>
> Members of the terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army
>exert great pressure on ethnic Goranci, the indigenous residents of the region
>of Gora, who are not allowed to use their maternal Serbian language in schools
>and in everyday life, in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as
>Albanians.
>
> Expulsion of the members of the Muslim ethnic community, loyal
>citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia, has intensified particularly in the area of
>the municipality of Istok.
>
> In the area of Prizren and Djakovica about 65,000 Kosovo
>Albanian Catholics live in a difficult situation and under great pressure from
>Albanian terrorists who accuse them of "collaboration with Serbs".
>
> Albanian separatists continue their deliberate actions, aimed
>at preventing the return of Serbs to Kosovo and Metohija. They raze Serbian
>houses in a pre-planned and synchronized manner. The most drastic example has
>been the looting and bulldozing of over 250 Serbian houses in the village of
>Bijelo Polje. The area of this village was turned into a garbage dump. Serbian
>houses in the villages of Brezanik and Osojane have also been bulldozed.
>Fourteen Serbian villages in the municipality of Vitina do not exist any more
>because all the houses have been destroyed. At the end of April, Albanian
>terrorists announced that they will carry out similar organized actions of
>looting and destroying Serbian houses in the villages near Istok and Novo
>Brdo.
>
> (6) The latest brutal crimes:
>
> shelling of the Serbian village of Gorazdevac (10 March, 25
>March, 22 April 2000); killing of Gashi Sheqeri in his house in the village of
>Rogovo, municipality of Djakovica, and a Roma boy whose identity has not been
>established. This murder was committed by the members of the so-called Kosovo
>Protection Corps Bajram Gashi and Hallim Shala (30 March); bomb attack on the
>apartment of Franjo Milic, a Croat, in Obilic (3 April 2000); cruel murder of
>87-year Metodije Haljausku, a Czech, in Pristina, who was shot in the back of
>the head (3 April 2000); mortar attack on a group of Serbs who played football
>in a field in the village of Cernice in which two persons were injured (5
>April 2000); attack of eight terrorists on Stojan Petronijevic in the
>courtyard of his family house in the village of Babin Most, municipality of
>Obilic (5 April 2000); killing of Dobrivoje Jovanovic in Gnjilane (9 April
>2000); mining of the Orthodox Church of Our Lady in Zociste for the third time
>(18 April 2000); mortar attack on an apartment building housing Serbs and
>Turks in downtown Pristina in which two persons were wounded (18 April 2000);
>killing of Srdjan Markovic from the village of Badovac, who was killed by
>terrorists in his car on his way to visit his friends (21 April 2000); murder
>of Stojanka Stojanovic (65) in Gnjilane, in mid-April, whose body was found on
>26 April 2000; terrorist attack on a bus in Kosovska Mitrovica ferrying Serbs
>to church (28 April 2000); vandal desecration of Serbian cemeteries and
>tombstones in the village of Glavotina, municipality of Vucitrn (26 April
>2000), and in the village of Klobukar, municipality Novo Brdo (30 April 2000);
>dynamiting the Orthodox church of St. Nicholas from 16th century in the
>village of Grncar, municipality of Vitina (28 April 2000); brutal murder of
>Milorad Peric (50) from the village of Pasjane who was working in the fields
>(29 April 2000); terrorist bomb attack on a group of residents of the village
>of Crkvena Vodica, municipality of Obilic, in which several children were
>wounded (2 May 2000); bomb attack on the house belonging to Hadzija Agusi
>(74), a Roma, who died from the wounds sustained in the attack (29 April
>2000); killing of Zivko Stolic (67) in Kosovska Vitina, who was brutally
>tortured by terrorists and later killed (6 May 2000); attack on a Serbian
>family in Kosovska Vitina in the courtyard of their house on which occasion
>two adults and two children were wounded.
>
> (7) New forms of terror against Serbs and other non-Albanians:
>
> In its security actions against Serbian and other
>non-Albanians, KFOR is increasingly demonstrating force and resorting to
>harassment and physical violence and causing damage to Serbian property.
>Drastic incidents occurred in Kosovska Mitrovica (on 20-25 February), in the
>villages of Mogila (on 25-26 February), in which Serbian houses were searched
>by in a most brutal way, Draganovac (municipality of Gnjilane) and Miolice
>(Municipality of Leposavic), Mali Zvecan (27 February), Gornje Kusce (1 March)
>and the Serbian villages of Rudare and Grabovac (1 March). The searches were
>conducted by KFOR jointly with the terrorists of the so-called KLA, who wore
>international security forces uniforms, in an open display of the existence of
>co-ordination between KFOR and Albanian terrorists. In April violence against
>Serbs in the so-called security actions of KFOR has assumed dramatic
>proportions. The most drastic examples were the incidents which took place in
>the village of Dobrotin on 2 April, in the village of Sevce on 4 April and in
>the villages of Lepina and Jazine, when KFOR members released dogs on the
>Serbs who had gathered to protest the difficult situation and when a large
>number of people were seriously injured. Several persons were also injured in
>a brutal action of KFOR against Serbian demonstrators in Gracanica on 7 April
>2000.
>
> (8) Latest terrorist attacks on Serbian convoys:
>
> Attacks on a Serbian convoys headed for Strpce, near the
>village of Radivojce (on 22 and 29 February); attack on a Serbian convoy en
>route to Koretiste, in the village of Dobricane (28 February); attack on a bus
>ferrying Serbian children home from school on the road between Gornje Kusce
>and Koretiste (29 February); Lieutenant Peter Ramstell (KFOR, Kosovska
>Mitrovica area) banned all KFOR security escorts for buses transporting
>Serbian schoolchildren and sick persons to Gracanica (1 March); attacks
>against Serbian convoys in the village of Koretin (6 and 20 March); repeated
>attacks against Serbian convoys in Gnjilane (7, 10 and 31 March); an attack on
>a Serbian convoy in the village of Dobrovce (27 March); attack on a Serbian
>convoy on the road between Bujanovac and Gracanica (11 April 2000); attack on
>a convoy from Strpce in the village of Pozaranje, municipality of Vitina (18
>April 2000).
>
> KFOR has not prevented these terrorist attacks. Also, it has
>refused to provide security escorts to convoys between Merdare and Kosovo
>Polje. In addition to daily terror against them, this is added pressure on
>Serbs to leave Kosovo Polje.
>
> (9) Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK:
>200
>
> Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren,
>Sojevo near Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Klokot 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 Kosovo Liberation Army. 43 Serbs arbitrarily arrested
>without legal grounds by KFOR and UNMIK have been detained in a prison in
>Kosovska Mitrovica for almost ten months. In this period no investigation or
>any court proceedings have been instituted. On 10 April 2000, 37 detained
>Serbs and 5 Roma went on a hunger strike. The immediate cause was the release
>of Gjelal Ademi, an ethnic Albanian, against whom an investigation had been
>instituted because of a hand grenade attack in which 22 Serbs and 14 French
>soldiers of KFOR were injured. Doctors from the School of Medicine of the
>University of Pristina found out at the last examination (6 May 2000) that
>their health condition was rapidly deteriorating and that eleven of them were
>in critical conditions. On 7 May 2000, Arsenije Vitosevic, suffering from a
>chronic heart condition, was admitted to the City hospital. Due to exhaustion,
>high blood pressure and heart condition he has been placed in an intensive
>care unit. He was given infusion and is in a difficult psychological condition
>(two years ago KLA terrorists abducted his son and he has not heard from him
>since). The doctors who examined the strikers requested that 10 detainees be
>sent to hospital due to exhaustion and deteriorating health condition. They
>called on the competent judicial and police UNMIK authorities to release the
>strikers without delay so that they could given proper medical treatment and
>that their condition stabilized.
>
> (10) Prisons and labour camps run by the terrorist so-called
>Kosovo Liberation Army:
>
> The abducted Serbian civilians, detained by the terrorist
>so-called Kosovo Liberation Army, are kept in the labour camps located in the
>village of Maticane and in the wider area of Prizren ("Ortokal" estate, a
>building situated on the road to Djakovica) and in Drenica. 472 abducted Serbs
>are kept in the camps.
>
> KLA prisons for Serbs, Montenegrin and members of other ethnic
>communities who are not supportive of Albanian terrorists are situated also
>around the village of Brod, municipality of Dragas, and along the Djakovica
>road towards the village of Junik, municipality of Decani, as well as in the
>villages of Glodjane, Izbica and Strovce in the Kosovska Mitrovica district;
>and in the premises of Railroad Transport Co. in Urosevac.
>
> (11) Situation in Kosovska Mitrovica:
>
> Since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in Kosovo and Metohija,
>the security situation has been very serious, particularly in and around
>Kosovska Mitrovica. Some of the most salient types and instances of atrocities
>have been:
>
> h.. looting and the destruction of 2,365 homes belonging to
>Serbs, Montenegrins and other non-Albanians (1,200 in Kosovska Mitrovica;
>1,060 in Vucitrn; and 105 in Srbica);
> i.. eviction of 700 Serbian families from their apartments
>(500 southern Kosovska Mitrovica; 150 in Vucitrn; and 50 in Srbica);
> j.. looting and the destruction of the property of the
>following companies:
> 1. In Kosovska Mitrovica: Socially-owned companies
>"Kosovo-Sirovina", "Betonjerka", "Lux", "AMD", "Kosmet-Prevoz",
>"Trans-Kosovo", Duvanska, Minel, Zemljoradnicka zadruga (cooperative),
>Hortikultura, Mitrovcanka, DES, "Ibar-Rozaje" warehouse, water utility company
>"Vodovod", printing company "Progres", electric power generation company
>"Elektro-Kosovo", PTT and a large number of bars and cafes owned by
>non-Albanians.
>
> 2. In Vucitrn: Socially-owned companies "Sartid",
>"Vucitrn-Prevoz", "Ratar", Farm Cooperative, paints and coatings factory
>"Ekstra", construction company "Kosovo", utilities company "Sitnica", private
>company "Cicavica", employment bureau, local community centre, Town Hall of
>Vucitrn, Construction Land Fund, local department store, Auditing Office
>building, Jugobanka, primary and secondary schools, Jugopetrol, Beopetrol,
>electric power generationcompany "Elektro-Kosovo", PTT.
>
> 3. In Srbica: Hunting munitions factory, plastics factory,
>socially-owned company "Buducnost", Farm Cooperative, public utilities
>company, "Dijamant-produkt" Co., local community centre, local self-managing
>community of interest, "Zitopromet" Co. and its silos.
>
> (12) Recent killings and terrorizing of Albanians loyal to the
>FR of Yugoslavia:
>
> The terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has stepped up
>the execution of Albanians who do support their policy and goals, particularly
>in the areas of Pristina, Podujevo and Pec. The most drastic examples are: the
>murder of Hejdi Sejdiu, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Serbian
>Socialist Party, in his home town of Urosevac in front of his wife and three
>children (on 10 February), the killing of Danush Januzi in Vitina (on 10
>February); the massacre of Tahir Bekim, abducted and later killed by the
>terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (parts of his mutilated
>body were found on 24 February).
>
> The terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army burnt
>down the house of Sellim Broshi, former head of the Provincial Ministry of the
>Interior, in the village of Odanovce, municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, on 20
>March 2000. They are also looking for Sinan Rexhepi, former employee of the
>Provincial Ministry of the Interior. They threaten Sadik Hajrulah from Vitina,
>Ramadan Sermaxhi, employee of the Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane, Minir
>Krasniqi from Kosovska Kamenica, as well as other former or present ethnic
>Albanian members of the Provincial Ministry of the Interior in Gnjilane.
>
> In mid-March, terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation
>Army abducted Noa and Nua Kajtazi, catholic Albanians, in the village of Zjum
>accusing them that they are loyal citizens of the FR of Yugoslavia. They
>requested a ransom from their family in the amount of DM 40,000. They also
>searched their houses, looted it and beat the members of their family.
>
> In addition to Serbs, the terrorist so-called Kosovo
>Liberation Army also rounds up Albanians, loyal to the State of the FR of
>Yugoslavia, and detain them in their prison camps (around the village of Brod,
>municipality of Dragas).
>
> (13) Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural
>monuments:
>
> 86 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were
>burned down, demolished or seriously damaged, among them the Church of the
>Entrance of Our Lady into the Temple at Dolac, monastery of St. Mark at Korisa
>from 1467, monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zociste from 14th
>century, the church in Kijevo 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.
>Demetrius near Pec, the Orthodox church at Grmovo near Vitina, Church of St.
>Elijah at Zegra near Gnjilane, church of Holy Mother in Musutiste from 1315,
>Church of St. Elijah at Bistrazin, 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 St. Mary 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 Binac near
>Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Djakovica, St. Nicholas' Church in Gnjilane.
>
>
> Monks and other clergy are being terrorized and persecuted.
>More than 150 parish residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons
>and other sacral objects, most of which are part of cultural treasures under
>the special protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed. Medieval
>frescoes were destroyed in 70 per cent of Orthodox churches and monasteries.
>
> Assaults on members of the Catholic religious community by the
>terrorists of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army have intensified in Prizren
>and Pec, particularly assaults on clergymen (The homes of two Franciscan
>priests were burned down.).
>
> The following cultural monuments were damaged or demolished:
>
> - statues of the greatest lexicographer of the Serbian
>language Vuk Karadzic and the great Montenegrin poet Petar Petrovic Njegos in
>downtown Pristina;
>
> - memorials to 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;
>
> - memorial to Milos Obilic, the symbol of the town of Obilic.
>KFOR removed the damaged statue to the compounds of the thermal electric power
>plant "Kosovo B".
>
> - about 400 000 books vanished in the fire set to the Pristina
>Library.
>
> Many of the destroyed monuments are outstanding examples of
>the Serbian cultural heritage and are on the list of the monuments of
>exceptional cultural value under the protection of UNESCO.
>
> (14) Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:
>
> - Forcible and illegal takeovers of premises and buildings of
>post offices, banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems,
>university, elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other local
>government buildings, 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 whose equipment has been stolen and taken by doctors in private
>practice, Federal Customs Administration, Public Housing Company, Institute
>for Urban Planning, water supply company "Vodovod", thermal electric power
>plant "Kosovo B", depots and petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the shareholding
>companies "Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", "Energoinvest", "Autopristina",
>car shock absorbers factory, "Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas,
>Podujevo, Lipljan, Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the
>assistance of KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of KFOR).
>
> - By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and
>institutions tens of thousands employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims,
>Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no means to
>support themselves.
>
> - More than 190 major companies were forcibly and illegally
>seized, whose equipment was looted and most often taken to Albania.
>
> (15) Armed artillery 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, Podgradje, Malisevo and Pasjane
>(municipality of Gnjilane), Ljestar, Budriga, Dobrotin (municipality of
>Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, Ranilug, Silovo, Odovce, Rajanovce, Bosce, Caglavica,
>Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja, Suvo Grlo and Banje (municipality of Srbica), in
>the following villages in the area of the municipality of Gora: Brodosavce,
>Belobrod, Kukavce; frequent attacks on houses of Goranci, Muslims and
>Albanians, loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia, and in Grabovac (municipality of
>Zvecan).
>
> All Serbian houses in the villages of Donji Livoc, Kmetova
>Vrbica, Lipovica and Cernice in the municipality of Gnjilane, and in the
>villages of Vaganes, Gradjenik and Orahovica in the municipality of Kosovska
>Kamenica, all forming part of Kosovsko Pomoravlje, were set on fire or
>destroyed by mortars or explosives.
>
> All this runs counter to assertions by KFOR and UNMIK that the
>terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army has been disarmed.
>
> (16) Blockade of towns and villages:
>
> Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca, Koretin, villages around
>Gnjilane, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac, Priluzje (the village surrounded by
>Albanians, with no doctors, shops and phone lines; about 80 per cent of the
>villagers who worked for the Electric Power Industry of Serbia have remained
>jobless). About 3,500 Serbian residents of Orahovac have been living for more
>than nine months since the deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the first
>concentration camp in Europe after the Second World War, besieged by the
>terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.
>
> (17) Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a
>daily basis against non-Albanians:
>
> Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo, Bresje, Obilic, the
>area around Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (on which an armed attack was recently
>carried out), the village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian situation), most
>of the mainly Catholic Croatian population ofn the villages of Letinice,
>Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, Drenovac (50 Serbs massacred),
>village of Cernice (a series of incidents in which US KFOR soldiers maltreated
>Serbs), Pozaranje, Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki Alas, Vrelo and
>Radevo, Plemetin and Slatina (municipality of Vucitrn), Crkolez (municipality
>of Istok), Ogose - municipality of Kosovska Kamenica (where almost all Roma
>families have been driven out), Banjska, Gojbulja and Miroce (municipality of
>Vucitrn), Brezanik (municipality of Pec). Ruthless terror is used against the
>remaining Serbs in the village of Obilic: their houses are attacked and set on
>fire. They cannot call fire emergency services or ask for KFOR and UNMIK
>assistance since their telephone lines are disconnected, while those belonging
>to Albanian households are connected. This provides further evidence of
>against Serb by KFOR and UNMIK who sit idly by.
>
> (18) The looted Serbian villages whose residents were forced
>out:
>
> Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo
>Polje, Livadice, Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace, Zociste,
>Sofalija, Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja Sipasnica, Miganovce,
>Laniste and Zmijarnik (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica).
>
> (19) Serbian settlements 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, Mojlovice, 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 burned down), Sinaje (municipality of Istok),
>Balovac, Mali Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka and Oraovica (municipality of
>Kosovska Kamenica), Zaskok and Novi Miros (municipality of Urosevac).
>
> (20) Registered number of homes burned down: About 50,000
>houses of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians were burned
>down in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
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