Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------------------------- New Albanian Rebel Group Formed in Southern Serbia BUJANOVAC, Sep 19, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Ethnic Albanian rebels in Kosovo have formed a new group which is seeking to join parts of southern Serbia to an independent Kosovo, a Serbian official said Wednesday. The National Liberation Army for Western Kosovo is seeking to make the towns of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja part of UN-run Kosovo and may include members of a former rebel group active in southern Serbia and which disbanded at the end of May under an agreement with NATO. Milovan Coguric said the new group formed in early August is "an attempt to carve out this part of southern Serbia with the aim of annexing it, along with Kosovo, to a Greater Albania or an independent state of Kosovo." Rebels of the previous Liberation Army for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac fought Serbian forces for over a year in southern Serbia before agreeing to pull back under NATO pressure. Under a deal struck with NATO, ethnic Albanians were to gain representation in southern Serbia but leaders of the new group say Serbian authorities are dragging their feet in implementing the deal. Some 70 percent of the 100,000 inhabitants of southern Serbia are ethnic Albanian. Among the founders of the new group are Muhamet Xhemaili, Shefqet Musliu and Shaquir Shaqiri who were also instigators of the previous rebel army. But Xhemaili denied Tuesday that he was involved in the new rebel group but told AFP that he was ready to take up arms again if the lives of ethnic Albanians in Presevo were not improved. Serbian police had said in August that a "new terrorist group" in southern Serbia was responsible for the murder of three Serbian police officers in the Muhovac region. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ------------------------------------------------- This Discussion List is the follow-up for the old stopnato @listbot.com that has been shut down ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9spWA Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: archive@jab.org T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
