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THE KOSOVO WESLEY CLARK HELPED CREATE:
1,201 PERSONS
KILLED SINCE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR IN KOSOVO - SERBS AND MONTENEGRINS SUFFER HIGHEST CASUALTIES
Since the deployment
of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija on June 10, 1999 to August 9 of this year, Albanian terrorists have carried out 6,535
attacks, resulting in the deaths of 1,201 persons, the wounding of 1,328 persons and the abduction of 1,146 persons, reports
the Serbian ministry of internal affairs.
TERRORISM
AND MURDER OUT OF CONTROL IN KOSOVO
Tanjug
News Agency, Belgrade
August 20, 2003
Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija on June 10, 1999 to August 9 of
this year, Albanian terrorists have carried out 6,535 attacks, resulting in the deaths of 1,201 persons, the wounding of 1,328
persons and the abduction of 1,146 persons, reports the Serbian ministry of internal affairs.
Of the total number of
attacks, 6,468 were directed against civilians (5,932 against Serbs and Montenegrins, 201 against Albanians and 335 against
members of other ethnicities), 57 against Serbian police (members of the ministry of internal affairs) and 10 against members
of the Serbia-Montenegro (formerly Yugoslav) Army.
In these attacks 1,173
civilians, 24 Serbian policemen and four members of the Army were killed, while 15 policemen were wounded. Of the total number
of abducted persons, 1,107 are civilians, 29 are members of the Serbian police and 10 are members of the Army.
Among the 1,173 civilians killed by Albanian terrorists, the great majority (991) are Serbs
and Montenegrins. The number of Albanians killed is 109 and the number of members of other ethnicities killed is 73.
Out of the total of 1,108
abducted civilians, 960 are Serbs and Montenegrins, 73 are Albanians and 74 are members of other ethnicities. The fate of
846 persons remains unknown; 160 have been killed; 12 managed to escape (nine Serbs and three persons of other ethnicities),
and 89 civilians have been released, according to information of the Serbian police (MUP).
The fate of 15 abducted
policemen and nine members of the Army also remains unknown. Six of the abducted policemen have been killed, six have been
released, and two managed to escape from their abductors, Albanian terrorists.
 
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Was Gen. Clark Also "Unprepared" for the Postwar?
by Zoltan Grossman, Common Dreams, September 10, 2003
In his apparent quest for the Democratic Presidential nomination,
General Wesley Clark rightly criticizes President Bush for waging a "pre-emptive" invasion of Iraq, and in particular for
being "unprepared" for the post-invasion occupation of the country. Some Democrats are being drawn to the former NATO Supreme
Commander as an authoritative voice against the Iraq debacle, and a "pragmatic" alternative to the disastrous Bush Presidency.
Yet these Democrats apparently have short memories. It was only four years ago that General Clark waged a war against Yugoslavia
that had similarly shaky motives and spiraling postwar consequences. Clark has whitewashed the 1999 Kosovo intervention as
a "humanitarian" campaign to rescue Kosovar Albanians from Serbian "ethnic cleansing," even though it actually helped fuel
the forced explusions. The General credits NATO bombing of Serbian cities for bringing about the fall of Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic, even though Serbian democrats loudly objected that it undermined and delayed their ultimate victory. Clark
claims that the postwar NATO occupation brought "peace" to Kosovo, but he was clearly unprepared for the violent "ethnic cleansing"
that took place on his watch, largely facilitated by his decisions, under the noses of his troops. (read more)
 
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KOSOVO SUFFERING 4 YEARS LATER:
Isabel Vincent
National Post
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
Four years after it was "liberated"
by a NATO bombing campaign, Kosovo has deteriorated into a hotbed of organized crime, anti-Serb violence and al-Qaeda sympathizers,
say security officials and Balkan experts.
Though nominally still under UN control, the southern province of Serbia
is today dominated by a triumvirate of Albanian paramilitaries, mafiosi and terrorists. They control a host of smuggling operations
and are implementing what many observers call their own brutal ethnic cleansing of minority groups, such as Serbs, Roma and
Jews.
In recent weeks, UN officials ordered the construction of a fortified concrete barrier around the UN compound
on the outskirts of the provincial capital Pristina. This is to protect against terrorist strikes by Muslim extremists who
have set up bases of operation in what has become a largely outlaw province.
Minority Serbs, who were supposed to have
been guaranteed protection by the international community after the 78-day NATO bombing campaign ended in the spring of 1999,
have abandoned the province en masse. The last straw for many was the recent round of attacks by ethnic Albanian paramilitaries
bent on gaining independence through violence.
Attacks on Serbs in Kosovo, a province of two million people, have risen
sharply.
According to statistics collected by the UN criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, 1,192
Serbs have been killed, 1,303 kidnapped and 1,305 wounded in Kosovo this year.
In June, 1999, just after the NATO bombing,
547 Serbs were killed and 932 were kidnapped.
Last summer, in one of the more grisly massacres, two Serb youths were
killed and four others wounded by ethnic Albanian militants while swimming in the Bistrica River, near Pec.
The violence
continues despite an 18,000-strong NATO-led peacekeeping force and an international police force of more than 4,000.
Serbs,
who now make up 5% of the population of Kosovo, down from 10% before the NATO campaign, are the main targets of the paramilitary
groups.
The bombing was partly launched by NATO countries to end the ethnic cleansing of Albanians by Serb security
forces in the region. In its immediate aftermath, many Serbs left Kosovo to settle in other parts of Yugoslavia, now known
as Serbia and Montenegro.
Last week, Harri Holkeri, the province's UN leader, suspended two generals and 10 other officers,
all members of an ethnic Albanian offshoot of the Kosovo Liberation Army, an insurgent group that emerged in the late 1980s
to fight Serb security forces.
Mr. Holkeri made his decision -- the strongest UN response to violence in the province
so far -- after a UN inquiry into the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). Although the civilian defence organization is supposed
to help local residents, over the past four years, its mostly ethnic Albanian military officials have been involved in violent
confrontations with Serbs.
The inquiry found last April's bomb attack on a Kosovo railway was the work of the KPC.
"The
whole process of rebuilding Kosovo-Metohija as a democratic, multi-ethnic society failed due to both the inability of the
UN mission and [NATO] forces to protect Serbs and other non-Albanians from large-scale ethnic cleansing, this time primarily
against Serbs," said Dusan Batakovic, a Serb diplomat and leading expert on Kosovo.
Dr. Batakovic and other Balkan
experts, who attended a conference in Toronto last month to discuss Kosovo's future, say the situation is deteriorating rapidly.
"NATO
forces made a real mess of Kosovo," said James Bissett, a former Canadian ambassador to Yugoslavia. "The bombing of Yugoslavia
was a dreadful failure on humanitarian grounds. It failed to stop ethnic cleansing, which has continued after the so-called
peace treaty."
In addition, "Balkan Taliban" -- Muslim ethnic Albanian paramilitary groups -- have vandalized Serb
cemeteries and destroyed many of the region's Orthodox Christian monasteries and churches.
"This is a strategy of cutting
Kosovo Serbs off from their historical and religious traditions," said Dr. Batakovic in his report to the North American Society
of Serbian Studies conference.
Moreover, Kosovo has turned into one of Europe's biggest hubs for drug trafficking and
terrorism.
Al-Qaeda has set up bases in the province, which has become an important centre for heroin, cigarette, gasoline
and people smuggling.
The Albanian mafia and paramilitary groups, which security officials say are closely tied to
al-Qaeda militants in the region, also oversee smuggling. More than 80% of Western Europe's heroin comes through Kosovo, where
several drug laboratories have been set up, Interpol officials say.
During the wars (1991-99) that led to the breakup
of Yugoslavia, drugs and other commodities were smuggled through Bulgaria and Turkey to Western Europe.
Now, more than
5,000 tonnes of heroin pass directly through Kosovo every month. In a recent article in Serbia's Vreme magazine, Kosovo was
referred to as the "republic of heroin."
"The Albanians have become the alpha and omega of the drugs trade in southeast
Europe," said Marko Nicovic, chairman of the International Police Association for the Fight Against Drugs.
"There are
two reasons for this. The first is the fact that Kosovo is now under the control of the Albanian mafia lobby and the criminal
police do not operate there. This is literally a paradise for all kinds of crime, especially narcotics."
The Albanian
mafia also control trafficking in cigarettes, weapons, gasoline and women. Dozens of young women from impoverished towns and
villages in the region are forced into prostitution rings centred in Kosovo, security officials say. Many of the women are
taken by mobsters to work in Western European countries.
There is little consensus on the way ahead.
Many Serbs
and moderate ethnic Albanian politicians would like a decision on Kosovo's legal status -- should it remain a province of
Serbia or become independent?
Many ethnic Albanians are calling for independence, but their more extremist elements
would like to fold the province into a Greater Albania that would see ethnic Albanians take over the mostly Albanian regions
of neighbouring Macedonia as well.
The Serb government in Belgrade wants Kosovo to continue as part of Serbia.
Although
it is four years since the NATO bombing, talks on Kosovo's future began only recently. Serb and ethnic Albanian leaders met
in Vienna in October to discuss transportation and the return of Serb refugees to Kosovo.
"At this point, the chances
for Kosovo remaining in Serbia are pretty slim," Mr. Bissett said. "There is a powerful Albanian lobby in the United States
that is determined to make Kosovo independent."
Moreover, many Serb leaders know that to attract the much-needed aid
and investment, they will need to give way on Kosovo, experts say.
In the meantime, the situation is expected to get
worse, with renewed threats of violence against both the United Nations and Serbs in the province.
"It's a terrible
situation," said Mr. Bissett. "If the United Nations and other organizations can't handle Kosovo, you wonder how they are
going to do with something like Iraq."
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IN MEMORIAM
SLAVOLJUB RADUNOVIC
Murdered by Albanians in Pec, December 1999. Slavoljub,
a mentaly retarded young men, left unnoticed a safe shelter in the Pec Patriarchate and entered the town of Pec. Being detected
as a Serb he was immediately kidnapped and ten days later his body was found mutilated
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Al-Qaida training terrorists from Kosovo, Monitor
Tanjug
- October 3, 2003
13:32 SOFIA - The Institute for Strategic Studies in Washington claims it has evidence that a
group of terrorists, trained in Al-Qaida camps in northern Albania, was transferred a few months ago to Kosovo, the Sofia
Monitor daily said on Friday.
In the information it is pointed out that the camps for training terrorists still exist and that
for a certain period of time they had the support of the United States, especially during the tenure of former president Bill
Clinton, when Washington and Tirana cooperated closely around the organization of the camps.
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AFP, September 27, 2003
Kosovo trial witness narrowly escapes death
A
Kosovo witness in a high-profile murder case narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.
Ramiz Muriqi,
a prosecution witness in the trial of five former rebels jailed for illegally detaining and murdering four fellow ethnic Albanians
in 1999, was targeted in the attack using an explosive device placed in a manhole.
The attack happened early Friday
in the western town of Pec when the device was set off as Muriqi drove over the manhole.
"This was a cowardly act
that we believe was aimed at Muriqi and took place in a densely populated area in Pec, close to a children's playground,"
said Joel Singelton, spokesman for the UN police in the town some 85 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital Pristina.
Singleton
said no suspects have been arrested.
Earlier this year two other witnesses in the well-publicised trial were assassinated
after the former members of the now disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army received up to 15 years for the murders.
Kosovo
came under UN and NATO control in June 1999 after the Alliance waged a 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces to
punish them for their crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
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ELDERLY SERB MAN BEATEN UP BY ALBANIANS IN KOSOVO TOWN
SRNA
- September 26, 2003
Prizren - A 71-year-old man, Janko Jankovic, sustained grievous bodily injuries when two Albanian youths
beat him up in the centre of Prizren, police and hospital sources have revealed.
The incident happened shortly after 1500 (1300 gmt) when two Albanian youths started to beat the elderly
man with sticks. During the attacks, the two young men inflicted injuries to his head and chest.
Although a number of passers-by noticed the incident, members of the Kosovo police service only arrived
on the scene half an hour after it started. They picked up Jankovic from a pool of blood and took him to a hospital in Prizren,
where he received medical treatment.
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KOSOVO: UNIDENTIFIED PERPETRATORS DEMOLISH INTERIOR OF SERB CHURCH
Studio B - September 24, 2003
Another (Christian) Orthodox church has been desecrated in
the Orahovac municipality. Unidentified perpetrators stormed into the Holy Sunday Church (Crkva Svete Nedelje) in the village
of Brnjac and demolished its interior, the Serbian Orthodox Church has said. The head or the Orahovac parish, priest Srdjan
Milenkovic has said that the church is in a poor state.
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Girl stabbed in Kosovo
Beta - September
24, 2003
GNJILANE -- A 16-year-old girl was stabbed this morning near the town of Gnjilane in Kosovo, a spokesman for
the UN mission in the province told Beta news agency.
Andrea Angeli said the girl had suffered two stab wounds to
the chest, but that she was not in a critical condition.
Kosovo Serb sources told Beta that a Roma girl had been raped
and stabbed in the Gnjilane area this morning. Angeli said he could not confirm the report but that an investigation was underway.
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COACHES CARRYING KOSOVO SERB CHILDREN STONED
BKTV
- September 22, 2003
According to the latest information which we have just received, a convoy of coaches carrying
Serb children from Gorazdevac who have been returning from Belgrade (where they were received by Prime Minister Zoran Zivkovic)
has been stoned in Rudnik near Srbica on the Kosovska Mitrovica-Pec road. Windows were smashed on one of the coaches but no
injuries have been reported. After a short stop, the convoy continued towards Pec and the police began an investigation.
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MORE THAN 1,000 SERBS ABDUCTED OR MISSING FROM KOSOVO SINCE 1998 - ASSOCIATION
SRNA - September 15, 2003
Banja Luka
- From 1998 up to this day 1,303 Serbs have disappeared from Kosmet (Kosovo-Metohija),
although this figure is not final, the Association of Families of Abducted and Missing Serbs from Kosovo-Metohija has said.
A member of the association's headquarters in Belgrade, Dragana Majstorovic,
told SRNA that of all the Kosmet Serbs who have been abducted or missing since 1998, more than 90 per cent have been abducted
or missing since the arrival (in summer 1999) of international stabilization forces - Kfor (Kosovo
Force) - in this southern Serbian province.
"We hope for all Serb associations to unite into one organization so we
can point to the real truth regarding the suffering of Serbs in areas of the former Yugoslavia," Majstorovic added, whose
17-year-old son Ivan, a secondary school student, disappeared on 19 August 1999 in Pristina.
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They will even attack their own compatriots
Glas Javnosti
- 1 September 2003
Written by: Ljiljana Staletovic
The chairman of the National Front for the Unification of Albanians, Alban Vjosa, recently threatened
that the ANA (Albanian National Army) would attack targets that would cause the Serb side the most pain. This threat could
mean planting explosives in public places, mainly markets, schools and squares in southern Serbia, Kosovo-Metohija, or parts of central Serbia. Glas's sources in Kosovo
warn of the possibility of terrorist attacks being carried out along the lines of the methods of Al-Qa'idah and of a possible
scenario of the Sarajevo Markale (market place where an explosion called heavy loss of life during the Bosnian war; the Bosnian
authorities and the Bosnian Serbs each blamed the other for the attack). The most suitable target for something like that
could be Kosovska Mitrovica, and primarily its northern part, which is not inhabited exclusively by Serbs, as is mistakenly
thought, but where Albanians also live.
According to information reaching Glas, the Albanian terrorists are slowly
tightening their grip around northern Mitrovica and Zvecan. Uniformed and armed terrorists have been spotted on surrounding
peaks above the southern part of the town along the Mitrovica-Leposavic-Raska road from the direction of Stari Trg, near one
of their training camps. The area of Salja and Bajgora, June and Ceranjska River is full of terrorists, who are also in the
town itself. Our sources say that in the southern part of Mitrovica there are 70 to 120 members of a Wahhabi group, who are
preparing for acts of terrorism. They are moving into the northern part of the town, into the so-called zones of trust, and
it is assumed that among them are those who carried out bomb attacks on three high-rise buildings in northern Mitrovica. Mujahidin
have been seen in Bosnjacka Mahala, and it is assumed that there are also terrorists in Mikro Naselje, which houses a large
number of Albanians who were never inhabitants of Mitrovica.
According to our sources, the target of the attacks will
be places where large numbers of people gather - schools and university departments, as well as buildings housing the offices
of the Coordination Centre and the media. And the terrorists will not hesitate to carry out actions like the Markale attack.
The Wahhabi are even prepared to carry out terrorist attacks on mosques in the southern part of Mitrovica, the Muslim cemetery
in the northern part of the town, and the water supply system in Sipolje, which is the part of town controlled by the Albanians,
in order to bring about a humanitarian catastrophe. Neither will members of the international forces and the premises in which
they are housed be spared. Another target could also be the railway bridge linking the two parts of the town, because the
railway is the only link that the Serbs from Priluzje, Plemetina, Bresje, Kosovo Polje and Lipljan have with Mitrovica or
Zvecan, where the trains stop, and hence with central Serbia.
The aims are clear. The attacks along the lines of Markale
in the zones of trust, which would cause heavy casualties among the Albanians, as well as the destruction of mosques and the
desecration of Muslim graves would be designed to indicate to the world that they were perpetrated by the Serbs, especially
since - with the exception of the mosque - all these targets are in northern Mitrovica. So they would blame the Serbs for
these attacks, again turning the international community against them. These actions would sow fear among the Albanians who
live unhindered in northern Mitrovica, and this could lead very quickly to interethnic clashes, which in turn and according
to the well established scenario could result in the exodus of Albanians from this part of town, with the Albanian movement
making heavy propaganda capital out of this. This action, which would be carried out jointly by the ANA and its main financier,
the Albanian mafia, would serve as a pretext for whipping up public opinion in Albanian political circles and the international
community about the Serbs perpetrating terrorism against the Albanians. At the same time, it would cause panic among the Serbs,
who are without any protection. All of this would result in pressure on UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
and Kfor (Kosovo Force) to place the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica under their control, which would prompt an exodus
of Serbs. When the real truth comes out it will be too late: the problem of Mitrovica will have been resolved to the benefit
of the Albanians, and northern Kosovo will be left without Serbs.
"The Wahhabi embody an element of fanaticism and
extremism and have become an independent and inexhaustible source of bloody conflict. Nothing is sacrosanct for them, not
even their own holy places, mosques, and graveyards. That is why they are effective in causing serious conflict, including
massacres among the Albanian population. Wahhabi fanaticism is therefore also a serious threat to the Islamic community in
Kosovo-Metohija," explains Tomislav Kresovic, a political analyst for the BINA agency.
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Kidnapping attempt of two young Serbian women in Dobrotin village
Tanjug - September 8, 2003
15:41 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
- A group of ethnic Albanians on Monday attempted to kidnap Dusica Popovic (23) and Milena Curcic (15) in the village
of Dobrotin, central Kosovo-Metohija, regional television "Most" in Zvecan reported.
It is specified that the incident
took place around 11.00 in the village center when a white ford fiesta stopped and the driver and passengers tried to force
the two Serb women into the car.
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Gunmen occupy Macedonian villages for third day
AFP - September 4, 2003
SKOPJE -- Thursday -- A Macedonian minister has held talks with ethnic Albanian villagers in a
bid to defuse a tense standoff between police and gunmen occupying two small towns, officials said Thursday.
But they
said gunmen from the Albanian National Army (ANA), a little known extremist group, remained in control of the villages, armed
with assault rifles and grenades as police watched from surrounding positions.
As the showdown entered its third day
around Vaksince and Lojane, about 40 kilometres north of Skopje, Interior Ministry representative Mirjana Kontevska said the
talks were positive but inconclusive.
She said Interior Minister Hari Kostov and top police officers met village elders
for six hours at the nearby town of Kumanovo late Tuesday, in the presence of European Union representative Alexis Brouhns.
The officials gave assurances that ordinary citizens were not the target of police action and reassured them that
elite police units were being relocated away from the edge of the villages.
Kostov told reporters that the ANA were
criminals who posed no serious danger to national security despite their political slogans calling for the unification of
Albanian dominated territory in Macedonia, Kosovo and Serbia.
"This criminal group is pursuing its own interests through
terrorist methods and is not a threat to Macedonia," Kostov was quoted as saying in the Utrinski Vesnik daily.
Kontevska
said the villagers had expressed their support for the authorities but also insisted that the gunmen were not members of any
criminal gang and would put down their weapons once they thought it was safe to do so.
"The citizens said the armed
people in Vaksince were ordinary citizens who were afraid that something would happen so they armed themselves. They said
they had promised to disarm," she said.
The standoff comes amid a police hunt for an ANA member, Avdil Jakupi, who
allegedly kidnapped two police officers last week to trade them for two captured Albanians. The officers were later freed
after a police action.
The authorities believe Jakupi is hiding in the area around Vaksince and have called on him
to give himself up.
But in a telephone interview with Bulgarian television on Thursday, he accused Prime Minister
Branko Crvenkovski of being a criminal and threatened to start a guerrilla war.
"Because of this we will rise up and
start a war," he said.
"Macedonia must become a protectorate of Europe and the United States."
Foreign missions
in Skopje, including the EU mission and the US embassy, have been unanimous in their support for the Macedonian authorities,
describing the gunmen as criminal elements.
The ANA on Tuesday issued an ultimatum on its website for all security
forces to withdraw from the northern region or face open conflict.
They later dropped the ultimatum after talks with
ethnic Albanian politicians, demanding instead the withdrawal of elite police units and the release of captured ANA members.
The government has said it will not negotiate with the militia, which is listed as a "terrorist" organisation by the
United Nations administration in neighbouring Kosovo and his responsible for a series of bombings this year.
Crvenkovski
refused to even read their five demands when he received them on Wednesday, the Dnevnik daily reported.
Macedonia
has seen a tense peace since August 2001, when the authorities struck a deal with ethnic Albanian rebels who had taken arms
to demand more civil and political rights for the minority community.
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Another violent Serb death in Kosovo
Beta - September 1, 2003
BELGRADE -- BELGRADE, Monday (Beta) A Serb injured in a
bomb attack in a village near Gnjilane last night has died in Camp Bondsteel, the US military base in Kosovo, an UNMIK spokesman
said this morning.
Miomir Savic (35) was heavily wounded by a bomb apparently thrown at a Serb-owned shop in
the village of Cernica and transferred to the US military hospital.
Another four people suffered slight wounds in
the blast.
At the same time as the shop was bombed, a hand grenade was thrown into a childrens playground in
a Serb-occupied part of the village.
KFOR investigators found a detonator and a large quantity of explosives in an
abandoned Serb house nearby.
Six Serbs have been murdered in Cernica since the arrival of KFOR in 1999.
The
village has a population of 200 Serbs and more than 3,000 Albanians.
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