Wochenbericht Nr. 475 der
REPORT NO. 475
ON THE SITUATION OF
THE HUMAN RIGHTS
AND FREEDOMS IN KOSOVA
FROM DECEMBER 5
UNTIL DECEMBER 12, 1999
Report 475
on the situation of the human
rights and freedoms in Kosova
from December 5 until December
12, 1999
During the period between December 5 and December 12, 1999, 5 citizens were killed, of whom 2 Albanians (one of mines), 2 Serbs and one person whose identity could not be confirmed; 3 Albanians were wounded. Two Albanian girls were kidnapped. 4 cases of attempted kidnappings were reported (3 female pupils and one child). Flora Brovina, a pediatrician, humanitarian activist and a poetess, was among those sentenced in the Serbian courts. 2 persons were reburied, another 2 Albanians (who were killed by the Serbian forces) were exhumed and the identity of another one was confirmed.
Killings
On December 6 - An eyewitness
reported to the UNMIK police that 2 Serb citizens, mother (60) and son
(30), were killed in their flat in the “Dardania” quarter in Prishtina.
On December 8 – In the early
hours of the morning, an unidentified person aged about (30) was killed
in the vicinity of the village of Bellopoja near Podujeva. The very same
day, the organization named “Shqiponja Kombëtare” took the responsibility
for this killing. According to them, the killed was a citizen of Albania
and had confessed of having committed 42 acts of kidnappings throughout
the territory of Kosova.
- In the early hours of the
morning, the corpse of a killed Albanian was found in Peja.
Mass graves, reburials, exhumations - the identification of the killed
On December 9 – The corpses
of 2 Albanians were exhumed from a mass grave in the village of Bresje
near Fushë-Kosova and taken to the morgue of the Prishtina Hospital.
On December 12 - Brothers
Prend Zef Lleshi (35) and Memë Zef Lleshi (26) were reburied in the
village of Vraniq near Gajkova. The two were KLA superiors in the Dukagjini
operational zone and were killed on January 27, in the vicinity of the
village of Goden, on the border between Kosova and Albania.
SKËNDERAJ: The corpse of Hysen H. Syla from the village of Shtutica near Gllogoc was identified in a mass grave in the village of Kryshec. Hysen was killed at the place called “Te betoni” near the village of Polac, on March 23, 1999. A large number of Albanian civilians from the municipalities of Skënderaj and Gllogoc were executed at this place.
Mine incidents
GJAKOVA: On December 7, Kujtim
Gjelosh Pnishi (19) from the village of Meja stepped on a land mine and
was killed. The mine had been laid on the banks of the Ereniku river.
The very same day, “Handicap
International”, discovered a minefield covering a surface of 3 km2 in the
region of Reka e Keqe. The mines had been laid in the vicinity of the “Musë
Ymeri” bridge, in the vicinity of the villages of Popoc and Smolica. In
two days, this organization deactivated 20 anti-tank mines.
Woundings
GJILAN: On December 6, in the
early hours of the morning, an Albanian was shot and heavily wounded on
his head.
PRISHTINA: On December 8,
Fahrije Veseli (22) from Prishtina and another person were wounded by unidentified
persons in the vicinity of the “Noti” Pizzeria.
Disappearances and kidnappings
VUSHTRRI: On December 8, an
Albanian girl was kidnapped by two unidentified persons in a red GOLF.
The incident happened in the evening hours. At the very same place, the
soldiers of the United Arab Emirates, who were on patrol, prevented the
kidnapping of a child. The kidnappers managed to escape. Last night, French
soldiers searched a café in Vushtrria and found three girls who
were forced to prostitution. 10 persons were arrested (including one woman).
SHTIME: On December 9, at
about noon, three unidentified persons (in a car) tried to kidnap three
pupils of the “Abdullah Shabani” Primary School in the village of Carraleva.
SKËNDERAJ: On the crossroad
between Skënderaj-Gllogoc and Llausha, two youngsters came out of
a BMW and kidnapped a 17-year-old girl.
Trials
- On December 9, Flora Brovina,
a pediatrician from Prishtina, was sentenced by the District Court in Nish
(Serbia) to a prison term of 12 years. She was accused of “terrorism” and
“hostile activity”.
- The District Court in Vranje
(Serbia) sentenced Xhavit Ramizi from the village of Breznica near Bujanoc
to a prison term of 3 years. He was accused of illegal arms possession.
Ill treatments, attacks, provocations
MITROVICA: On December 6, at
about 11 a.m., a group of Serb women led by Lubinka Gjusiq, beat Hadije
Rizah Zhubi (52). The incident happened in front of Hadije’s flat in the
“Kodra e Minatorëve” quarter, in the northern part of Mitrovica. Hadija
went out to buy food for her children.
The very same day, at about
1.15 p.m., a group of Serb paramilitaries led by Miodrag Razliq and Aleksandar
Lalin as well as the former policemen Darko and Boban attacked the offices
of the Albanian Republican Party in the northern part of Mitrovica.
According to the UNMIK police,
at about 3 p.m., a Serb refugee from Bosnia beat an Albanian woman aged
about 50. The assaulter was arrested and sent to prison. At about 6 p.m.,
three Serbs beat an Albanian woman.
On December 7, a group
of Serbs beat Nuredin Osmani and his two children aged 7 and 9. Nuredin
was taking his children to school in the southern part of the town.
On December 8, at about
7.30 p.m., a group of Serb hooligans (among whom) Slavisha Joviq – Pagi,
Nebojsha Joviq, Ivan Pejqinoviq and Branko Bane Branislav, threw an explosive
device at the house of Kemajl Mujë Hyseni (41), a Bosniac. Extensive
material losses were caused. The incident occurred in the “Ibri” quarter.
On December 9, at about 12.45
p.m., the very same group of hooligans physically ill-treated Isuf Rushit
Kelmendi (34), from the “Ibri” quarter. The incident occurred in the vicinity
of the Technical Secondary School, in the northern part of the town. Isuf
was threatened with liquidation.
KLINA: On December 6, at about
2.30 p.m., in the vicinity of the place called Rrasat e Gjurgjevikut, on
the road between Peja and Prishtina, 3 unidentified persons came out of
a car and stopped Bajram Berisha (1969) from the village of Gjurgjevik,
who was traveling to Klina. Bajram was taken to the village of Llapçeva
near Malisheva. Money and a mobile phone were taken from him. The assaulters
took Bajram’s car and fled in it.
SKËNDERAJ: On December
8, in the evening hours, 5 armed persons wearing masks went to the house
of Shaqir Çollaku. Shaqir, who is temporarily employed in Italy,
had come home on holidays. Three of the assaulters stood outside the house,
whereas, the other two went into the house and asked for money. Shaqir’s
family managed to disarm one of the assaulters and to tear the mask of
the other. The assaulters fled.
GJAKOVA: On December 8, at
about 11.30 p.m., several bombs were thrown at a Roma house in Gjakova.
The attack was repeated several hours later, but the bombs did not explode.
Later on, the bombs were removed by KFOR soldiers. In the evening hours,
two hand grenades were thrown at a house in Gjakova. One of the grenades
exploded. No one was injured.
PODUJEVA: On December 11,
in the evening hours, fire was opened from the territory of Serbia towards
the village of Dumnica e Epërme. Dumnica is a village on the border
zone between Kosova and Serbia.
PEJA: Unidentified persons
damaged several graves in the Catholic Cemetery in Peja.
GJAKOVA: Edin Gusinac (1974)
from Novi-Pazar (Serbia) and his companion Mirsad Zekoviq, a taxi driver,
were caught after several months of fraud. The two with the assistance
of of two other persons from the village of Raushiq near Peja, living in
Belgrade, have deceived many Albanian citizens from Gjakova, Deçan,
Peja, Vushtrria, Prishtina and Gjilan, whose relatives are in the prisons
of Serbia or are missing. Edin asked for DM 500 for his services. In this
way, he managed to deceive some 150 citizens and to collect some DM 75.000.
In Gjakova only, he collected some DM 9500. Edin had an “ASCONA” car –
NP 136 76. He was caught by the local authorities in Gjakova and handed
in to the KFOR.
ISTOG: In the vicinity of
the village of Tomoc, on the road between Istog and Gurrakoc, unidentified
armed persons wearing masks stopped the car driven by Rexhep Ramçaj
from the village of Banja. The assaulters threatened Rexhep and forced
him to go with them to the village of Veriq. Rexhep was beaten. His car
and money were looted.
The prisoners
PRISHTINA: On December 10,
“Koha Ditore” published a list with the names of 20 Albanian prisoners,
a number of whom had not previously figured in the lists of those imprisoned.
The following are imprisoned in Nish:
Gazi Dervish Fazliu
and
Berat Ramadan
Xhezairi – Prizren;
Elez Durzim Haxhillari
– municipality of Prizren;
Fatmir Shashivar
Memaj,
Kujtim Ekrem Memaj,
Nexhmedin Haki
Ajazaj,
Elez Kurtaj and
Tahir Ademaj – Zhur;
Ibrahim Adem Tahiri
– Lybeçeva,
Shaban Kamber
Xhimbedi – Lubizhda,
and
Afrim Muhamed
Berisha – Lez (Prizren);
Agim Isa Krasniqi
and
Engjëll Prenk
Zefi – Çeskova (Klina);
Ilaz Avdi Hoxholli
– Hajvali (Prishtina),
Jeton Dalip Krasniqi
– Buça (Dragash),
Fazli Xhevat Fazliu
– Breznica (Obiliq),
Nijazi Selim Krasniqi
– Pastasella (Rahovec),
Avdyl Jahir Morina
– Arllat (Gllogoc) and
Islam Imer Thaçi
– Beograd.
Xhevat Mustafa, aged between 20-30, is in the prison of Mitrovica e Sremit
Eastern Kosova – (Presheva, Bujanoc, Medvegja)
PRESHEVA: On December 8, at
about 3 a.m., there was a powerful blast at the cattle farm in the vicinity
of the police station. Extensive material losses were caused and many windows
were broken in the neighboring houses.
BUJANOC: On December 11, at
about 10.30 p.m., there was a powerful blast in the vicinity of the “Branko
Radiçeviq” Primary School which is located near the police station
in Bujanoc. The blast disturbed the citizens. The windows of the school
as well as those in many neighboring houses were broken.
KFOR and UNMIK interventions
MITROVICA: On December 6, at
about 7.40 a.m., in the village of Zhabar i Poshtëm, Danish soldiers
arrested Liridona Afrim Ferati (14), a pupil of the “Migjeni” Primary School
in Mitrovica. The children were throwing snowballs at each other when a
bus full of Serbs under the escort on Danish soldiers passed by. Liridona
was first taken to Zubin-Potok and then to Mitrovica, where she was handed
to the UNMIK police. Later on, Liridona was released but has suffered traumas.
SKËNDERAJ: On December
6, after midnight, Russian soldiers stationed in the vicinity of the Buroja
Mill, looted 75 boxes of cigarettes and 35 boxes of chewing gum (estimated
to DM 1500) from the shop owned by Rrahim H. Thaçi from Buroja.
PRISHTINA: On December 8,
Bernard Kouchner, the UN civil administrator for Kosova, suspended Ph.D.
Agron Dida, an engineer, the general director of the PTK, and replaced
him with Mr. Gerard Fischer, the director of the UNMIK department for Economic
Issues and Natural Resources. Mr. Dida was suspended under the pretext
that he had refused to sign the contract with the French Company “Alcatel”.
Mr. Dida stated that “by doing so the UNMIK Regulation no. 12, which was
signed by Mr. Kouchner himself, was violated”. Due to his newly gained
competences Mr. Fischer can decide by himself on the implementation on
the PTK contract.
Evidence on war criminals
VITI: In the municipality of
Vitia, many lists were found with the names of the Serbian military and
paramilitary forces implicated in the killings and the persecution of the
Albanian population. A list was found with the names of the following 20
policemen (members of a special police unit): Bogosav Kërçmareviq,
Canko Spasiq, Dragan Nojkiq, Nebojsha Arsiq, Novica Jakovleviq, Dragan
P. Stanishiq, Miodrag Stanishiq, Dragisha Dinçiq, Slavisha Maksimoviq,
Zoran Cvetkoviq, Nebojsha Stanojeviq, Branko Arizanoviq, Nenad Përzhiq,
Momçilo Vasoviq, Vidosav Kojiq, Milovan Ivkoviq, Miroslav Mihajloviq,
Sasha Vujiq, Stanislav Vukiq and Sasha Jeremiq. The above mentioned were
active in Kosova starting from May 19.
Prishtina, December 12, 1999 Information Service
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