From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 7:47 AM Subject: KLA Threatens Southern Serbia Again Southern Serbian Albanian Leader Threatens to Take up Arms Again PRISTINA, Aug 21, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) The leader of demobilized ethnic Albanian guerrillas in southern Serbia threatened on Monday to take up arms again unless the living conditions for the Albanian population in the Presevo valley markedly improve. "If the situation does not improve and if the peace accord is not totally applied we are not going to leave them (the Serbs) in peace, we will take up arms," , Muhamet Xhemaili told AFP in an interview in the UN-administered Serbian province of Kosovo. "I can not tolerate that the Serbs do what they want with our region," he said, referring to the mainly Albanian populated areas of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac. Considered one of the most radical commanders of the ethnic Albanian guerrillas in the UCPMB, who took on the Yugoslav army for more than a year in a fight for better rights for ethnic Albanians, his men laid down arms at the end of May, under a NATO-brokered peace accord. Xhemaili said, however, there had been no improvements under the peace plan, drawn up by Serbian vice prime minister Nebojsa Covic, which provided for the creation of a multi-ethnic police force and measures for a better social and economic integration of Albanians in the region. He said inhabitants of Presevo are regularly subject to intimidation by Serbian police officers and live in fear. "We can not see any progress, it is worse than before the creation of the UCPMB," he said. On Friday the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo and the Yugoslav army signed an accord which allows Belgrade security forces to patrol the entire southern Serbian buffer zone with the UN-administrated Serbian province. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________
