Tagesnachrichten 10. November 1998
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     News of the day - November 10, 1998
     Kosova Information Center : Daily Report No 1608

         Die Bibel sagt  -  The Bible says
 

If available you find on this page  -  Soweit verfügbar finden Sie auf dieser Seite     1. Meldungen von dpa    2. Remarks - Hints - Special informations    3. Reports about deportation and persons repatriated to Kosova  in deutsch und englisch     4. Daily Report from KIC  (Kosova Information Center)    5. news from ARTA  (Koha ditore)    6. news from RFE/RL NEWSLINE    7. news from Fr. Sava  (Decani Monastery)    8. Reports from Human Rights Organisations        especially CDHRF  (Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms, Prishtina)    9. news from ATA /ENTER  and so on  10. eventual additional press news  Link to Background-information  Link to earlier news - so far as room is given by my provider on the server  The Bible says  -  Die Bibel sagt

 

1. Meldungen von dpa

 

Deutscher Verteidungsminister fordert fruehe Erkennung von Krisen
   http://seite1.web.de/show/36485C12.NL1/

Ein Toter und ein Verletzter in Schiesserei im Kosovo
   http://seite1.web.de/show/364868D4.NL1/

Belgrad: 12 Tote und 34 Verletzte in UCK-Angriffen in einem Monat
   http://seite1.web.de/show/364857DC.NL1/

ONE has to begin    to STOP  oecumenic Decade for Peace  from November 8 until 18, 1998  30 minutes prayer for PEACE  30 Minuten Gebet für den Frieden  am  9./ 10./ 11./ 12./ 13./ 14./ 16./ 17. November  jeweils um 19.45 Uhr  in der Bethlehemkirche Wertingen  Jeder, der kommen moechte  - unabhaengig von Konfession oder Religion,  ist herzlich eingeladen !

LINK zu:  Vorschlag für den Ablauf den Friedensgebetes
                  - auch als WinWord97-Datei erhaeltlich !

Kennen Sie Fälle von Abschiebungen nach Kosova ? - Bitte senden Sie mir Ihren Bericht !
Do you know cases of deportations to Kosova ? - Please send me your report !

* Nichtamtliche Übersetzung
   UNHCR-Positionspapier über die Behandlung von Asylsuchenden aus
   dem Kosovo in Asylländern: Maßgebliche Überlegungen
   25.8.1998 mit Anhang Stand: 13.8.1998
                    http://www.unhcr.de/news/statemen/misc/kosbob.htm

* UNHCR-Eckpunkte zu Problemen des Flüchtlingsschutzes in Deutschland
   Oktober 1998
                    http://www.unhcr.de/news/statemen/misc/eckpkte.htm

Kosova Information Center
Prishtina, 10 November 1998, 17:00 CET
KOSOVA DAILY REPORT # 1608
Contents
 

President Rugova Receives Ambassador David J. Scheffer

13 Busloads of Fresh Serb Police Arrive in Kosova

Serb Army Tank Hits Horse-Drawn Cart Deliberately, 4 Albanians Badly Injured

Serb Military Shoots and Wounds Albanian in Prizren Area

Malisheva Villages Come Under Continued Serb Fire

Serb Police Open Fire on Albanian Villages from Base near Suhareka

Mutilated Bodies of Albanians Found in Skenderaj and Istog

1,500 Villagers Holed Up in Schoolhouse at Lugishta of Prizren

Serb Police Puts "Mines" Sign in Schoolhouse in Magura

Families Identify Their Beloved Buried by Serbs with "Unidentified" Sign

Self-styled Serbian Local Police Members Illtreat Albanian, Take Him to Prison

President Rugova Receives Ambassador David J. Scheffer

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - The President of the Republic of Kosova Dr. Ibrahim Rugova received Monday evening Ambassador David J. Scheffer, Secretary Albright's special envoy, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues. Attending the meeting were also Chief of U.S. Mission in Belgrade, Richard Miles, and the Director of the American Office in Prishtina, Richard Huckaby.
In the meeting, the most recent situation in Kosova as well as the grave circumstances in the areas affected by the Serbian military offensives this year, were discussed.
Ambassador Scheffer said he had toured some of the affected areas and he had seen huge and systematic destruction. The investigation of crimes is of great importance he said, adding that the Hague Tribunal should be allowed to duly investigate all crimes that might have been committed in Kosova.
The tragic dimensions of the Serb offensives are unravelling on a daily basis, President Rugova said. He called for stepped up pressure on Belgrade to ensure that the crimes committed in Kosova be investigated by the Hague Tribunal's investigators.
Dr. Ibrahim Rugova thanked the U.S. Administration, Secretary Albright as well as Ambassador Scheffer for this mission and their unfailing interest in the plight of the people of Kosova.

13 Busloads of Fresh Serb Police Arrive in Kosova

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Fresh Serb police forces have arrived from Serbia today, LDK sources in the north-eastern town of Podujeva reported.
At 7.15 a.m. today, 13 busloads of Serb police passed along Podujeva in the direction of Prishtina, local sources in the town near the Kosova-Serbian border said.
The Serbian police spokesman was quoted as saying if foreign monitors do not make roads secure for traffic in Kosova, Serb police would do that.
Meanwhile, local sources in Gjakova said four busloads of Serb police arrived in the town today morning. They were camped in the Serb military barracks in Gjakova.
A convoy of Serb police consisting of some 30 vehicles - lorries. buses and armored vehicles - passed through Suhareka at 10:00 am. today and headed to Prizren, the LDK chapter in Suhareka said. The convoy provoked Albanian passers-by in Suhareka.
Serb police has been routinely ill-treating Albanian citizens leaving or entering the town of Vushtrri ('Vucitrn'), local sources said. Tens of Albanians have been harassed an illtreated in rolling police checkpoints.

Serb Army Tank Hits Horse-Drawn Cart Deliberately, 4 Albanians Badly Injured

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Around 11 a.m. today (Tuesday), a Serb army tank deliberately ran over a horse-drawn cart at Korenicë village of Gjakova. The six-member family of Maxhun Avdullahu from Babaj Bokës village were on the cart, four of whom were badly injured in the incident, the local chapter of the Prishtina-based Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) reported.
The old man of the family had two legs and an arm fractured; a man in his mid-forties suffered serious leg injuries, and his foot will have to be amputated; a woman around 30 years of age received life-threatening head injuries; and a six-year-old girl received head injuries, the CDHRF reported.
All the injured Albanians were taken to the intensive care unit of the Gjakova hospital.
Muhamet Abdullahu, a member of the family who was not injured, said the family was travelling to Gjakova. "We saw the tank approach us, we tried to make an escape by leaving the road, but the tank's driver hit us deliberately", Muhamet was quoted as saying.

Serb Military Shoots and Wounds Albanian in Prizren Area

2PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - The Serbian military has shot and wounded Xhafer Kabashi (30), resident of Kabash village of Prizren, while cutting wood in the Pashtriku mountains, LDK sources said.
Xhafer was taken to the Prizren hospital.
The Albanian had been together with five relatives, Nazim Kabashi and Gëzim Kabashi, whose fate is unknown, and Ismet Kabashi, Rrustem Kabashi and Nexhat Kabashi.

Malisheva Villages Come Under Continued Serb Fire

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - At least four Albanian villages in Malisheva came under renewed Serb forces fire on Monday evening and night, local sources said.
Serb forces posted at Llazica, Smonica and Carralluka pounded with mortar and machine-gun fire Albanian farmsteads in Bubavec, Llazica, Tërpeza and Carralluka, the head of the LDK information Commission in Malisheva told the KIC.
These four villages, as well as a suburb in Malisheva, were attacked on repeated occasions on Sunday night when at least three Albanians were wounded.
The LDK activist could not say whether there were any casualties in last night's attacks.

Serb Police Open Fire on Albanian Villages from Base near Suhareka

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Serb police manning a checkpoint at Reshatan village of Suhareka, 50 km south-west of Prishtina, opened fire against the outlying Albanian communities, local villagers said.
The LDK chapter in Suhareka said dozens of Albanians have been subjected to brutalities at the Reshtan checkpoint lately.

Mutilated Bodies of Albanians Found in Skenderaj and Istog

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - The decomposed corpses of a man was found on Monday at Çubrel village of Skenderaj (Srbica).
Local villagers of Çubrel told the Prishtina-based Bujku newspaper that the victim was a neighbor of theirs, Nuhi Pajaziti (75). His body was found only a few yards far from his house.
The late Pajaziti had refused to flee the village when it was attacked by the Serb forces about three months ago.
Sources in Skenderaj could not confirm if Nuhi Pajaziti was killed by Serbs or died in the village were he was holed up for a long time.
Bujku said that Albanian shepherds found on Monday the dead body of a woman in the fields near Shushica e Poshtme of Istog, whom they identified later as Fatime Salihaj, resident of the neighboring Rakosh village.
The late Salihaj had gone missing since 30 August, when her eight-member family was slain by Serbs forces, the newspaper said.

1,500 Villagers Holed Up in Schoolhouse at Lugishta of Prizren

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Around 1,500 Albanians were being holed up in the local schoolhouse at Lugishta village of Prizren today morning, local sources told the KIC
The LDK chapter in Prizren said the villagers of Lugishta were ordered by Serb police to hand over by midday today all the weapons they allegedly possessed, or else risk reprisals. The Albanians, fearful of Serb police brutalities, gathered in the local school unable to move out of the village.
Several villagers, including the local muezzin, Sali Muçaj, have been rounded up and taken to the police station.
By mid-afternoon, the KIC could not learn whether the residents of Lugishta were still being holed up in the school building.

Serb Police Puts "Mines" Sign in Schoolhouse in Magura

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Serb forces have not withdrawn from the Lipjan municipality, south of Prishtina, but rather regrouped and dug in in different locations, sources said.
Witnesses told the KIC the Serb police patrols have been harassing and intimidating the local Albanian population both in the town of Lipjan and in the surrounding area.
Not a single Albanian has returned to the villages of Vërshec and Leletiq, fearful of harassment by Serb police manning checkpoints near the two villages.
Only a small number of displaced Albanians have returned to the mining town of Magura, the LDK chapter in Lipjan said. The local school has not opened still. During the summer months the school house was turned into a make-shift military base housing Serb soldiers, policemen and members of paramilitary units.
Local residents said that no one has dared enter the classrooms in the upper floor of the school. Before leaving the schoolhouse, the Serbs put "Mine" signs on classroom doors.

Families Identify Their Beloved Buried by Serbs with "Unidentified" Sign

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - Local villagers of Rudina village of Klina said they have identified three relatives of theirs buried by Serb forces near Gorazhdec village of Peja back on 8 July.
Niman Bajraktari (51), Haki Ahmetxhekaj (23) and Bashkim Mehmetaj (22) were seen last on 6 July near Gorazhdec. Witnesses told human right groups then that they were slain by Serbs during an offensive in the area. Two days later they were buried by the Serb police as unidentified persons.
The LDK chapter in Peja said that there were parts of the bodies, including limbs, missing on the bodies of the three Albanians.

Self-styled Serbian Local Police Members Illtreat Albanian, Take Him to Prison

PRISHTINA, Nov 10 (KIC) - On Monday morning, two ethnic Albanians who have been turned by the Serb regime into self-styled local policemen, arrested Ramiz Bajrami (44), resident of the Osek Hyla village of Gjakova, LDK sources said.
The two Albanian collaborators beat Mr. Bajrami unconscious after a 24 hour-long illtreatment before taking him to the Peja jail, the LDK chapter in Gjakova said.

MEDIA CENTER: Serious Incidents in Malisevo

THE GLOBE AND MAIL: Unrepentant KLA Dismisses Accusations

9 November 1998 12:30 PRISTINA - Bodies of the policemen Ilija Vujosevic (1950) and Dejan Djatlov (1975), that were kidnapped on Friday on the road between Malisevo and Orlate, were found this morning not far from Malisevo.
According to the first results of the investigation, the two kidnapped policemen were killed by firearms from a close distance.
The investigation of the crime is underway.
Ilija Vujosevic, policeman from Pristina and Dejan Djatlov, police conscript, were transporting the supplies for the police by truck.
The police patrol found their bodies this morning.
9 November 1998 12:30 PRISTINA - A heavy-armed attack was made against the Malisevo Police Station last night at 07:20 PM CET, Media Centar was informed.
No casualties were reported among the police.
Heavy-armed groups of Albanian extremists attacked the police station using mortars, bazookas and automatic weapons. Four mortar projectiles have hit and damaged the police building. A police off-road vehicle was also damaged.
The police fired back and the attackers withdrew.

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THE GLOBE AND MAIL, Monday, November 9, 1998   International News p.A14

UNREPENTANT KLA DISMISSES ACCUSATIONS
Kosovo rebels unlikely to co-operate with probe by Canadian war-crimes prosecutor

Tom Walker
Special to The Globe and Mail
Pristina, Yugoslavia

The Kosovo Liberation Army does not consider itself guilty of war crimes, and is unlikely to co-operate with the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, sources in the rebel group say.
     The issue of bringing to justice those responsible for the hundreds of deaths in the fractious Serbian province this year stalled last week when Yugoslav authorities in Belgrade barred the tribunal’s chief prosecutor, Canada’s Louise Arbour, from visiting Kosovo. The KLA warned over the weekend that it, too, is equally unlikely to help Ms. Arbour and her investigators.
     Sources in the rebel group, who asked not to be identified, have admitted that many of the KLA’s victims – both Serb and ethnic Albanians deemed loyal to Belgrade – endured brutal deaths. One fighter said that two Serb police officers captured in the western village of Glogane were executed by being dragged behind cars, and that bodies of Yugoslav army soldiers were gratuitously mutilated.
     Although the ethnic Albanians generally encourage international involvement in the Kosovo crisis, the KLA sources said there was little point in trying to bring the often ill-disciplined local command structure of the KLA to heel. “In a way I think what we did was helpful – it made the Serbs think again before repeating their massacres,” said one man, who described how the police officers’ bodies were decapitated as they were dragged behind cars driven by young rebels “in some sort of show” organized by a village rebel chief.
     “It’s not something the KLA favours and not something that is usually done,” he said. “But you must understand that these policemen had a long history of physically mistreating local people. People involved in conflicts like this know the risks they run.”
     Belgrade has argued that Kosovo is an internal crisis, not a war, so there is no reason for Ms. Arbour and her investigators to become involved. Observers suspect that behind the refusal to let the Hague team in (and one of the reasons international sanctions against Yugoslavia remain) is a fear that senior police and army personnel could face indictments, and that even Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic might be vulnerable.
     U.S. war-crimes envoy David Scheffer criticized the visa decision, which also bars the tribunal’s president, Gabrielle Kirk McDonald, from travelling to Kosovo. “In the UN Security Council, there is unanimous consent of all its members that investigators have full authority to do their job in Kosovo,” Mr. Scheffer noted Saturday.
     So far, Belgrade has only allowed a team of Finnish forensic experts to examine grave sites in Kosovo. One of Serbia’s senior forensic pathologists, however, has publicly advocated that international teams be allowed to investigate all deaths in Kosovo, and the evidence they gather be sent to The Hague.
     “I’ll continue to ask for experts to come,” said Zoran Stankovic, senior pathologist at Belgrade’s military hospital and Yugoslavia’s only UN-accredited forensic scientist.
     Mr. Stankovic accused the Serbian media of grossly distorting some incidents where Serbs have been killed, but also said authorities had failed to bring home the brutality of the KLA and its methods to the foreign press.
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Conference on Kosova in Kristiansand of Norway

      PRISHTINE, Nov.10 (ATA) - A conference on Kosova is to be held on 21 and 22 November in Kristiansand of Norway. The Kosova Information Center reports that the conference is expected to discuss the grave situation, to inform the foreign and Albanian opinion on the situation in Kosova, about the decision of the international community to send observers in Kosova, for the organization and coordination of the activities of the Albanian emigrants to help Kosova people and institutions.
      Alush Gashi, foreign relation secretary of the Kosova Democratic League, Jan Brethu from the Norwegian Foreign Affairs Ministry, Katerine Bierg from the OSCE office, representatives of Helsinki Committee, and representatives of the Kosova Democratic League branches in some countries of Europe and United States will take part in the the above mentioned conference.
/Y.Pa/A.A/

            Kosova Albanian want to get back home

In  a meeting held in Bajram Curri by the representatives of the  Kosova arrivals there with the representatives  of  the international  organizations present in the  district,  they asked  the  possibility  to go back  home.  They  asked  the international  organization to contribute in this  direction since  winter is very harsh is those areas.  The figures  of the  arrivals  from Kosova is the prefecture of  Kukes  have been decreasing. Winter in that prefecture is very harsh and roads  are  blocked by snow. Furthermore the order situation in  prefecture and especially in Tropoja is totally  out  of control and the humanitarian aid aimed for the arrivals gets stolen  without  reaching the destination.  In  those  areas there  are  only  the  Kosova  arrivals  that  have  had  no possibility to move to in the center of the country. Only in Tropoja  it  is estimated that there have arrived  initially almost  20 thousand Albanians who fled their homes in Kosova due  to the Serb aggression. A great part of them have moved in warmer parts of the country.

>    Albanian American Teachers Committee
>
> SEMINAR ON KOSOVA
>
> The United Federation of Teachers-Albanian American Teachers Committee
> (UFT-AATC) and the Organization of Albanian Students (OAS) at Pace
> University with support from Columbia University East Central European
> Center is hosting a seminar on Kosova to which all are invited.
> seminar will be held on
>
>       Saturday, November 21, 1998
>       10:30 AM - 3:00 PM.
>       Pace University-Student Union, New York City Campus
>       (One Pace Plaza, New York, New York)
>
> Guest speakers will be:
> -Dr Prof. Barend Cohen (a forensic specialist from Holland)
> -Dr Prof. Dietrich Fischer (an expert on peace studies)
> -Dr Prof. Safete Juka (an Albanian scholar)
> -Mr. Fred Abrams (from Human Rights Watch)
>
>
> If there are any questions please don't hesitate to contact Mithat Gashi
> at mg558@columbia.edu.  To leave a message, call the United Federation of
> Teachers Professional Committees at 212- 598-9298 and someone will get
> back to you.
>
>       Refreshments will be served

                      You are cordially invited to…

                   Video-Documentary & Panel Discussion

               Responses to The Humanitarian Crisis in KOSOVO

                        at Columbia University,
                 School of International and Public Affairs
                   Dag Hammarskjold Lounge, 6th floor,

                       on Monday, November 16, 1998
                                 at 7pm

Co-sponsored by the UN Studies Program, The Harriman Institute, Economic and Political Development Concentration, International Media and Communications, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and the International House

* Moderated by Stephen MARKS,  Director, UN Studies Program and Co-Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Concentration

PANEL INCLUDES

* David GELBER, CBS
will present a documentary on refugees in Kosovo shown on "60 minutes" on 10/20/98
* Andres Ramirez, UNHCR
* Elizabeth Gibbons, UNICEF
* Paolo Galli, Regional Bureau for Europe, United Nations Development Programme
* Alexandre Matsouka, Department of Political Affairs, United Nations
* Representatives of Medecins Sans Frontières, International Rescue Committee, and International Committee for Red Cross

This panel will examine the plight of the 300,000 current Kosovar refugees and displaced persons and the challenges facing the international community to meet their needs

For more information, please contact Ana Androsik 316-8408
or Andrea Papan at 854-4208.
Please distribute and/or post this announcement.

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