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Wolfgang Plarre                                             Telefon  08272 / 98974
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                                                                                          Wertingen, den 1. Juni 1998
Herrn Staatsminister
Dr. Günther Beckstein
 

Abschiebestop für Kosova-Albaner

Zumindest aber Aussetzung der Abschiebungen für die nächsten Monate
 

Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Beckstein,

das unten in Abschrift wiedergegebene – im Ton freundliche – in der Sache leider wenig befriedigende Schreiben habe ich aus Ihrem Hause letzte Woche erhalten.

Ich kann mich nicht darüber freuen, daß die Situation und die jüngsten Ereignisse im Kosova der in diesem Schreiben gegebenen Begründung, keinen Abschiebestop auszusprechen, den ”Boden” entziehen.

Die Nachrichten der letzten Tage aus Kosova sind erschreckend.

Mit welcher Begründung meint Deutschland derzeit abschieben  u n d
nationalem und internationalem Recht entsprechen zu können ?

Warum findet der Aufruf von UNHCR kein Gehör ?

Eine Auswahl der heutigen Nachrichten aus Kosova füge ich an.
Bitte nehmen Sie sich die Zeit, wenigstens die ersten Seiten zu lesen.

Die Nachrichten des 31.Mai habe ich heute beim Evangelischen Kirchentag auf dem Hesselberg Frau Staatsministerin Barbara Stamm überreicht. Sie hat mir zugesagt, sie an Sie weiterzugeben.

    Mit freundlichen Grüßen

         Wolfgang Plarre
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ABSCHRIFT (Poststempel 26.5.98)
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Abschiebung von Herrn Feim Gashi in den Kosovo

Sehr geehrter Herr Plarre,

im Auftrag von Herrn Staatsminister Dr. Beckstein danke ich Ihnen für Ihr Schreiben vom 26.04.1998, mit dem Sie sich für einen weiteren Verbleib von Herrn Feim Gashi im Bundesgebiet einsetzen und einen Abschiebestopp für Kosovo-Albaner fordern.

Wie Sie sicherlich wissen, wurde Herr Gashi nicht - wie vorgesehen - am 29.04.1998 abgeschoben. Herr Gashi war entgegen Ihrer Behauptung nicht im Besitz einer Aufenthaltsgenehmigung bis zum 05.05.1998, sondern lediglich im Besitz einer Grenzübertrittsbescheinigung bis zu diesem Datum. Da die Frist für die freiwillige Ausreise jedoch noch nicht abgelaufen war, wurde die Abschiebung storniert. Herr Gashi muß jedoch damit rechnen, daß nach Ablauf der ihm eingeräumten Ausreisefrist die Abschiebung alsbald durchgeführt wird. Herrn Gashi kann auch kein weiterer Aufenthalt im Bundesgebiet eingeräumt werden, da er nicht im Besitz einer Aufenthaltsgenehmigung ist und seine Ausreisepflicht bereits rechtskräftig feststeht.

Die derzeitige Situation im Kosovo rechtfertigt nicht den Erlaß eines generellen Abschiebestopps für Kosovo-Albaner. Eine Bürgerkriegssituation ist im Kosovo nicht gegeben. Jeder Kosovo-Albaner hat daher die Möglichkeit, nach seiner Rückführung in den Kosovo seinen Aufenthalt an jedem beliebigen Ort seiner Wahl nehmen zu können. Dadurch wird ausgeschlossen, daß ein in den Kosovo zurückkehrender Albaner sich an einen Ort begeben muß, in dem er sich einer Gefährdung aussetzt.

Die von Ihnen gesammelten Daten über die Situation im Kosovo rechtfertigen keine andere Entscheidung. Sie belegen lediglich die punktuell stattfindenden Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Serben und Kosovo-Albanern. Deshalb schieben auch alle anderen Bundesländer Albaner in den Kosovo ab. Solange keine grundlegende Verschlechterung der Verhältnisse im Kosovo eintritt, werden nach wie vor Albaner in den Kosovo zurückgeschickt.

Ich bedauere, Ihnen keine positive Entscheidung mitteilen zu können.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen                                              Bestätigt:
I.A.
                                                       Siegel
Brückl
Regierungsdirektorin                                                   Borchart, VA
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KIC  KOSOVA DAILY REPORT # 1447-C  Prishtina, 1 June 1998  Third Edition 16:30 hrs

Second Bosnia Is Happening in Kosova, Political Parties Say

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - Representatives of the political parties represented in the Parliament of Kosova -  Kolë Berisha, LDK, Simon Augustini, PSHDK, Kaqusha Jashari, PSDK, Qerim Ujkani, PNDSH, Gjergj Dedaj, PLK, and Hiljmo Kandic, PAD - held a joint meeting in Prishtina today to review the situation in the country. They have been holding regular meetings on a weekly basis for a month now.
The dramatic escalation in Kosova follows an undeclared war of Serbia against the people of Kosova, the parties concluded, adding that Serbian forces have been committing atrocities against Albanians.
The parties hailed the Clinton-Rugova meeting, as well as other meetings President Rugova had with Albright and other senior U.S. administration officials.
In a statement issued from the meeting, the Kosovar political forces said the Kosovar drama has been assuming tragic dimensions despite international diplomatic talk of not allowing it to happen.
The parties called for international intervention in Kosova. NATO troops should be deployed in Kosova to avoid a new catastrophe in the region, the parties said.
The parliamentarian parties said the Milosevic regime has been using the Prishtina-Belgrade talks as a cover for its crimes against the Albanian civilian population, including women and children.
"The killings, looting, the burning of houses, the arrests, large- scale displacement of Albanian population and ethnic cleansing practices, the blockade of humanitarian relief supplies and telephone lines, lack of access to the area for domestic and foreign media - all this is evidence that what is happening in Kosova is a repeat of Bosnia", the statement of the parties said.
The parties criticized the International Red Cross for not doing enough to help the population in the endangered areas. The political parties have been doing all they can on the ground to help the suffering population of Kosova, the statement said.

Testimonies of Eye-Witnesses about Serb Forces' Massacre at Poklek of Gllogovc
     'Pools of blood, parts of human skin and brains could be seen on the ground and walls'

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - Serb forces massacred a number of local Albanians at the Poklek i Ri (New Poklek) village of Gllogovc Sunday afternoon.
Local LDK sources and the chapter of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) in Gllogovc revealed today the names of six slain Albanians yesterday, naming them as Ahmet Berisha (40), Ardian Deliu (18), Hajriz Hajdini, Ahmet Hajdini, Sahit Qorri and Sefer Qorri. The youth, Ardian Deliu, had his throat cut.
Serbian forces advanced into the village yesterday, rounded up local Albanians in long columns, killed some of them, and doused houses with gasoline and set them ablaze, a witness told LDK sources in Gllogovc.
Meanwhile an activist of the Parliamentary Party of Kosova (PPK) in Gllogovc has offered additional testimony about yesterday's massacre in Poklek. The PPK activist (Sh.B.) said he succeeded to enter the village today where he witnessed the consequences of a heinous carnage.
"Yesterday at around 2 p.m., heavy Serb forces came to the village from the [Ferrous-Nickel] Ferronikeli plant in Gllogovc, who started shooting at everything around. At around 6 p.m. you could see the village covered by smoke and houses ablaze. The first Albanians from outside could only enter the village at around 9 p.m. when the Serb forces withdrew. They found there a wounded youth. He was hit with two bullets and had his throat cut. He was unconscious but still alive", the witness said.
He said the people who reached Poklek said they did not encounter any other wounded people, meaning that the police had taken the bodies of the victims when withdrawing.
Sh.B said he was at Poklek village this morning. Houses there were burned down. "There were pools of blood, parts of skin, and brains of people on the ground and walls", he said.
Another witness, Asllan Sejdiu, claimed that the Serb police has arranged bodies of the victims in positions so as to look like they were killed in clashes. The police laid weapons in their hands and took photographs of them later, he said.
Both witnesses said that there were no clashes between the Serb police and Albanians at Poklek on Sunday. No member of the so- called Liberation Army of Kosova was there and the local villagers did not put up any resistance. "It was nothing but a Serb slaughter", the witness said.

Serbian Shelling of Border Villages Continues

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - Today (Monday) morning, Serbian forces resumed shelling the villages of the Reka e Keqe region in the municipality of Gjakova along the border area with Albania, LDK sources said.
The LDK Information Commission the villages have been shelled from Serb ('Yugoslav') positions at Ponoshec and Babaj, as well as the Çabrati hillside. The extent of material damage and casualty toll is unknown, as the area has been sealed off.
There has been gunfire at Zylfaj village along the border with Albania, sources said, adding that population has been moving out.
The LDK Information Commission in Gjakova said the villages of Gramaçel, Glloxhan, Baballoq, Shaptej, Firajë, Dobrixhë have come under Serb fire today, too. The villages have been reported shelled from Serb forces stationed at Suka e Biteshit. Many houses have been burned or destroyed from heavy artillery fire. The extent of casualty-toll is still unknown.
The town of Gjakova and the villages of this municipality have been cut off telephone lines for days now. There is a restricted flow of people and no flow of goods, including basic necessities.
Reports from Gjakova said Dr. Fehmi Vula, member of the local LDK leadership, who was arrested three days ago, has been taken today to a Serbian jail in the neighboring town of Prizren. Ms Besa Arllati, head of the LDK Information Commission, and Jahë Sadria, a correspondent with the Bujku newspaper, are being held in Serb security custody in Gjakova.
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KIC   KOSOVA DAILY REPORT # 1447-B    Prishtina, 1 June 1998    Second Edition: 14:00 CET

Names of 20 Albanians Killed by Serb Forces in Deçan over Weekend

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - Mr. Musa Berisha, head of the local chapter of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) told the media today the names of a dozen Albanians killed Saturday and Sunday in Deçan and the surrounding villages in western Kosova.
The CDHRF official named the following killed Albanians:
Tafil Kasumaj, 47, high school teacher, Shaban Kasumaj, 43, high school teacher, both of them residents of Lloçan village; Besart Dautaj, 12, and Teuta Loshaj (f), 21, residents of Carrabregu i Epërm; Shyhrete Jeftaj (f) from Deçan; Beqir Rrustem Krasniqi, 49, a imam (local Muslim Albanian cleric), and Halit Zeqë Krasniqi, 50, residents of Vranovc; Avni Adem Përgjegjaj, 32, resident of Lumbardh, and Hajdar Ukë Ukshinaj and Mehmet Ukë Ukshinaj, residents of Lubeniq village.
The local CDHRF official, Musa Berisha, said two Albanians have been found killed at Strellci i Epërm, but their names have not been known yet.
KIC reported yesterday that two women were killed at Carrabreg i Epërm villages, whose names were unknown then. They have been identified as Hate Blakaj, 60, and Ajmone Balaj, 50. In addition Shaqir Dobraj, 80, from Carrabregu i Epërm, Fazë Krasniqi (43) and Imer Elez Ukaj, 50, from Vranovc; Xajë Kuçi (47) from Deçan, and Arif Mahmutdemaj and Rexhep Pavataj from Strellc were reported as killed over the week-end, and their names reported yesterday.
At least 6 Albanians were massacred by Serb police in another part of Kosova, Poklek village of Gllogovc, on Sunday (See Rep # 1447-A)

Deçan and Villages Resemble Vukovar Ruins

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - The situation in Deçan municipality, in western Kosova, has been escalating to unprecedented dimensions four-day long large-scale offensive of Serb forces against the Albanian population in the town and the surrounding villages which.
Vast parts of the municipality and the small itself came under a renewed Serb forces fire today morning, the LDK and CDHRF sources said.
Serb forces have been targeting Albanian settlements from several positions, including 'Yugoslav' military bases in Podi i Gështenjave and Hulaj near Deçan, Zagërlla near Peja and Rastavicë of Gjakova.
The area has been interruptedly attacked by Serb forces for the fourth straight day today.
Deçan and some of the villages worst hit resemble the ruins of Vukovar, the Croatian town destroyed by the Serbian army in early 1990s, local observers said.
The Serb forces are applying the scorched-earth policy there. Clouds of smoke can be seen overhead the villages of Carrabreg i Epërm, Carrabreg in Poshtëm, Beleg, Isniq and the upper part of the town of Deçan, the chairman of the chapter of the Council for the Defense of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) in Deçan said on a (mobile) phone at around 11:30.
The settlements have been pounded with heavy artillery, including the 22O mm cannons, the CDHRF official said. He said that the local population and members of the Liberation Army of Kosova (UÇK) have been putting up a vigorous resistance in a bid to defend themselves and their homes.
Dozens of house in Deçan and the surrounding villages, Carrabreg i Poshtëm and Carrabeg i Epërm, Strellc, Lubeniq, Krushec, Vranoc, Rastavicë, Prejlep, and others have been damaged badly or even burned to the ground.
It is virtually impossible to learn the exact casualty figures amidst the ongoing Serb shelling in the area, the local human rights activist concluded.
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KIC KOSOVA DAILY REPORT # 1447-A  Prishtina, 1 June 1998  First Edition: 12:30 hrs

Around 1000 Kosovar Refugees Arrive in Northern Albania

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - Around 1000 Kosova Albanians fleeing their villages in the municipality of Deçan amidst the ongoing Serbian military-police aggression have reached the northern towns of Tropojë e Vjetër and Bajram Curr in Albania in the past couple of days, Mr. Iljaz Ramajli, head of the Representative Office of the Republic of Kosova in Tirana, told KIC today.
The Kosova envoy said the UNHCR and the International Red Cross organizations said most of the refugees were in desperate condition, terrified by what they had been going through amidst Serb brutalities, and exhausted of a long distance march through a rugged mountainous terrain from Kosova across the border to Albania.

Serbs Lay Land Mines on a Road Near Komoran Village

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - The Serb forces have reportedly laid mines on part of road near Komoran village, municipality of Gllogovc in central Kosova.
Sources in Gllogovc said mines have been laid in an area between the police checkpoint in Komoran and Drenica river bridge. Fearing possible blasts, the Serb police spent the last night in the houses of Albanians in the vicinity, sources said.
Most of the local population in Komoran have abandoned their homes during the past four days, amidst the unfolding Serb forces onslaught in the area. Albanians living near the police checkpoint and along the main road in the big village of Komoran have fled homes almost two moths ago. Ten Albanians were killed, and six others badly wounded when running into a minefield laid by Serb forces in the vicinity of Ponoshec village of Gjakova, municipality in western Kosova on 12 May.

Kosova Parts Under Unfolding Serb Onslaught Still without Phone Lines

PRISHTINA, June 1 (KIC) - The four Kosova municipalities in central 2and western Kosova, in which Serb forces have embarked on a brutal onslaught in the past few days, have been without telephone lines for four days now.
The Serb-installed authorities in Kosova cut off Friday morning telephone lines in Gjakova, Deçan, Peja and Klina.
The main Kosova highway connecting Prishtina with the central part of Kosova, Klina, Peja and Deçan in the west, and Gjaova in the southwest has been closed for almost a month now.
Press crews, both domestic and foreign, have been denied access to those parts of Kosova for days.
Serb forces have laid an iron ring around the a wide area.
The chairwoman of the LDK Information Commission in Gjakova Besa Arllati, and the Bujku reporter there, Jahë Sadria, have been held in Serb police custody since Friday.
Another correspondent of the Prishtina-based Bujku newspaper in Klina, Pren Buzhala, was reported arrested by the Serbian police yesterday (Sunday).