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1. Reports about deportation and persons repatriated to Kosova
 
erhaltene Berichte - received reports
 
                         Namensliste ==> Einzelheiten   /   list of names ==> details
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The European parliament in a meeting in Strasbourg on July 16 adopted a resolution on Kosova. Its member states decided:
      7. to call on the Commission and the Council to provide all necessary humanitarian aid to the victims of and the refugees from the acts of violence and call on member states to stop returning refugees and asylum seekers to Kosova where protection cannot be guaranteed;
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2. Daily Reports from KIC (Kosova Information Center)
taken from  http://www.kosova.com  on August 16, 1998 at 16:30 hrs _________________________________________________________________________
3. news from ARTA /ATA / RFE/RL NEWSLINE and so on _______________________________________________________________________
taken from  http://www.kohaditore.com/ARTA/index.htm  on August 16, 1998 at 7:45 hrs

KOSOVA (large-scale Serb offensive – Deçan/ Pejë)
At least five killed in the new Serb offensive

Pejë, Deçan, 15 August (ARTA) 1815CET--
Over 46 tanks, 4 airplanes, 8 helicopters, 20 trucks are participating in the new attack of the Serb forces that started this morning over the villages by the Pejë-Deçan road.
CDHRF sources in Pejë claim that a massive attack against the villages of Loxhë and Raushiq, of the municipality of Pejë and over the villages of Deçan: Isniq, Strellc, Prapaçan, Dubovik, Krushec etc, has started today at around 0600CET.
After launching a missile from a Serb force helicopter, the shelling continued from the military base in Zagërm and the installed base in the village of Gorazhdec. At least 200 grenades were fired on the village, which is now taken over by the fire and the smoke, as the number of the victims remains unknown, since the entire area is blocked.
The village of Strellc is also being shelled from the military base in Zagërm, at a distance of about 4 kilometers.
A large-scale attack is also reported to have commenced in the villages of Deçan, where heavy weaponry is being used. Until 0900CET, while the attack was still going, LDK sources in Deçan, informed about five killed civilians. Albanian sources claim that about 60.000 people of the municipalities of Deçan, Pejë, Malishevë and Gjakovë inhabit these villages.
The massive attack over the villages of Pejë and Deçan went on in the afternoon hours, as witnesses claim that the Serb forces are also shelling the villages of Lugu i Baranit.

KOSOVA (large-scale attack – Pejë)
The attack started at 0600CET

Pejë, 15 August 1900CET--
Four "Orao" type planes, 2 military helicopters, dozens of tanks and other military vehicles of the Serb police and army, started an attack against the villages of Loxhë, Raushiq as well as against other villages by the Pejë-Deçan main road. 200 grenades and missiles were shelled in the village of Loxhë, until 0920CET.
The smoke coming from these villages can clearly be seen from the village of Pejë, as the smoke coming from the burned houses has covered the town.
These villages are also being shelled from the military barrack at the place called "Zagërm". So far, there is no information about the possible victims, however the material damages are supposed to be very high.
Nothing is also known about the whereabouts of the thousand of civilians from these villages. In the meantime the political subjects and the population of Pejë, make an appeal to the international community, to urgently intervene in order to stop this large- scale attack of the Serb forces.

KOSOVA (clashes – Gjakovë)
The police brought 9 corpses at the hospital morgue in Gjakovë

Gjakovë, 15 August (ARTA) 1830CET--
Last night at around 2000CET, Serb policemen and soldiers, brought at the morgue of the Hospital of Gjakovë, 9 corpses, killed in the bordering region of Kosovë-Albania. Their identities are still not confirmed, one thing is for sure, and that is that they were killed a day before.
On the other hand, fierce clashes are taking place in the villages surrounding Junik, as there are still no data about the aftermath of this Serb offensive. Clashes and shooting was also evidenced in the region of Rekë e Keqe.
Albanian sources inform about an alarming situation of the over 10.000 people, mainly women, children and elderly, living under the open sky in the forests of the area of Dushkajë, in Anadrini. Their situation is getting more serious each time, thus an appeal is made to the international organizations, to offer help to these people as soon as possible.
For several days now, the town of Gjakovë is completely sealed off.

KOSOVA (shelling – Shtime)
The villages in Shtime shelled

Shtime, 15 August (ARTA) 2100CET--
Serb forces have constantly been shelling the villages of Carralevë and those around Gryka e Devakut, from the places called Kryqi i Belincit, Zborc and Kodra e Gështenjave, during last night and today starting from 0730CET, local information sources in Shtime claim.

KOSOVA (clashes – Malishevë)
Clashes in the villages of Malishevë

Malishevë surrounding, 15 August (ARTA) 1945CET--
The shooting in the villages of Bubavec and Drenoc continued yesterday also in the afternoon hours. The number of the burned houses has reached 70. In the village of Drenoc, in the neighborhood of Beqiraj, all the houses and other properties have been burned down.
About 225 residents of this neighborhood have by now found shelter in several uninhabited houses in a hamlet of this municipality and they claim that none of the political bodies ever showed any interest about them. Ever since the day Serb police entered Malishevë, they burned 45 houses in Carallukë, 20 in Tërpezë e Ulët and 20 in Shkarashnik.
Living in this municipality is getting increasingly difficult. There is great shortage of food items, but medicaments as well. Due to the Serb blockade and the impossibility to reach the hospital, after giving birth to dead babies, two mothers died shortly after in the village of Bellanicë.
In some areas, people continue to stay outdoors, as a number of them sheltered in some of the abandoned houses.

KOSOVA (burning and shelling – Suharekë)
The Serb police burned dozens of houses in Bllacë and Duhël

Suharekë, 15 August (ARTA) 2200CET--
"KOHA Ditore" sources inform that, last night the Serb police\military forces, set fire on dozens of Albanian houses in the villages of Bllacë and Duhël, and completely burned dozens of acres of non-harvested grain fields. According to the same sources, the neighborhood of Bujari, the plain in the village of Duhël, and the neighborhoods of Bajraktari, Sukaj, Kyçyku and "Te Shelgjet", paid the heaviest toll.
Shooting was also evidenced last night in the town of Suharekë. The witnesses claim that the Serb policemen, settled in several high buildings in the town, and near the industrial block "Ballkan" in Suharekë, shot from 2000CET to 2400CET, in the direction of the KLA positions in the village of Reshtan, but also in the direction of several houses in Suharekë, causing minor damages.
The KLA units responded to these attacks. No confirmations were made about the eventual damages by either of the sides.

KOSOVA (Serb forces ultimatum – Istog)
Ultimatum to hand in the weapons within three days

Istog, 15 August (ARTA) 1930CET--
The situation in Istog continues to be very tense. The cruising of the police\military vehicles and the flying of the helicopters, continued throughout yesterday and today. The tensest situation is in the region of Vrellë and the villages of Anadrini, were the local Serb police patrol all the time.
Several activists from Vrellë, were called today at the police station in Istog. For several hours, the police interrogated them about the "weaponry" that the locals own.
Even though they stated that they have no knowledge of the possession of these weapons, they were posed an ultimatum to "hand them in within three days, otherwise they will suffer the consequences".

KOSOVA (Serb police ultimatum – Pejë)
Ultimatum to hand in the weapons

Pejë, 15 August (ARTA) 1920CET--
Yesterday, the Serb police entered the mosque, giving an ultimatum that within 48 hours, the residents of the neighborhood of Kapeshnicë, hand in their weapons.
The religious leaders suggested to the police to take the guns from individuals, if any, and spare the wide population from any mistreatment.
As a consequence of this brutal police intervention, a large number residents of this neighborhood have started fleeing their homes.

KOSOVA (investigation – Pejë)
Investigation proceedings against 6 Albanians

Pejë, 15 August (ARTA) 1940CET--
According to CDHRF sources, the prosecutor of the Municipal Court in Pejë, has demanded the initiation of the investigation proceedings against 6 Albanians, who according to him, have committed the crime "Association for hostile activities".
The following are under investigation: Asllan Asllani (1953), teacher from the village of Brovinë, (Gjakovë mun.), Basri Bacaj (1971), farmer from the village of Rrecaj, (Gjakovë mun.), Rexhë Polanaj (1977) (a mentally retarded person) from Pejë, residing in Gjakovë, Hamdi Ademaj (1948), farmer from the village of Rrecaj (Gjakovë mun.), Shkëlzen Xhemajli (1981/minor), farmer from the village Rrecaj, (Gjakovë mun.) and Bislim Alijaj (1970), farmer from the village of Dujakë (Gjakovë mun.).

KOSOVA (armed Serbs – Mitrovicë)
Serb civilians playing policemen

Mitrovicë, 15 August (ARTA) 1845CET--
Last night, in the neighborhood of "Kroi i Vitakut", Serb armed civilians, shot with automatic guns. Currently, the Serb civilians started acting policemen, as for some time now, they have been keeping the "order" in this neighborhood, mainly inhabited by Albanians. It is interesting to note that these "public order guards", set on fire two Albanian houses of this neighborhood, a few days ago.
On the other hand, from the village of Frashër, Serb armed civilians, shot with heavy automatic guns, during the night. These bullets hit the Albanian owned houses in the villages of Shupkoc and Kçiç i Madh, inducing great panic among the residents of these villages.
An empty military convoy, that yesterday transported Serb policemen and soldiers to Skënderaj, came back today empty. There were 5 trucks, 2 cisterns and one APC. They settled in the military barrack in Mitrovicë.

KOSOVA (mortal victims of war)
Over 500 identified victims - age: from 1 to 90 years old

Prishtina, 15 August (ARTA) 2000CET--
The number of the Albanian victims, during the last six months exceeds 500. According to the CDHRF, the number of the killed up to 12 August, is 550. Of course, this is the confirmed number, containing the names of the identified victims, as the number of those who are missing and are considered killed, increases this number. From 12 August until today, 19 other cases were reported, whereas until the early afternoon hours today, another five were confirmed.
Ever since, 5 March, the victims have become daily events, just as they became so in Croatia, Bosnia and Albania during last year's turmoil. The first consequences of the war in Kosova can now be witnessed even in the areas still not afflicted by war, such as in Prishtina, where the number of the dislocated is in constant increase. The streets are overloaded with homeless and people whose existence is on the edge.
By now, there is no Kosovar family whose relatives have not suffered from the Serb forces offensive; there is no family that has not been "burned" by the aftermath of war in Kosova. Thousands of families are left homeless, without any property or their relatives.
However, the worst is the silent acceptance of the predetermined loses with the burst of conflict, that leads to a kind apathy or negligence of identifying the victims as a part of the war.
In almost every war, the number of the civilian victims is many times higher than of the soldiers. So is case in Kosova as well: The targets are the elderly, children, women, as the pregnant women are most "preferable".
Following the claiming of the KLA controlled territory, by the Serb police, the population sheltered in the forest is facing other risks as well - the food shortage, the expansion of diseases, different epidemics, the lack of hygiene... a result of the Serb offensive, about which no one blames the Serbs.
"Return to your homes. You are not threatened by any risk", is the message of the Serb authorities. The same promise was given in the Bosnian town of Zvornik, where the town's Serb prefect was saying that "nobody is threatened to come back" and that "there will be no Serb forces attacks". Immediately after their return, Serb forces conducted one of the most notorious massacres in Bosnia.
In Rahovec, after the Serb offensive, a car with a megaphone was cruising down the town telling the people that the town is safe and that all the residents are free to move, as they are not threatened by any risk. Along the fields and vineyards of Rahovec, there are still unidentified and unburied corpses lying on the ground.
The list of the killed is long and it is still getting longer with new names of killed. In it, the age of the victims extends from 1 (Donjetë Beqiri from Turiqevc) up to 90 years old (Fetah Gashi, from Bubavec).
The complete consequences of the war in Kosova, still remain to be found out.
The bottom line is that the people of Kosova are entering the long list of the residents of an ex-state grave, who need a long collective therapy to heal.

KOSOVA (IDPs - humanitarian assistance)
IDPs expect the big winter in the woods

Prishtina, 15 August (ARTA) 2000CET--
"You can keep on saying that these people can safely go home, but where?" Their houses are totally destroyed...", stated Mick Lorentzen, head of the WFP mission to Kosova, to a journalists at the beginning of the past week, referring to the continuous statements of the foreign diplomats on the invitations of the Serb authorities for the creation of the conditions and security for the return of the Albanians to their homes. However, their houses, as many domestic and foreign journalists claim, same as the IDPs and refugees proper state, don't exist any more.
According to UNHCR, the number of the displaced and refugees has surpassed 231 thousand. UNHCR evaluates that there are around 167 thousand IDPs in Kosova while the rest are abroad. Still according to same sources, since 5 March, 13 thousand Albanians have sought shelter in Albania, the majority of them are sheltered up north, while now Tirana is facing an "additional problem" with the movement of the refugees towards the capital. Over 29 thousand IDPs are in Montenegro and a considerable number in Macedonia.
"I don't see how we are going to manage to overcome the Balkans winter that starts in October and ends in April", stated Richard Floyer Acland, relief coordinator in UNHCR, referring to the people sheltered in the mountains as a consequence of the burning of the houses in the last Serb offensive.
"Albanians have the highest birth rate in Europe, with such a young population, the needs for assistance are astronomic. Now we can fulfil only 10% of the needs of the displaced" stated James Weatherhill from Catholic Relief Services.
As it regards the assistance, ICRC representative, Amada Williamson stated that so far "ICRC has distributed 100 tons of assistance, but this is insufficient". According to them, "in regions where the IDPs live, we have distributed 20 tons of flour, individual parcels, baby hygiene parcels and other items".
The beginning of the last week was characterized with the penetration of five trucks of humanitarian assistance provided by WFP in the region of Drenica. 48 tons of flour, 1000 food parcels and 120 boxes of high protein biscuits were distributed in Qirez village for the 25 thousand IDPs sheltered in that area, meanwhile another five trucks were sent to the area of Klinë.
There are reports on the difficult situation in Krushë e Madhe, Pagarushë, Rogovë, Kravasari, Gurishtë and Ngucat. Infections diseases are attacking. UNICEF is providing medicine, but because of the large needs, they seem to be insufficient.
"We have touched the peak of an iceberg...", concludes Mick Lorentzen.

KOSOVA (IDPs - humanitarian assistance)
Humanitarian assistance covers one third of the needs

Prishtina, 15 August (ARTA) 2000CET--
"The quantity of assistance provided by the humanitarian organizations in Kosova cover only one third of the needs of the IDPs", states Zef Shala, relief coordinator in Mother Teresa Association in Prishtina.
Shala states that no convoy of humanitarian assistance covers the needs of the population for more than a week.
"If in the field there are over 35 thousand people and you send 48 tons of flour, this means that one person is provided 1,5 kilos of flour, which can't fulfil one week's needs of that individual", he says.
The coordinator says that "Mother Teresa" has registered 327.626 IDPs in Kosova alone by 12 August.
According to him, the most active organization in relief activities is Mercy Corps International, which is applying a plan of gradually importing 4.000 tons of flour.
"Within one week, this organization distributes 288 tons of flour, however this doesn't cover all needs of the whole area, thus the distribution is centered on the most affected areas".
Shala also stated that besides MCI, considerable assistance has come from Doctors of the World US, Children's Aid Direct, Save the Children and Catholic Relief Services that has contributed also with 6700 blankets, 3200 hygienic parcels and 12 metric tons of wood.
According to him, the assistance of other humanitarian organizations is symbolic.
"Humanitarian organizations usually bring their assistance to us and then we do the further distribution", says Shala by adding that the organizations that have opened their offices in Prishtina cooperate closely with Mother Teresa, also in the field.
Shala claims that Mother Teresa has 443 branches in Kosova. Because of the delicate situation, the assistance distributed only to areas that are affected by war.
"The organizations usually don't speak of numbers when talking about the assistance, but they are doing a great deal", however stating that the needs are in constant rise.
"It is a real catastrophe in the field. When I come back home from the field, I feel as if I came to another world", concludes Shala,

KOSOVA (education)
After the destruction of the schools - will the classes begin?

Prishtina, 15 August (ARTA) 1730CET--
A few days before the beginning of the new school year, the Albanian people are dispersed seeking for shelter in other countries or inside Kosova, in the parts not yet afflicted by war.
"Under these circumstances, the Ministry of Education is not the only one deciding about whether the school year will begin or not. The course of the events in Kosova will also decide about this issue. Hence, the further decisions will also be drawn by the higher state and political institutions of the Republic of Kosova", said the present Minister of Education, Muhamet Bicaj, in a statement for "KOHA Ditore".
For those who are not in Albania or in Kosova "the organization of the schooling, will be very difficult", claimed the officials of the Albanian education on Kosova. "It is very disturbing about what is going to happen with those children who are presently in Montenegro and other parts, where their schooling is very difficult to be organized and also the curriculae could be imposed by the states where they have found shelter.
On the other hand, concerning the children that are presently in Albania, I don't believe there can be any problem, because they will have it much easier to get integrated in Albania's schools and universities, claimed the Minister Bicaj.
However, so far nothing is known abut the beginning of the school year in Kosova, nor in the places still not afflicted directly by the war, since as Bicaj said, "the beginning of the new academic school year 1998-99, does not entirely depend on Ministry of Education and its institutions". However, he added, "the professional university institutions have also conducted the needed professional and organizing preparations for the beginning or other means for the organizing of the education process, in all the educational levels in the Republic of Kosova. About any further decisions, the public opinion of Kosova will be notified soon and on time", stated at the end of the statement for "KOHA Ditore", the Minister of Education in the Bukoshi Government, Muhamet Bicaj.

KOSOVA (appeals to blockade - Switzerland funds)
"Homeland calls" filed an appeal

Zurich, 15 August (ARTA) 2030CET--
Following the path of the Kosova Fund, that has filed an appeal on the blockade of the account at Credit Suisse, the same thing was done also by the other blocked Fund, "Homeland calls".
The attorney of this Fund has declared that the blocked account at Alternative Bank Olten contains a six-cipher amount collected by the activists and followers of the People's Movement of Kosova and the KLA.
On 27 July, the Federal Prosecutor blocked two accounts of Albanians funds in Switzerland and has raided houses of Albanians in four localities in this country. Such an action of the authorities was justified with "the grounded suspicion that the collected money was used for purchasing weapons for the KLA". Although the investigation is still going on, it has been three weeks since the officials of the Prosecutor’s Office refuse to give any public statement on the eventual results of the investigation.

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4. Reports from Human Rights Organisations
    especially CDHRF (Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms, Prishtina) _________________________________________________________________________
5.  additional press news
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Betreff:         [ALBANEWS] A letter to ABC News, Part I
Datum:         Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:54:42 EDT
    Von:         Ferhat Ymeri <Annefon@AOL.COM> _______________________________________________________________________
Betreff:  [ALBANEWS] NEWS:Husband and wife who fight for Kosovo's independence
Datum:  Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:36:56 -0400
    Von:  TRABOINI <traboini@EROLS.COM> _________________________________________________________________________
6. Background-information
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7. earlier news - so far as room is given by my provider on the server
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Die Bibel sagt 
    Gott, warum verstoessest du uns für immer 
         Und bist so zornig ueber die Schafe deiner Weide? 
    Gedenke an deine Gemeinde, 
         die du vorzeiten erworben 
    und dir zum Erbteil erloest hast, 
         an den Berg Zion, auf dem du wohnest. 
    Richte doch deine Schritte zu dem, was so lange wuest liegt. 
         Der Feind hat alles verheert im Heiligtum. 
    Sie sprechen in ihrem Herzen: Lasst uns sie ganz unterdruecken! 
         Sie verbrennen alle Gotteshaeuser im Lande. 
    Unsere Zeichen sehen wir nicht, kein Prophet ist mehr da, 
         und keiner ist bei uns, der etwas weiss. 
    Ach Gott, wie lange soll der Widersacher noch schmaehen 
         Und der Feind deinen Namen immerfort laestern? 
    Warum ziehst du deine Hand zurueck? 
         Nimm deine Rechte aus dem Gewand und mach ein Ende! 
    Gedenke an den Bund; 
         Denn die dunklen Winkel des Landes sind voll Frevel. 
    Lass die Geringen nicht beschaemt davongehen, 
         lass die Armen und Elenden ruehmen deinen Namen. 
     
       Psalm 74, 1-3. 8-11. 20-21
    Luther-Bibel 1984
The Bible says 
    O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? 
          [why] doth thine anger 
          smoke against the sheep of thy pasture? 
    Remember thy congregation, 
          [which] thou hast purchased of old; 
    the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; 
          this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt. 
    Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; 
          [even] all [that] the enemy 
          hath done wickedly in the sanctuary. 
    They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: 
          they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land. 
    We see not our signs: [there is] no more any prophet: 
          neither [is there] among us any that knoweth how long. 
    O God, how long shall the adversary reproach ? 
          shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever? 
    Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? 
          pluck [it] out of thy bosom . 
    Have respect unto the covenant: 
          for the dark places of the earth 
          are full of the habitations of cruelty. 
    O let not the oppressed return ashamed: 
          let the poor and needy praise thy name. 
     
      Psalm 74, 1-3. 8-11. 20-21
    Authorized Version 1769 (KJV)
 
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