>From: "Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Status: > > >=========================== >The Committee for National Solidarity >Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU > > >January 20, 2000 > >705 Serbs, Montenegrins killed in Kosovo since June > >Belgrade -- Over the past seven months, since the international KFor >force and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) were deployed to the >Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, 793 people have >been killed, 705 of them Serbs and Montenegrins, according to an >overview of ethnic Albanian terrorist crimes and violations of U.N. >Resolution 1244, distributed by the Yugoslav foreign ministry to foreign >diplomats in Belgrade on Thursday. > >The full text of the Overview follows: > >OVERVIEW of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain >violations of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) in the Province of >Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in the period >from 12 June 1999 to 16 January 2000 > >1. Number of terrorist attacks -- 3,688 >Out of which 3,491 were committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 87 >against Albanians and 110 against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and >members of other nationalities. > >2. Number of abducted and missing persons -- 688 >Out of whom 630 were Serbs and Montenegrins, 36 Albanians and 22 members >of other nationalities. > >The fate of 581 persons is still unknown; 69 abducted persons were >killed, 6 persons escaped while 32 were released. > >3. Number of killed persons -- 793 >Out of whom 705 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. The latest brutal crimes: >- Killing of the Skenderis, a four member Muslim family, in Prizren on >11 January 2000; >- Rape and killing of a 11 year old Albanian girl by a KFOR member near >Vitina on 13 January 2000; >- Killing of three men of Serbian nationality who tried to return to >their ancestors homes in the village of Pasjane on 16 January 2000; > >5. Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 57 >Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near >Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Kolokot Banja. > >They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the >ground of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the >members of the terrorist so-called "KLA". > >6. Number of wounded persons: 611 > >7. Reported cases of physical assault, harassment and inflicted grave >bodily harm -- 416. > >8. Registered cases of serious threats -- 356 > >9. Registered number of private 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. > >10. Ethnic cleansing: >- In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following the deployment of KFOR >and UNMIK over 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci, >Turks and other non-Albanians were expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of >whom 250,000 are Serbs. >- The following towns and villages are ethnically cleansed of Serbs, >Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians: >Prizren, Djakovica, Pec, Srbica, Podujevo, Vucitrn, Glogovac, as well as >the villages of the municipality of Istok; Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom, >Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine, Maricane, Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka >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, Suncani 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. > >Members of the terrorist "KLA" make special pressure on the region of >Gora populated by indigenous ethnic group -- Goranci who are not allowed >to use their mother tongue, i.e. the Serbian language, in schools and in >everyday life, in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as >members of Albanian nationality. > >11. Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments: >About 80 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were burned >down, demolished or seriously 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 Zaociste >from 14th 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 Zegra near Gnjilane, church of Holy >Mother in Musutiste from 1315, church of St. Prophet Ilija in Bistrizin, >church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva Reka, monastery of St. Uros in >Nerodimlje, monastery of St. 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, Samodreza, Dresna near Klina, Rekovac, Petric, monastery Dinac >near Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Djakovica. > >Clergy, monks were terrorized and prosecuted. More than 150 parish >residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other sacred >objects most of which are cultural monuments under the special >protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed. > >The following cultural monuments were damaged and demolished: >- monuments in memory of gianst 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. >12. 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 "Autopristina", "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 left with no >means for living. > >13. 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, Gorazdevac 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". > >14. Sieges of towns and villages: >Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca, Koretin, villages around Gnjilane, >Priluzje, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac. About 3,500 Serbs, residents of >Orahovac, have been living for more than seven months since the >deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the only concetration camp in Europe >after the Second World War -- under the siege of the terrorist "KLA". > >15. 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. > >16. The looted Serb villages from which the residents were forced out: >Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje, >Sofalija, Livadice, Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, >Zlociste, Sofalije, Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja >Sipasnica. > >17. 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). > >18. Registered number of homes burnt down: >about 50,000 houses of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other >non-Albanians were burned down in Kosovo and Metohija. > >19. 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 on several occasions their expulsion. These >requests have not been met although those persons are international >terrorists, criminals, drug dealers, mafia members, women and children >traders, organizers of bordellos and other forms of international crime. > >20. Registered number of stolen wehicles: >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. > >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 > >Secretary General >Mrs. Jela Jovanovic >Art historian >=========================== > > > > --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
