Human Rights Violations against Non-albanian Kosovars

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# Orthodox Press: Kosovo and Metohija Chronicle, September 1

Information Service of the Serbian Orthodox Church
PRAVOSLAVLJE PRESS

Belgrade, September 1, 1999

Kosovo & Metohia Events

It is obvious that the valuation of NATO Council, which has been expressed today in Brussels - "the level of violence in Kosovo is decreasing, although there are still some focuses of instability" - coincides with the violence that has been happening these days only in the places where Serbs live, so, evidently, only these places are the "the focuses of instability". Bearing in mind the development of the events in Kosovo and Metohia since the arrival of the International peacekeeping forces, the "focuses of instability" will disappear together with the vanishing of the Serbs from this area.

Amateur radio operators from Kosovo have reported that there has come to a conflict of physical nature between the Albanians and the Serbs in Plemetina village near Obilic today. The conflict occurred near the primary school, when the Serbs tried to bring their children to school to attend classes. The Serbs and the Albanians have beaten each other with fists and sticks. An Albanian in his car rushed at a group of the Serbs and hurt Bogosav Jovanovic. KFOR soldiers have intervened by shooting in the air, and separated the parties in conflict.

Church-people board in Gnjilane informs on new Serbian victims in this region. Tihomir Simic from Donja Budruga village was wounded three days ago by the Albanians. He was shot while cultivating his garden. Stojan Denic, a sixty-six years old pensioner, was beaten and thrown out of his apartment on Saturday, August 21, and since then there has been no trace of him. One Serbian girl, aged 13, has disappeared in the centre of the city. Cedomir Savic, a respectable pharmacist from Gnjilane, was wounded on his doorstep; afterwards his house was set on fire, but it did not burn completely. Nada Arsic was forced to leave her apartment, which was plundered afterwards.

Local sources of information report that a mass grave containing 42 corpses of the Serbs has been discovered in Zlas village near Pristina. KFOR has not given any statement concerning the existence of this mass grave, just as it did not comment on the previous discovery of a similar mass grave near Gnjilane containing 50 bodies of the murdered Serbs. It was presumed earlier that prison camps for the arrested Serbs existed near Zlas village.

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