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Beta News Agency February 19, 2010 Kosovo: Fresh grave desecrated GNJILANE: The grave of a Serb woman who was buried yesterday in Gnjilane, eastern Kosovo, was dug up during the night. Kosovsko-Pomoravski District chief Dragan Nikolic told reporters today that the family found an open grave this morning, with the casket open and items removed from it. After that, the family laid the body to rest again in a different cemetery, in the village of Koretiste. "The deceased's last wish was to be buried in the upper part of the Gnjilane cemetery. This was the first burial in this cemetery since 1999. The digging up of her grave is a clear message to Serbs that they cannot even bury their dead in Gnjilane," said Nikolic. The town has a majority ethnic Albanian population. The case has been reported to the Kosovo police, KPS, the family said. ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2010 <http://www.b92.net/eng/news/crimes-article.php?yyyy=2010&mm=02&dd=20&nav_id=65327> &mm=02&dd=20&nav_id=65327 FoNet February 20, 2010 Albanians ambush local Serb ISTOK: Kosovo Serb Ljubisa Stepanovic was assaulted early Saturday morning in the Kosovo village of Zac, near Istok, by a group of Albanians. Stepanovic was jumped by a group of four or five Albanians while on his way to buy bread in Osojane, according to return coordinator in the Serb municipality of Istok, Vesna Malikovic. He was taken to the Kosovska Mitrovica hospital and the Kosovo police were informed of the attack. Malikovic said that the attackers waited for Stepanovic hiding on the property of a Serb that visited several days ago with the intention of returning with his family. She said that the situation in Istok has drastically worsened over the last week, and that the attack has further upset Serbs living in the municipality. “There are five homes almost complete for returning Serbs in Zac and it is obvious that someone does not like it,” Malikovic said. Stepanovic is one of three Serbs that first returned to Zac last summer.
