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September 01, 2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
01-09-03b
CERNICA SERBS ON POINT
OF LEAVING THEIR VILLAGE DUE TO LACK OF SECURITY AND FREEDOM
CONTENTS:
 REUTERS:
KOSOVO SERB DIES AFTER SUNDAY BLASTS
ERPKIM:
U.S. SOLDIERS TRIED TO SEARCH HOUSE OF KILLED SERB DESPITE FAMILY IN
MOURNING
MACEDONIA:
SECURITY COUNCIL SAYS MULTIETHNIC PATROLS SHOULD ARREST EXTREMISTS
PERPETRATORS OF GORAZDEVAC MASSACRE STILL NOT ARRESTED - DAY 19...
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REUTERS: KOSOVO SERB DIES AFTER SUNDAY BLASTS
Two blasts,
believed to be caused by hand grenades, occurred at 8 p.m. on Sunday in
the village of Crnica, near Gnjilane, which has a mixed ethnic Albanian
and Serb population. Four Serb men were injured.
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Kosovo Serb
Dies After Sunday Blasts - U.N.
September 1, 2003 03:52 AM ET
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - A Serb man died of his
injuries after blasts in eastern Kosovo which also hurt three other Serbs,
a spokesman for the United Nations in charge of the province said on
Monday.
"During the night Milomir Savic, 35, died at Bondsteel camp from the
wounds sustained in last night's (Sunday night's) explosion," Andrea
Angeli told Reuters.
Two blasts, believed to be caused by hand grenades, occurred at 8 p.m. on
Sunday in the village of Crnica, near Gnjilane, which has a mixed ethnic
Albanian and Serb population. Four Serb men were injured.
Savic, who had been the most seriously hurt, was transferred to the
American Bondsteel base while the three others were taken to Vranje in
southern Serbia.
Sources said that KFOR, NATO-led peacekeepers in the province, had seized
some weaponry, but no one from the force was immediately available for
comment.
The blasts follow an attack in western Kosovo earlier this month in which
a suspected ethnic Albanian gunman killed two Serb boys bathing in a river
and wounded four other youngsters, provoking condemnation from the
international community and the Serbs.
The U.N. has administered Kosovo since 1999, after 11 weeks of NATO
bombing forced Serbia to end its military crackdown on the ethnic Albanian
majority in the province.
Belgrade says it has failed to provide security for the less than 100,000
Serbs who remained in Kosovo after nearly twice that number fled, fearing
acts of revenge for the deaths of some 10,000 Albanians in the previous
two years.
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U.S. SOLDIERS TRIED TO
SEARCH HOUSE OF KILLED SERB DESPITE FAMILY IN MOURNING
Serbian
Orthodox Church is shocked by inconsiderate and rude behavior of the U.S.
KFOR soldiers which looks more as behavior of invaders than that of
peacekeepers
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ERPKIM
INFO-SERVICE
Cernica, September
1, 2003
Reporter of the ERP KIM Info-service from Cernica village has advised the
Diocese of Raska and Prizren that the U.S. soldiers have launched this
morning a thorough weapon-search operation in the village after
yesterday's attack in which one Serb was killed and four more wounded.
However the search operation caused additional pain to the Serb community.
Cernica Serbs are overwhelmed with pain and bitterness, especially after
the attempt of U.S. soldiers to forcefully enter the house of the deceased
Milomir Savic and search it despite the family in mourning and many
villagers who came to express their condolences, local sources confirmed.
KFOR soldiers reportedly insisted to enter the house showing no human
respect to the pain of the Savic family. The tensions were almost
culminating when a few Serb women fell on the ground to prevent with their
bodies desecration of the home. When they realized that their insisting
might provoke new incident U.S. soldiers left the courtyard of the Savic
family.
"Only perverted
minds could come to an idea to search the house of the victim in presence
of the mourning family and crying children", said one Serb villager for
the ERP KIM Info-service. "Such behavior recalls memories from the Second
World war and the time of Nazi occupation", he added.
Representatives of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese expressed their
indignation and shock to the KFOR Command in Pristina in a telephone
conversation this afternoon. It was requested from the KFOR authorities to
make the U.S. KFOR excercise at least a minimum of human sympathy to the
pain of Cernica Serbs.
Regrettably, the U.S. KFOR applied the same pattern like in previous
attacks on Serbs in their zone. After each attack the U.S. soldiers would
first search Serb homes, as if Serbs themselves were killing their
families, thus leaving ethnic Albanian extremists to safely run away. Such
a shocking behavior of the U.S. KFOR, on which local Serbs regularly
complain, is seen by the Serb community in Eastern part of Kosovo as one
of the reasons why perpetrators of major attacks on Serbs in the U.S. area
of responsibility succeeded to evade justice.
In Cernica more and more local Serbs are thinking of collectively leaving
their village in order to terminate the agony in which they have been
living in the last four years. A similar collective feeing of the Serb
population occured in the very beginning of the "peace mission" in Kosovo
when Serbs from the nearby village of Zitinje collectively left their
homes because U.S. KFOR failed to grant them security.
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MACEDONIA: SECURITY COUNCIL
SAYS MULTIETHNIC PATROLS SHOULD ARREST EXTREMISTS
'A few
groups of armed extremists are held accountable for the recent attacks
against state institutions as well as for other armed incidents in
Macedonia. These groups should be arrested by multiethnic police patrols,
the National Security Council concluded at its late Sunday's session.
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MAKFAX:
Skopje 9/1/03 10:51:00 AM
'A few groups of armed extremists are held accountable for the recent
attacks against state institutions as well as for other armed incidents in
Macedonia. These groups should be arrested by multiethnic police patrols,
the National Security Council concluded at its late Sunday's session.
The Council concluded that the foremost objective of attacks perpetrated
by these groups of extremists is to undermine security of the Republic of
Macedonia, hinder further stabilization and implementation of the
Framework Agreement.
The Council voiced a full support to current activities of the Interior
Ministry in terms of eliminating the risk of further attacks and
safeguarding the security of the citizens.
The Council reckons that multiethnic police patrols should arrest the
armed extremists. At the same time, the Council underscored that all
political parties as well as local authorities should support the
activities of the competent state institutions given the fact that the
foremost goal of state institutions is to make sure that the laws are
implemented and security of all citizens regardless of ethnicity is
safeguarded. /end/
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