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http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/September_30/24.html U.N. police crack down on prostitution, drugs in Kosovo October 1, 2002 -Along with the arrests, 30 women from Eastern Europe, mainly from Moldova, Ukraine and Albania, were identified and handed over to special anti-trafficking police units, he said. "Some of the women were under 18, including a 15-year-old Moldovan girl," Angeli said. "The police are looking into the possibility that some of the women were sold and forced into slavery." PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - U.N. police cracked down on illegal prostitution involving foreign women and drug smuggling in two weekend swoops in Kosovo, shutting down 10 brothels and seizing a large amount of drugs, an official said Monday. In an overnight raid of several bars and discos in Djakovica, a town some 50 miles southwest of Kosovo's capital Pristina, police shut down 10 clubs on Sunday on suspicion of prostitution, said Andrea Angeli, a spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Kosovo. During the operation, police arrested seven Kosovo Albanians suspected of organizing and facilitating what is suspected to be the forced prostitution of foreign nationals, Angeli said. Along with the arrests, 30 women from Eastern Europe, mainly from Moldova, Ukraine and Albania, were identified and handed over to special anti-trafficking police units, he said. "Some of the women were under 18, including a 15-year-old Moldovan girl," Angeli said. "The police are looking into the possibility that some of the women were sold and forced into slavery." In a separate operation in northern Kosovo, U.N. police seized 600 kilograms (1,320 pounds) of marijuana on Saturday while searching a house in the vicinity of Mitrovica, a town some 28 miles north of the capital. The street value of the drug was an estimated 2 million euros ($1.97 million), Angeli said. The seizure was the largest made since U.N. and NATO-led peacekeepers took control of Kosovo in June 1999, after an alliance air war ended the crackdown of Yugoslav troops on independence-seeking majority ethnic Albanians. Authorities arrested a 37-year-old Kosovo Albanian in connection with the discovery of the drug, which was believed to have been smuggled across the border. The two police operations in Kosovo, legally a Yugoslav province, were part of a larger effort by authorities to crack down on rampant crime. ------------------------------------------------------- http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/October_01/5.html Appeal of the expelled Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija, OEA, October 1st 2002 Office of External Affairs of Serbian Orthodox Church More than three years have passed since our mass exodus from Kosovo and Metohija, and there is no return. The UN, NATO, UNMIK and the international community are silent on the matter while return is not even in sight. We live in collective centers, having a hard time, without our homes and our gardens, without our salaries and our jobs, without our fertile fields, vineyards and orchards. When will all this suffering come to an end. WE WANT TO GO HOME so that we, the Serbs from Kosmet, can also live like everyone else in our ancient homes on our holy land. We have had enough of lies, political settling of accounts, the international community, failure to honor resolutions, and agreements. Therefore we have decided that from September 21 we will organize a blockade of all roads leading to Kosovo and Metohija. Our goal is to put pressure on the UN, the international community and all relevant factors so that we Serbs are given the opportunity for a speedy and safe return. If NATO was able to provide for the return of several hundred thousand Shiptars [Albanians] in only a few weeks, it is responsible for doing the same for 300,000 expelled Serbs after no less than three years. We cannot wait any longer; we have waited enough because we have nowhere to wait for the better tomorrow promised us. Through this letter we direct an appeal to all media, non-government organizations, Serb intellectuals, the diaspora and all people of goodwill to support our campaight which we have symbolically named WE WANT TO GO HOME. Raise your voice; protest; help us to awaken the sleeping world and local leaders by this campaign. Write to the statesmen of the world, the UN, respected intellectuals and personalities. Awaken the conscience of the international community; present the truth; shed light upon this black media abyss because we Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija have been persecuted for the past 60 years as if we were cursed. Help us to return to our homes, our monasteries and our churches, to our holy land soaked with the blood of Kosovo warriors. Raise your voice in the defense of Serbdom; raise your voice in defense of what is ours. In Belgrade, September 18, 2002 ------------------------------------------------------- http://news.serbianunity.net/bydate/2002/September_30/21.html U.N. police in Kosovo make record drugs haul Reuters, October 1, 2002. PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Sept 29 (Reuters) - United Nations police have seized 600 kg (1,323 lb) of marijuana in Kosovo, their biggest drug haul to date in the southern Yugoslav province, a spokesman said on Sunday. Andrea Angeli, a spokesman for the U.N.-led administration which took control of Kosovo after NATO's 1999 bombing campaign on Yugoslavia, said the haul had a street value of around two million euros. A 37-year-old Kosovo Albanian man had been arrested in connection with the find in a house in the northern town of Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday night, he told Reuters. He said U.N. police did not believe the seized marijuana was grown in Kosovo and they did not yet know where it was heading. Kosovo and other parts of the volatile Balkans, with its porous borders, are known as a transit region for smugglers bringing drugs into western Europe from Asia and elsewhere. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
