November 04, 2003

ERP KiM Newsletter 04-11-03

KLA Decapitated Abducted Serbs

In the yesterday exclusive report the Vecernje Novosti published a text and photos showing UCK/KLA criminals with cut off heads of Serbs. Although UNMIK and KFOR have not yet commented this report ERP KIM Info Service has learned from reliable sources that the investigation of these photos and crimes which they show began a few months ago and that it may lead to additional incriminatory proofs against KLA and their leaders.

CONTENTS:

ERP KiM Editorial: New Evidence on Heinous KLA Crimes in Kosovo
"So do not be afraid of people. Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known." (Mt 10:26)

Vecernje Novosti: KLA Cut Off People's Heads
Searching for sources and examples of this evil, the reporters of "Novosti" recently discovered a horrific photograph, the best illustration of the bloody feasts of the members of the KLA. On the large photograph, we see three members of the KLA in uniform. The oldest, the one in the middle with the toothy grin, is holding a cut off human head in his right hand and carrying the larger head of a younger man more visibly in his left arm.

Serbian PM Calls for Action on KLA Photo
Serbia's prime minister has called on the international community to react to a photo published in a Belgrade newspaper today showing a group of people dressed in uniforms of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army holding a number of severed heads.

COE Should Adopt Resolution On Human Rights In Kosovo and Metohija
peaker in the Parliament of Serbia-Montenegro Dragoljub Micunovic said that Serbia-Montenegro will keep the issue of human rights violation in Kosovo-Metohija open in the Council of Europe (CoE) until the CoE adopts a binding resolution on the protection of human and minority rights in the province.

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New Evidence on Heinous KLA Crimes in Kosovo

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"So do not be afraid of people. Whatever is now covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known." (Mt 10:26)

The following disturbing story, which was published by the Vecernje Novosti Daily on November 3rd, had already been confirmed to the ERP KiM Info Service by the highest KFOR and UNMIK representatives. For the reasons of investigation and due to lack of specific information (names of perpetrators, victims and photos) ERP KiM did not publish this news waiting for the end of the investigative process and the official UNMIK Police report. However, the details of this story seem to have leaked from UNMIK sources to the Vecernje Novosti, the Belgrade daily, which published the text with photos and other specific details. Since the story has already reached the public we find it important to present our readers with the English translation as well as the hi-res copy of the article in Serbian.

As far as ERP KiM could learn, after the search of one of Albanian houses in the village of Prilep in Decani Municipality, the UN police investigating team found half burned album of war-time photographs among which some remained intact by fire. Several of these photos specifically show crimes committed by the KLA. The trophy photos were taken with cut off heads of Serbs and mutilated bodies of other victims in a style similar to moujaheddin trophy photos from Bosnia, Chechnya and elsewhere. (http://www.kosovo.net/decapit.html) Decapitation as a method of killing was unfortunately not uncommon neither in Bosnian nor in Kosovo wars either. The body of Fr. Chariton Lukic, a monk of the Holy Archangels Monastery, who had been abducted by KLA terrorists in July 1999 in the streets of Prizren was found a year later without head.

ERP KIM Info Service learned that upon finding of these photos the special UNMIK investigation team launched  a thorough investigation which lead to identification of most of men in KLA uniforms. Organization for the missing Serbs was also involved in identification of the Serb victim from the photo.  It seems that the incriminatory  photos were taken in the vicinity of Decani (in April or May 1999). Some of KLA gunmen on the photos, the international source who wanted to stay anonymous said to ERP KIM, still occupy positions in Kosovo Protection Corps, an organization which is headed by "General" Agim Cheku, recently arrested in Slovenia under Interpol arrest warrant and inexplicably released next day on the special request of UNMIK chief Mr. Hari Holkeri. According to unofficial information circulating in UNMIK circles Holkeri requested Cheku's release fearing wider unrest and conflict with still powerful former KLA structures. It is a public secret in Pristina that Holkeri's predecessor,  Hans Haekkerup of Denmark received death threats from Albanian extremists and was forced to leave Kosovo in 2001.

KLA Units in the Decani-Pec area operated under the command of Ramush Haradinaj, the present political leader of the AAK Party. His brother Daut Haradinaj, who occupied a prominent position in the KLA (in fact he became a "general") was sentenced on several years of prison last year together with some other former KLA members (so called Dukagjini group) for crimes committed against dissenting Kosovo Albanians. Haradinaj brothers are also suspected of having supported rebellion of ethnic Albanians in the neighboring Macedonia in 2001.  In the last two years several Kosovo Albanian witnesses who agreed to cooperate with UNMIK police on the Haradinaj's case were either killed or were threatened. One of the key witnesses was Tahir Zemaj, a leader of the rival ethnic Albanian rebel group (FARK) and a close associate of the Kosovo's President Ibrahim Rugova. Zemaj was assassinated in 2002. Not a single of these mysterious assassinations of potential witnesses against KLA "heroes" has ever been elucidated by the police.

It is no secret that beside many Kosovo Serbs who were executed by the KLA during and after the armed conflict in 1999 there were also dissenting Kosovo Albanians, mostly supporters of the rival political groups and mafia clans, who were killed or abducted. The following article, published by the Vecernje Novosti throws some more light on heinous crimes committed by "Kosovo Liberation Army". ERP KIM has not managed to learn more on how much investigation on this specific crime has progressed, but it is absolutely undeniable that UNMIK and KFOR structures possess more than enough evidences on crimes of KLA and their post war successor "Kosovo Protection Corps". As ERP KIM Info Service heard from one unofficial UNMIK source the reason why such information are not publicized is a fear of possible conflict with the KLA structures which still operate under different names and ways in Kosovo.

Revealing the truth on this KLA crime is one more reminder to the Hague Tribunal and the international community that there are many war and post-war crimes in Kosovo which request urgent investigation, particularly because the initiators and ideologists of this terror campaign still control Kosovo political scene and do not allow any progress in building multiethnic and democratic society. Hopefully one day we will learn the truth about all 960 Serbs who were killed after the end of the armed conflict, despite the presence of the UN Mission and the NATO led peacekeepers.

ERP KiM Editorial board

Beside the apology of the Vecernje Novosti editors who reluctantly agreed to publish photos of such disturbing contents we also ask apology from our readers. However, it is our hope that re-publishing this article in English will also shed more light on war and post-war reality in Kosovo.

More about UCK/KLA: http://www.kosovo.net/kla2.html
Reporter: Massacre in the Village of his Birth, by Jelena Bjelica, Dec 2001
/ramush.html

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KLA criminals with heads of Serb victims in their hands
The Albanian in the middle is Sadik Chuflaj, a member of the KLA from the Decani area. The young man to his left is his son Valon Chuflaj, born in April 1981 in the village of Prilep, municipality of Decani. He has an UNMIK identity card and is now a member of the Kosovo Protection Corps with the rank of lieutenant. He works in the inspector's office in Pec. UNMIK has taken disciplinary measures against him on two occasions. after cross-checking, our reporters were led to the assumption that the visible human head on the right is the head of Bojan Cvetkovic, born in Nis in 1972.


 

KLA Cut Off People's Heads

Searching for sources and examples of this evil, the reporters of "Novosti" recently discovered a horrific photograph, the best illustration of the bloody feasts of the members of the KLA. On the large photograph, we see three members of the KLA in uniform. The oldest, the one in the middle with the toothy grin, is holding a cut off human head in his right hand and carrying the larger head of a younger man more visibly in his left arm.

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Vecernje Novosti daily, Belgrade
November 2, 2003


Despite the passing years, crimes never expire. Nor are they forgotten.

Members of the notorious so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), who waged a campaign of terror in Kosovo and Metohija for many years, especially against the Serbian population (in 1999 the KLA had approximately 20,000 armed men) continue to roam the southern province today wearing different badges and under different names, doing everything possible to achieve their grand dream - an independent, Albanian Kosovo.

Searching for sources and examples of this evil, the reporters of "Novosti" recently discovered a horrific photograph, the best illustration of the bloody feasts of the members of the KLA.

On the large photograph, we see three members of the KLA in uniform. The oldest, the one in the middle with the toothy grin, is holding a cut off human head in his right hand and carrying the larger head of a younger man more visibly in his left arm.

Two cut off human heads in two hands seeped in blood!

Murderers' Bloody Feast

Is it possible to reconstruct this crime?

Exposing themselves to the possible risks that investigations of this sort entail, the journalists of "Novosti", after some days of searching and cross-referencing facts from multiple sources, arrived at information they could "revisit" this case with relative reliability and "revive" this photograph of a horrible scene.

THE PLAYERS: The Albanian in the middle of the victory celebration is Sadik Chuflaj, a member of the KLA from the Decani area.

The young man to his left is his son Valon Chuflaj, born in April 1981 in the village of Prilep, municipality of Decani. He has an UNMIK identity card and is now a member of the Kosovo Protection Corps with the rank of lieutenant. He works in the inspector's office in Pec. UNMIK has taken disciplinary measures against him on two occasions.

It is assumed that these murderers belonged to one of the units commanded by Ramush and Daut Haradinaj, which operated in the zone of Decani - Pec.


With great caution and piety, after cross-checking, our reporters were led to the assumption that the visible human head on the right is the head of Bojan Cvetkovic, born in Nis in 1972. A comparison with a photograph published in the book "Junaci otadzbine" /Heroes of the Fatherland/ also leads us to the same assumption.
Larger size photo/pdf file (750 kb) of the Vecernje Novosti article is available on:

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Still in Uniform

THE LOCATION: Bojan Cvetkovic, a sales clerk from Nis, volunteered for duty /in the Yugoslav Army/ after the aggression of NATO forces against our country. At the beginning of April 1999 he was mobilized in the Pristina Corps in the 549th Motorized Unit.

His days as a soldier were few. On April 11 he was abducted by members of the vicious KLA on the Prizren - Pristina road near Suva Reka.

Four other soldiers were captured at the same time: Zarko Filipovic, Dragoljub Tanaskovic, Dragan Vucetic and Zivota Topalovic.

Traces of all five men disappeared on that day.

THE CRIME: The dreadful question presents itself whether all five Serbian soldiers were killed on the same day, and in the same fashion.

The second photograph reveals a horrific spectacle: Sadik Chuflaj is placing one of the cut off heads in a large bag!

Is the bag full of the heads of young Serbian men?

This story and these photographs are just a small part of the crimes by ethnic Albanians committed by members of the so-called Liberation Army.

Today these same men wear the uniforms of the Protection Corps (approximately 5,000 members of the former KLA are in the Corps), establishing "multiethnic order" in devastated Kosovo.

Thus, they are protected by the international community. Thus, all their crimes have been forgiven. Thus, their wartime leaders and their commanders, now dressed in elegant uniforms, can travel to the capitals of the world and participate in roundtable discussions where they supposedly discuss peace.

Will anyone, the people in UNMIK, for example, recognize if not the severed head of young Bojan Cvetkovic, then the bloody hands of Sadik Chuflaj and his son, and bring them in for an informational talk or for questioning? Will they hold them accountable or bring them into a courtroom to face justice? There is little chance of it - but we will see.

Apology

In publishing these difficult, tragic and authentically crude photographs, the editors of "Novosti" seek only to demonstrate the full brutality of the violence and crimes committed by ethnic Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and that both the criminals and the victims can be recognized in the photographs. Perhaps this will bring further new truths to light.

We wish to extend our apologies to the Cvetkovic family for publication of assumptions and these comparisons, as well as to our readers whose sensibilities cannot endure this degree of authenticity.

 

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Serbian PM Calls For Action On KLA Photo
Serbia's prime minister has called on the international community to react to a photo published in a Belgrade newspaper today showing a group of people dressed in uniforms of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army holding a number of severed heads.

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www.b92.net

Beta News Agency, Belgrade
November 3, 2003

BELGRADE -- Monday - Serbia's prime minister has called on the international community to react to a photo published in a Belgrade newspaper today showing a group of people dressed in uniforms of the outlawed Kosovo Liberation Army holding a number of severed heads.

Zoran Zivkovic used the continuation of a no confidence debate in his government today to appeal to the United Nations mission in Kosovo, the multinational peacekeeping force and the international community as a whole to identify the people in the photo in Vecernje Novosti, arrest and convict them.

"We kept being told in The Hague [war crimes tribunal] that there's no evidence of war crimes committed in Kosovo by the Albanian side", said Zivkovic. "Now we have a document and it takes just a little effort to identify the people in the photo and convict them".


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Council of Europe Should Adopt Resolution on Human Rights in Kosovo and Metohija
ERP KIM info service subarticle

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http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/2003-11/03/331730.html

Serbian Government
November 3, 2003

Belgrade, Nov 3, 2003 - Speaker in the Parliament of Serbia-Montenegro Dragoljub Micunovic said that Serbia-Montenegro will keep the issue of human rights violation in Kosovo-Metohija open in the Council of Europe (CoE) until the CoE adopts a binding resolution on the protection of human and minority rights in the province.

After meeting with Serb representatives from Kosovo-Metohija, Micunovic said that he believed that Serbia-Montenegro was on the right path in its coordinated activities in defending the rights of Serbs in the province, adding that there was a widespread consensus on that issue in the state union's parliament.

Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Coordinating Centre for Kosovo-Metohija Nebojsa Covic said after the meeting that the issues of solving human rights problems and decentralising the province's institutions have been launched in the CoE.

He said that the existence of certain "parallel
institutions" in the province was necessary so that the Serb ethnic community in Kosovo-Metohija could survive.

Head of Povratak Coalition caucus in the Kosovo Assembly Dragisa Krstovic expressed hope that the CoE would do everything to promote human rights in the province so that Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija could obtain better living conditions.


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