>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@tonto.eunet.fi;> >Subject: Yugoslav Daily Survey - Special Issues BELGRADE, 18 January 2000 >O V E R V I E W of terrorist and other acts of violence in the province of >Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in the period from 12 >June >Yugoslav Daily Survey - Special Issues > >BELGRADE, 18 January 2000 > > > >O V E R V I E W >of terrorist and other acts of violence in the province of Kosovo and >Metohija >since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in the period from 12 June 1999 to 13 >January 2000 > > >1) Number of terrorist attacks: 3,688 >Out of which 3,630 were committed against civilians, i.e. 3,433 against >Serbs and Montenegrins, 87 against Albanians and 110 against members of >other nationalities. >2) Number of abducted and missing persons: 688 >Out of whom 656 were civilians, i.e. 598 were Serbs and Montenegrins, 36 >Albanians and 22 members of other nationalities. >The fate of 559 abducted civilians is still unknown while 64 were killed. >3) Number of killed persons: 793 >Out of whom 772 were civilians, i.e. 684 were Serbs and Montenegrins (22 >massacred, 84 mutilated and 5 burned to death), 63 were Albanians and 25 >members of other nationalities in Kosovo and Metohija. >4) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR: >Serbs accused of allegedly committing "war crimes" are detained in prisons >in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, >Lipljan and Kolokot Banja. They have been arrested only on the ground of >information provided by the Albanians of the so-called "KLA" and a large >number of these persons are detained without any court decision. >5) Number of wounded persons: 611 >6) Reported cases of physical assault, harassment and inflicted grave >bodily harm: 416 >7) Registered cases of threats: 356 >8) Registered number of dwellings broken into and forcibly taken occupancy >of: 776 in Pristina, over 200 in Kosovska Mitrovica, 190 in Gnjilane, 124 >in Orahovac, a large number in Kosovo Polje and Lipljan. >9) Ethnic cleansing: Many towns were ethnically cleansed of Serbs and other >non-Albanians. According to available UNHCR data of September 1999, about >220 000 mainly Serbs and Montenegrins were driven out of Kosovo and >Metohija. >According to the latest data over 330 000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, >Muslims, Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians were expelled, of whom 250 >000 are Serbs. >10) Registered number of homes burned down: about 50 000 houses were burned >down in Kosovo and Metohija. >11) Registered number of stolen vehicles: over 12 000 vehicles. As a result >of open borders with Macedonia and Albania 250 000 vehicles were brought >into Kosovo and Metohija without payment of customs duties and most of >these vehicles were stolen. >12) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments: >About 80 churches, monasteries and other religious buildings and cultural >monuments were burned down or damaged including the following: the Church >of Assumption of Our Lady in Dolac, monastery of St. Marco in Korisa from >1467, monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zatociste from 14 century, >the church in Kijev from the 14th century, the Holy Trinity monastery from >the 14th century near Musutiste, monastery Devic built in 1440, church of >St. Paraskeva in Drenik from the 16th century, church of St. Dimitri near >Pec, the Orthodox church in Grmovo near Vitina, church of St. Ilija in >Cegra near Gnjilane, church of Holy Mother in Musutiste from 1315, church >of Prophet Ilija in Bistricin, church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva >Reka, monastery of St. Uros in Nerodimlje, monastery of Archangel Gabriel >from the 14th century in Binac, church of the Holy Virgin from the 16th >century in Belo Polje, church of St. John the Baptist in Pecka Banja, >churches in the villages of Naklo, Vucitrn, Petrovac, Urosevac, Podgorce, >Djurakovac, Krusevo, Osojane, Samodreca, Dresna near Klina, Rekovac, >Petric, monastery Dinac near Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Djakovica. >Places of worship were attacked, desecrated, demolished and burned down. >Clergy were terrorized and prosecuted. More than 150 parish residences were >destroyed or damaged. Over 10 000 icons and other sacred objects were >stolen or destroyed. >The following cultural monuments were damaged and demolished: >- monuments in memory of giants of Serbian and Montenegrin literature Vuk >Karadzic and Petar Petrovic Njegos in the very centre of Pristina; >- monuments in memory of King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in Prizren; >- memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian rulers >from the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje. >13) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions: >- forcible and illegal take-overs of premises and buildings of post >offices, banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems, >university, elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other >authorities of local administration, local communes, buildings of the >Ministry of the Interior and the Army of Yugoslavia, factories, >enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in Pristina (premises of the Clinical >centre "Pristina" and the health station, the Federal Customs >Administration, the Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban Planning, >the public enterprise "Vodovod", thermal power plant "Kosovo B", depots and >petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the share-holding companies >"Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", the public enterprise "Energoinvest", >the public enterprise "Auto-Pristina", "Car shock absorbers plant", >"Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas, Podujevo, Lipljan, >Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the assistance of the >members of KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of the members of KFOR). >- by forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and institutions >over 20 000 employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and >other non-Albanians were sacked and replaced exclusively by Albanians, who >are mostly unskilled. >14) Registered armed attacks on villages: Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac, >Konjuh, Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the villages around Kosovska Kamenica: >Grncar, Magila, Ajvalija, all the villages of the Istok-Klina region, >Goracdevac near Pec, Svinjare, Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja >Gusterica, Susica, Badavac, Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice, (municipality >of Gnjilane), Dobrusa, Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), >Partes (municipality of Gnjilane), Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane), >Ljestar, Budriga, Dobrotin (municipality of Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, >Ranilug, Silovo, Odovce, Rajanovce, Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, >Gojbulja, in the following villages in the area of the municipality of >Gora: Brodosvce, Belobrod, Kukavce - frequent attacks against the houses of >Goranci, Muslims and Albanians who are loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia. >All this runs counter to the assertions about the disarming of the >terrorist "KLA". >15) Registered sieges of villages: Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca >(population lives in a "ghetto"), Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, >Priluzje, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac. >16) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily basis >against non-Albanian population: Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo, >Bresje, the area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (against which the armed >attack was carried out), village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian >situation), majority of the mainly Croatian Catholic population who lived >in the villages of Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, >Drenovac (50 Serbs massacred), village of Cernice (series of incidents in >which members of the US contingent of KFOR maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje, >Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki Alas, Vrelo and Radevo. >(17) The looted Serb villages from which the residents were forced out: >Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje, Sofalija, >Livadice, Mirovac, Siriniska zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste, Sofalije, >Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Sipasnica. >(18) Serb neighbourhoods set on fire: Istok, Klina, Donja Lapastica, >Obrandza, Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the villages around Podujevo, Grace, >Donja Dubica, Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo, Vitomirice, Belo Polje, Kojlovice, >Alos-Toplicane, Krajiste, Rudnik, Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of >Lipljan), Orlovic (municipality of Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa >(municipality of Podujevo), Muzicane (all Serbian houses burned down), >Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane, Gornje and Donje Nerodimlje (all Serbian houses >looted and then burned down), Sinaje (municipality of Istok), Belovac, Mali >Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica). >(19) Towns and residential areas ethnically cleansed of Serbs, Roma, >Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians: Prizren, Djakovica, Pec, Srbica, >Podujevo, Vucitrn, Glogovac as well as the villages in the municipality of >Istok: Dzakovo, Osojane, Tuzepom, Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine, Maticane, >Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovaska Vrbica, surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, >Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica, Ljestar, Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), >Zitnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo, Drobes, Kabas and Binac (municipality of Vitina). >- The ethnic cleansing has been in its final stages in Pristina (all the >Serbian population has been driven out of the largest residential quarters: >Ulpijana, Sun_ani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko Naselje), Gnjilane, >Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Lipljan, Kosovo Polje where 80 per cent of >the Serbian population has been expelled (houses burned down, looted, >property seized from the owners of shops, Albanian terrorists maltreat and >physically abuse Serbs, who refused to sell their houses and move out of >Kosovo and Metohija, before the very eyes of the members of KFOR), Kosovska >Kamenica, area of Vitina and Kosovsko Pomoravlje, as well as in the >villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure, Slovinja, Staro Gracko. >20) Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into the >territory of the FR of Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the >necessary papers (visas and registration of stay with the competent >authorities): 677 >Over 200 000 foreigners have illegally entered into the Province with the >consent of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia has >officially requested their expulsion. >21) Registered number of criminal acts of illicit trafficking and >possession of goods without appropriate documents:137 >22) Registered number of cases of violation of the land security zone by >KFOR 236 >* * * >REVIEW >OF TERRORIST AND OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE PERPETRATED BY ALBANIAN TERRORISTS >IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA SINCE THE DEPLOYMENT OF KFOR AND >UNMIK >IN THE PERIOD FROM 12 JUNE 1999 TO 13 JANUARY 2000 >Terrorism of Albanian separatists >Total number of terrorist attacks 3,688 >1. Civilians 3,630 >- Serbs and Montenegrins 3,433 >- Albanians 87 >- members of other nationalities 110 >2. Officials and facilities 58 >A. Killed 793 >1. Civilians 772 >- Serbs and Montenegrins 684 >- Albanians 63 >- members of other nationalities 25 >2. Officials 21 >B. Wounded 611 >1. Civilians 604 >- Serbs and Montenegrins 565 >- Albanians 18 >- members of other nationalities 21 >2. Officials 7 >C. Kidnapped and missing 688 >1. Civilians >656 >- Serbs and Montenegrins 598 >- Albanians 36 >- members of other nationalities 22 >2. Officials 32 >Fate of kidnapped and missing >1. Killed 69 >2. Escaped 6 >3. Unaccounted-for 581 >4. 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