.
Neben den Genannten habe sich noch eine grosse Zahl serbischer
Sportler der Aktion angeschlossen. Unter anderem Fussballer Predrag
Mijatovic (früher Real Madrid), Mateja Kezman (PSV Eindhoven),
Basketballer Dejan Bodiroga (Barcelona), Dejan Tomasevic (Valencia)
und die gesammte Volleyball- und Fussball Nationalmannschaft.
Kloster Djurdjevi Stupovi: http://www.kosovo.com/estupovi.html
TANJUG+++
Balkan-Telegramm 5/3/2003 - www.amselfeld.com
TERRORISTI PANALBANESI DELL'ANA CONTROLLANO COLLEGAMENTO CON BUJANOVAC
http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2003/March_04/3.html
Members of illegal ANA armed group control road in northeast Kosovo
GNJILANE, March 3 (Tanjug) - The illegal Albanian
people\'s army (ANA) early on Monday "controlled"
traffic on the road from the northeastern
Kosovo-Metohija town of Gnjilane, which is situated in
the vicinity of Bujanovac, southern Serbia.
The uniformed members of the illegal group stopped a
car carrying a Serb woman and after a thorough search,
which lasted for about 40 minutes, let her continue,
Tanjug has learned.
OCCIDENTALI MINIMIZZANO MA L'IRREDENTISMO PANALBANESE HA LE IDEE
CHIARE
http://www.seeurope.net/en/Story.php?StoryID=38052&LangID=1
Seeurope.net March 4, 2003
New War in Balkans Not Likely, Officials Say
A new extremist group in Macedonia, calling itself the
Albanian National Army (ANA), has threatened a spring
offensive aimed at uniting Albanian-populated Balkan
areas into one state. So far, ANA has claimed
responsibility for a few terrorist attacks, including
bombings in the courtyard of a secondary school in
Kumanovo and at the regional court in Struga. Security
forces have not yet confirmed whether the claims are true.
Macedonian politicians and foreign diplomats believe
the group does not pose a serious threat to stability
and likely consists of a few cells of five to six
members with criminal backgrounds who send fax
messages from a headquarters.
Meanwhile, the Tirana daily Tema interviewed Alban
Vjosa, the self-described political secretary of the
Front for Albanian National Unity, the political wing
of the ANA. He told the newspaper that "Albanians,
like other nations in the Balkans, want to live in a
national state."
"Albania will never be stable without historical
Kosovo, without our lands in Macedonia, Ulcinj, Plav,
and Gusinje in Montenegro and our 300,000 people in
Albanian territories in Greece," he added.
Such statements amount to an old idea of a "Greater
Albania", Macedonian Defence Minister Vlado Buckovski
said. He believes extremist groups in the region were
stirred up after the constitutional charter of
Serbia-Montenegro was adopted. A clause in that
charter refers to Kosovo as part of the new loose
union that is replacing Yugoslavia.
The defence ministry estimates that a few criminal
groups are acting in areas around Kumanovo and Tetovo,
two towns in the western and northern parts of
Macedonia, and are extorting money from the
population.
"The Macedonian Army and the Interior Ministry are
closely watching the situation in the field and are
ready to handle any assumed threat," said President
Boris Trajkovski. Gen Metodi Stamboliski, the army
chief of staff, said that although there are some
small armed extremist groups in former crisis regions,
they are incapable of disrupting the security situation.
Recently, Buckovski visited Kosovo, where he met KFOR
Commander Fabio Mini. The two agreed on co-ordinated
monitoring of the border between Macedonia and Kosovo,
and on the exchange of liaison officers between
Macedonia and KFOR. The officers will engage in
intensive co-ordination and a timely response if
extremist groups are detected.
At a recent press conference, US Ambassador to
Macedonia Lawrence Butler downplayed the significance
of the ANA. "They are pathetic losers who sit in a
hole in Kosovo or Macedonia and send faxes," he said,
adding that such groups have no support either in the
country's political structures or amongst the
population.
Source /Balkan Times/
"DEPUTATO" KOSOVARO CHIEDE ANNESSIONE DEL KOSOVO ALL'ALBANIA
Kosovo MP requires that Union of Albania and Kosovo be set up
BELGRADE, March 6 (Tanjug) - Kosovo MP Hasan Meta has put forward an
amendment which requires that a debate be held and decision reached
on setting up a Union of Albania and Kosovo, the National Radio
Television said late on Wednesday.
The amendment demands that the parliaments of Kosovo and Albania reach
a decision on the uniting and drafting of the Constitutional Charter,
and states that the "peoples of Kosovo and Albania" have been
fighting for sovereignty and freedom, as well as that Kosovo "was
separated from Albania by force."
The amendment also says that the Union of Albania and Kosovo would
represent an "optimum and compromise solution for a new order and
stability in the region."
DUE ESTREMISTI UCCISI DALLA BOMBA CHE STAVANO PIAZZANDO
Blast in southern Serbia kills two ethnic Albanians
Associated Press Belgrade, March 7
Two people were killed in an explosion on Friday in a
tense area in Serbia near the boundary with Kosovo
province, a ranking police official said.
The official, who requested anonymity, said the blast
occurred while the two men, apparently ethnic
Albanians, were planting a mine on a key road leading
to Kosovo. The route is frequently used by Serbian
security troops.
There was no immediate word from ethnic Albanian
officials in the volatile region in southern Serbian
which saw an ethnic Albanian insurgency from 2000-2001.
Violent incidents in the area have increased in the
past several weeks following the killing of an ethnic
Albanian who worked for Serbia's security service and
a police raid on two ethnic Albanian strongholds.
Thousands of ethnic Albanians have held several
protests demanding the release of their ethnic kin
arrested in the police raid last month.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_207267,00050003.htm
The Hindustan Times - March 8, 2003
KOSOVO: LITE IN CASERMA, MUOIONO DUE AGENTI POLIZIA ONU
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 10 MAR - Due agenti della polizia delle Nazioni
Unite in servizio in Kosovo sono rimasti uccisi nella tarda serata di
ieri in uno scambio di fuoco seguito ad una lite tra gli stessi
poliziotti all'interno di una loro base. L'incidente e' stato
confermato all'Ansa da Andrea Angeli portavoce della missione delle
Nazioni Unite (Unik). I due poliziotti che appartengono ad un
contingente extraeuropeo, ma dei quali non e' stato specificata la
nazionalita', prestavano servizio in uno dei battaglioni mobili della
polizia Onu. La base, teatro dell'incidente, si trova alle porte di
Pristina. ''Le investigazioni hanno escluso qualunque azione ostile,
proveniente dall'esterno'', ha aggiunto Angeli. In Kosovo le Nazioni
Unite hanno istituito un corpo di polizia internazionale subito dopo
la fine del conflitto nel 1999 che attualmente affianca la polizia
locale. La polizia Onu e' composta al momento da 4.500 agenti, mentre
quella locale da 5.000. (ANSA). BLL/MRY 10/03/2003 10:39
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=53206923-6F60-471F-A73592D6D945=
F772
Voice Of America - March 10, 2003
2 UN Police Officers Killed in Kosovo
United Nations officials say two officers serving with
the international police force in Kosovo have been
killed in a shootout that followed a heated dispute.
U.N. police force spokesman Derek Chappell says the
incident occurred Sunday at the police camp in the
Kosovo capital, Pristina. He did not release the names
or nationalities of the two officers.
There are more than 4,000 U.N. police officers in
Kosovo. They team with local police to maintain
security in the province.
The United Nations has administered the province since
1999 when NATO airstrikes in response to the Kosovo
crisis forced Serbian security forces from the area.
Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.
=== IL SIGNOR STEINER (UNMIK) PREPARA LA SECESSIONE DEL KOSOVO ===
Steiner's "paper" contrary to Resolution 1244
BELGRADE, March 11 (Tanjug) - The Coordination Center for
Kosovo-Metohija said on Tuesday that during the interpretation of the
"paper" for establishing "a fundamental self-rule in Kosovo," UNMIK
and its chief Michael Steiner had erased the principle of sovereignty
and territorial integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and
the Rambouillet Agreement from the provisions of the United Nations
Security Council Resolution 1244.
The Coordination Centre said in a statement that Steiner's document
is also contrary to the UNMIK provision on
Constitutional Framework No, 2001/9, because the powers vested solely
on the special envoy are practically transferred to "the temporary
self-rule institutions" in the shape of "increased involvement of
the Kosovars."
The defining of the "sides" in the realization "of the mandates for
establishing a genuine self-rule" by "promoting cooperation between
UNMIK and the Kosovo institutions," is contrary to Resolution 1244
and excludes from this process the state union of Serbia and
Montenegro and the Republic of Serbia, the statement said.
Steiner's plan is premature
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, March 11 (Tanjug) - The plan of UNMIK chief
Michael Steiner to transfer powers from UNMIK to the temporary Kosovo
institutions, is premature and will rise political tensions in the
province, members of the Kosovo parliament presidency, Oliver Ivanovic
and Gojko Savic, said on Tuesday. In this way Steiner
is trying to effectively conclude his mission in Kosovo in order to
win points from the ethnic Albanian community and cover up UNMIK's
failure, Ivanovic set out. He stated that Steiner's conduct would
prevent the
return of the displaced and radicalize Serb-ethnic Albanian relations,
causing fear in the former and euphoria in the latter.
Savic pointed out that the possible withdraw of the Povratak
coalition from the Kosovo parliament could occur only following
consultations with the Serbian government and the Coordination Centre
for Kosovo-Metohija.
According to him, it is unrealistic to expect that the talks between
the representatives of UNMIK and Belgrade would be held this week, as
announced.
=== SEGUE MARZO 2003... ===
IDENTIFICATI ALTRI SEI CADAVERI DI VITTIME UCK
INVESTIGATORS IDENTIFY BODIES EXHUMED IN KOSOVO
DJAKOVICA, March 16 (Beta) - In the past two days, investigators have
established the identity of six bodies exhumed from a Muslim
graveyard in Djakovica, Kosovo.
Investigators uncovered items belonging to 37 persons. The personal
belongings helped to identify Milorad Jovanovic, Dragica Bibercic,
Desanka Nisavic, Milica Pantovic, Momcilo Milic and Avdulj Ibrahim.
Pathologist Slavisa Dobricanin said that their remains would be passed
on to their families.
Hose Pablo Barajbar, who heads UNMIK's office for missing persons and
forensics, said about 70 Serb and several Roma families examined the
personal belongings which were placed on display for identification
in Merdare, a place on the border between Kosovo and Serbia.
ESPLOSIONI IN DUE STAZIONE DI POLIZIA A PRISTINA
Blasts Go Off at Kosovo Police Stations
PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- Explosions damaged two police
stations in Kosovo in simultaneous attacks,
a U.N. police spokesman said Saturday. No one was injured.
The attacks late Friday targeted Pristina police stations manned by
both U.N. and local police, spokesman Al Garcia said. No motive was
known, and police had no suspects, he added.
The blasts broke windows at both stations and damaged at least one
U.N. police car. Kosovo's police stations were put on alert because of
the attacks, Garcia said. An investigation was underway.
Kosovo has been run by the United Nations and NATO since 1999, when
the military alliance bombed Serb troops loyal to former Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic to stop their crackdown on
independence-minded ethnic Albanians. About 4,500 U.N. police officers
and 5,500 local officers provide everyday security in the province.
MANIFESTAZIONE DEI SERBI A MITROVICA NORD
FOUR THOUSAND PEOPLE DEMONSTRATE IN NORTHERN PART OF KOSOVSKA
MITROVICA
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 3 (Beta) - Around 4,000 people gathered in
the northern part of the divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica on April 3
at a protest rally entitled "For Serbia No to Independent Kosovo,"
organized because of the announced transfer of additional powers to
the Kosovo institutions.
The transfer is a step further towards an independent Kosovo,
speakers at the rally agreed and sent a message to the international
community that "the Serbs will not allow the formation of another
Albanian state in this part of the Balkans."
The head of the Serbian National Council of Northern Kosovo, Milan
Ivanovic, said that UNMIK chief Michael Steiner is responsible "for
the fact that the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244 is not being
implemented, the displaced are not returning, the fate of the
kidnapped has not been established, and there has been no
decentralization."
Ivanovic announced that protest rallies would also be held in other
towns in Kosovo. He demanded that the Serbian Legislature and
SerbianMontenegrin Parliament "become seriously committed to resolving
the Kosovo issue," stressing that the late premier Zoran Djindjic's
strategy ought to be "the state strategy for Kosovo."
MINATO PONTE FERROVIARIO. RIVENDICAZIONE ANA
Railway bridge in Kosovo-Metohija mined
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Apr 12 (Tanjug) - The bridge in Banjska on the
Kosovska Mitrovica - Leposavic railway was mined Friday evening and
seriously damaged, Tanjug has learned from UNMIK police. None was
injured in the explosion and the international police and KFOR and
searching for the culprits.
ILLEGAL ANA ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR MINING KOSOVO RAILWAY BRIDGE
PRISTINA, April 14 (Tanjug) - The terrorist ethnic Albanian National
Army (ANA) on Monday assumed responsibility for the Saturday mining
of an iron bridge on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic railroad, in
northern Kosovo, and confirmed two ANA members had been killed
during the action.
"Special forces of Adem Jashari's division blew up the iron railroad
bridge which connects this Albanian, occupied territory with
Belgrade," ANA said in a website statement.
ANA also announced new similar actions. This is the first time ANA
assumed responsibility for an attack in Kosovo, although it had done
so on several occasions for such events in Macedonia and south
Serbia. An UNMIK regional spokesman said on Saturday that the UN
police had found a body of an unidentified male close to the bridge
which had been seriously damaged in the blast.
PRESIDENTE DEL "PARLAMENTO" KOSOVARO CHIEDE "PIENI POTERI" PER LE
"ISTITUZIONI" LOCALI
Time for Kosovo institutions to assume all powers, Daci
GNJILANE, April 11 (Tanjug) - Kosovo Parliament President Nedzhad
Daci said Friday it is high time for the Kosovo institutions to
assume all powers, including those reserved for UNMIK chief Michael
Steiner. Daci said during a visit to the Gnjilane region that
international officials should remain in the province, but in an
advisory capacity, rather than as the executive powers. Daci
underscored the problem of corruption in the interim institutions,
adding that each year over 100 million euros end up at unknown
destinations, via secret channels which, as he said, is something for
the Guiness Book of Records. Speaking about the rights of the Serb
community in Gnjilane, Daci pointed out that the Serbs should enjoy
all rights as the other citizens of Kosovo, but that no group should
be privileged.
STEINER AMABILMENTE A COLLOQUIO CON IL CRIMINALE UCK HASIM TACI
UNMIK chief confers with Kosovo Albanian party leader
PRISTINA, Apr 11 (Tanjug) - UNMIK chief Michael Steiner has conferred
in Pristina with the President of the Democratic Party of Kosovo
Hashim Thaci on a moratorium on defining the final status of Kosovo
until the eight standards set by Steiner are met, and envisaging that
the province's future is to be decided in negotiations between
Belgrade and Pristina.
Steiner underlined he fully supports the moratorium. Noting that the
moratorium means overcoming existing problems and a speedier
settlement of both the institutional and everyday crises prevailing
in Kosovo, Thaci said that the transfer of additional powers to the
Kosovo interim institutions constitutes above all a commitment for
the Kosovars themselves to face the problems in which they are
engulfed. The Belgrade-Pristina dialogue will help Kosovo come out of
the status quo into which it was pushed by both the international
community and the interim provincial institutions, he noted. Thaci
advocated a peaceful settlement of problems in Kosovo and dialogue
with Belgrade.
KOSOVO: ATTENTATO A TESTIMONE PROCESSO A EX UCK, DUE MORTI
(ANSA) - PRISTINA, 14 APR - Due persone sono morte e tre sono rimaste
ferite, tra cui due bambini, in un attentato oggi pomeriggio nel
villaggio di Osdrim, a 10 chilometri dalla citta' di Pec, nel Kosovo
occidentale, la zona controllata dai militari italiani della Kfor (la
Forza di pace a guida Nato). Lo ha detto all'Ansa il portavoce
dell'Unmik, (amministrazione Onu in Kosovo) Andrea Angeli. Tra le
vittime figura Ilir Selimaj, uno dei testimoni al processo conclusosi
nel dicembre scorso contro cinque ex esponenti dell'Uck (l'Esercito
per la liberazione del Kosovo, gruppo di guerriglia albanese, ora
disciolto). I cinque, tra i quali il fratello di Ramush Haradinaj, uno
dei leader politici del Kosovo, erano accusati di aver rapito e
seviziato cittadini serbi, alcuni dei quali sono in seguito deceduti.
I fatti risalgono a subito dopo la fine del conflitto della
primavera 1999. Il tribunale aveva emesso condanne da tre a 15 anni di
reclusione. Le autorita' dell'Unmik non hanno precisato il movente
dell' agguato. Selimaj, stava viaggiando a bordo di una Seat Ibiza
contro cui sono state sparate raffiche di Kalashnikov (almeno 20
colpi, secondo gli investigatori). Selimaj e sua cognata sono morti
sul colpo, mentre il fratello e i suoi due bambini sono rimasti
feriti. Selimaj e' il secondo testimone al processo contro gli ex
esponenti dell'Uck ad essere ucciso in un attentato. (ANSA). COR
14/04/2003 21:25
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/kosovo.shtml
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1492002.htm
Gunmen kill two in Kosovo ambush, three injured-UN
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, April 14 (Reuters) -
Gunmen opened fire on a Kosovo Albanian family
travelling by car on Monday, killing two people
including a prosecution witness in a recent trial
against former guerrillas.
U.N. police said they did not know who carried out the
attack, in which a four-year-old boy and two others
were wounded, on a small road near the western town of
Pec, nor the motive.
One of those killed, 24-year-old Ilir Selimaj, was a
witness in a high-profile trial late last year against
five members of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation
Army (KLA), the guerrilla army that battled Serb
forces in 1998-99.
Another prosecution witness was shot dead in Pec in
January -- less than a month after a Kosovo court
jailed the ex-rebels for a total of 31 years for
abducting and beating four fellow Albanians who
subsequently disappeared, presumed murdered.
The trial, which took place under heavy security in
the provincial capital Pristina, was one of Kosovo's
most sensitive court cases since the 1999 war.
Monday's attack was one of the gravest acts of
violence this year in Kosovo, whose ethnic Albanian
leaders are striving to assert the rule of law in
order to win Western backing for their independence
drive.
A U.N. official at the scene told Reuters by phone
that the car was riddled with 20 bullets.
The boy and his 14-year-old sister were wounded but
their condition was described as stable. Their mother
died in the attack but their father survived. Ilir
Selimaj was the man's nephew.
Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in the
summer of 1999 after three months of NATO air strikes
to halt Serbian repression under Slobodan Milosevic,
ousted by reformers in 2000 and now standing trial at
the U.N. war crimes court.
TWO KILLED,THREE WOUNDED IN ATTACK NEAR PEC
PRISTINA, April 15 (Tanjug) - On Monday afternoon, two people got
killed, and three others wounded, including two children, when a
vehicle was attacked on a road close to Pec, western Kosovo-Metohija,
UN police said. UN spokesman Derrick Chappel qualified the murder as
frighteningly brutal, and said no data as regards eye-witnesses or
motive were available.
4000 I CADAVERI ESUMATI IN QUESTI ANNI IN KOSOVO.
UNA MINIMA PARTE SONO IDENTIFICATI. RESTANO MIGLIAIA DI DESAPARECIDOS
OFFICIAL: 4,000 BODIES EXHUMED IN KOSOVO
PRISTINA,April 16 (Beta) - According to figures of UNMIK's department
for missing persons and forensic medicine, 4,000 bodies have been
exhumed in Kosovo so far, 145 of which have been identified, the head
of the
department, Jose Pablo Baraibar, stated on April 16.
Baraibar said the number of persons listed as missing is constantly
changing and, according to UNMIK data, there are now 4,300 of them.
"We are still working on a consolidated list of missing persons. We
are comparing our numbers with those of the Serbian Coordinating
Center, the Association of Families (of the missing persons) and the
International Red Cross," he said.
UNMIK's missing list includes 909 people of nonAlbanian ethnicity, he
said, adding that the Association has sent a list with 350 more
missing Serbs.
As he said, UNMIK conducted a search for possible illegal prisons in
Kosovo, where the missing Serbs might be held, but this action yielded
no results.
L'ANA FINALMENTE DICHIARATA FUORILEGGE. QUALCHE ARRESTO
UNMIK BRINGS IN SEVERAL ANA MEMBERS
PRISTINA, April 21 (Tanjug) - Immediately after UN Kosovo mission
chief Michael Steiner decided that the ethnic Albanian National Army
(ANA) be proclaimed as a terrorist organization, the international
police put in custody several persons that are suspected of being
connected with the organization, UNMIK spokesman Barry Fleischer has
told Radio Free Europe.
Fleischer also said that the persons had been brought in on suspicion
that they were members of a certain organization, or were helping it,
as well as that they were suspected of having blown up a bridge in the
village of Banjsaka.
However, he was not ready to give any details on the investigation, or
specify the names of the detained, and said he was not aware of the
fact how many of them had already been accused of criminal acts.
He said he was not willing to give any details on the issue, because
of the policy of the international police in Kosovo which did not
give any details on the detained ones until criminal charges were
pressed against them, and until the investigative judge did not
consider those charges.
On April 17, Steiner issued a special administrative order, by which
he proclaimed ANA as a terrorist organization, and threatened that
all who were either its members or were helping the organization's
activities in any way, would be criminally prosecuted.
Ranking representatives of Kosovo international forces backed up the
decision, and said that KFOR had intensified security measures in
those parts of Kosovo in which they believed ANA members were
operating in.
KOSOVO: MUORE SOTTUFFICIALE ITALIANO, FORSE UN INFARTO
(ANSA) - PEC (Kosovo occidentale), 24 APR - Un sottufficiale del
contingente italiano della Kfor (forza di pace a guida Nato) e' morto
in Kosovo alle prime luci dell'alba di ieri, forse in seguito a un
infarto. Lo hanno detto oggi all'Ansa fonti militari ufficiali. Il
maresciallo capo Antonio Sparta, 47 anni di Caserta, e' stato colto da
malore mentre dormiva nel proprio alloggio presso il distaccamento di
Decani. Il decesso e' avvenuto mezzora dopo nel reparto sanita' del
contingente, nella citta' occidentale di Pec. I medici hanno
diagnosticato un ''probabile arresto cardiocircolatorio''. Il
maresciallo Sparta, la cui salma e' stata rimpatriata ieri sera,
prestava servizio come infermiere professionale nel team di bonifica
ordigni esplosivi. In Italia lavorava presso il centro militare di
medicina legale a Caserta. Sparta era alla sua quarta missione in
Kosovo.(ANSA) BLL 24/04/2003 11:31
http://www.ansa.it/balcani/kosovo/20030424113132545148.html
SCANDALO COMPAGNIA ELETTRICA, IMPLICATO FUNZIONARIO TEDESCO DELL'ONU
Former UN official in Kosovo on trial for embezzlement
BOCHUM, Germany, April 28 (AFP) - A former UN official
in Kosovo went on trial Monday in Germany accused of
embezzling 4.3 million dollars (3.9 million euros),
which he claims he wanted to use to secretly raise the
salaries of workers.
According to prosecutors, he siphoned off profits from
the KEK electricity company into private accounts in
Gibraltar.
The accused, Joe Trutschler of Essen, western Germany,
went to Kosovo in late 1999 as an adviser before
moving to the public energy ministry.
His responsibilities there included electricity and
water supplies, and he was chairman of the supervisory
board of several companies, including KEK.
The prosecution alleges that when KEK built up larger
than expected profits after a relatively mild winter
in 2001-2002, he took advantage to siphon cash into
personal accounts in Gibraltar.
He has claimed he wanted to use the cash to secretly
raise the salaries of energy workers in the Serbian
province, the court heard.
Trutschler, 37, gave himself up at the end of last year.
Kosovo's economy has struggled since coming under UN
administration in 1999 after NATO military action
ended a crackdown on ethnic Albanians.
Most of its energy imports come from elsewhere in
Serbia and from Bulgaria, but power blackouts are
frequent due to outdated equipment and mismanagement.
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Lo scorso 4 giugno sono stati ritrovati ad Obilic i cadaveri di una
coppia di coniugi ottantenni e del loro figlio cinquantatreenne,
uccisi a colpi di accetta e poi dati alle fiamme insieme alla loro
casa (vedi:
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/Quotidiano-archivio/05-Giugno-2003/art30.html)
In seguito a questa ennesima dimostrazione dei reali risultati e
scopi del regime di terrore razzista e di occupazione imperialista
in Kosovo-Metohija, riprendiamo con la cronaca degli avvenimenti
sul campo, che avevamo interrotto da alcuni mesi.
Ricordiamo che gli ultimi numero del "bollettino di guerra" sono
archiviati alle URL:
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, Maggio-Luglio 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1876
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, fine luglio 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1900
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, agosto-settembre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/1962
Kosmet: bollettino di guerra, settembre-ottobre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2001
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2002
Kosmet, bollettino di guerra: fine ottobre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2055
Macelleria UCKFOR: bollettino di guerra novembre-dicembre 2002
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2556
Macelleria UCKFOR: bollettino di guerra gennaio-febbraio 2003
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2557
Un grande numero di articoli sui vari aspetti del regime di terrore
instaurato congiuntamente dalle "nostre" truppe occidentali (KFOR) e
dai criminali neonazisti locali (UCK) si puo' trovare sempre nel
nostro archivio:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/
Per un inquadramento storico del terrore nazista in Kosovo-Metohija
si veda in particolare:
http://it.groups.yahoo.com/group/crj-mailinglist/message/2521
ed i collegamenti ivi contenuti.
Come al solito, le notizie da noi riportate non sono in alcun modo
esaustive degli avvenimenti nella provincia, e vanno intese solo come
esempi delle informazioni negate alla pubblica opinione.
(a cura di Andrea)