June 1999 Daily Reports Chronology

12^th June

• KFOR entered Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Five Kosovo Albanian men reportedly wearing civilian clothes with UCK badges on their shirts, allegedly abducted a Roma man in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Five Kosovo Serb men were allegedly abducted by the UCK in separate but related incidents in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Several hundred Serbs left Orahovac/Rrahovec (north of Prizren/Prizren), fearing the consequences of a Yugoslav Army (VJ) and Police (MUP) withdrawal. 
• A Roma was allegedly taken from his home in Orahovac/Rrahovec and has not been seen again. 

• The first OSCE assessment team entered Kosovo/Kosova. 
• KFOR entered Prizren/Prizren to a tumultuous welcome. 
• KFOR entered Orahovac/Rrahovec. VJ and MUP personnel left. Thirteen members of the UCK reportedly entered the town in uniform. The UCK took control of the police station. 
• Two hundred people from Zociste/Zozishte, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality, were allegedly forced to leave as 55 of their houses were burned. They took refuge in Orahovac/Rrahovec. 
• A Kosovo Serb from a village near Orahovac/Rrahovec was allegedly taken by the UCK (see 27 ^th June). 
• Between the 14^th and 16^th June about 600 Serbs from the centre of Orahovac/Rrahovec fled their homes and moved to the Serbian quarter of the town. 

• Five Kosovo Albanians were stopped at a UCK checkpoint in Jablanica/Jabllanice, Djakovica/Gjakove municipality (south of Pec/Peje) between 16:00 hours and 17:00 hours. Two of the Albanians were allegedly taken away and have not been seen since. 
• The Centre for Peace and Tolerance (CPT) opened an office in Pristina/Prishtine. 

• It was reported that an estimated 5,000 Roma were forcibly expelled by Kosovo Albanians from the Roma district in south Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. Most of their houses were said to have been looted and burned. Kosovo Albanians also allegedly expelled Roma from Stari Trg/Stariterg (north of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice) and from other areas in the south of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice town. This occurred over a period up until 30^th June. / 

• Five Kosovo Albanian males who were described as wearing green camouflage uniforms with UCK insignia stopped a Kosovo Serb in Gnjilane/Gjilan. The victim was released allegedly after he handed over 11,266 Dinar. 
• KFOR resisted a UCK attempt to occupy the former VJ Headquarters in Urosevac/Ferizaj (south of Pristina/Prishtine). However, UCK in the area occupied two buildings, a school and two factories. 
• The Council for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) restarted its activities in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The UCK appointed the former Deputy Spokesman for the UCK in Albania, as the 'mayor' of Prizren/Prizren.. 
• Men in reportedly in UCK uniforms took four Kosovo Serb males from their homes in Orahovac/Rrahovec. They were told that they were being taken for questioning. One man escaped and said that he had received a severe beating from the UCK soldiers and that he saw another of the men dead in the fire station. None of the other two were seen alive again either. All were over 60-years-old. 

• KFOR entered Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• Five thousand Kosovo Serb civilians left Urosevac/Ferizaj in a vehicle convoy under an KFOR escort. Some 500 other Kosovo Serbs gathered at the Urosevac/Ferizaj train station to await transportation out of the province. 

• 500 Kosovo Serbs left Kosovo/Kosova from the Urosevac/Ferizaj train station for other parts of Serbia. 
• UNHCR reported that 50,000 refugees had returned to Kosovo/Kosova over the previous three days. It was not known whether these were permanent returns or temporary visits to assess the situation. 
• ICRC reported that approximately 50-60,000 Kosovo Serb civilians had left Kosovo/Kosova in the previous two weeks. 
• The UCK in Urosevac/Ferizaj invited pre- 1990 employees of the municipal post office to return to work. 
• The acting director of Elektro Kosovo in Urosevac/Ferizaj reported that 260 Kosovo Serbs had left in the previous three days. Fifty Kosovo Albanian workers remained to run the company. 
• A Kosovo Serb was wounded in a drive-by shooting in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Serb forces finished their withdrawal from KFOR-designated Zone Two (west and east of Pristina/Prishtine). 
• KFOR soldiers entered the Prizren/Prizren police station. They relieved the UCK of their weapons and took over the building. KFOR found and released 15 detainees. One 73-year-old man was found dead, handcuffed to a chair. The UCK claimed that he died of a heart attack. Three of the released men claimed to have been arrested by the UCK in their village, brought to police station and severely beaten for 48 hours. They said that their family members were also badly beaten, but that the UCK had released them. The whereabouts of the family members were unknown. 
• Municipal Council activities recommenced in Prizren/Prizren. 
• Men described as wearing UCK uniforms took a 67-year-old Kosovo Serb male and 35-year-old Kosovo Serb male to Orahovac/Rrahovec 'police' station. The younger man was released after KFOR intervened. The 67 year old has not been seen since. 

• Twenty-seven Kosovo Serb men were allegedly abducted by the UCK or disappeared and were not seen again by their families. 

• Four or five UCK members reportedly detained a Kosovo Serb in Koretin/Koretin (south of Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica). The victim was released on 22^nd June after having been ill-treated. Cuts to his face and broken teeth were evident. 
• Three Kosovo Albanians and two Kosovo Serbs were killed in an ambush in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Reportedly, the two Kosovo Serb victims were being held captive by the three Kosovo Albanian victims. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was allegedly abducted from Gojbulja/Gojbuje, (south east of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice). 
• Three Kosovo Serbs were allegedly held and interviewed by UCK 'police.' They were then handed to KFOR. 
• In Belo Polje/Bellopoje, Pec/Peje municipality, three Kosovo Serb villagers were shot dead, allegedly by the UCK. A fourth Serb was critically injured. The Serb villagers were reportedly given 15 minutes to pack their belongings. After several shots were heard nearby, all the villagers left with KFOR. 
• A UCK Brigade Commander took over command of the UCK in the Orahovac/Rrahovec 'police' station. 

• In Belo Polje/Bellopoje, Pec/Peje municipality, three bodies were found. They appeared to be lying where they had been killed, one on the street and two in houses. Villagers had been evacuated to Montenegro on 19^th June leaving their houses intact. Many houses were now burned. 
• Two males were reportedly taken from their homes in the Roma quarter of Orahovac/Rrahovec by men claiming to be from the UCK. The two detainees have not been seen since. 

• A priest from the Pec/Peje Patriarchy went to Belo Polje/Bellopoje accompanied by relatives to bury the bodies of the three dead villagers. KFOR provided protection. 
• The UCK in Pec/Peje market square stopped a truck carrying young FARK recruits from Albania. The UCK commander insulted the FARK recruits saying that they were cowards who betrayed their country and arrived too late to fight. The UCK then reportedly proceeded to search the FARK recruits for weapons. 
• Four elderly Kosovo Serb males were murdered near Slivovo/Slivove, Pristina/Prishtine municipality. Three were stabbed and one was shot. 
• A Roma man was abducted and assaulted by men in UCK uniform in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The Yugoslav Red Cross opened a centre for Kosovo Serb IDPs in Bresje, Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove municipality . 

• A Kosovo Serb was detained by two Kosovo Albanian civilians and held in the UCK Headquarters in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Two people in UCK uniforms reportedly ill-treated the victim before an Albanian civilian ordered the perpetrators to stop. The victim was taken to a KFOR base. 
• One Kosovo Serb was reportedly abducted while on his way from Gnjilane/Gjilan to nearby Gornje Kusce. 
• Four Kosovo Serb males were reported missing in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Podujevo/Podujeve. 
• Two Kosovo Serbs males, a 63-year-old and a 65-year-old went missing in Orahovac/Rrahovec. They had gone to check on a house near local vineyards but were last seen being dragged into the UCK 'police' station. 
• Four bodies of Kosovo Serbs were found near Brnjaca, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality. Their hands had been tied with wire and they had been shot at close range. One male victim was identified. He had allegedly detained on 14 ^th June by the UCK. The other three bodies were not identified at the time. 

• Three western journalists spending the night in a Serb apartment in Pec/Peje reportedly received a midnight visit from three UCK members who were armed. Some hours later the journalists allegedly received a telephone call from a woman speaking Serbo-Croat who claimed she was being harassed by the UCK. She asked the journalists to go and inform KFOR. They declined for fear that it might be a trap. 

• KFOR guarded 300 Kosovo Serbs in the Patriarchy in Pec/Peje. A number of Kosovo Serbs had approached the OSCE asking for help to regain possession of their homes. 
• The first OSCE reconnaissance team arrived to Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• Two Kosovo Serbs who went missing were allegedly detained by the UCK in Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• The OSCE established a Human Rights Contact Office in the Headquarters building in Pristina/Prishtine. 

• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, two Kosovo Albanian civilians claiming to work for the UCK allegedly threatened a Kosovo Serb with a pistol. The victim was released after he handed over his own weapon, a handgun, and some ammunition. 
• A Kosovo Serb was alleged to have been seriously beaten by three members of the UCK over a period of seven hours in Zegra/Zheger (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). The victim was later taken to Gnjilane/Gjilan Hospital by KFOR. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, a Kosovo Serb male interviewee reported that four men in UCK uniform had expelled him and his family from their house. The interviewee claimed that he was ill-treated, that his son was threatened with a hand grenade and that their passports were destroyed. The family were too afraid to return to their house. 
• A member of the UCK allegedly abducted four Kosovo Serb males from a house in Gojbulja/Gojbuje, Vucitrn/Vushtrri municipality (south of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice). One of the four was later released. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was shot dead while moving out of his apartment near Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A Kosovo Serb water engineer went missing on his way to work in the Obilic/Obiliq area (north of Pristina). KFOR found his body near pipelines a week later. 
• KFOR informed the OSCE that the public services were running in Prizren/Prizren and that KFOR was paying the salaries as a short-term measure. KFOR expressed concern over who would take on the payment responsibilities. 
• In Prizren/Prizren, as of 24^th June, KFOR had arrested 100 persons who were suspected of being involved in robbery, looting, assault and rape. The detained persons were kept in the Prizren/Prizren police station's prison. 
• OSCE met, the 'Protojerej' of the Orthodox Church in Prizren/Prizren. The Church representative expressed deep concern about crimes against the Serbian community mentioning killing, raping and the looting of Serbian property. The representative said that the Serbs who had committed crimes had already left and those who remained behind did not have 'dirty hands.' The 'Protojerej' said that the Orthodox Church enjoyed good relations with the Catholic Church but did have contact with the Muslim community. 
• The OSCE met the Catholic Priest of Prizren/Prizren. He said that approximately 2,500 Catholics lived in the Prizren/Prizren area before the March 1999 fighting started. The Priest said the Catholic community had not been specifically discriminated against before or since the war. He believed that relations with other kosovo.netmunities would not be problematic since all the Catholics are Kosovo Albanians. 
• OSCE in Prizren/Prizren met the former local President of the Kosovo Albanian Council for Human Rights and Freedom. During the period of OSCE-KVM he had provided information concerning human rights violations and co-ordinated humanitarian affairs for the self-styled municipal authority. 
• Security remained the prime concern in Prizren/Prizren with 20 to 30 crimes per day. There were daily evictions of Kosovo Serbs, Roma and Kosovo Albanians alleged to be collaborators. Their houses were then looted. Good co-operation existed with the UCK appointed local authorities but KFOR urged the UCK to acknowledge their responsibility for crimes committed in their name. 
• Approximately 3,200 Kosovo Serbs were still living in Orahovac/Rrahovec; 201 of them from nearby Zociste. The Serbian mayor was still in the town. The Albanian population was estimated to be 10,000 persons. The UCK had taken over, re-appointing the former Albanian mayor. The UCK was the only organisation fulfilling a political role in this area. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec the public services such as water, electricity and the hospital were all functioning relatively well. 
• KFOR and UCK co-operation in Orahovac/Rrahovec was good. The relationship between the Kosovo Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians however remained very hostile. 
• An estimated 60-70% of Suva Reka/Suhareke (north east of Prizren/Prizren) was looted and burned. Approximately 5,000 Kosovo Albanians were living in the town compared with a pre-war figure of 20,000. All the Kosovo Serbs, previously 10-15% of the inhabitants had left. The UCK had taken control in Suva Reka/Suhareke. 
• The crime rate in Suva Reka/Suhareke was high with reports of numerous revenge actions, allegedly being committed by the UCK. 

• UCK-uniformed men allegedly abducted a Kosovo Serb male in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• One Kosovo Serb was reportedly detained and ill-treated by UCK members at the UCK Headquarters in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• A Kosovo Serb claimed to have been taken by the UCK to their Headquarters in Gnjilane/Gjilan and forced to hand over his weapon. The victim was also reportedly forced to hand over his vehicle. 
• A Kosovo Serb was reportedly detained for one hour and ill-treated at the UCK HQ in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Podujevo/Podujeve (north of Pristina/Prishtine). 
• There were approximately 85 persons temporarily housed in the Bogoslovija Seminary school in Prizren/Prizren. Of these, 63 were Kosovo Serbs, 20 Kosovo Albanians and two Roma. KFOR provided protection because these persons expressed fear of being attacked by Kosovo Albanians and some of them showed signs of having been subjected to torture. All of them were afraid of the UCK. The average age of those in the school was 55-60 years. Several persons did not know the fate of their families. 
• The situation between the Muslim Slavs (Gora/Dragashi) and the Kosovo Albanians in Dragas/Dragash, was very tense. At a meeting with the first self-appointed Gora/Dragashi 'mayor', he said that the Muslim Slav directors of private and public enterprises had been thrown out of their posts and replaced by Kosovo Albanians. He claimed that 10-15% of the Muslim Slav population had left for other parts of Serbia, Montenegro or the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. He said this would continue to happen if the security conditions did not improve. 
• The UCK issued an order that all Serbian shop signs should be removed or their windows would be broken. Despite KFOR efforts to prevent this from happening windows were broken. The UCK order also prohibited the playing of Serbian music. 

• Returning Kosovo Albanian refugees shot and killed four Kosovo Serbs from Rudice, Klina/Kline municipality (east of Pec/Peje). 

• Three unknown men abducted two Roma men from Zac, Istok/Istog municipality (north east of Pec/Peje). Family members could identify two of the perpetrators. One of them was arrested by KFOR. 
• In Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice a large crowd of Kosovo Serbs gathered on the northern side of the bridge in order to prevent KFOR-negotiated, Kosovo Albanian access to the Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice Hospital. KFOR blocked the bridge to prevent any confrontation. 
• OSCE went to Mamusa/Mamushe in Prizren/Prizren municipality. Mamusa/Mamushe is a mixed village with approximately 6,000 Turks, 1,000 Kosovo Albanians and a few Roma families. Out of a total of 450 houses, 20 owned by Kosovo Albanians were destroyed. The Mayor of Mamusa/Mamushe said that there were no problems between the two communities. In the centre of the village, the Albanian and Turkish flags were flying together. A few UCK-uniformed personnel were seen in the village. 

• KFOR were providing protection for the isolated community of 3,200 Kosovo Serbs who were gathered in crowded conditions in the Serbian quarter of Orahovac/Rrahovec. IDPs from nearby Zociste were reported to have finished a hunger strike aimed at forcing their evacuation from Orahovac/Rrahovec. The house of a Roma was burned in Orahovac/Rrahovec. 

• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, a Kosovo Serb was allegedly ill-treated by UCK members. The Serb's shop was looted, occupied and a UCK insignia was placed above the door to the premises. 
• A Kosovo Albanian on his way to work at the Gnjilane/Gjilan PTT (Post and Telecom) was harassed and ill-treated by two alleged UCK members. 
• A Kosovo Serb male claimed that he was ambushed, beaten, interrogated and then released near Gnjilane/Gjilan by two men in UCK uniforms. 
• Kosovo Serbs, former managers of the Trepca Mining Company, unsuccessfully tried to gain access to the Trepce-owned mines south of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• A Muslim Slav from Kovrage, Istok/Istog municipality, disappeared. He was last seen on his way to Djurakovac (north east of Pec/Peje). 
• In Pec/Peje a Kosovo Albanian man was shot and wounded in the shoulder. 
• An estimated 200 Kosovo Albanians entered the Radio and Television (RTV) broadcasting building in Pristina/Prishtine and attempted to evict the Kosovo Serb employees. 
• A shooting incident occurred in Orahovac/Rrahovec. A pregnant Kosovo Serb woman was transported from Velika Hoca/Hoce e Madhe to Orahovac/Rrahovec for treatment. Four Kosovo Serb males accompanied her. One of these opened fire at three men in UCK uniform, wounding all of them, one seriously. The Kosovo Serb gunman was detained by KFOR and remained in detention in Prizren/Prizren awaiting trial. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, a Roma was taken from his home by men claiming to be UCK. He was not seen again. 

• A Kosovo Albanian appointed by the Gnjilane/Gjilan Hospital Board on 21^st June was replaced, reportedly by a relative of the Director. 
• The remains of an elderly Roma leader were found by KFOR in his burned house. 
• In Pristina/Prishtine, the Kosovo Information Centre, a Kosovo Albanian news agency, resumed its activities. 
• In Prizren/Prizren, four representatives of the Muslim Slavs went to the OSCE office. They said that there were some 20,500 Muslim Slavs in the town and approximately 14,700 in the Gora/Dragashi region. According to the representatives, there were 78,700 Muslim Slavs in the Prizren/Prizren region at the last FRY census. 

• 18 Krajina Serb IDPs claimed that they were forcibly evicted from their accommodation in Novo Brodo/Novo Berde (north of Gnjilane/Gjilan) by the UCK. One Krajina Serb was killed and another had his leg broken during the same incident. 
• The bodies were found of 19 members of one family, the Imeraj family in Rakos, Istok/Istog municipality . The family was killed on 26 March. 
• A mass grave with approximately 96 unidentified bodies was found in Istok/Istog. 

• A Kosovo Albanian from Sinaje, Istok/Istog municipality, was reportedly abducted by the UCK. He was a member of FARK. 
• Four elderly Serbs reportedly disappeared from Stupelj, Klina/Kline municipality. They have never been seen since. 
• Several hundred Roma sought shelter at an elementary school in Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove. This precipitated the arrival of hundreds of Roma from all over Kosovo/Kosova, particularly from Pristina/Prishtine where the intimidation and harassment against Roma was reported to be especially serious. The population of the make-shift Roma IDP camp reached upwards of 5,000 people in mid-July. 

1^st July

• In Gnjilane/Gjilan three Kosovo Albanians claiming to be UCK members abducted two Kosovo Serb males loading goods on a truck. They were reportedly interrogated in the former VJ club about their whereabouts during the conflict. One victim was said to have been severely beaten with a stick. 
• KFOR troops in Zitinje and Trpeza, Vitina/Viti municipality reported that houses were being burned during the night. In Gnjilane/Gjilan the situation of lawlessness had not changed with several criminal gangs looting Kosovo Serb flats and expelling Serb families from their homes. The Kosovo Albanian population also reported feeling unsafe. An increased KFOR presence in residential areas was requested. 
• Several reports have been received from Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs that the VJ and MUP tried to keep the paramilitaries out of Gnjilane/Gjilan during the conflict. This might partly explain the relatively small number of IDPs in Gnjilane/Gjilan town. 
• In Zegra/Zheger, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, the LDK leader admitted that the current lawlessness was motivated by revenge. He said that the Albanian population had started to burn and loot Serbian houses when they returned to the area and saw the state of their own homes. A quickly established UN local administration was, according the LDK leader, the only factor that could prevent the situation from deteriorating further. 
• Two Kosovo Serb males were abducted on the outskirts of Gnjilane/Gjilan. KFOR and OSCE intervened by speaking with local UCK leadership and both men were released. 
• Tension was reported to be rising in Zitinje, in Vitina/Viti municipality (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). Zitinje was a mixed village with a 50% Kosovo Serb and 50% Kosovo Albanian population. The house of the Kosovo Serb leader in the village was set on fire. According to KFOR the perpetrators were two local Kosovo Albanians. 
• Four persons claiming to be UCK took possession of a Roma male's vehicle and tractor in Klina/Kline. 
• According to KFOR all the Kosovo Serbs had left Suva Reka/Suhareke (north east of Prizren/Prizren) and the surrounding villages of Ljubizhda, Mohlorn, Reqan, Dvoran, Mushtishte and Sopia. 
• A KFOR Officer said that approximately 50 Roma left the village Leshane, Suva Reka/Suhareke municipality, and went to KFOR location to look for protection from the Kosovo Albanians. After discussions with the Kosovo Albanian villagers, KFOR troops managed to calm the situation and the Roma were brought back to Leshane. 
• The same KFOR Officer said that there were not many reports about present human rights violations but people were still reporting human rights violations that took place during the bombing. 

• Houses were burning in Rogotovo, Zegra/Zheger and Prilepnica/Perlepnice, in the Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. Three families were expelled from Prilepnica/Perlepnice to Kusce and two houses were burned. 
• The situation in the town of Gnjilane/Gjilan was still tense. Kosovo Serb houses were again looted and the owners reportedly expelled by gangs. 
• OSCE staff tried without success to make contact with the Serbian population in Zitinje, Vitina/Viti municipality. Reports had been received that the Kosovo Serbs were going to leave the village. OSCE did visit the Kosovo Serb leader whose barn was burned on 1^st July to try and convince him that the people should stay. 
• In Urosevac/Ferizaj two Serb families alleged harassment and looting by Albanian gangs coming from outside the town. The apartment of an old lady had apparently been looted a short time before the arrival of the OSCE Human Rights team. 
• Three Kosovo Albanians were taken into custody in Djakovica/Gjakove apparently by the UCK and brought to Rogova (south of Djakovica/Gjakove) where they were forced to spend the night. Two of the detainees were released but the third has not been seen since. 
• Four Kosovo Serbs were killed in their house in Istok/Istog. Two of the victims had been shot, one of whom appeared to have been tortured first. The other two victims were killed by blows to the head. The house was set on fire with the four bodies inside. One of the victims had been identified. 
• A Kosovo Serb electrician was reportedly abducted from his workplace at the Pristina/Prishtine power station. 
• In Pristina/Prishtine, UNMIK appointed judges start reviewing cases of persons detained by KFOR. 
• UNHCR in Pristina/Prishtine reported that 523,900 refugees had returned to Kosovo/Kosova. 
• 'Kosovo Day', commemorating the declaration of Kosovo independence by the Kosovo Albanian opposition nine years ago, was celebrated in the region. Several thousand Kosovo Albanians gathered in the centre of Pristina/Prishtine. Some Albanians burned Yugoslav flags, tore down Serbian signs and toppled a marble statue of a 19 Century Serb Nationalist hero. A vehicle carrying eight passengers drove past the Serb Civil Administration Building in the city and one of the passengers fired an automatic weapon. In response a KFOR patrol fired shots at the vehicle, killing one person and seriously wounding three others. 
• A Roma male was taken from his home in the Roma quarter of Orahovac/Rrahovec by men claiming to be from the UCK. 

• A visit to Prilepnica/Perlepnice, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, revealed that all Serbian houses were untouched but the population had left the village. Kosovo Albanian residents informed the OSCE that sons of one Kosovo Serb family had served as paramilitaries in the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts. The Kosovo Albanians claimed that the Kosovo Serbs had tried to set their own houses on fire. 
• KFOR reported the expulsion of 40 Roma families from Vucitrn/Vushtrri . The remaining Roma community of approximately 20 persons requested KFOR protection. 
• In Klina/Kline an Albanian speaking group claiming to be the UCK reportedly threatened a Roma family and attempted to force their way into their house. 
• The situation in Prizren/Prizren was described as very calm. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren was requested by the UNMIK Interim Civil Administration to conduct interviews of candidates for the Judiciary. The OSCE interviewed nine persons. 
• A mine exploded in southern Prizren/Prizren killing a Kosovo Albanian and injuring two others. A KFOR soldier was also injured. The circumstances surrounding the incident were not clear. 
• Around midnight a major explosion was heard in Prizren/Prizren town. A bronze statue of Tsar Dusan had been blown up. One person had been arrested. 

• A 47-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Bostane was reportedly executed by Kosovo Albanians, allegedly UCK, in Klobukar, Novo Brodo/Novo Berde municipality. 
• A 31-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Silovo disappeared on his way from the village to nearby Gnjilane/Gjilan. He was last seen by KFOR at the crossroads to Malisevo. 
• Three Kosovo Serb males, aged 35, 49 and 54, (two from Klokot and one from Vitina/Viti) were allegedly abducted by unknown persons in Donje Livoc (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). The victims were coming back into Kosovo from southern Serbia with a tractor. 
• The first elements of the KFOR contingent arrived in Prizren/Prizren to a very warm welcome. They continued to Dragas/Dragash where they were to be based. 
• An 18-year-old Kosovo Serb and two elderly Kosovo Serbs were injured when unknown gunmen fired several rounds at a vehicle driving from Pasanje to Donja Budriga, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. The 18-year-old survived the initial encounter but died later in a KFOR hospital. KFOR began investigations into the matter. 
• IDPs from Bujanovac and Presevo (east of Gnjilane/Gjilan, across the Kosovo/Kosova boundary) started arriving in Gnjilane/Gjilan. An Albanian male from Cuker, Bujanovac municipality, alleged that on 26^th June he was ill-treated by men wearing green camouflage uniforms, short hair and earrings. The victim was maltreated with a knife and rope and then beaten with the butt of a machine gun. He said that he was asked about several residents of the village. 
• Several houses were burned in the Roma quarter of Gnjilane/Gjilan allegedly by Kosovo Albanians. It was unclear whether the Roma had left Gnjilane/Gjilan or were in hiding as OSCE Officers could not manage to identify any Roma to take a statement. Two Roma did however approach KFOR. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers visited Letnica the only village in the Gnjilane/Gjilan region with an exclusively ethnic Croat population. The mood in the village was reported to be one of despair and resignation. The population said they felt trapped between Kosovo Serbs and Kosovo Albanians and that they lacked representatives in higher authorities. The Croat community had been living in Letnica for approximately 400 years having historically been displaced from the Dalmatian coast. The remaining community of 450 were considering going to Croatia. 

• Unknown perpetrators in Gnjilane/Gjilan reportedly abducted a 35-year-old Kosovo Serb male. An unknown person from a vehicle parked in a side street approached the Serb. When the Serb left his own vehicle he was forced into the perpetrator's car and driven away. 
• A convoy of 13 Kosovo Serb vehicles from Zegra/Zheger, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, escorted by KFOR, headed towards the Kosovo boundary destined for Presevo in southern Serbia. 
• UNHCR informed the OSCE that 15 Krajina Serbs, refugees from Croatia had been escorted to Bujanovac over the Kosovo boundary. The Serbs said that they did not want to wait until the UNHCR or IOM could organise their transfer to Croatia. 
• KFOR found the body of a Kosovo Serb male in a mixed residential area of Gnjilane/Gjilan. Neighbours reported a smell coming from an apartment and alerted KFOR. When the door was forced the man was found tied to a chair with his throat cut. A bloodstained knife, the deceased's ID and a military booklet belonging to his son were found. No one in the building admitted to hearing or seeing anything. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, a crowd claiming allegiance to the self-proclaimed UCK civilian administration tried to occupy the office of the Yugoslav Red Cross. Representatives of the Mother Teresa Society mediated and the crowd dispersed. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer took the statement of an eyewitness and one indirect witness to the alleged kidnapping of a Kosovo Serb in the Gnjilane/Gjilan town centre on the afternoon of 25 ^th June. 
• In Stupelj, Klina/Kline municipality a group of Kosovo Albanians claiming to be UCK entered the compound of a family and confiscated their tractor. The head of the family and son is said to have been threatened at gunpoint. 
• In Pec/Peje, a former OSCE local employee reported that she was sitting with other Kosovo Albanian friends at an ice cream parlour owned by a Muslim Slav (Gora/Dragashi) when an UCK member passed by and told them they could not give money to the Gora/Dragashis 'who were their enemies.' The customers all had to leave. The ice-cream parlour was closed on 6^th July but re-opened a few days later. 
• Two Roma males were reportedly kidnapped in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A Muslim Slav television engineer from Orcusa, Gora/Dragashi municipality , was killed in Lipljan/Lipjan.Hewas in the market with two Serbian friends when he was attacked. His throat was slashed and he was stabbed five times in the chest. He was a native of Lipljan/Lipjan and was buried in the village. 
• A Muslim Slav (Gora/Dragashi) representative, met KFOR. He said that the Muslim Slav community in Prizren/Prizren faced harassment through threatening phone calls, looting and occupation of houses. He was particularly concerned about the dismissal of Muslim Slav health personnel from the Prizren/Prizren Hospital and their replacement by Kosovo Albanians. The Director of the hospital and a dentist had received threats. The dentist's house was occupied but KFOR successfully intervened to stop the same happening to the Director's house. 
• In Dragas/Dragash, Gora/Dragashi municipality, the Muslim Slav acting director of the textile factory, was replaced by the Kosovo Albanian ex-director. The Kosovo Albanian ex-employees from 1991 have also replaced other workers. However, the factory had not been producing material for some time. 

• Kosovo Serbs reported recent incidents to the OSCE and Kosovo Albanians passed information about events that happened during the conflict but otherwise, in Gnjilane/Gjilan the overall situation seemed calmer. A rotation of KFOR troops took place with US Marines handing over to the US KFOR Army. 
• Three Kosovo Albanian men in black uniforms abducted a 51-year-old Kosovo Serb male from his flat in Gnjilane/Gjilan. The men, wearing UCK insignia, had earlier allegedly beaten the victim when they had entered his flat asking for weapons. 
• The Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice UN Regional Administrator arrived in the town. A long series of negotiations began on the freedom of movement within Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• An explosion damaged two high-voltage power line pylons and caused a power failure in the Strpce/Shterpce area (a predominantly Serb enclave, east of Prizren/Prizren). The lines served electricity to a Serbian community and deliberate sabotage was suspected. Power was restored on 24 ^th July. 
• Twelve cases of arson were reported in the Pristina/Prishtine municipality. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was reported missing in the Pristina/Prishtine area. 
• Ten Kosovo Serb doctors and nurses at the Lipljan/Lipjan Medical Centre (south of Pristina/Prishtine) were assaulted by four Kosovo Albanians. 
• The situation in Orahovac/Rrahovec was described as tense. 

• Serb and Roma houses continued to be burned in Pec/Peje at a rate of two or three a day although according to KFOR the daily average had declined from the 10 houses recorded two weeks earlier. 

• Several Roma and Kosovo Serb houses were burned in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, a Kosovo Serb female was harassed by five unknown perpetrators some of whom were reported to be wearing uniforms with UCK badges. They entered her flat and asked for her husband's weapons. They are said to have intimidated the victim by playing with a hand grenade and a gun. 
• The situation in Cernica and Gornji Livoc (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan) was still tense with shooting reported every night. In Gornji Livoc one Kosovo Albanian was killed as a result of the shooting. 
• A peaceful demonstration of 5,000 Kosovo Albanians walked through the north of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice town, a part dominated by the Kosovo Serbs. The demonstration had previously been negotiated with the Kosovo Serb leadership and the international community. 
• OSCE reported that in Bostane, (west of Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica) and nearby Klobukar many houses were burned. A Human Rights Officer visited and interviewed nine Krajina Serbs (Serb refugees from Croatia) who had been evicted from Novo Brodo/Novo Berde on 30^th June allegedly by the UCK. They moved to Bostane. During the eviction, one 50-year-old Kosovo Serb male was killed and another aged 70 was reportedly injured. One local Serb from Bostane was allegedly executed in Ceranovica on 4^th July. Two eyewitnesses had disappeared but were believed to be hiding in the mountains. Personal security was one of the main issues for the Krajina refugees along with a lack of freedom of movement, food and shelter. OSCE Human Rights Officers conveyed the information KFOR who undertook to patrol the area more frequently. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer interviewed an eyewitness to an alleged abduction by two civilians of a Kosovo Serb, a former OSCE employee, in the centre of Gnjilane/Gjilan on 5 ^th July. (See above GN 31) 
• The OSCE Human Rights Division received information from KFOR about the abduction of two Kosovo Albanian males between Gornje Kusce and Prilepnica/Perlepnice (north of Gnjilane/Gjilan). According to local sources, the two men were being held for exchange with Kosovo Serbs held by Albanians. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan intervened with the 'civilian wing' of the UCK regarding three abducted Kosovo Serbs. 
• The President of the Executive Council of Presevo (south east of Gnjilane/Gjilan), a member of the PDSh (an Albanian political party) enquired into the possibilities of protecting the Albanian minority outside of Kosovo in southern Serbia. The OSCE Human Rights Officer explained the limits of the UNMIK mandate but proposed to transmit the information to the ICRC. 
• Unknown men reportedly beat an elderly Kosovo Serb woman in Istok/Istog . The men fled when KFOR approached. 
• Five cases of arson were reported in the Pristina/Prishtine municipality. 
• Two Kosovo Serb males were murdered in separate attacks in the Pristina/Prishtine municipality. 
• Two Kosovo Albanians were reportedly abducted by the UCK in Pristina/Prishtine in separate, but related incidents. Both had previously worked for the Serb municipal authority. 
• A Kosovo Serb house was set on fire in Prizren/Prizren around midnight. During the day another three houses were looted and burned. Unconfirmed reports were received claiming that children were being used to start the fires thereby reducing KFOR's response options. 
• Approximately 500 Kosovo Albanians demonstrated against the proposed Russian KFOR deployment in Orahovac/Rrahovec. 

• A 26-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Vrbovac disappeared in Gnjilane/Gjilan. He was last seen by a neighbour. 
• The tension in Gnjilane/Gjilan and in the nearby mixed villages of Cernica and Gornje Livoc remains high. In the previous 24 hours several houses were burned, three of them in the Roma part of the town. A grenade was thrown into a private house in a mixed part of Gnjilane/Gjilan and three Kosovo Serb females were wounded. 
• The security situation deteriorated in the mixed village of Cernica (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). Despite the presence of KFOR, uniformed UCK were still visible in the streets and gunfire could be heard daily. A 36-year-old Kosovo Serb claimed that he was arrested by the UCK in Gnjilane/Gjilan on 1^st July, taken to their Headquarters and interrogated for three hours regarding his whereabouts during the conflict. He claimed he was made to sign a statement in Albanian and then ill-treated. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers reported that in the Gnjilane/Gjilan area Kosovo Serbs did not enjoy freedom of movement or unimpeded access to food supplies or jobs. The Serbs said that they felt unprotected and perceived that KFOR was not impartial. In turn, Kosovo Albanians said they were not working the land as they feared that the Kosovo Serbs were heavily armed. 
• UNHCR informed the Human Rights Department that so far 2,100 Albanian IDPs had crossed the boundary into Kosovo and settled in the Gnjilane/Gjilan region. Approximately 100 persons were arriving every day. UNHCR also said that the Krajina Serbs would either be repatriated to Croatia or transferred across the Kosovo boundary. It appeared that only a small number were ready to return to Croatia. The problem of the isolated Serbian population was discussed. The restrictions of freedom of movement due to the security situation confined the Serbian population to their villages where often there were no shops. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer, enquiring into the abduction of Kosovo Serbs on 6^th July in Gnjilane/Gjilan, took a statement from an eyewitness and next of kin and an individual claiming co-detention with the Serbs. 
• Three Kosovo Serb males were murdered in separate attacks in the Pristina/Prishtine municipality. 
• A Kosovo Serb couple, both aged 70, were murdered in Stimlje/Shtime (north west of Urosevac/Ferizaj). 
• Two Kosovo Serb males were reported missing in the Lipljan/Lipjan area . 
• Threats were made at the Prizren/Prizren round-table meeting by the 'mayor' of Orahovac/Rrahovec (north of Prizren/Prizren) that if Russian KFOR deployed to Orahovac/Rrahovec the population would go to Albania. A further demonstration was held against the Russian KFOR deployment. The burning of Kosovo Serb houses in Orahovac/Rrahovec continued. 

• An incident of harassment was reported in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Several times five men visited the flat of a mixed Kosovo Serb/Bulgarian couple asking for weapons. A Kosovo Albanian in Gnjilane/Gjilan unlawfully detained a 37-year-old Kosovo Serb male from nearby Silovo. He was allegedly taken into a building from which he returned with his face cut. The victim disappeared on the same day when he tried to retrieve his vehicle. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in the Lipljan/Lipjan region. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers received information from the Royal Military Police (RMP) of a grenade attack against a Kosovo Serb property in the Lipljan/Lipjan area. There were no injuries but extensive damage was reported. 
• One Muslim Slav (Gora/Dragashi) family (father, his elderly mother and a teenage son) were attacked by a group of Kosovo Albanians while returning home from Dragas/Dragash. Approximately 30 people threw stones at them and beat the three family members. The father received injuries to the head; the 70-year-old mother had bruises on her body. Two days later, on 11^th July, two civilians went to the family's house with an order demanding that he hand over his weapon, which he did. It was reported that a UCK commander from the 'ministry of public order' had signed the order. 

• High tension was reported in the Gnjilane/Gjilan. Two houses in the centre of the town were reported to be on fire and a shooting incident took place in the town. 
• A 49-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Silovo, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, reportedly disappeared on the way to Gnjilane/Gjilan in his vehicle. He was going to talk to a UCK commander to enquire about another missing Kosovo Serb. 
• Kosovo Serbs, under escort from KFOR, visited the Orthodox Church and Cemetery in south Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• The body of a Kosovo Albanian was found in the River Ibar in Grabovac, Zvecan municipality (west of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice). The deceased had been reported missing on 25^th June. The whereabouts of another Kosovo Albanian who went missing at the same time was still unknown. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers received a report of the UCK entering the house of a Kosovo Albanian family in Djakovica/Gjakove. The family claimed to have been intimidated and threatened. The house was searched but nothing was taken. 
• The bodies of a middle-aged Muslim Slav couple were found on a riverbank in the centre of Pec/Peje. They had been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment or torture The identity of the couple was confirmed. They had been accused of being Serb collaborators. 
• A Roma family was reportedly badly beaten in Pec/Peje. 
• Two Kosovo Serb males were murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• In Pristina/Prishtine, a Roma woman and her family were reportedly taken to a UCK Headquarters and beaten while their home was looted. 
• Serb houses in Prizren/Prizren were still being burned. Although the burning appeared to have been conducted in an organised rather than random manner, there was no indication that the local Kosovo Albanian authorities took any action to prevent this. OSCE Human Rights Officers reported that the local citizens did not condemn the action but were critical of the use of children to start the fires. To what extent children were being used was uncertain. Civilians were very reluctant to help KFOR put out the fires and there were cases when roads were blocked by vehilces in order to hinder the fire brigade. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren visited the Seminary in Prizren/Prizren where there were 180 persons taking refuge including 25 Kosovo Albanians and one Roma family consisting of ten people. About two thirds of the IDPs were elderly and the rest were mainly children. There were two teenage girls from mixed marriages. 
• It was reported that Muslim Slav (Gora/Dragashi) men employed in Dragas/Dragash trading companies had lost their jobs. Albanians from nearby Opolje had replaced them. An Albanian in a senior position advised the Muslim Slavs not to turn up for work. 
• A demonstration took place in Orahovac/Rrahovec against Russian KFOR. 
• OSCE visited Malisevo, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality, to get a general overview of the situation. The population considered shelter and food to be the main problems but security was not a concern. About 60-70% of the population of Malisevo and the surrounding area had now returned.The OSCE Human Rights team talked to people from nearby Drenovac who also cited lack of shelter as the main problem with up to 90% of their housing destroyed. 
• A shooting incident occurred in which a Kosovo Albanian was killed and another seriously wounded by a Kosovo Serb gunman. According to KFOR this was the consequence of a Kosovo Albanian threatening to kidnap the son of an alleged Kosovo Serb paramilitary. KFOR confiscated four weapons including automatic rifles (SKS-type) and hand-grenades. 

• Returnees to Pec/Peje reported to the Centre for the Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms approximately 50 individual cases of unidentified dead bodies. 

• Tension increased in Gnjilane/Gjilan and in the nearby area. KFOR considered that the security risk for Kosovo Albanians in Gnjilane/Gjilan in general was limited but for the Kosovo Serbs the risk was high. On the night 10^th – 11^th July at least four Kosovo Serbian houses were reported to be burning. Kosovo Serbs in the villages of Silovo, Kosaca and Pasjane set up three roadblocks. Allegedly, the Kosovo Serbs were demonstrating against the abduction of Kosovo Serb men in the area of Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• International Mercy Corps (IMC) informed OSCE of certain threats against the international agencies (especially the UN and UNHCR) by Kosovo Serbs in Silovo, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. KFOR did not yet have a permanent presence in the village. 
• In the afternoon two houses were burning in the centre of Gnjilane/Gjilan. Later two more houses were reported to be burning in the same area. KFOR and the fire brigade attended. 
• A Kosovo Albanian male and five Roma males were reportedly abducted and beaten allegedly by the UCK in two separate incidents in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec approximately 10,000 Kosovo Albanians demonstrated. Rumours were heard that Kosovo Serbs in the town were calling Kosovo Albanians and issuing threats about what would happen when Russian KFOR arrived. 
• A male from Djakovica/Gjakove, a guest of the Roma community in Orahovac/Rrahovec, was detained by men reportedly wearing UCK uniforms. He was not seen again. 

• A 45-year-old Kosovo Serb male disappeared in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• A Kosovo Serb/Bulgarian couple in Gnjilane/Gjilan returned home in the evening to find their apartment had been searched and some belongings stolen. (see above GN 60) 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, nine buildings were set on fire within a six-hour period. Some of them were totally destroyed. The two fire engines were insufficient to deal with the number of incidents. The KFOR Military Police arrested two Kosovo Albanians for arson. 
• Unofficial roadblocks continued to be a problem in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Kosovo Albanians were establishing them to prevent Kosovo Serbs entering the town. The Serbs had wanted to get to Gnjilane/Gjilan in order to hold their own demonstration against the kidnapping of Kosovo Serbs. 
• Near Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica five or six Kosovo Albanian youths reportedly attempted at gunpoint to confiscate the vehicle of a Kosovo Serb female. 
• A Roma man was allegedly kidnapped in front of his home in Urosevac/Ferizaj by four Kosovo Albanian men and one Kosovo Albanian woman. As a result of this incident Roma were reported to be leaving the area. 
• A Kosovo Serb man was abducted from his home in Pristina/Prishtine reportedly by men wearing UCK uniforms. 
• Six grenade attacks against Kosovo Serbs were reported in Lipljan/Lipjan municipality injuring at least four Kosovo Serbs. 
• Two cases of arson against Roma were reported in the Lipljan/Lipjan municipality. 
• The new Regional Commander of UNMIK Police in Prizren/Prizren arrived with eight other international police officers. They were in the process of identifying office accommodation in the town. 
• Twenty three houses were burned in Prizren/Prizren between 10^th and 12^th July. KFOR increased the number of foot patrols in the Kosovo Serb quarter leading to a reduction in arson in that area but incidents of burning moved to the opposite side of the river. Although KFOR said that they did not believe that elements of UCK were carrying out these actions, according to inhabitants who contacted the OSCE, the UCK were involved and they were reported to have pledged to continue the burning. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers went to Belobrad (south of Prizren/Prizren), a village of 1081 inhabitants. The war destruction was modest; the looting of houses by the Yugoslav Army during the conflict was said to be the main problem. Most of the Kosovo Albanian inhabitants had escaped during the fighting but a young boy and a woman were said to have been killed. A Kosovo Albanian male lawyer also died. He went missing on 31 March and his body was found by the UCK Brigade 127/128 on 16 September in Lugi Keq (west of Prizren/Prizren near the Albanian border). The UCK Commander, alleged that the lawyer had been tortured and burned. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team visiting Zrze, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality said that Roma and Kosovo Albanian representatives of the village reported that there were no major problems. 

• Four Kosovo Albanian males were reportedly ambushed on the way to Lastica (south east of Gnjilane/Gjilan). The Kosovo Albanians were said to have been taken out of their vehicle and shot dead. The assailants were reported to have been in a vehicle that had come across the Kosovo boundary from southern Serbia heading towards Pasjane (south east of Gnjilane/Gjilan). 
• The situation remained uneasy in Gnjilane/Gjilan and in the nearby Kosovo Serb villages. KFOR Military Police (MP) arrested 19 people, mainly Kosovo Albanians in connection with curfew and weapon violations, looting and destruction of property. The MPs had also detained UCK 'policemen' who were carrying weapons and handcuffs. 
• Three houses were burned in Gnjilane/Gjilan. KFOR arrested seven individuals for damage to property, weapon violations and arson. Twenty-nine were also arrested for breaking the curfew. Checkpoints continued to be established around Kosovo Serb villages. 
• A Kosovo Serb, a former member of the VJ (Yugoslav Army), was reported to have been kidnapped in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Three attempted murders of Kosovo Serbs were reported in Stimlje/Shtime. 
• Arson against a Kosovo Serb property and a grenade attack against a Roma were reported in Lipljan/Lipjan . 
• In Prizren/Prizren, a house was reported burning. 
• In Gora/Dragashi municipality (south of Prizren/Prizren), OSCE met the Commander of KFOR. KFOR made the point that the Muslim Slavs were not being treated in the local hospital and Kosovo Albanians were taking over flats and jobs belonging to Muslim Slavs. The OSCE team also met with the self-appointed Muslim Slav 'deputy mayor,' who said that Kosovo Serbs had used Gora/Dragashis in a political game. The 'mayor' said Gora/Dragashis had followed and misused their position and he wanted, as a basis for reconciliation, for the villagers to sign a declaration in which they would apologise for their 'support' of the 'genocide.' 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, the house of, a Roma and member of the Serbian security forces, was burned. 

• Two unknown persons wearing civilian clothes reportedly abducted a 46-year-old Kosovo Serb male from his flat in Gnjilane/Gjilan. They allegedly told the victim that the UCK wanted to interview him. He never returned. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan met with the President of the Executive Council of Presevo (in southern Serbia, across the Kosovo boundary) who reiterated his concerns about the remaining Albanian population. He was particularly concerned about the region of Karadak and bitterly complained about the international community's inability to become involved in that part of Serbia. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers interviewed an elderly Kosovo Serb male who had arrived at the Prizren/Prizren Seminary on 10^th July. He had previously spent four months in Prizren/Prizren Hospital and discharged himself after alleged threats from Kosovo Albanian patients and staff. He returned to his house in Prizren/Prizren only to find it burned. He collected a few remaining belongings and went to the Seminary. The OSCE met two other Kosovo Serb men who had arrived at the Seminary after their houses in Prizren/Prizren were also burned. The Seminary was overcrowded with more people arriving daily to seek refuge. There were very limited washing facilities and reports of a lack of bread. 

• On 15 ^th July a Kosovo Serb couple were killed in Gnjilane/Gjilan. The victims, a male aged between 55 and 60 and a female aged between 50 and 55, had been living alone in their house in a Kosovo Albanian neighbourhood since their son left Kosovo in June. 
• A bomb exploded in the market square of Vitina/Viti killing three persons and injuring 16. 
• On or before 15^th July a 39-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Gnjilane/Gjilan reportedly disappeared from Pristina/Prishtine Hospital. The man had gone to Pristina/Prishtine on 25 ^th May for treatment for a chest disease. A neighbour visited him several times up to 1^st July. On 15 ^th July his wife was reportedly refused access to him. Some time later she was informed that he had been released but no one had seen him since. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan met the local UCK Commander. An intervention was made regarding the nine kidnapped Kosovo Serbs. The Commander said that his troops were not responsible for such incidents. Confronted with the fact that several eyewitnesses confirmed that the kidnappers were wearing UCK uniforms and some of the assailants had stated that they they belonged to the UCK, the Commander blamed 'the sick mind of the Serbian people, inventing all kind of stories, which never turn out to be true.' 
• During an NGO meeting in Gnjilane/Gjilan, the UNMIK Interim Civil Administrator reported that 300 UNMIK Police would be deployed in the area within two weeks. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team met with the President of the Roma community in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica. Allegedly nine houses were set on fire in the town, thereby displacing 50 Roma out of Kosovo. The President said that since the end of the conflict two Roma had been detained by Kosovo Albanians, ill-treated and subsequently released. In nearby Koretin/Koretin 15 houses had been abandoned when the inhabitants left Kosovo for other parts of southern Serbia. In Ogoste, the Roma had lived in 45 houses in peaceful cohabitation with the Kosovo Albanians. Allegedly, the attitude of the Albanians had changed dramatically in the previous weeks and all the Roma in Ogoste went to Serbia, either to the refugee camps in Bujanovac (east of Gnjilane/Gjilan) or to Belgrade. The situation was reported to be the same in Sresovce where 10 houses had been burned and in Dohrovce where Roma had left five houses. In Berivojce, where there were 55 Roma families, people had started to leave. The main reasons given for this displacement were a lack of security, kidnapping, restrictions to freedom of movement, arson and denial of access to their former employment. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan met with Kosovo Serb former Mayor of the Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica municipality. He said that the Kosovo Serbs in the municipality were leaving as a result of the number of incidents. These included the killing of six Kosovo Serbs (9^th July) and the wounding of four other. He listed the incidents of arson as: 13 houses in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica, nine houses in Lestar, six in Koretin/Koretin, six in Donja Sipasnica and three in Firiceje. The former Mayor said that Kosovo Serbs had left from 11 villages (Koretin/Koretin, Donja Sipasnica, Firiceje, Carakovce, Bratilovce, Kostadince, Lestar, Orahovica, Strezovce, Vaganis and Gradjenik). The interlocutor also reported that the majority of Kosovo Serb apartments in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica had been broken into and looted. In some instances he alleged that hand grenades were thrown inside the flats. Pressure had been put on the Kosovo Serb inhabitants to move out of their homes by placing Kosovo Albanians nametags on the front door of the houses suggesting Serb homes had already been reallocated for future occupation. The Kosovo Serb representative complained about the lack of security, freedom of movement and hindered access to healthcare and supplies. He called for improved KFOR security, rapid deployment of the UNMIK administration and the re-establishment of regular telephone services between the Kosovo Serb villages. 
• KFOR reported that several houses were burned in Vitina/Viti. Explosions shook Zitinje and Gnjilane/Gjilan. In Zitinje a 65-year-old Kosovo Serb male was shot dead while driving his tractor back from a field. This was the second Kosovo Serb victim from the village since 12^th July. 
• In Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice, UNMIK Police provided an escort for a Kosovo Albanian to his flat that had been occupied by a Kosovo Serb. The Kosovo Serb occupant was asked to leave the flat within 48 hours. Although he complied, other Kosovo Serbs later reoccupied the apartment. 
• An UCK soldier was reported missing in Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• A Kosovo Serb man was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A Kosovo Serb Orthodox Church in Lipljan/Lipjan municipality was bombed. 
• Seven Kosovo Albanian youths were arrested while attempting to set fire to a Roma house in the Lipljan/Lipjan area. 

• A series of property burnings were reported in both the north and south of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice and an attack occurred on a KFOR bridge checkpoint. 

• There was no change to the generally tense situation in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Six Kosovo Albanians and two Kosovo Serbs were detained by KFOR for weapon and curfew violations. 
• KFOR told an OSCE Human Rights Officer that the situation was deteriorating in Vitina/Viti (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). The market was cancelled indefinitely after a grenade was thrown in the vicinity of a Kosovo Serb shop injuring 30 people. 
• KFOR also informed the OSCE that in Vitina/Viti, Kosovo Albanians had assaulted two Kosovo Serbs in two separate incidents, one using a hand grenade and the other using a Molotov cocktail. KFOR said that in an attempt to force evictions from two separate apartments, a Bulgarian and two Kosovo Serb females were threatened by Kosovo Albanians. A Kosovo Serb house was also looted and burned. 
• The first joint meeting in Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice between the leadership of the Kosovo Albanians and Kosovo Serbs took place with the international community present. A proposal for limited freedom of movement for groups of three or less was discussed along with a moratorium on demonstrations. The Kosovo Albanian and UCK leadership immediately posted notices requesting the youths not to demonstrate. 
• Two Roma males were hit by gunshots in Klina/Klinevac, Klina/Kline municipality. One Roma died three days later from his injures. 
• A Kosovo Albanian male from Batusa, Djakovica/Gjakove municipality Pec/Peje) was taken from his home by the UCK. He was reportedly told that he was being taken for inquiries only. He was never seen again. 
• A grenade attack was reported against a Kosovo Serb house in Lipljan/Lipjan. One person received minor injuries. 
• One house was burned in Prizren/Prizren. 
• In Dusanovo, Prizren/Prizren municipality, 20 to 24 UCK members patrolling the area in uniform were arrested but subsequently released by KFOR. 
• UCK soldiers in full uniform were seen stopping people in Prizren/Prizren town at night. 
• OSCE received reports that UCK soldiers were confiscating arms in the area of Zupa, Prizren/Prizren municipality. They wer reportedly in civilian clothes but with bullet-proof vests and UCK badges. 
• There were now a total of 13 UNMIK Police in Prizren/Prizren. 

• KFOR reported that a 16-year-old Kosovo Serb boy had been shot while riding on his horse two kilometres outside Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• A 32-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Pones disappeared on his way to Gnjilane/Gjilan. He was last seen in Gnjilane/Gjilan town centre. 
• Four men entered the apartment of a Kosovo Serb/Bulgarian couple in Gnjilane/Gjilan and asked them for weapons. 
• A 44-year-old Roma male was killed and another was wounded while they were digging graves in the Kosovo Serb Cemetery in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• Following the shooting of four Kosovo Albanians in the vicinity of Mucibaba (near Gnjilane/Gjilan) the last remaining inhabitants of the village were escorted by KFOR to Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• The Kosovo Serb leaders in Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice refused to sign the agreement on freedom of movement although it was agreed that bilateral and trilateral talks would recommence on 21^st July. Further, it was agreed that the moratorium on demonstrations would continue and a statement was made that harassment and house burnings should cease. 
• Four Kosovo Albanians from Malisevo were killed and three others received gunshot wounds when a tractor and trailer was ambushed near Donji Petric, Klina/Kline municipality. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Pec/Peje reported that four Kosovo Serb bodies were found in Drenovac, Klina/Kline municipality. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• Three arson attacks against Kosovo Serb properties were reported, two in Stimlje/Shtime and one in Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• Seven Roma houses were burned in Landovica, Prizren/Prizren municipality. 
• The Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) visited Prizren/Prizren to meet with UN Officers and to inaugurate the local Judges. Seven Judges and three Prosecutors were appointed having been interviewed and selected by the OSCE. UNHCR and OSCE met the SRSG and stressed the need for security and the prevention of ethnic cleansing as priorities. The necessity to mirror an ethnic balance within the new local police force and the positive role that woman could play in the OSCE trained force were points also made. 

• A funeral was held for three Kosovo Serbs, including a 16-year-old boy shot dead on 17^th July in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• KFOR had arrested 10 people over the previous two days for looting Roma houses and for breaching weapon and curfew regulations. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer met with a Roma representative from Gnjilane/Gjilan. He reported that before the conflict there were approximately 8,500 Roma in Gnjilane/Gjilan but now there were only 130. Allegedly the former official Roma leaders had left Gnjilane/Gjilan for the border of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia or other parts of Serbia because of their connections with the Socialist Party of Serbia. According to the representative, approximately 200 Roma houses had been looted and 50 burned by the UCK or by gangs coming from outside Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• A hand-grenade was thrown into a Kosovo Serb house in Gnjilane/Gjilan. One other Kosovo Serb house was burned. The curfew in Gnjilane/Gjilan town was extended and now started at 20:30 hours. 
• KFOR detained several individuals in MUP (Serbian police) uniform in the vicinity of Mucibaba. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team received reports of three Kosovo Albanian bodies found in Srbica on 18^th June and 11^th July. One of the victims was reportedly associated with the MUP. All three were related. 
• A Kosovo Serb was evicted from an apartment building in the centre of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice by a group of men claiming to be UCK 'police.' The 'police' said that only they had the right to nominate occupants. Reportedly the UCK also harassed Kosovo Albanian families that had taken over some of the flats in agreement with the Kosovo Serb owners. 
• One elderly Croat female was killed at 00:30 hours on the Pec/Peje to Pristina/Prishtine road near Donji Petric, Klina/Kline municipality. The victim was married to a Roma. 
• An elderly Kosovo Serb couple were beaten in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Two arson attacks were reported against Kosovo Serb property, one in Stimlje/Shtimeand one in Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• A Kosovo Serb female was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team attended the reburial of seven civilians and six UCK fighters in Orahovac/Rrahovec. They had been killed in 1998 when the VJ took control of Orahovac/Rrahovec. Over 1,000 people attended the ceremony. 

• Three men entered the apartment of a Kosovo Serb/Bulgarian couple in Gnjilane/Gjilan and intimidated the female (see above GN 60). 
• KFOR reported that one male was shot in Zegra/Zheger, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. His ethnicity was unknown. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team visited Ogoste, Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica and verified that the majority of the Roma community had left the village. They had gone at the end of the conflict, during the withdrawal of the Serbian forces, leaving behind only the elderly. In the previous week some of the Roma had returned to Ogoste. 
• UNHCR informed the OSCE that the Krajina Serbs willing to leave Kosovo had three options, return to Croatia, go to other parts of Serbia (to a refugee camp) or resettle in Romania. 
• KFOR informed the Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan that on 26^th and 27^th July KFOR troops would take over responsibility for the municipality of Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, unknown individuals broke into a Kosovo Serb apartment and changed the locks. 
• KFOR from Vitina/Viti confirmed that approximately 100 vehicles carrying Kosovo Serb families left Vitina/Viti heading out of Kosovo. Amongst them was the former Kosovo Serb mayor of Vitina/Viti. KFOR expected that many of the men would try to come back while the women and children would stay out of Kosovo. 
• According to KFOR in Vitina/Viti, in the evening a grenade exploded near the Orthodox Church wounding two Kosovo Serbs. Another grenade exploded next to the cultural hall where Kosovo Serbs had a meeting to elect their new leader, a former VJ officer, after the departure of the previous mayor. 
• Between 14:00 hours and 15:00 hours an Orthodox Priest, disappeared from Budisavic, Klina/Kline municipality. A Serb male, who was seeking temporary sanctuary in the Budisavic Monastery, had accompanied the priest and also disappeared. 
• A killing was reported (victim unknown) in Leskovac, Klina/Kline municipality. 
• In Pec/Peje, eight UCK members being detained at the UNMIK Police station declared a hunger strike because they felt that they had been wrongly apprehended. KFOR had arrested the UCK for unlawfully holding and mistreating a Kosovo Albanian. The UCK maintained they were just doing their soldierly duty. 
• An elderly Kosovo Serb couple were murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren met with UNMIK Police to discuss future co-operation. The UNMIK Police were anticipating taking over the police role in September. In the mean time they would assist where they could. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren met with KFOR to discuss how to avoid incidents such as the burial of a body without the family's knowledge. It was decided that the OSCE Human Rights team would assist KFOR where needed to ensure that the required information was collected. 
• Four houses had been burned in Prizren/Prizren town during the preceding 24 hours. 
• As a result of the destruction of Kosovo Serb houses in Prizren/Prizren, UNMIK Police decided to initiate a volunteer registration of Serb property that would be carried out in close liaison with the International Catholic Migration Mission (ICMC). Also discussed was how to reach the Roma and the Muslim Slavs who constituted a much larger population, but who also faced problems. OSCE was in close contact with these groups to gather information on individuals and areas that were especially vulnerable. 
• OSCE participated in a meeting chaired by UNHCR between the Kosovo Albanian and Roma communities in Landovica (Prizren/Prizren). This followed the burning of seven Roma houses on 16^th July (see above) and the subsequent evacuation of the Roma population by UNHCR. Representatives of the village council and LDK were present for the Kosovo Albanians and five members of the Roma community along with UNHCR, ECMM and OSCE. In total 15 village members were present. The general situation was discussed along with international community's efforts to improve village life. It was decided that KFOR would deliver hot food for a week and that the Catholic Relief Service (CRS) would supply food and non-food items, including tents as required. UNHCR requested an NGO to check the water supplies in the village. The Kosovo Albanian representatives offered the first tents to the Roma community. Both sides stressed the need live peacefully together as they had all done before the war. A Roma representative commented that they did not like to be referred to as Roma and had always considered themselves to be Kosovo Albanians. They stressed that only three Roma families had been involved in the war (in uniform) and they had since left the area. All other families had nothing to hide. The Mother Teresa Society representative stated that there had been 1,300 inhabitants before the conflict and there were now 1,090 residents, but 40% of them only spent the days in the village as their houses were burned. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, KFOR found the body of a girl in her late teens. Her identity was unknown. 
• The UCK Commander in Orahovac/Rrahovec denied any knowledge of holding detainees and said that he knew nothing of the circumstances of Kosovo Serbs being taken and not seen again. 

• A 57-year-old Kosovo Serb male from Gnjilane/Gjilan was shot dead near Koretiste around 07:45 hours. He had gone with some other men to cut wood when they were ambushed. One other Kosovo Serb, aged 42, was wounded. 
• A 53-year-old Kosovo Serb from Cernica, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality was killed in a field near the village by sniper fire. 
• The OSCE Human Rights Department informed KFOR in Vitina/Viti and Gnjilane/Gjilan regarding the constant complaints of the Kosovo Serbs that KFOR employed only Kosovo Albanian interpreters. 
• In the evening a house was burned in the Roma part of Gnjilane/Gjilan, less than 100m from a KFOR checkpoint. KFOR was criticised by the minorities for not being interested in their fate. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer met with the Orthodox Priest in Vitina/Viti and the Head of the Monastery in nearby Binac. According to the interlocutors the root of the conflict was the Muslim-Christian opposition, which made it almost impossible to have relations with Muslim Albanians, while the Catholic Albanians were stated not to constitute a problem for the Orthodox Church. The two representatives complained bitterly about KFOR, alleging it was not doing enough to protect minorities. 
• A OSCE Human Rights Officer met with the Deputy Director of the Council for Human Rights and Freedoms in the building of the UCK self-styled parallel civil administration in Vitina/Viti. Among other subjects, the structure of the self-styled body was discussed. It appeared that the board comprised of two UCK and one former LDK member. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan met with Albanian IDPs from Suhare and Zarbinc near Presevo (outside of Kosovo in southern Serbia) who alleged instances of ill-treatment and two forced displacements. The meeting took place in the Regional Centre. 
• A Kosovo Serb female was killed near Zupce, Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok municipality (west of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice). She was travelling in a car that was fired upon allegedly from a UCK checkpoint on the road to Zubin Potok/Zubin Potok. 
• A train that travels from Leposavic (north of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice) to Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove used exclusively by Kosovo Serbs and Roma was derailed close to Vucitrn/Vushtrri. No injuries were reported. 
• In Pec/Peje, the former Kosovo Serbian Stari Most restaurant, one of very few restaurants then functioning in Pec/Peje, was completely burned down. The restaurant had recently opened under Albanian management and been renamed Prekasi. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Podujevo/Podujeve . 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren interviewed a member of the Muslim Slav community who was abducted and beaten on 15 ^th July. He alleged that two men took him out of the hospital, where he had gone for a medical check, and he was driven in a red Yugo car to Kosovce, in Opolje (east of Prizren/Prizren) and taken into a house for interrogation. He was asked if he had been mobilised by the FRY security forces during the conflict. He said no, but when he said that he had given his weapon to KFOR he was beaten and told that it should have been given to the UCK. The next day he was dropped off in the main road from Kosovce to Dragas/Dragash. 
• Two houses belonging to a Roma male, were burned in Orahovac/Rrahovec. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers reported that about 2,500 Kosovo Serbs now lived in the Serb quarter of Orahovac/Rrahovec. They were described as isolated if not completely under siege. Many of them wished to leave especially the displaced persons from the centre of Orahovac/Rrahovec and nearby Zociste whose houses have been burned. 
• KFOR conducting foot and mobile patrols in the Orahovac/Rrahovec area was well received. Caritas (Christian aid organisation) provided aid although there was some complaint about a lack of milk. Electricity and water supplies were intermittent but functioning. 
• There was no accepted leadership within the Kosovo Serb community in Orahovac/Rrahovec. The OSCE suggested that the community appoint a spokesperson. The reply was that whoever the OSCE chose would be acceptable. The Kosovo Serbs no longer respected some of the previous leaders while others were not acceptable to the international community on account of their alleged involvement in war crimes. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, the prime concern was kidnapping with at least seven people missing. The evidence suggested that elements of the UCK might have been involved, but the Commander of the local UCK denied all knowledge of the incident. This gave rise to fears for the fateof the detainees. The Commanding Officer of KFOR took a close interest in the matter and was prepared to take robust action. Investigations by KFOR and the OSCE continued. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec KFOR found the body of a young girl aged between 16 and 18. Initially this person was assumed to be Albanian as the UCK had reported the body. She was buried in accordance with Muslim customs. KFOR then received information that she was a Kosovo Serb and her exhumation was planned. 
• Some Kosovo Serbs in Orahovac/Rrahovec expressed the wish to go to the town centre to shop and to see their apartments. These issues were raised with the UCK Commander who said that Kosovo Albanians from some of the 34 destroyed villages in the area now occupied these apartments. Most apartments, he said, had been looted. The UCK Commander advised against the Kosovo Serbs coming into the town. The KFOR Commander took the view that his soldiers were capable of looking after the situation and that if people wanted to come into the centre they should do so. There was a significant difference in food prices between the Serb and Kosovo Albanian quarters. 
• Russian KFOR did not appear to be about to deploy to Orahovac/Rrahovec. Their area of responsibility, in conjunction with German KFOR, was north of Malisevo. 
• A mass grave near Orahovac/Rrahovec was to be investigated on 21^st July 
• OSCE visited the Orahovac/Rrahovec UCK Commander. Discussions were largely centred on the question of missing people. The Commander said the UCK were not involved and that anyone could buy UCK uniforms and pretend to be members. 

• An OSCE Human Rights team visited Donje Korminjane (near Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica), to follow-up a KFOR report of a body near the river believed to be that of a vagrant Kosovo Albanian. After an extensive search, followed by questioning of the local population, it transpired that KFOR had buried the body of a male the previous night near to where it had been discovered. The site of the grave was visited. OSCE spoke to KFOR about the required identification procedures prior to burial. The identity of the deceased remained unknown. 
• The problem of the abduction of Kosovo Serbs was escalating in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Four statements were collected which raised the number of reported Kosovo Serb abductions to 13 in the said area. 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer visited Pones (near Gnjilane/Gjilan) to follow up the report of an abduction. It was established that the victim had left the family home to go shopping in Gnjilane/Gjilan on 17^th July. A friend had last seen him at 12:00 hours at a bridge near the junction of the Pones road with that of the main Pristina/Prishtine to Gnjilane/Gjilan road. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team visited Koretiste and Stanisor, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, where KFOR said that two Kosovo Serbs had been shot on 20^th July. According to the villagers of Stanisor, a shooting incident took place on that day but there were no casualties. However, a 57-year-old Kosovo Serb male had been shot dead and a 42-year-old male had been injured on 20^th July in a sniper attack on the village Koretiste. The OSCE interviewed the witnesses. Inhabitants of both villages reported that gunfire could be heard every day from the hills nearby. KFOR did not have a permanent presence in either of the two villages. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team visited Cernica, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality, where according to KFOR one Kosovo Serb had been shot on 20^th July. The victim, a 53-year-old male had been grazing cattle on the hills near the village when he had been shot in the head by a sniper. It was believed that the sniper shot from one of the houses in the village a range of 400-500m. OSCE interviewed the family of the deceased and talked with KFOR about the possibility of a permanent presence in the village. KFOR reported that despite their constant patrolling and monitoring operations in the village, the personal security of the Kosovo Serbs could not be guaranteed while armed Kosovo Albanians remained in the village. 
• In bilateral talks between the Kosovo Albanian and Kosovo Serb leadership of Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice a declaration of principles was negotiated that called for a cessation of violence and pronounced a willingness to live together. Additional annexes on freedom of movement and returns to homes were also agreed. A signatory meeting was to be held on 22^nd July. 
• A Kosovo Albanian male was allegedly stopped by three members of the UCK in Batuse, Djakovica/Gjakove municipality. After he was taken from his vehicle he was led to the abductors car and had not been seen since. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Three Kosovo Serb males were reportedly kidnapped after they disappeared with their truck on the road to Strpce/Shterpce. 
• In Prizren/Prizren two houses were burned on the night of 20^th and 21^st July. Several previously burned houses were set alight again. 
• NGOs reported two separate incidents of harassment and threatening behaviour against interpreters who had been working in the Prizren/Prizren Seminary where Kosovo Serbs were seeking refuge. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers met a Roma Representative for the Tusus and Tanasko Raic area in Prizren/Prizren. The representative said that there was a general fear within the community that the Roma would be forced to leave Kosovo. They were deeply concerned about the security situation and sought protection. 
• Houses were burned in Malisevo, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, Roma reported being summoned for questioning to the UCK controlled police station. 
• In Celina, Orahovac/Rrahovec municipality, an estimated 10,000 people attended the funerals of 89 Kosovo Albananian victims of the recent fighting. 

• The newly appointed UNMIK Regional Administrator arrived in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• KFOR informed the OSCE that six people were arrested during the last 24 hours in relation to burglaries, curfew violations and violations of the undertaking not to carry weapons. KFOR reported that a mortar round was fired north of Pasjane in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• In Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica, the hand over to the Russian KFOR contingent was scheduled to take place on 26^th July, leaving only two small KFOR Special Forces units in the town. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers met a Kosovo Serb doctor in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica who said that Kosovo Albanians exclusively ran the hospital. The attempt to organise a Hospital Board, similar to the one in the Gnjilane/Gjilan Hospital (see 29^th June), had failed. According to the doctor, many Kosovo Serb houses had been burned on 21^st and 22^nd July in nearby Koretin/Koretin and Lestar. In Bosce, three Kosovo Serbs had allegedly been ill-treated on 21^st July. 
• KFOR in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica informed the OSCE that four MUP (Serbian police) who had been arrested on 19^th July in the vicinity of Dobrosin were later exchanged for four Kosovo Albanians who had been arrested by Serbian forces. 
• The UCK Deputy Commander in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica stated that the UCK would 'never accept the Russian KFOR troops as a peace force.' The UCK-appointed Kosovo Albanian civilian administrator and his deputy reported that all important public institutions were under Kosovo Albanian control. 
• The Kosovo Serb population of Robovac told an OSCE Human Rights Officer that they lacked freedom of movement. They said that when they wanted to drive to Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica but they were afraid of the presence of Kosovo Albanians from outside the region. 
• The Kosovo Serb population of Novo Brodo/Novo Berde reported regular shelling from the villages of Bostane, Petrovce and Crecar and complained about the perceived irregular KFOR presence in the area. 
• KFOR arrested four individuals in Gnjilane/Gjilan, suspected of carrying out abductions. 
• In Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice, at a meeting where an agreed declaration on freedom of movement was due to be signed (see 22^nd July above) the Kosovo Serb leadership unexpectedly refused. They stated that this was to protest the violence and expulsion of Kosovo Serbs from Kosovo. The Kosovo Serb leadership agreed to take the document on 25 ^th July to a plenary meeting of the Serb National Council (an organisation of parties, academics and individuals in Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice). 
• Muslim Slavs in Dobrusa, Istok/Istog municipality, reported receiving regular threats about their property. They said that some empty houses had already been burned and vehicles were stolen. Identification of at least some of the perpetrators seemed possible. 
• A grenade attack against a Kosovo Serb male was reported in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• Kosovo Albanians wearing UCK uniforms reportedly abducted three Kosovo Serb males in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The group of displaced Roma were moved from the Kosovo Polje/Fushe Kosove School where they had been sheltering for the past month to a UNHCR camp in Obilic/Obiliq municipality (north of Pristina/Prishtine). 
• It was reported that four men driving a Renault car had abducted a Roma father and son on 18^th July at 11:00 hours in Dushanovo (Prizren/Prizren). 
• A 55-year-old women who had lived in Vranishta, Gora/Dragashi municipality reported that five people entered her house in Dushanovo, looted the property and left her a message saying 'you are next.' 
• At 23:00 hours a house owned by a Muslim Slav family was set on fire in Tusus area. 

• A Kosovo Serb male from Klokot, Vitina/Viti municipality, reportedly disappeared after he went out with his tractor to the fields near the village. 
• A house was set on fire in Gnjilane/Gjilan during the day. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan interviewed an alleged eyewitness to three abductions of Kosovo Serbs. However no information could be gathered because the eyewitness seemed afraid to divulge the information. 
• The LDK informed the OSCE Human Rights Department of the suspected existence of a mass grave near Ugljare (east of Gnjilane/Gjilan). The LDK also reported new IDPs arriving in Prelepnica from Donji Makres, allegedly expelled by Kosovo Serbs from Gornji Makres, Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• 14 Kosovo Serb farmers were murdered while tending their fields near Gracko (near Lipljan/Lipjan). After this incident approximately 30 to 40 Kosovo Serbs departed from Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• A meeting was arranged with the Roma representative for Tusus area, Prizren/Prizren town. Approximately 200 Roma remained in the area and most of them had stayed during the fighting. They were deeply concerned about the security situation especially after a recent kidnapping incident (see report 22^nd July). The Roma requested protection and humanitarian aid. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren received a report of a missing elderly Kosovo Serb woman. The family had last seen the women on 20^th July. They said she only ever left the flat to visit two people and neither of them had seen her since. The victim's identity card and handbag were found untouched in the flat by investigating KFOR. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers received information of a missing Kosovo Serb male from Prizren/Prizren. It was alleged that he was abducted as the UCK entered the town on 14 ^th June. 
• A Serb male and his girlfriend were reported killed in Prizren/Prizren. 
• It was reported that Kosovo Serb staff at the Prizren/Prizren Hospital faced problems of discrimination when asked to take 'holidays.' 
• ICTY began the process of opening the suspected mass-grave site at the Cemetery near Orahovac/Rrahovec. It appeared that this burial site was that of the individual graves of victims from the July 1998 fighting and not from the recent conflict. 
• The body of a young woman was found by the Beli Drim River two kilometres north of Zrze, Prizren/Prizren municipality. She had been dead for some time and exposed to the elements. No positive identity was made but circumstantial evidence suggested that she was an Albanian woman aged in her early 20s. KFOR had known of the existence of the body. 
• The OSCE representative in Orahovac/Rrahovec met the local UCK Commander . The issue of the recently kidnapped Serbians was again raised. The Commanderwas asked whether an order had been given for the Kosovo Serbs to be kidnapped or whether there were undisciplined elements within his ranks as eyewitnesses said they had seen the assailants wearing UCK uniform The Commander was also asked whether he knew the location of the men or their bodies. The Commander denied any knowledge but said that he would pass on any information that he received. The issue of mass grave locations was also discussed with several good leads being provided. 
• A Roma man was allegedly summoned to the UCK 'police station' in Orahovac/Rrahovec. He was reportedly beaten over a period of several hours but the intervention of the OSCE secured his release. 
• During the night of 23 and 24 ^th July unknown perpetrators destroyed the Orthodox Church in the centre of Djakovica/Gjakove . 

• The statue of King Lazar situated in Gnjilane/Gjilan centre was toppled by Kosovo Albanians during a demonstration. A radio appeal, allegedly by the UCK, was broadcast calling on Kosovo Albanians to gather and topple the monument. The UN had not been able to stop the broadcast before the incitement to violence was issued. A visit to Gnjilane/Gjilan by the UN SRSG and the Head of the self-styled 'Provisional Government' was cancelled. 
• At least one house was burned during the day in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Mortar rounds were heard in a location south east of Vitina/Viti during the night of 23^rd July. 
• The OSCE Human Rights Department gathered evidence of a mass grave near Pogradje. The number of victims was unknown and no eyewitnesses could be found. LDK members who located the site presumed that the bodies were those of Kosovo Albanians, but this remained unconfirmed. 
• A statement was taken from an elderly Kosovo Serb/Bulgarian couple in Gnjilane/Gjilan. The couple had been visited and harassed six times during the previous three weeks by men searching for weapons. Their apartment was looted. On 24 ^th July the two were told by a Kosovo Albanian that they had 24 hours to leave the town. (see above GN 60) 
• A round-table conference, organised by UNMIK, took place in Prizren/Prizren. The UN said that the main point of effort would be to establish commissions to deal with media, business, health and education. The UCK Deputy Zone Commander and the UCK Brigade Commander of 124 Brigade said that both KFOR and UNMIK had accused the UCK of organising the burning of houses. They said that burning houses was not in their interest and that they had being trying to stop it. They finished by saying that the UCK had always respected the Geneva Conventions. The Catholic Albanian Priest condemned all the aggression that he saw emerging within the community and requested the presence of UNMIK Police in order to get the situation under control. Two Priests from the Orthodox Church attended the round-table and one apologised for what had happened to the Kosovo Albanian people and blamed the Milosevic regime. Some participants accused the Orthodox Church of having supported the regime. Finally criticism was voiced over the selection Judges for the Municipal Court. Allegations were made that some Judges had been working in the 1990s and had participated in the sentencing of innocent Kosovo Albanians. 
• A grenade attack was reported against a Kosovo Serb in Lipljan/Lipjan. 
• Three cases of arson were reported in Lipljan/Lipjan municipality, one against a Kosovo Albanian, one against a Kosovo Serb and one against a Roma. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, OSCE maintained good co-operation with the ICTY team. Following information passed to them by OSCE Human Rights Officers, ICTY discontinued their search of the Cemetery graves (see above 22^nd July) and began to investigate new sites located by OSCE with the co-operation of local Roma. 
• A meeting was arranged with the designated representatives of the Kosovo Serb communities of Orahovac/Rrahovec and Velika Hoca/Hoce e Madhe. Six names emerged as potential members of a consultative committee with a view to finally selecting four. These names were cleared with KFOR to ensure that there were outstanding allegations against them. 
• A visit was made by OSCE Human Rights Officers to the Roma community in Orahovac/Rrahovec with the suggestion that they might consider appointing someone as their representative for the purpose of presenting their concerns. 

• The OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan visited Pogradje, Lovce and Ugljare following up the discovery of a gravesite. It appeared that the grave was less than one month old. There was no indication as to the ethnicity of the bodies. No cases of missing persons from these villages had been reported to the Human Rights Department. 
• UN Interim Civil Administration informed the Human Rights Division that six unidentified bodies had been lying in the morgue in Gnjilane/Gjilan Hospital, some of them for more than one week. OSCE asked about the possibility of bringing family members of missing Kosovo Serbs to visit the morgue in an attempt to identify the bodies. KFOR said that this was a temporary morgue without a no cooling system and it would have been inappropriate to bring families there. UNMIK Interim Civil Administration did agree to request from KFOR Criminal Investigative Division to photograph the bodies. OSCE led discussions with KFOR and the UNMIK Interim Civil Administration on how to improve the procedures for dealing with unidentified bodies to ensure that information was quickly passed to families waiting to hear about the fate of missing family members. 
• In the Gnjilane/Gjilan region KFOR arrested 49 people during the night of 25 ^th July for curfew violations. KFOR also registered four arson attacks and various instances of looting. 
• A Kosovo Albanian was wounded at an unofficial Kosovo Serb checkpoint set up in Pasjane (east of Gnjilane/Gjilan). 
• In Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice, the Serb National Council called for a suspension of negotiations over freedom of movement and returns until 1^st August. The killing of 14 Kosovo Serbs near Lipljan/Lipjan on 23^rd July was used as the pretext. In response, the Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice Kosovo Albanian leadership requested that UNHCR go ahead with the returns process. An ultimatum was also issued stating that unless the agreement reached on 27^th July was honoured then further demonstrations would follow. 
• A planned procession through north Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice by Kosovo Albanians was diverted and kept in the southern part of the town. The procession was part of a commemoration and reburial service for the LDK and Trade Union leaders that were killed in late March by Serbian security forces. 
• Continuing harassment and assault against Kosovo Albanians still living in the Serbian dominated north Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice were reported and investigated. 
• Two kidnappings of Kosovo Serb males were reported in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• The day after power was restored to the Strpce/Shterpce area a second explosion caused damage to the power lines. 
• KFOR reported that a convoy of approximately 40 vehicles from Urosevac/Ferizaj left Kosovo. 
• OSCE from Prizren/Prizren met with the UCK Deputy Commander of the Pastrik Zone. The opportunity was taken to introduce the new OSCE mandate and to explain the changes from the former OSCE KVM Mission. The UCK Deputy Commander singled out media and human rights as the two most important issues. The Deputy Commander underlined that the media and especially television could play an important in post-conflict rehabilitation. 

• A 24-year-old Kosovo Albanian female was shot dead in Gnjilane/Gjilan. 
• The UCK visited the LDK branch office in Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica and unlawfully arrested three Kosovo Albanian LDK members and detained them for questioning. The LDK members were told that LDK activities were prohibited. The detained were released after two hours. 
• KFOR CID reported to the Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan about the alleged rape of a Kosovo Serb female, age 45 to 50, by two Kosovo Albanian males. The rape allegedly took place in the victim's flat. Two Kosovo Albanian females said they saw the two men entering the apartment. 
• In Mitrovica/Mitrovice a Kosovo Albanian male reported that an armed Kosovo Serb male entered his apartment via the balcony and threatened to kill him. 
• Three Kosovo Serb males allegedly harassed two Kosovo Albanians who had wanted to visit their flat in north Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A joint OSCE/UNHCR report was published entitled 'Preliminary Assessment of the Situation of Ethnic Minorities in Kosovo,' covering the period until 19^th July. 
• KFOR military police reported seven killings in the last week in the Prizren/Prizren municipality. On 20^th July a male of unknown ethnicity was found shot in the head on the outskirts of Prizren/Prizren. On 22^nd July a Kosovo Serb man was found shot dead and two other Kosovo Serbs were injured by two Kosovo Albanians who forced entry into their house in Prizren/Prizren. On 22^nd July two Kosovo Serbs, one man and one woman were also found dead at home in Prizren/Prizren. The 67-year-old man had been drowned and the 33-year-old woman had had her throat cut. Following an anonymous telephone call to KFOR on 25 ^th July a Serb woman aged 40 to 45 was found dead in her flat. Her throat had been cut and her head was battered. On 25 ^th July an elderly Serb couple were found dead in their flat. Both had been killed by blows to the head. 

• In the Roma quarter of Gnjilane/Gjilan at 23:00 hours three Roma females and two Roma males were wounded allegedly by approximately 15 masked Kosovo Albanians. The assailants were reported to have arrived during curfew hours on a tractor and trailer which was used to carry stolen goods. Two houses were burned and five were looted. A long knife was found on the scene after their departure. Some of the victims and witnesses told the OSCE that they would leave Kosovo unless KFOR provided a permanent presence in the area. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan, KFOR's checkpoint was removed from A. Preseva Street, the Roma area, after they were informed by Kosovo Albanians that there were no Roma left in the area. OSCE informed KFOR that this was not the case. The Roma issue was followed up closely in co-operation with the OSCE Democratisation Department and the UNHCR. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team from Gnjilane/Gjilan travelled to Zitinje, Vitina/Viti municipality, after receiving a report of two killings. On 27^th July one 34-year-old Kosovo Serb male, and one 38-year-old Kosovo Serb female were shot dead, allegedly ambushed in their vehicle. Four Kosovo Serbs had been killed in Zitinje over the previous 15 days. The former Serb mayor of the village reported that the remaining Serbs were planning to leave on 1^st August. KFOR had a permanent presence in the village. 
• Two Kosovo Serb males were killed in an ambush near Vucitrn/Vushtrri as they travelled from Gobulja to Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice. 
• Four people were found dead in Pec/Peje. They had been mistreated, strangled and shot. The victims were a Muslim Slav aged 55 to 60, his Kosovo Albanian wife, another Kosovo Albanian woman and her 30-year-old Kosovo Albanian son. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Pec/Peje reported a house burning near the KFOR Headquarters. An elderly Kosovo Serb was slightly burned and rescued from the fire. Three more cases of house burning were reported at noon. The perpetrators were unknown. 
• Two grenades were thrown into Kosovo Serb houses in Lipljan/Lipjan in separate incidents. There were no injuries but extensive damage was reported. 
• The OSCE Human Rights Officers in Prizren/Prizren met local municipal Prosecutors to obtain information on their current work. KFOR had submitted 11 cases to the Prosecutor's Office but only two had been dealt with. The remaining nine cases were incomplete because they lacked essential information. The Prosecutors were due to met KFOR to resolve the outstanding issues and advise on information they required to complete the cases. 
• A new gravesite containing 16 bodies was found in the Randurava in the Prizren/Prizren municipality. It was believed to be the burial site of a family of Kosovo Albanians from Velica Krusa. The victims appeared to have been lined up and shot. The location and names of witnesses to this action were passed to ICTY. 
• Another gravesite, also in the region of Randubrava Prizren/Prizren municipality was found containing eight bodies. The explosion of a shell appeared to have caused the casualties. ICTY requested that the OSCE document the site and then allow the families to bury their dead. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec, the house of a Roma, was burned. 
• In Orahovac/Rrahovec the 'mayor' appointed by the UCK was 'dismissed' by KFOR. This left a power vacuum as the deputy was unwilling to fill the place of the UCK appointee. However, the 'mayor' was conducting business as usual when the OSCE visited the local government building. 
• The Kosovo Serb community in Orahovac/Rrahovec were visited again. They were preparing for a meeting with the UN Administrator and discussed with OSCE the matters they intended to raise. Their concerns remained the same: security, freedom of movement and access to the town's shops. 

• KFOR reported that two Kosovo Serbs, one male and one female, were found dead in the area near Klokot, Vitina/Viti municipality (south of Gnjilane/Gjilan). 
• Five Kosovo Albanian men claiming to be from the UCK 'police' visited a Kosovo Serb apartment in Gnjilane/Gjilan and searched for weapons. They took 400 Dinar (approximately 20 German Marks) from the victim and informed him that he had 24 hours to vacate the apartment. The victim informed KFOR but was told that they were unable to help. 
• A vehicle with two Kosovo Albanian passengers was reportedly stopped by 15 armed Kosovo Serbs at a roadblock on the road from Gnjilane/Gjilan to Bujanovac. Bricks and barbed wire had been placed on the road. The victims were taken out of the vehicle and beaten when they refused to hand over money. One victim had a broken jaw and was taken to Pristina/Prishtine Hospital. The victims believed that the assailants came from the village of Donjie Korminjane. A nearby KFOR checkpoint was informed and arrived on the scene an hour later. 
• In view of the future establishment of a Public Death Register, OSCE, ICRC and UNHCR (members of the Ad-hoc Task Force on Minorities) jointly asked KFOR to expedite the flow of information regarding instances of killings, arrests and abductions in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Agreement was reached on a standard procedure for transmitting information received by KFOR to partner agencies within UNMIK. 
• OSCE Human Rights Officers reported that Kosovo Serbs in the Pec/Peje area only moved from one safe area to another with the protection of KFOR. 
• OSCE reported that most of the Roma community in Dusanovo suburb (Prizren/Prizren) had left the area due to threats and security problems. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren visited the Krajina Serb Collective Centre in Prizren/Prizren. There were about 80 refugees from the war in Croatia living there, although UNHCR were taking steps to move some of them to other parts of Serbia. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren chaired a meeting between a local Roma representative and two Roma specialists from the Council of Europe and ODIHR. The burning of five Roma houses two weeks previously and reconciliation efforts between the Roma and the Kosovo Albanians in Prizren/Prizren were also discussed. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren met with the President of the District Court, to enquire about judicial issues. The President stated that cases handed over by the Prosecutors were not complete because important information such as the names of victims and circumstances surrounding the incidents were often missing from the files. He said that this was not always the Prosecutor's fault but was caused by the inexperience of KFOR in police investigative procedures. He hoped that these problems would be solved with the arrival of UNMIK Police. The President of the Court said that the Prosecutors urgently needed German speaking interpreters to speed up their work. 

• A drive-by shooting occurred in the afternoon in Gnjilane/Gjilan. Reportedly Kosovo Albanians travelling in a white VW Golf opened fire on a crowd of Kosovo Serbs. There were no casualties reported. 
• Eleven Kosovo Albanian men wearing black clothes reportedly detained a 38-year-old Kosovo Serb male in Gornji Makres, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. He was released the same day together with another 27-year-old Kosovo Serb male. The latter was allegedly ill-treated in detention, but was not available for interview with the OSCE. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Gnjilane/Gjilan held a meeting with the UCK Zone Commander. When asked about the arrest of LDK representatives, the Commander declared that 'the LDK did not contribute to the liberation of the Albanian people during the conflict, that it was an outdated political party and did not have a place in the future of Kosovo.' The Zone Commander's vision included the creation of a new spectrum of political parties, according to Kosovo's new needs and economic targets. The issue of evictions and kidnapping of Kosovo Serbs by the UCK was raised but was dismissed by the Commander as propaganda. 
• The OSCE followed up on the Kosovska Kamenica/Kamenica LDK party incident (see 26^th July). An OSCE Human Rights team visited the UCK Headquarters in the town and was told that the LDK members had only been taken there to discuss the damage to the LDK Office. The UCK told the OSCE that they did not consider the time was right for political activity but said there would soon be freedom for political parties. 
• In Josanica, Pec/Peje municipality, at approximately 04:00 hours, unidentified elements fired several grenades and machine-gun rounds toward the village. According to the Kosovo Albanian locals the shooting ceased after four or five hours. They speculated that the perpetrators were Serbian paramilitary groups from Montenegro. 
• A Kosovo Serb male was murdered in Pristina/Prishtine. 
• A Kosovo Serb female was murdered in Podujevo/Podujeve . 
• Judges in Prizren/Prizren were examining and reviewing 17 detention cases. The President of the Court said that he was intending to provide an explanation on Radio Prizren/Prizren of the UNMIK Regulation No 1999/1. With regard to security, the President said that the KFOR guard presence at the Court made the Judges feel safe. He also said that an UNMIK interpreter will be on call to assist the Prosecutors to translate KFOR files in German. 
• The Kosovo Albanian Director of the Prizren/Prizren Hospital tried to dismiss 21 Turkish nurses. The Director was told that UNMIK was the only legitimate civil authority with the power to dismiss. After intervention from KFOR and the UN Interim Civil Administration the nurses were re-instated. 
• The OSCE organised meetings for a Council of Europe Delegation with representatives from the self-sytledKosovo Albanian civil administration in Orahovac/Rrahovec and political representatives from the local communities. 
• Prizren/Prizren-based OSCE Human Rights Officers arranged for an ODIHR and Council of Europe joint mission to met with the Roma representative for Tusus and Tanasko Raic. Security remained the main concern and protection issues were discussed. The OSCE offered support and expertise to encourage the Roma to organise within their own community and to start a dialogue with their neighbours in order to increase their protection. 
• Two young girls were assaulted in Suva Reka/Suhareke (north east of Prizren/Prizren). At 23:00 hours three armed men in UCK uniform allegedly took a 12-year-old girl and her younger sister from their home. The girls were taken to another house where they were allegedly assaulted and then returned to their home four hours later. The 12-year-old said she was raped. The younger sister was too traumatised to speak of her experiences. 
• OSCE met the Kosovo Albanian civil administrator, appointed by the Head of the UCK, in Suva Reka/Suhareke. Before the conflict there were 80,000 inhabitants in Suva Reka/Suhareke, of which about 80% were then displaced to Albania. About 90% of these had returned. The population, before the war, was mainly Kosovo Albanian with 2.8% Serb and an unknown small number of Roma. The Kosovo Serbs had all left but some of the Roma remain. About 90% of the houses in the 42 villages were destroyed or badly damaged. Only Geljance and Selograzde were described as in a reasonable state. Shelter and reconstruction were the main needs. The problem of food shortages had mainly been overcome due to efforts from NGO's. There was concern about the schools reopening on time and about payment for the teachers. The self-sytled administration had tried to repair the electricity and water systems but the directors of these enterprises had been Kosovo Serbs who were no longer present. Former Kosovo Albanian directors and management who were replaced between 1989 and 1991 assumed their old positions. Electricity was being supplied to all villages but there were regular power cuts. An NGO was assisting with water purification. 
• The OSCE met with the Vice-President of the Suva Reka/Suhareke LDK. He confirmed that the party held weekly meetings in 38 of the 42 villages. 10 of the 13 members of the Presidency were working. The Vice President commented that relations with the UCK were mixed. Relations with 123 Brigade in Suva Reka/Suhareke were good but in the rest of the Zone the atmosphere was strained. The LDK did not recognise the Kosovo Albanian civil administrator of Suva Reka/Suhareke as he was appointed by the self-declared Provisional Government of UCK which the LDK did not support. 
• OSCE met in Suva Reka/Suhareke with the Kosovo Albanian Council for the Defence of Human Rights to discuss utilisation of the information the Council had collected. 

• In the Gnjilane/Gjilan region, KFOR reported two instances of kidnapping and a shooting incident in which one Kosovo Serb male and one Kosovo Serb female were wounded. 
• KFOR reported finding an unidentified body on 29^th July near Ugljare (east of Gnjilane/Gjilan). They had only been able to partly recover the body due to its decomposed state. The remainder was in situ covered by soil. 
• In Gnjilane/Gjilan at 00:30 hours three grenades were thrown in the vicinity of the Kosovo Serbian quarter of the town. No casualties were reported. Kosovo Serbs said they would set up unofficial checkpoints to protect the Serb population. 
• Approximately 500 Kosovo Albanians demonstrated in front of the statue of King Lazar in Gnjilane/Gjilan after it was re-erected by KFOR (see 24 ^th July). 
• An OSCE Human Rights Officer met with two Kosovo Albanian representatives of the self-sytled administration in Zitinje, Vitina/Viti municipality. They asked for the disarmament of the Kosovo Serbs and the arrest of war criminals in the village. According to the representatives, one Kosovo Albanian male was killed during the conflict but none had died since. They confirmed that four Kosovo Serbs had so far been killed but said this was by 'Kosovo Serbs for Mafia reasons.' The Kosovo Albanians said they were willing to co-operate and engage in constructive dialogue with KFOR and the Kosovo Serbs. KFOR agreed to meet both Kosovo Serbs and Albanian representatives in Zitinje to try to improve the security situation. The Kosovo Serbs told OSCE that they would leave the village if the situation did not improve. 
• An OSCE Human Rights team visited a mass gravesite near Podgradje, Gnjilane/Gjilan municipality. The corpses were buried under a shallow covering of earth with parts of the bodies exposed. The bodies were decomposing and if any recognition was to be made urgent action was needed. OSCE Headquarters in Pristina/Prishtine advised that an ICTY team would visit shortly to exhume the bodies. There were many missing persons in this area with families awaiting identification. 
• The UNMIK Regional Administrator in Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice addressed the Serb National Council in an effort to advance the negotiation process of freedom of movement and access to the town hospital. 
• A 20-year-old female Kosovo Albanian was found dead in Bistrazin, Djakovica/Gjakove municipality . She had several gunshots wounds in her back. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren interviewed four Kosovo Serb families who had been victims of attacks since the end of the conflict. The first interviewee was a 71-year-old woman who was shot and injured outside her house by unknown assailants. A neighbour called KFOR Military Police who came immediately and treated her wounds. The victim had regularly been threatened. During the previous month UCK 'police' had forced their way into her house purportedly to look for weapons. The second interviewee was a woman whose 65-year-old husband had been shot dead on 14 ^th July outside his flat. He was going to buy bread. KFOR Military Police informed her of her death and protected her from a crowd of about 20 males that had gathered and began to insult and harass her. After spending the night alone in the flat, amidst constant knocking at the door, the International Catholic Migration Commission moved her into the Prizren/Prizren Seminary where she remained. On 17^th July the woman returned to her flat with KFOR to find that it had been looted and a Kosovo Albanian family had moved in. The third Kosovo Serb interviewed was a 36-year-old man who had had a hand-grenade thrown into his yard by three unidentified men on 13^th July. During this time his phone had been cut off for a few hours so he was unable to call KFOR until the following day. On 26 ^th June and 15 ^th and 16 ^th July his house and compound were shot at by unknown perpetrators. The interviewee was disabled and lived alone. He had previously rented part of his house to two Serb policemen and he thought that this might be the reason for the attacks. The last family interviewed was a 65 and 70- year-old couple who had been repeatedly threatened and harassed in their home. On 10 ^th and 15 ^th July they caught men scaling the wall of their compound. On both occasions their house was shot at and the couple called KFOR. Since these attacks, they said that windows had been broken in their home and there was regular knocking at the door during the night. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren received a report from the Priest at the Seminary of 16 elderly missing persons from Donjice, Prizren/Prizren municipality, last seen on 27^th June. There had been 18 elderly Kosovo Serbs living in the village but two had been away when unknown perpetrators burned it. These two now reside in the Seminary but the other 16 remain unaccounted for. 
• Priest Nikola informed the Human rights team that the situation at the Prizren/Prizren Seminary was critical. There were 250 people were taking refuge in the Seminary that only had a capacity for 130. This included five Kosovo Albanians and 30 Roma. Overcrowding and the lack of basic facilities was leading to fights and quarrels. The residents were particularly unhappy with the behaviour of the Roma families. The Priest was concerned that more Kosovo Serbs from the villages were arriving but that UNHCR was unable to quickly relocate them. Some however had been escorted by UNHCR to Kosovska Mitrovica/Mitrovice, Pristina/Prishtine and other parts of Serbia. There was a shortage of food and the Priest was very concerned about the effective imprisonment of the people there. The Priest said he was in regular contact with the Kosovo Serb population. He wanted KFOR Military Police to inform him when they found a body or had information about a missing person in order that he could tell the family. 
• The OSCE Human Rights team in Prizren/Prizren reported that due to KFOR intervention the Muslim Slavs (Gora/Dragashi) again received medical treatment in the Prizren/Prizren Hospital and Turkish ambulances would soon provide medical a