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22.8.2007 14:04 Fires in Serbian villages around Prizren In fires that over the last two days caught the region of Serbian village Novake in the municipality of Prizren, southern Kosmet, 16 hectares of the Serbian forests and meadows were burnt down, as well as the village graveyard and church, Branko Gligorijevic, a villager, confirmed to theTanjug. He stated that the first fire spread on Monday night from direction of village Musutiste, inhabited by Muslims and Albanians, and that 16 hectares of Serb-owned woods burnt down, as well as local graveyard and church. Gligorijevic said that firemen arrived late, but that KFOR sent three helicopters without which the whole village would be torched down. A new fire spread on Tuesday evening from direction of Albanian villages on the south, Gligorijevic said stating that firemen were late again. Obviously at issue is a human factor, this is a form of intimidation aimed at us, returnees, but we are determined to stay in the village, Gligorijevic underlined. There are 65 houses in village Novake, but after the Albanian violence in March 2004, only 25 households remain in the village. At the same time, in the village of Drajcici, where 34 Serbs live, a barn owned by the Jovanovic family, was burnt, a villager confirmed to the TANJUG, saying that the remaining Serbs were upset with this last fire. Sent using cyberus.ca WebMail - http://www.cyberus.ca/
