>) >From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Yugoslav Army Says Kosovo Border Situation Worsening [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > >http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=221006 > >Yugoslav Army Says Kosovo Border Situation Worsening > >BELGRADE, Nov 16, 2000 -- (Reuters) The Yugoslav army >said on Wednesday the security situation in a tense >region of Serbia bordering Kosovo was worsening and >the number of ethnic Albanian guerrillas there had >tripled. > >Army spokesman Colonel Svetozar Radisic said mortar >attacks had intensified and Serb police had suffered >casualties. > >"The number of terrorists has tripled in the last >month... and that is linked to the policies of >Albanian parties after the municipal elections in the >province," Radisic told a news conference, without >elaborating. > >Western diplomatic sources said there had been an >increase in attacks in recent weeks, with mines being >laid in local roads, but doubted that Albanian >guerrilla numbers had tripled, putting their strength >at "a few score". > >A NATO source said the Kosovo peacekeeping force was >as active as ever in seeking to prevent material >support reaching the guerrillas - who did not appear >to have much backing among the local Albanian >population. > >Radisic was referring to last month's local polls in >Kosovo, a de facto international protectorate after >the NATO bombing campaign from March to June 1999. > >Kosovo's first free democratic elections on October 28 >were won by the Democratic League of Kosovo of >moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova, >defeating the more radical party of former guerrilla >commander Hashim Thaci. > >It was not immediately clear which parties Radisic was >referring to at his news conference, nor how this had >influenced the situation in the boundary area. > >POLICE TARGETTED BY MINES > >An ethnic Albanian group calling itself the Liberation >Army for Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), >named after three municipalities in the region, is >believed to have been involved in several clashes with >Serb police over the last year. > >The area is predominantly populated by ethnic >Albanians, who have complained about police harassment >and intimidation. > >Last week, a policeman was killed when his car hit an >anti-tank mine and two others died in an incident on >the same road on October 13. > >The NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo has >tried to cut supply lines of the UCPMB, which is based >in the village of Dobrosin. > >Radisic said relations between the Yugoslav Third Army >and KFOR and UN police in a five km (three mile) >security zone along the administrative border were >correct. > >"We meet regularly once a week and the cooperation is >correct, in a spirit of the military-technical >agreement," he said. > >KFOR and the U.N.-led civilian administration took >control of Kosovo under the 1999 agreement following >NATO's bombing campaign to halt Yugoslavia's >repression of ethnic Albanian majority in the >province. > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! >http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > >______________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Want to effectively manage your Accounts Receivables? Need to >maximize cash flow? Now, you can with Freeworks' FREE ONLINE >ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE MANAGER! Create invoices, track receivables, >review account statements and much more! > > >http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/Freeworks > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
