1027 MORTI AMMAZZATI
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O V E R V I E W
of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain
violations of
Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in
Kosovo and
Metohija, the Autonomous Province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic
of
Serbia
since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK,
in the period from 10 June 1999 to 4 June 2000
(1) Number of terrorist attacks: 4,878
4,590 committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 110 against Albanians
and 178
against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and members of other ethnic
communities.
(2) Number of killed persons: 1,027
902 Serbs and Montenegrins, 76 Albanians and 49 members of other ethnic
communities in Kosovo and Metohija.
(3) Number of abducted and missing persons: 945
869 Serbs and Montenegrins, 42 Albanians and 34 members of other ethnic
communities.
The fate of 782 persons is still unknown; 102 abducted persons were
killed, 7
persons escaped, while 48 were released.
(4) Number of wounded persons: 955
898 Serbs and Montenegrins, 20 Albanians and 37 members of other ethnic
communities.
(5) Ethnic cleansing: In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following
the
deployment of KFOR and UNMIK two-thirds of the non-Albanian population,
i.e.
over 360 000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and
other
non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of whom 280
000 are
Serbs.
The following towns and villages have been ethnically cleansed of Serbs,
Roma,
Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians:
- Pristina (all Serbs have been driven out of its largest suburbs of
Ulpijana,
Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje. Of the 40 000 Serbs who
used
to live in Pristina before KFOR and UNMIK came to Kosovo and Metohija,
25,000
were school and university students. Today, only 35 Serbian
schoolchildren live
in Pristina and attend classes in the local school in the village of
Laplje;
- Prizren (only 100 Serbian families remain);
- Gnjilane, the situation in this town was alarming in March, April and
May (in
this period alone over 350 houses of Serbs were sold). The number of
remaining
Serbs has been halved and today only about 1,500 Serbs remain. KFOR and
UNMIK
have warned them not to leave their homes.
- Djakovica, Pec, Podujevo, Glogovac, as well as the areas of Kosovska
Mitrovica (Vucitrn, Srbica), Lipljan (“KLA” terrorists set fire to 73
out of a
total of 75 Serb houses in the village of Slovinje in this
municipality),
Kosovo Polje, from which 80 per cent of their Serbian residents have
been
expelled, i.e. 7,000 Serbs and 4,000 other non-Albanians (their homes
have been
burned and looted, while shops, cafes and other property are being
seized from
their owners. In the presence of KFOR, ethnic Albanian terrorists
brutalize and
harass the Serbs who refuse to sell their homes and leave Kosovo and
Metohija);
- the whole area of the municipalities of Istok and Klina including the
villages of Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine,
Maticane,
Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka Vrbica and others, where 3,440 Serbian
homes were
burned down;
- the surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica,
Ljestar,
Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), Zitnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobes; in
the
village of Talinovac the two last Serbian houses whose owners had been
forced
to move out were burnt down at the beginning of April;
- the surroundings of Vitina, 18 Serbian villaged cleansed of Serbs
(Kabas,
Binac and other villages), the areas of Kosovska Kamenica (villages of
Bratilovce, Firiceja and others) and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, as well as the
villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko, Klobukar
in the
municipality of Novo Brdo. (All Serbian houses have been burned down and
all
its owners forced to leave.)
In May 2000 the shelling, burning and mining of Serbian houses was
intensified
in the municipality of Vitina, especiially in the villages of Vrbovac,
Grncar,
Binac and Klokot, the latter being crucial for the integration of the
Serbian
entities in Kosovsko Pomoravlje.
Members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army exert great
pressure
on ethnic Goranci, the indigenous residents of the region of Gora, who
are not
allowed to use their maternal Serbian language in schools and in
everyday life,
in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as Albanians.
Expulsion of the members of the Muslim ethnic community, loyal citizens
of the
FR of Yugoslavia, has intensified particularly in the area of the
municipality
of Istok..
In the area of Prizren and Djakovica about 65,000 Kosovo Albanian
Catholics
live in a difficult situation and under great pressure from Albanian
terrorists
who accuse them of "collaboration with Serbs".
During the month of May “KLA” terrorists made several attacks against
the
Croats of Janjevo. Under heavy pressure from “KLA” terrorists only 350
Croats
of the former population of 1,500 have remained in Janjevo.
Prevention of the return of Serbs:
Albanian separatists continue their deliberate actions, aimed at
preventing the
return of Serbs to Kosovo and Metohija. They raze Serbian houses in a
pre-planned and synchronized manner, particularly in the areas of Pec,
Istok
and Klina.. The most drastic example was the looting and bulldozing of
over 250
Serbian houses in the village of Bijelo Polje, on 15 April 2000. The
area of
this village was turned into a garbage dump. Serbian houses in the
villages of
Brezanik and Osojane have also been bulldozed. Fourteen Serbian villages
in the
municipality of Vitina do not exist any more because all the houses have
been
destroyed. At the end of April, Albanian terrorists announced that they
will
carry out similar organized actions of looting and destroying Serbian
houses in
the villages near Istok and Novo Brdo.
“KLA” terrorists set fire to the local elementary school in the village
of
Siga, municipality of Pec (24 April), which was the only undamaged
facility in
the village, designated as such to serve temporary shelter for displaced
persons.
“KLA” terrorists have intensified their rocket-propelled and other armed
attacks on the village of Gorazdevac to prevent it from becoming a
centre for
Serbs returning to the Metohija region.
UNHCR officials discourage the return of Serbs in Orahovac with the
explanation
that the siutation has not yet stabilized. However, Serbs are convinced
that
there exist minimum conditions for their return.
(7) The latest brutal crimes: vandalazing of the Orthodox Christian
cemetery
in Presevo, where 35 headstones were demolished (7 May) as well as in
the
village of Banjska, municipality of Vucitrn (10 May); bombing of a shop
in
Cernica, municipality of Gnjilane, in which 5 Serbs were injured (9
May);
killing of Miljaim Djakoli in the village of Trnava, municipality of
Podujevo,
as he was accused by “KLA” terrorists of “collaborating” with the Serbs
(10
May); abduction of Arsenije Krivokapic in Kosovska Mitrovica (13 May);
killing
of Milan Milovanovic in the village of Vukojevac, municipality of
Kursumlija,
about 600-700
meters inside the ground security zone (18 May); killing of Dragan
Peric, 75,
in the field in the village of Gojbulja, municipality of Vucitrn (19
May);
arson of the student boarding house in Gnjilane, which was gutted by the
fire
(23 May); killing of Vladimir Ilic, 50, on his doorstep in Vitina (24
May);
attack on Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, municipality of Lipljan, in
which 4
Serbs sustained serious injuries (26 May); bombing of a Serb cafe in
Bresje, in
which 5 Serbs were seriously injured (26 May); arson in the Trepca
factory
complex in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, in which enormous
damage
was caused to property (26 May); attack on the Serbs outside a shop in
the
village of Cernica, municipality of Gnjilane, in which Tihomir
Trifunovic,
Vojin Vasic and a five-year old Milos Petrovic were killed while two
Serbs were
gravely wounded (28 May); attack on Serbs in the village of Klokot,
municipality of Vitina, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another 3 Serbs were seriously wounded (31 May); killing of Milutin
Trajkovic,
33, in the village of Babin Most, municipality of Obilic (31 May);
bombing of
the house of Djordje Velickovic, a Serb, in Obilic, in which Misko
Todorovic
was seriously injured (1 June); murder of two Serbs Sinisa Dimic and
Vlastimir
Milic and the wounding of three other Serbs, of whom two minors, in a
car
which ran over the anti-tenk mine placed by the Albanian terrorists the
night
before on the road connecting the Serbian villages of Ugljare and Preoce
in the
vicinity of Pristina (2 June).
(8) New forms of terror against Serbs and other non-Albanians:
In its security actions against Serbian and other non-Albanians, KFOR is
increasingly demonstrating force and resorting to harassment and
physical
violence and causing damage to Serbian property. Drastic incidents
occurred in
Kosovska Mitrovica (on 20-25 February), in the villages of Mogila (on
25-26
February), in which Serbian houses were searched in a most brutal way,
Draganovac (municipality of Gnjilane) and
Miolice (Municipality of Leposavic), Mali Zvecan (27 February), Gornje
Kusce (1
March) and the Serbian villages of Rudare and Grabovac (1 March). The
searches
were conducted by KFOR jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA,
who
wore international security forces uniforms, in an open display of the
existence of co-ordination between KFOR and Albanian terrorists.
In April violence against Serbs in the so-called security actions of
KFOR has
assumed dramatic proportions. The most drastic examples were the
incidents
which took place in the village of Dobrotin on 2 April, in the village
of Sevce
on 4 April and in the villages of Lepina and Jazine, when KFOR members
released
dogs on the Serbs who had gathered to protest the difficult situation
and when
a large number of people were seriously injured. Several persons were
also
injured in a brutal action of KFOR against Serbian demonstrators in
Gracanica
on 7 April 2000.
KFOR members used APCs and dogs against local people in Babin Most,
municipality of Obilic, who had gathered to protest over the brutal
murder of
Milutin Trajkovic in their village (31 May).
(9) Terrorist attacks outside the Province:
Groups of Allbanian terrorists are located in the area of the villages
of
Breznica, Muhovac, Car, Zarbince, Ravno Bucje and others. They are
attacking
out of their headquarters in the village of Rogacica, municipality of
Kosovska
Kamenica, against areas outside the Province. Incidents include
grenade-propelled attacks from the village of Dobrosin against the
police
checkpoint near Bujanovac (8 and 20 May); attacks with automatic
weapons
against a local police patrol in the village of Konculj (23 and 24
May);a
grenade-propelled attack on local police near the village of Lucane (30
May).
(10) Terrorist attacks on Serbian convoys:
Attacks on a Serbian convoys headed for Strpce, near the village of
Radivojce
(on 22 and 29 February); attack on a Serbian convoy en route to
Koretiste, in
the village of Dobricane (28 February); attack on a bus ferrying Serbian
children home from school on the road between Gornje Kusce and Koretiste
(29
February); Lieutenant Peter Ramstell (KFOR, Kosovska Mitrovica area)
banned all
KFOR security escorts for buses transporting Serbian schoolchildren and
sick
persons to Gracanica (1 March); attacks against Serbian convoys in the
village
of Koretin (6 and 20 March); repeated attacks against Serbian convoys in
Gnjilane (7, 10 and 31 March); an attack on a Serbian convoy in the
village of
Dobrovce (27 March); attack on a Serbian convoy on the road between
Bujanovac
and Gracanica (11 April 2000); attack on a convoy from Strpce in the
village of
Pozaranje, municipality of Vitina (18 April 2000).
KFOR has not prevented these terrorist attacks. Also, it has refused to
provide
security escorts to convoys between Merdare and Kosovo Polje. In
addition to
daily terror against them, this is added pressure on Serbs to leave
Kosovo
Polje.
(11) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 466
Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near
Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Klokot Banja.
They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the
ground
of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the members
of the
terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.
43 Serbs arbitrarily arrested without legal grounds by KFOR and UNMIK
have been
detained in a prison in Kosovska Mitrovica for eleven months already. In
this
period no investigation or any court proceedings have been instituted.
On 10
April 2000, 37 detained Serbs and 5 Roma went on a hunger strike. The
immediate
cause was the release of Gjelal Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, against whom
an
investigation had been instituted because of a hand grenade attack in
which 22
Serbs and 14 French soldiers of KFOR were injured. The detained Serbs
and Roma
were forced to go on a hunger strike for more than 40 days in an effort
to
realize their basic human rights in this way. They ended their strike as
B.
Kouchner told them on 21 May that they would stand trial shortly.
(12) Prisons and labour camps for abducted Serbs run by the terrorist
so-called
Kosovo Libertion Army
The abducted Serbian civilians, detained by the terrorist so-called
Kosovo
Liberatin Army, are kept in the labour camps located in the village of
Maticane
and in the wider area of Prizren (“Ortokal” estate, a building situated
on the
road to Djakovica) and in Drenica. 472 abducted Serbs are kept in the
camps.
KLA prisons for Serbs, Montenegrins and members of other ethnic
communities who
are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are situated also around the
village
of Brod, municipality of Dragas, and along the Djakovica road towards
the
village of Junik, municipality of Decani, as well as in the villages of
Glodjane, Izbica and Strovce in the Kosovska Mitrovica district; and in
the
premises of Railroad Transport Co. in Urosevac.
The prison located in the offices of the Pristina Chamber of Commerce
and
Industry, run by the so-called
KLA, where 71 non-Albanians have been detained, was relocated to another
unspecified facility on 27 April.
(13) Situation in Kosovska Mitrovica:
Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija, the
security
situation has been very serious, particularly in and around Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Some of the most salient types and instances of atrocities have been:
- looting and the destruction of 2,365 homes belonging to Serbs,
Montenegrins
and other non-Albanians (1,200 in Kosovska Mitrovica; 1,060 in Vucitrn;
and 105
in Srbica);
- eviction of 700 Serbian families from their apartments (500 in
southern
Kosovska Mitrovica; 150 in Vucitrn; and 50 in Srbica);
- looting and the destruction of the property of the following
companies:
1. In Kosovska Mitrovica: Socially-owned companies
"Kosovo-Sirovina",
"Betonjerka", "Lux", "AMD", "Kosmet-Prevoz", "Trans-Kosovo", Duvanska,
Minel,
Zemljoradnicka zadruga (cooperative), Hortikultura, Mitrovcanka, DES,
"Ibar-Rozaje" warehouse, water utility company "Vodovod", printing
company
"Progres", electric power generation company "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT and a
large
number of bars and cafes owned by non-Albanians.
2. In Vucitrn: Socially-owned companies "Sartid",
"Vucitrn-Prevoz",
"Ratar", Farm Cooperative, paints and coatings factory "Ekstra",
construction
company "Kosovo", utilities company "Sitnica", private company
"Cicavica",
employment bureau, local community centre, Town Hall of Vucitrn,
Construction
Land Fund, local department store, Auditing Office building, Jugobanka,
primary
and secondary schools, Jugopetrol, Beopetrol, electric power
generationcompany
"Elektro-Kosovo", PTT.
3. In Srbica: Hunting munitions factory, plastics factory,
socially-owned company "Buducnost", Farm Cooperative, public utilities
company,
"Dijamant-produkt" Co., local community centre, local self-managing
community
of interest, "Zitopromet" Co. and its silos.
(14) Recent killings and terrorizing of Albanians loyal to the FR of
Yugoslavia:
The terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped up the
execution of
Albanians who do not support their policy and goals, particularly in the
areas
of Pristina, Podujevo and Pec. The most drastic examples are: the murder
of
Hejdi Sejdiu, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Serbian
Socialist
Party, in his home town of Urosevac in front of his wife and three
children (on
10 February), the killing of Danush Januzi in Vitina (on 10 February);
the
massacre of Tahir Bekim, abducted and later killed by the terrorists of
the
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (parts of his mutilated body were found
on 24
February).
The terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army burnt down the
house of
Sellim Broshi, former head of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior,
in the
village of Odanovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, on 20 March
2000. They
are also looking for Sinan Rexhepi, former employee of the Provincial
Ministry
of the
Interior. They threaten Sadik Hajrulah from Vitina, Ramadan Sermaxhi,
employee
of the Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane, Minir Krasniqi from
Kosovska
Kamenica, as well as other former or present ethnic Albanian members of
the
Provincial Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane. In mid-March,
terrorists of
the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army abducted Noa and Nua Kajtazi,
Catholic
Albanians, in the village of Zjum accusing them that they are loyal
citizens of
the FR of Yugoslavia. They requested a ransom from their family in the
amount
of DM 40,000. They also searched their houses, looted them and beat the
members
of their family.
In addition to Serbs, the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army
also
rounds up Albanians, loyal to the State of the FR of Yugoslavia, and
detain
them in their prison camps (around the village of Brod, municipality of
Dragas).
(15) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments:
86 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were burned down,
demolished or seriously damaged, among them the Church of the Entrance
of Our
Lady into the Temple at Dolac, monastery of St. Mark at Korisa from
1467,
monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zociste from 14th century, the
church
in Kijevo from the 14th century, the Holy Trinity monastery from the
14th
century near Musutiste, monastery Devic built in 1440, Church of St.
Paraskeva
in Drenik from the 16th century, Church of St. Demetrius near Pec, the
Orthodox
church at Grmovo near Vitina, Church of St. Elijah at Zegra near
Gnjilane,
church of Holy Mother in Musutiste from 1315, Church of St. Elijah at
Bistrazin, Church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva Reka, monastery of
St.
Uros in Nerodimlje, monastery of St. Archangel Gabriel from the 14th
century in
Binac, Church of St. Mary from the 16th century in Belo Polje, Church of
St.
John the Baptist in Pecka Banja, churches in the villages of Naklo,
Vucitrn,
Petrovac, Urosevac, Podgorce, Djurakovac, Krusevo, Osojane, Samodreza,
Dresna
near Klina, Rekovac, Petric, monastery Binac near Vitina, Holy Trinity
Cathedral in Djakovica, St. Nicholas' Church in Gnjilane.
Monks and other clergy are being terrorized and persecuted. More than
150
parish residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other
sacral
objects, most of which are part of cultural treasures under the special
protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed. Medieval frescoes
were
destroyed in 70 per cent of Orthodox churches and monasteries.
Assaults on members of the Catholic religious community by the
terrorists of
the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army have intensified in Prizren and
Pec,
particularly assaults on clergymen (The homes of two Franciscan priests
were
burned down.).
The following cultural monuments were damaged or demolished:
- statues of the greatest lexicographer of the Serbian language Vuk
Karadzic
and the great Montenegrin poet Petar Petrovic Njegos in downtown
Pristina;
- memorials to King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in Prizren;
- memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian
rulers from
the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje;
- memorial to Milos Obilic, the symbol of the town of Obilic. KFOR
removed the
damaged statue to the compounds of the thermal electric power plant
"Kosovo
B".
- about 400 000 books vanished in the fire set to the Pristina Library.
Many of the destroyed monuments are outstanding examples of the Serbian
cultural heritage and are on the list of the monuments of exceptional
cultural
value under the protection of UNESCO.
(16) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:
- Forcible and illegal takeovers of premises and buildings of post
offices,
banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems, university,
elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other local government
buildings, local communes, buildings of the Ministry of the Interior and
the
Army of Yugoslavia, factories, enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in
Pristina
(premises of the Clinical Centre "Pristina" and the health station whose
equipment has been stolen and taken by doctors in private practice,
Federal
Customs Administration, Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban
Planning,
water supply company "Vodovod", thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B",
depots
and petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the shareholding companies
"Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", "Energoinvest", "Autopristina", car
shock
absorbers factory, "Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas,
Podujevo,
Lipljan, Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the assistance
of
KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of KFOR).
- By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and
institutions tens
of thousands employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks
and
other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no means to support
themselves.
- More than 190 major companies were forcibly and illegally seized,
whose
equipment was looted and most often taken to Albania.
(17) Armed artillery attacks on villages: Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac,
Konjuh,
Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the villages around Kosovska Kamenica:
Grncar,
Magila, Ajvalija, all the villages of the Istok-Klina region, Gorazdevac
near
Pec, Svinjare, Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja Gusterica,
Susica,
Badavac, Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice, (municipality of Gnjilane),
Dobrusa,
Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Partes, Podgradje,
Malisevo and Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane), Ljestar, Budriga,
Dobrotin
(municipality of Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, Ranilug, Silovo, Odovce,
Rajanovce,
Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja, Suvo Grlo and Banje
(municipality
of Srbica), in the following villages in the area of the municipality of
Gora:
Brodosavce, Belobrod, Kukavce; frequent attacks on houses of Goranci,
Muslims
and Albanians, loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia, and in Grabovac
(municipality of
Zvecan).
All Serbian houses in the villages of Donji Livoc, Kmetova Vrbica,
Lipovica and
Cernice in the municipality of Gnjilane, and in the villages of Vaganes,
Gradjenik and Orahovica in the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, all
forming
part of Kosovsko Pomoravlje, were set on fire or destroyed by mortars or
explosives.
All this runs counter to assertions by KFOR and UNMIK that the terrorist
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has been disarmed.
(18) Blockade of towns and villages: Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika
Hoca,
Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac, Priluzje
(the
village surrounded by Albanians, with no doctors, shops and phone lines;
about
80 per cent of the villagers who worked for the Electric Power Industry
of
Serbia have remained jobless).
About 3,500 Serbian residents of Orahovac have been living for more than
ten
months since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the first concentration
camp
in Europe after the Second World War, besieged by the terrorist
so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army.
(19) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily
basis
against non-Albanians: Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo,
Bresje,
Obilic, the area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (on which an armed attack
was
recently carried out), the village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian
situation), most of the mainly Catholic Croatian population of the
villages of
Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, Drenovac (50
Serbs
massacred), village of Cernice (a series of incidents in which US KFOR
soldiers
maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje, Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki
Alas, Vrelo
and Radevo, Plemetin and Slatina (municipality of Vucitrn), Crkolez
(municipality of Istok), Ogose - municipality of Kosovska Kamenica
(where
almost all Roma families have been driven out), Banjska, Gojbulja and
Miroce
(municipality of Vucitrn), Brezanik (municipality of Pec).
Ruthless terror is used against the remaining Serbs in the village of
Obilic:
their houses are attacked and set on fire. They cannot call fire
emergency
services or ask for KFOR and UNMIK assistance since their telephone
lines are
disconnected, while those belonging to Albanian households are
connected. This
provides further evidence of the discrimination against Serbs by KFOR
and UNMIK
who sit idly by.
(20) The looted Serbian villages whose residents were forced out:
Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje,
Livadice,
Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste, Sofalija,
Dragoljevac,
Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Sipasnica, Miganovce, Laniste and
Zmijarnik
(municipality of Kosovska Kamenica).
(21) Serbian settlements set on fire: Istok, Klina, Donja Lapastica,
Obrandza,
Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the villages around Podujevo, Grace, Donja
Dubica,
Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo, Vitomirice, Belo Polje, Kojlovice,
Alos-Toplicane,
Krajiste, Rudnik, Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of Lipljan), Orlovic
(municipality of Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa (municipality of
Podujevo),
Muzicane (all Serbian houses burned down), Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane,
Gornje
and Donje Nerodimlje (all Serbian houses looted and burned down), Sinaje
(municipality of Istok), Balovac, Mali Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka and
Oraovica (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Zaskok and Novi Miros
(municipality of Urosevac).
(22) Registered number of homes burned down: About 50,000 houses of
Serbs,
Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians were burned down in
Kosovo and
Metohija.
(23) Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into
the FR of
Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the necessary papers (visas and
registration of stay with the competent authorities): 825
Over 250,000 foreigners have illegally entered Kosovo and Metohija with
approval of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has
officially requested their deportation on several occasions. These
requests
went unheeded, although those persons are international terrorists,
criminals,
narco-mafia members, white slave merchants, organizers of brothels and
other
forms of organized international crime.
(24) Registered number of stolen vehicles: over 12,000
As a result of open borders with Macedonia and Albania 250,000 vehicles
were
brought into Kosovo and Metohija without payment of customs duties. Most
of
these vehicles were stolen.
The extended vehicle registration period under an illegal regulation by
Special
Representative Kouchner has effectively legalized crime and theft of
tens of
thousands of vehicles.
(25) Registered number of cases of violation of the ground security
zone by
KFOR: 439
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O V E R V I E W
of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain
violations of
Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) of 10 June 1999 in
Kosovo and
Metohija, the Autonomous Province of the Yugoslav constituent Republic
of
Serbia
since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK,
in the period from 10 June 1999 to 4 June 2000
(1) Number of terrorist attacks: 4,878
4,590 committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 110 against Albanians
and 178
against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and members of other ethnic
communities.
(2) Number of killed persons: 1,027
902 Serbs and Montenegrins, 76 Albanians and 49 members of other ethnic
communities in Kosovo and Metohija.
(3) Number of abducted and missing persons: 945
869 Serbs and Montenegrins, 42 Albanians and 34 members of other ethnic
communities.
The fate of 782 persons is still unknown; 102 abducted persons were
killed, 7
persons escaped, while 48 were released.
(4) Number of wounded persons: 955
898 Serbs and Montenegrins, 20 Albanians and 37 members of other ethnic
communities.
(5) Ethnic cleansing: In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following
the
deployment of KFOR and UNMIK two-thirds of the non-Albanian population,
i.e.
over 360 000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and
other
non-Albanians have been expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of whom 280
000 are
Serbs.
The following towns and villages have been ethnically cleansed of Serbs,
Roma,
Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians:
- Pristina (all Serbs have been driven out of its largest suburbs of
Ulpijana,
Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje. Of the 40 000 Serbs who
used
to live in Pristina before KFOR and UNMIK came to Kosovo and Metohija,
25,000
were school and university students. Today, only 35 Serbian
schoolchildren live
in Pristina and attend classes in the local school in the village of
Laplje;
- Prizren (only 100 Serbian families remain);
- Gnjilane, the situation in this town was alarming in March, April and
May (in
this period alone over 350 houses of Serbs were sold). The number of
remaining
Serbs has been halved and today only about 1,500 Serbs remain. KFOR and
UNMIK
have warned them not to leave their homes.
- Djakovica, Pec, Podujevo, Glogovac, as well as the areas of Kosovska
Mitrovica (Vucitrn, Srbica), Lipljan (“KLA” terrorists set fire to 73
out of a
total of 75 Serb houses in the village of Slovinje in this
municipality),
Kosovo Polje, from which 80 per cent of their Serbian residents have
been
expelled, i.e. 7,000 Serbs and 4,000 other non-Albanians (their homes
have been
burned and looted, while shops, cafes and other property are being
seized from
their owners. In the presence of KFOR, ethnic Albanian terrorists
brutalize and
harass the Serbs who refuse to sell their homes and leave Kosovo and
Metohija);
- the whole area of the municipalities of Istok and Klina including the
villages of Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine,
Maticane,
Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka Vrbica and others, where 3,440 Serbian
homes were
burned down;
- the surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica,
Ljestar,
Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), Zitnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobes; in
the
village of Talinovac the two last Serbian houses whose owners had been
forced
to move out were burnt down at the beginning of April;
- the surroundings of Vitina, 18 Serbian villaged cleansed of Serbs
(Kabas,
Binac and other villages), the areas of Kosovska Kamenica (villages of
Bratilovce, Firiceja and others) and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, as well as the
villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko, Klobukar
in the
municipality of Novo Brdo. (All Serbian houses have been burned down and
all
its owners forced to leave.)
In May 2000 the shelling, burning and mining of Serbian houses was
intensified
in the municipality of Vitina, especiially in the villages of Vrbovac,
Grncar,
Binac and Klokot, the latter being crucial for the integration of the
Serbian
entities in Kosovsko Pomoravlje.
Members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army exert great
pressure
on ethnic Goranci, the indigenous residents of the region of Gora, who
are not
allowed to use their maternal Serbian language in schools and in
everyday life,
in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as Albanians.
Expulsion of the members of the Muslim ethnic community, loyal citizens
of the
FR of Yugoslavia, has intensified particularly in the area of the
municipality
of Istok..
In the area of Prizren and Djakovica about 65,000 Kosovo Albanian
Catholics
live in a difficult situation and under great pressure from Albanian
terrorists
who accuse them of "collaboration with Serbs".
During the month of May “KLA” terrorists made several attacks against
the
Croats of Janjevo. Under heavy pressure from “KLA” terrorists only 350
Croats
of the former population of 1,500 have remained in Janjevo.
Prevention of the return of Serbs:
Albanian separatists continue their deliberate actions, aimed at
preventing the
return of Serbs to Kosovo and Metohija. They raze Serbian houses in a
pre-planned and synchronized manner, particularly in the areas of Pec,
Istok
and Klina.. The most drastic example was the looting and bulldozing of
over 250
Serbian houses in the village of Bijelo Polje, on 15 April 2000. The
area of
this village was turned into a garbage dump. Serbian houses in the
villages of
Brezanik and Osojane have also been bulldozed. Fourteen Serbian villages
in the
municipality of Vitina do not exist any more because all the houses have
been
destroyed. At the end of April, Albanian terrorists announced that they
will
carry out similar organized actions of looting and destroying Serbian
houses in
the villages near Istok and Novo Brdo.
“KLA” terrorists set fire to the local elementary school in the village
of
Siga, municipality of Pec (24 April), which was the only undamaged
facility in
the village, designated as such to serve temporary shelter for displaced
persons.
“KLA” terrorists have intensified their rocket-propelled and other armed
attacks on the village of Gorazdevac to prevent it from becoming a
centre for
Serbs returning to the Metohija region.
UNHCR officials discourage the return of Serbs in Orahovac with the
explanation
that the siutation has not yet stabilized. However, Serbs are convinced
that
there exist minimum conditions for their return.
(7) The latest brutal crimes: vandalazing of the Orthodox Christian
cemetery
in Presevo, where 35 headstones were demolished (7 May) as well as in
the
village of Banjska, municipality of Vucitrn (10 May); bombing of a shop
in
Cernica, municipality of Gnjilane, in which 5 Serbs were injured (9
May);
killing of Miljaim Djakoli in the village of Trnava, municipality of
Podujevo,
as he was accused by “KLA” terrorists of “collaborating” with the Serbs
(10
May); abduction of Arsenije Krivokapic in Kosovska Mitrovica (13 May);
killing
of Milan Milovanovic in the village of Vukojevac, municipality of
Kursumlija,
about 600-700
meters inside the ground security zone (18 May); killing of Dragan
Peric, 75,
in the field in the village of Gojbulja, municipality of Vucitrn (19
May);
arson of the student boarding house in Gnjilane, which was gutted by the
fire
(23 May); killing of Vladimir Ilic, 50, on his doorstep in Vitina (24
May);
attack on Serbs in the village of Dobrotin, municipality of Lipljan, in
which 4
Serbs sustained serious injuries (26 May); bombing of a Serb cafe in
Bresje, in
which 5 Serbs were seriously injured (26 May); arson in the Trepca
factory
complex in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, in which enormous
damage
was caused to property (26 May); attack on the Serbs outside a shop in
the
village of Cernica, municipality of Gnjilane, in which Tihomir
Trifunovic,
Vojin Vasic and a five-year old Milos Petrovic were killed while two
Serbs were
gravely wounded (28 May); attack on Serbs in the village of Klokot,
municipality of Vitina, in which Lepterka Marinkovic, 67, was killed and
another 3 Serbs were seriously wounded (31 May); killing of Milutin
Trajkovic,
33, in the village of Babin Most, municipality of Obilic (31 May);
bombing of
the house of Djordje Velickovic, a Serb, in Obilic, in which Misko
Todorovic
was seriously injured (1 June); murder of two Serbs Sinisa Dimic and
Vlastimir
Milic and the wounding of three other Serbs, of whom two minors, in a
car
which ran over the anti-tenk mine placed by the Albanian terrorists the
night
before on the road connecting the Serbian villages of Ugljare and Preoce
in the
vicinity of Pristina (2 June).
(8) New forms of terror against Serbs and other non-Albanians:
In its security actions against Serbian and other non-Albanians, KFOR is
increasingly demonstrating force and resorting to harassment and
physical
violence and causing damage to Serbian property. Drastic incidents
occurred in
Kosovska Mitrovica (on 20-25 February), in the villages of Mogila (on
25-26
February), in which Serbian houses were searched in a most brutal way,
Draganovac (municipality of Gnjilane) and
Miolice (Municipality of Leposavic), Mali Zvecan (27 February), Gornje
Kusce (1
March) and the Serbian villages of Rudare and Grabovac (1 March). The
searches
were conducted by KFOR jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA,
who
wore international security forces uniforms, in an open display of the
existence of co-ordination between KFOR and Albanian terrorists.
In April violence against Serbs in the so-called security actions of
KFOR has
assumed dramatic proportions. The most drastic examples were the
incidents
which took place in the village of Dobrotin on 2 April, in the village
of Sevce
on 4 April and in the villages of Lepina and Jazine, when KFOR members
released
dogs on the Serbs who had gathered to protest the difficult situation
and when
a large number of people were seriously injured. Several persons were
also
injured in a brutal action of KFOR against Serbian demonstrators in
Gracanica
on 7 April 2000.
KFOR members used APCs and dogs against local people in Babin Most,
municipality of Obilic, who had gathered to protest over the brutal
murder of
Milutin Trajkovic in their village (31 May).
(9) Terrorist attacks outside the Province:
Groups of Allbanian terrorists are located in the area of the villages
of
Breznica, Muhovac, Car, Zarbince, Ravno Bucje and others. They are
attacking
out of their headquarters in the village of Rogacica, municipality of
Kosovska
Kamenica, against areas outside the Province. Incidents include
grenade-propelled attacks from the village of Dobrosin against the
police
checkpoint near Bujanovac (8 and 20 May); attacks with automatic
weapons
against a local police patrol in the village of Konculj (23 and 24
May);a
grenade-propelled attack on local police near the village of Lucane (30
May).
(10) Terrorist attacks on Serbian convoys:
Attacks on a Serbian convoys headed for Strpce, near the village of
Radivojce
(on 22 and 29 February); attack on a Serbian convoy en route to
Koretiste, in
the village of Dobricane (28 February); attack on a bus ferrying Serbian
children home from school on the road between Gornje Kusce and Koretiste
(29
February); Lieutenant Peter Ramstell (KFOR, Kosovska Mitrovica area)
banned all
KFOR security escorts for buses transporting Serbian schoolchildren and
sick
persons to Gracanica (1 March); attacks against Serbian convoys in the
village
of Koretin (6 and 20 March); repeated attacks against Serbian convoys in
Gnjilane (7, 10 and 31 March); an attack on a Serbian convoy in the
village of
Dobrovce (27 March); attack on a Serbian convoy on the road between
Bujanovac
and Gracanica (11 April 2000); attack on a convoy from Strpce in the
village of
Pozaranje, municipality of Vitina (18 April 2000).
KFOR has not prevented these terrorist attacks. Also, it has refused to
provide
security escorts to convoys between Merdare and Kosovo Polje. In
addition to
daily terror against them, this is added pressure on Serbs to leave
Kosovo
Polje.
(11) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 466
Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near
Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Klokot Banja.
They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the
ground
of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the members
of the
terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.
43 Serbs arbitrarily arrested without legal grounds by KFOR and UNMIK
have been
detained in a prison in Kosovska Mitrovica for eleven months already. In
this
period no investigation or any court proceedings have been instituted.
On 10
April 2000, 37 detained Serbs and 5 Roma went on a hunger strike. The
immediate
cause was the release of Gjelal Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, against whom
an
investigation had been instituted because of a hand grenade attack in
which 22
Serbs and 14 French soldiers of KFOR were injured. The detained Serbs
and Roma
were forced to go on a hunger strike for more than 40 days in an effort
to
realize their basic human rights in this way. They ended their strike as
B.
Kouchner told them on 21 May that they would stand trial shortly.
(12) Prisons and labour camps for abducted Serbs run by the terrorist
so-called
Kosovo Libertion Army
The abducted Serbian civilians, detained by the terrorist so-called
Kosovo
Liberatin Army, are kept in the labour camps located in the village of
Maticane
and in the wider area of Prizren (“Ortokal” estate, a building situated
on the
road to Djakovica) and in Drenica. 472 abducted Serbs are kept in the
camps.
KLA prisons for Serbs, Montenegrins and members of other ethnic
communities who
are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are situated also around the
village
of Brod, municipality of Dragas, and along the Djakovica road towards
the
village of Junik, municipality of Decani, as well as in the villages of
Glodjane, Izbica and Strovce in the Kosovska Mitrovica district; and in
the
premises of Railroad Transport Co. in Urosevac.
The prison located in the offices of the Pristina Chamber of Commerce
and
Industry, run by the so-called
KLA, where 71 non-Albanians have been detained, was relocated to another
unspecified facility on 27 April.
(13) Situation in Kosovska Mitrovica:
Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija, the
security
situation has been very serious, particularly in and around Kosovska
Mitrovica.
Some of the most salient types and instances of atrocities have been:
- looting and the destruction of 2,365 homes belonging to Serbs,
Montenegrins
and other non-Albanians (1,200 in Kosovska Mitrovica; 1,060 in Vucitrn;
and 105
in Srbica);
- eviction of 700 Serbian families from their apartments (500 in
southern
Kosovska Mitrovica; 150 in Vucitrn; and 50 in Srbica);
- looting and the destruction of the property of the following
companies:
1. In Kosovska Mitrovica: Socially-owned companies
"Kosovo-Sirovina",
"Betonjerka", "Lux", "AMD", "Kosmet-Prevoz", "Trans-Kosovo", Duvanska,
Minel,
Zemljoradnicka zadruga (cooperative), Hortikultura, Mitrovcanka, DES,
"Ibar-Rozaje" warehouse, water utility company "Vodovod", printing
company
"Progres", electric power generation company "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT and a
large
number of bars and cafes owned by non-Albanians.
2. In Vucitrn: Socially-owned companies "Sartid",
"Vucitrn-Prevoz",
"Ratar", Farm Cooperative, paints and coatings factory "Ekstra",
construction
company "Kosovo", utilities company "Sitnica", private company
"Cicavica",
employment bureau, local community centre, Town Hall of Vucitrn,
Construction
Land Fund, local department store, Auditing Office building, Jugobanka,
primary
and secondary schools, Jugopetrol, Beopetrol, electric power
generationcompany
"Elektro-Kosovo", PTT.
3. In Srbica: Hunting munitions factory, plastics factory,
socially-owned company "Buducnost", Farm Cooperative, public utilities
company,
"Dijamant-produkt" Co., local community centre, local self-managing
community
of interest, "Zitopromet" Co. and its silos.
(14) Recent killings and terrorizing of Albanians loyal to the FR of
Yugoslavia:
The terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped up the
execution of
Albanians who do not support their policy and goals, particularly in the
areas
of Pristina, Podujevo and Pec. The most drastic examples are: the murder
of
Hejdi Sejdiu, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Serbian
Socialist
Party, in his home town of Urosevac in front of his wife and three
children (on
10 February), the killing of Danush Januzi in Vitina (on 10 February);
the
massacre of Tahir Bekim, abducted and later killed by the terrorists of
the
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (parts of his mutilated body were found
on 24
February).
The terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army burnt down the
house of
Sellim Broshi, former head of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior,
in the
village of Odanovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, on 20 March
2000. They
are also looking for Sinan Rexhepi, former employee of the Provincial
Ministry
of the
Interior. They threaten Sadik Hajrulah from Vitina, Ramadan Sermaxhi,
employee
of the Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane, Minir Krasniqi from
Kosovska
Kamenica, as well as other former or present ethnic Albanian members of
the
Provincial Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane. In mid-March,
terrorists of
the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army abducted Noa and Nua Kajtazi,
Catholic
Albanians, in the village of Zjum accusing them that they are loyal
citizens of
the FR of Yugoslavia. They requested a ransom from their family in the
amount
of DM 40,000. They also searched their houses, looted them and beat the
members
of their family.
In addition to Serbs, the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army
also
rounds up Albanians, loyal to the State of the FR of Yugoslavia, and
detain
them in their prison camps (around the village of Brod, municipality of
Dragas).
(15) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments:
86 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were burned down,
demolished or seriously damaged, among them the Church of the Entrance
of Our
Lady into the Temple at Dolac, monastery of St. Mark at Korisa from
1467,
monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zociste from 14th century, the
church
in Kijevo from the 14th century, the Holy Trinity monastery from the
14th
century near Musutiste, monastery Devic built in 1440, Church of St.
Paraskeva
in Drenik from the 16th century, Church of St. Demetrius near Pec, the
Orthodox
church at Grmovo near Vitina, Church of St. Elijah at Zegra near
Gnjilane,
church of Holy Mother in Musutiste from 1315, Church of St. Elijah at
Bistrazin, Church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva Reka, monastery of
St.
Uros in Nerodimlje, monastery of St. Archangel Gabriel from the 14th
century in
Binac, Church of St. Mary from the 16th century in Belo Polje, Church of
St.
John the Baptist in Pecka Banja, churches in the villages of Naklo,
Vucitrn,
Petrovac, Urosevac, Podgorce, Djurakovac, Krusevo, Osojane, Samodreza,
Dresna
near Klina, Rekovac, Petric, monastery Binac near Vitina, Holy Trinity
Cathedral in Djakovica, St. Nicholas' Church in Gnjilane.
Monks and other clergy are being terrorized and persecuted. More than
150
parish residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other
sacral
objects, most of which are part of cultural treasures under the special
protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed. Medieval frescoes
were
destroyed in 70 per cent of Orthodox churches and monasteries.
Assaults on members of the Catholic religious community by the
terrorists of
the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army have intensified in Prizren and
Pec,
particularly assaults on clergymen (The homes of two Franciscan priests
were
burned down.).
The following cultural monuments were damaged or demolished:
- statues of the greatest lexicographer of the Serbian language Vuk
Karadzic
and the great Montenegrin poet Petar Petrovic Njegos in downtown
Pristina;
- memorials to King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in Prizren;
- memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian
rulers from
the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje;
- memorial to Milos Obilic, the symbol of the town of Obilic. KFOR
removed the
damaged statue to the compounds of the thermal electric power plant
"Kosovo
B".
- about 400 000 books vanished in the fire set to the Pristina Library.
Many of the destroyed monuments are outstanding examples of the Serbian
cultural heritage and are on the list of the monuments of exceptional
cultural
value under the protection of UNESCO.
(16) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:
- Forcible and illegal takeovers of premises and buildings of post
offices,
banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems, university,
elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other local government
buildings, local communes, buildings of the Ministry of the Interior and
the
Army of Yugoslavia, factories, enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in
Pristina
(premises of the Clinical Centre "Pristina" and the health station whose
equipment has been stolen and taken by doctors in private practice,
Federal
Customs Administration, Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban
Planning,
water supply company "Vodovod", thermal electric power plant "Kosovo B",
depots
and petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the shareholding companies
"Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", "Energoinvest", "Autopristina", car
shock
absorbers factory, "Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas,
Podujevo,
Lipljan, Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the assistance
of
KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of KFOR).
- By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and
institutions tens
of thousands employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks
and
other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no means to support
themselves.
- More than 190 major companies were forcibly and illegally seized,
whose
equipment was looted and most often taken to Albania.
(17) Armed artillery attacks on villages: Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac,
Konjuh,
Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the villages around Kosovska Kamenica:
Grncar,
Magila, Ajvalija, all the villages of the Istok-Klina region, Gorazdevac
near
Pec, Svinjare, Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja Gusterica,
Susica,
Badavac, Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice, (municipality of Gnjilane),
Dobrusa,
Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Partes, Podgradje,
Malisevo and Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane), Ljestar, Budriga,
Dobrotin
(municipality of Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, Ranilug, Silovo, Odovce,
Rajanovce,
Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja, Suvo Grlo and Banje
(municipality
of Srbica), in the following villages in the area of the municipality of
Gora:
Brodosavce, Belobrod, Kukavce; frequent attacks on houses of Goranci,
Muslims
and Albanians, loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia, and in Grabovac
(municipality of
Zvecan).
All Serbian houses in the villages of Donji Livoc, Kmetova Vrbica,
Lipovica and
Cernice in the municipality of Gnjilane, and in the villages of Vaganes,
Gradjenik and Orahovica in the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, all
forming
part of Kosovsko Pomoravlje, were set on fire or destroyed by mortars or
explosives.
All this runs counter to assertions by KFOR and UNMIK that the terrorist
so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has been disarmed.
(18) Blockade of towns and villages: Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika
Hoca,
Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac, Priluzje
(the
village surrounded by Albanians, with no doctors, shops and phone lines;
about
80 per cent of the villagers who worked for the Electric Power Industry
of
Serbia have remained jobless).
About 3,500 Serbian residents of Orahovac have been living for more than
ten
months since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the first concentration
camp
in Europe after the Second World War, besieged by the terrorist
so-called
Kosovo Liberation Army.
(19) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily
basis
against non-Albanians: Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo,
Bresje,
Obilic, the area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (on which an armed attack
was
recently carried out), the village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian
situation), most of the mainly Catholic Croatian population of the
villages of
Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, Drenovac (50
Serbs
massacred), village of Cernice (a series of incidents in which US KFOR
soldiers
maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje, Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki
Alas, Vrelo
and Radevo, Plemetin and Slatina (municipality of Vucitrn), Crkolez
(municipality of Istok), Ogose - municipality of Kosovska Kamenica
(where
almost all Roma families have been driven out), Banjska, Gojbulja and
Miroce
(municipality of Vucitrn), Brezanik (municipality of Pec).
Ruthless terror is used against the remaining Serbs in the village of
Obilic:
their houses are attacked and set on fire. They cannot call fire
emergency
services or ask for KFOR and UNMIK assistance since their telephone
lines are
disconnected, while those belonging to Albanian households are
connected. This
provides further evidence of the discrimination against Serbs by KFOR
and UNMIK
who sit idly by.
(20) The looted Serbian villages whose residents were forced out:
Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje,
Livadice,
Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste, Sofalija,
Dragoljevac,
Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Sipasnica, Miganovce, Laniste and
Zmijarnik
(municipality of Kosovska Kamenica).
(21) Serbian settlements set on fire: Istok, Klina, Donja Lapastica,
Obrandza,
Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the villages around Podujevo, Grace, Donja
Dubica,
Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo, Vitomirice, Belo Polje, Kojlovice,
Alos-Toplicane,
Krajiste, Rudnik, Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of Lipljan), Orlovic
(municipality of Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa (municipality of
Podujevo),
Muzicane (all Serbian houses burned down), Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane,
Gornje
and Donje Nerodimlje (all Serbian houses looted and burned down), Sinaje
(municipality of Istok), Balovac, Mali Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka and
Oraovica (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Zaskok and Novi Miros
(municipality of Urosevac).
(22) Registered number of homes burned down: About 50,000 houses of
Serbs,
Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians were burned down in
Kosovo and
Metohija.
(23) Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into
the FR of
Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the necessary papers (visas and
registration of stay with the competent authorities): 825
Over 250,000 foreigners have illegally entered Kosovo and Metohija with
approval of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has
officially requested their deportation on several occasions. These
requests
went unheeded, although those persons are international terrorists,
criminals,
narco-mafia members, white slave merchants, organizers of brothels and
other
forms of organized international crime.
(24) Registered number of stolen vehicles: over 12,000
As a result of open borders with Macedonia and Albania 250,000 vehicles
were
brought into Kosovo and Metohija without payment of customs duties. Most
of
these vehicles were stolen.
The extended vehicle registration period under an illegal regulation by
Special
Representative Kouchner has effectively legalized crime and theft of
tens of
thousands of vehicles.
(25) Registered number of cases of violation of the ground security
zone by
KFOR: 439
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