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May 19 2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
19-05-06
NEW CRIME OF THE "ALBANIAN
NATIONAL ARMY" IN KOSOVO
CONTENTS:
SERB MAN MURDERED BY ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY NEAR
VITINA
SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH
AND SNC KIM CONDEMN CRIME - UNMIK KEEPS SILENT ABOUT "ANA"
MESSAGE LATEST
UPDATE
AP - SERB KILLED IN
KOSOVO
DPA - KOSOVO SERBS DEMAND
MORE SECURITY AS TEACHER'S BODY FOUND IN CANAL
DPA - UNDERGROUND ARMY RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTACK ON
MACEDONIAN GARRISON
SPECIAL
REPORT
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF -
NAZI PAST OF "ANA" SKENDERBEY DIVISION LINKS
"SKENDERBEY DIVISION" IS
THE ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY FORMATION CONTINUING TRADITIONS OF THE SS
SKENDERBEY DIVISION FROM WWII, WHICH COMMITTED MANY CRIMES AGAINST THE
SLAV POPULATION OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA AND MACEDONIA
AFP - THREE INJURED IN CLASH
BETWEEN MACEDONIAN AND ALBANIAN TEENS
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SERB MAN MURDERED
BY "ALBANIAN NATIONAL ARMY" NEAR VITINA
When the body was
recovered, there was a note beside it with threatening contents
signed by the Albanian National Army (ANA), a shadowy group of Kosovo
Albanian extremists officially proclaimed a terrorist organization by
UNMIK chief Michael Steiner last month.
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ERP KIM Info
Service
KOSOVSKA VITINA, May 18, 2003
Yesterday, on
Saturday, May 17, 2003, Zoran Mirkovic, a 41 year-old Serb man, was
brutally murdered by the members of the "Albanian National Army" (ANA,
AKSH in Albanian) in the village of Vrbovac near Kosovska Vitina, Serbian
sources from Vitina have confirmed.
Mirkovic was a professor of
Russian language and the father of three children, who was supporting two
families. Yesterday at about 15,00 hours he set out by bicycle to visit
his property just outside of the Serb village of Vrbovac. He was not seen
again. His disappearance was reported to UNMIK at about 21,00; his body,
with two bullets in his head, was found by 23,00, according to local
sources.
When the body was
recovered, there was a note beside it signed by the Albanian National
Army (ANA), a shadowy group of Kosovo Albanian extremists officially
proclaimed a terrorist organization by UNMIK chief Michael Steiner last
month. According to the testimony of local Serbs, Mirkovic had been
previously threatened by ANA terrorists. All this was reported to UNMIK
police, which began an immediate investigation of the crime. The general
feeling among Vrbovac Serbs is that the ANA wanted to put additional
pressure on local Serbs by killing one of the most eminent villagers, a
teacher who was known as a person of moderate positions and
tolerance.
In recent few
weeks there have been two other attacks near Vrbovac in which no one was
injured. In both cases Albanian extremists opened fire on vehicles driven
by local Serbs. One of the attacked, Tomislav Simic, was almost killed in
his vehicle near the local cemetery ten days ago.
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SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH AND SNC KIM CONDEMN CRIME IN
VITINA - UNMIK KEEPS SILENT ABOUT "ANA"
MESSAGE
Although news about the ANA
message is very well known to UNMIK police and UNMIK officials, this
information was intentionally not included in the official report but only
circulated internally among UNMIK personnel, a reliable source from
Pristina confirmed for ERP KIM Info-Service. At the same time, UNMIK
police spokesman Derek Chappell denied to media that the police knew
anything about the message found next to the body, a statement
similar to that from last month when, after the bridge blast, he flatly
denied that the ANA exists in Kosovo at all.
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ERP KIM Info
Service
GRACANICA, May 18, 2003
The Diocese of Raska and
Prizren and the Serbian National Council of Kosovo-Metohija most strongly
condemn the murder of Zoran Mirkovic. By this crime ANA (AKSH) terrorists
continue their blood feast with the intention of completely expelling all
Serbs from Kosovsko Pomoravlje (eastern part of Kosovo Province). The
terror of the Albanian extremists regrettably continues in all spheres of
life, and Serbs are exposed daily to humiliation and various forms of
discrimination.
Although news about the ANA message is very well
known to UNMIK police and UNMIK officials, this information was
intentionally not included in the official report but only circulated
internally among UNMIK personnel, a reliable source from Pristina
confirmed for ERP KIM Info-Service. At the same time, UNMIK police
spokesman Derek Chappell denied to media today that the police knew
anything about the message found next to the body, a statement similar to that from last
month when, after the bridge blast, he flatly denied that the ANA existed
in Kosovo at all, which was, of course, proved wrong the next
day.
This sad
fact shows that UNMIK clearly has no intention of any confrontation with
Albanian National Army (ANA) terrorists, who are increasingly threatening
the local Serb population in Kosovo and Metohija, and instigating new
conflicts in the region, especially in FYR Macedonia. If this indifferent
attitude of UNMIK towards criminals continues, new ANA attacks can be
expected with complete certainty. In that case, UNMIK officials will
hardly be able to deny their responsibility for possible
consequences.
The Diocese of Raska and Prizren and the SNC KIM once
again appeal, as they have done so many times before, to UNMIK and KFOR to
find the perpetrators of this crime and begin a more decisive campaign to
arrest the bands organizing and carrying out terrorist attacks in the
Province. Successful action by the Serbian Police against criminals and
mafia clans in Serbia after the assassination of premier Djindjic proves
that it will be much easier to do the same on a much smaller territory
with such large military and police resources as UNMIK and KFOR possess in
Kosovo and Metohija.
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AP - SERB
KILLED IN KOSOVO
Serbia's deputy
prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, said the killing reflected the lack of
security for minority and asked for better protection of Serb enclaves
from the U.N. mission and NATO-led peacekeepers running Kosovo.
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PRISTINA,
Serbia-Montenegro (AP)
May 18, 2003
The body of a Serb was found
thrown in a canal in eastern Kosovo, a U.N. official said Sunday.
Government officials in Belgrade suggested an ethnically motivated killing
but international officials said no motive was established.
The
body of Zoran Mirkovic, 41, was found late Saturday in a canal in an
uninhabited part of the Serb village of Vrbovac, some 50 kilometers (30
miles) east of province's capital Pristina, said U.N. spokesman Andrea
Angeli.
Mirkovic, a Russian-language teacher and a father of three,
was found dead with two bullets to the head, Angeli said, adding his body
was apparently dumped after he was killed somewhere else.
He said
no reason for the crime was apparent. But suggesting an ethnic motive,
Serbia's deputy prime minister, Nebojsa Covic, said the killing reflected
the lack of security for minority and asked for better protection of Serb
enclaves from the U.N. mission and NATO-led peacekeepers running
Kosovo.
"The international community must send clear signals to all
extremists in the ethnic Albanian community," he said.
Kosovo has
been administered by U.N. and NATO since mid-1999 after an alliance air
war halted a Serb military crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians
seeking independence for the Serbian province. Since then, the Serb
minority has been targeted by ethnic Albanian
extremists.
Authorities have reported a significant decrease of
ethnically motivated crimes, but tensions remain high between the two
groups.
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KOSOVO SERBS
DEMAND MORE SECURITY AS TEACHER'S BODY FOUND IN CANAL
Shortly after the body was found,
a crowd of local Serbs gathered in the village to protest the murder and
complain to the international authorities in Kosovo about lack of
security.
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DPA, May 18,
2003
Pristina (dpa) - Kosovo Serbs Sunday
demanded tighter security after the body of a teacher was found dumped in
a canal in a village in eastern Kosovo Saturday. He had been shot twice in
the head.
Shortly after the body was found, a crowd of local Serbs
gathered in the village to protest the murder and complain to the
international authorities in Kosovo about lack of security.
Zivkovic, a
language teacher and a father of three, went missing Saturday morning.
Police believe his body was dumped in the canal after he was shot
elsewhere.
Late last night outside the village of Vrbovac, near the
town of Vitina, the body of 41-year-old Serb, Zoran Zivkovic, was found
laying in a canal with two shot wounds in the head," said Andrea Angeli,
spokesperson for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo.
The U.N.
spokesperson was not able to give a motive for the murder. Ethnically
motivated violence against members of Kosovo Serb minority community has
dropped significantly since the end of war in June 1999, but such
incidents still occur occasionally,
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UNDERGROUND
ARMY RESPONSIBLE FOR ATTACK ON MACEDONIAN
GARRISON
"Special units of the Skenderbeu
Division, installed in the villages Drenovec and Poroj, in the early hours
of the 17th of May have hit with rocket launchers the Slavic Macedonian
Army garrison near Tetovo", the AKSH (Albanian National Army) statement
posted on its website said.
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DPA, May 18,
2003
Pristina (dpa) - The underground
organization which calls itself the Albanian National Army (AKSH) took
responsibility Sunday for an armed attack on a military facility in the
town of Tetovo in western Macedonia.
"Special units of the
Skenderbeu Division, installed in the villages Drenovec and Poroj, in the
early hours of the 17th of May have hit with rocket launchers the Slavic
Macedonian Army garrison near Tetovo", the AKSH statement posted on its
website said.
The aim of this attack, as explained in the
statement, is "to weaken the military potential of the Slavic Macedonian
authorities, which are militarizing more and more every day, in order to
carry out state violence and genocide against unprotected
Albanians".
In the attack several grenades were fired at the
garrison, situated at the outskirts of the town, but caused no
casualties.
The town of Tetovo, some 40 kilometres west of the
capital Skopje, and mainly inhabited by ethnic Albanians, was one of the
hot spots during the conflict between ethnic Albanian rebels and
Macedonian government forces in 2001.
AKSH has not recognized the
peace agreement, which ended the conflict in June 2001, and since than has
taken responsibility for a number of attacks against Macedonian security
forces as well as on Serbian security forces in the neighbouring Presevo
Valley.
Last month it was declared a terrorist organization by the
United Nations administrator of Kosovo, Michael Steiner, after it claimed
responsibility for an attack against a railway bridge in northern Kosovo,
on the border with Serbia.
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HISTORY REPEATS
ITSELF - NAZI PAST OF "ANA" SKENDERBEY DIVISION
"SKENDERBEY DIVISION" IS THE ALBANIAN
NATIONAL ARMY FORMATION CONTINUING TRADITIONS OF THE SS SKENDERBEY
DIVISION FROM WWII, WHICH COMMITTED MANY CRIMES AGAINST THE SLAV
POPULATION OF KOSOVO-METOHIJA AND MACEDONIA
photo: Reality
Macedonia
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ERPKIM
Info-Service
May 19,
2003
Skenderbey Division was the name chosen not by chance
by the Albanian National Army in our days. In the WW2 there existed SS
Skenderbey Division of Albanian Nazis which comitted many crimes against
the Slav population in Kosovo Metohija and Macedonia acting under the
protection of Hitler's and Mussolini's regime. More about this infamous
division you can learn on the following pages selected from kosovo.net
historical
Web-Page:
LINKS:
The Holocaust in Kosovo -
Sean Mac Mathuna and John Heathcote - This Web Page is focusing on the
Nazism among Albanians, especially in Kosovo during the WWII. Under the
support of Nazi Germany and Islamic pro-Nazi circles from the Middle East
Kosovo Albanian Nazis organized persecutions of Orthodox Serbs and
Jews....
Albanian SS Skenderbey
Division - an important historical analysis of the development of
Nazism among Albanians and forming of the infamous SS Skenderbey Division.
- Many times Germans had to restrain their Moslem allies: "Bedri Pejani,
the Muslim leader of the Albanian National Committee, called for the
extermination of Orthodox Serbian Christians in Kosovo-Metohija and for a
union of a Greater Albania with Bosnia-Hercegovina and the Rashka
(Sandzak) region of Serbia into a Greater Islamic State. The Grand Mufti
of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Husseini, was presented the Pejani plan which he
approved as being in the interest of Islam. The Germans,however, rejected
the plan"....
EC: The Roots of Kosovo's
Faschism, by George Thompson - another essay "Kosovo Albanian
nationalist militias called the "Balli Kombetar" (or "Ballistas") carried
out a campaign of deportation and murder of Serbs in 1943 and 1944. Then,
on Hitler_s express order, the Germans formed the 21st "Waffen-Gebirgs
Division der SS" - the Skanderbeg Division. With German leaders and Kosovo
Albanian officers and troops, Hitler_s hoped that using the Skanderbergs
Germany could "achieve its well-known political objective" of creating a
viable (i.e., pure) "Greater Albania" including Kosovo".....
Eyewitness to Genocide in Kosovo
- Kosovo-Metohija and the Skenderbeg Division: "I was only 11
years old when Hitleris Division 'Skanderbeg' and 'Prinz Eugen' burned
down the village of Velika and killed about 428 persons. Our family paid a
heavy price that day - Radoje Knezevic, a Serb from Kosovo and
Metohija"....
Tetovo
and Greater Albania Tetovo between 1941-1944, by Carl Savich. The
truth about events during the Nazi occupation of today's Macedonia. As
well as in Kosovo, Albanian Nazis of Skenderbey SS division commited
crimes against Slav population. - "The Skanderbeg SS Division crossed into
Macedonia and occupied Tetovo and Skopje in the early part of September,
1944. The purpose for the occupation was to garrison Macedonia and
safeguard the retreat of German troops from Greece and the Aegean
peninsula"....
THREE
INJURED IN CLASH BETWEEN MACEDONIAN AND ALBANIAN
TEENS
Three Macedonian
teens suffered gunshot wounds in a skirmish between ethnic Albanians and
Macedonians celebrating their high school graduations, hospital sources
said Saturday.
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Agence France Presse
(AFP)
Saturday,
17-May-2003 5:20AM
TETOVO, Macedonia, May 17 (AFP) - Three
Macedonian teens suffered gunshot wounds in a skirmish between ethnic
Albanians and Macedonians celebrating their high school graduations,
hospital sources said Saturday.
An ethnic Albanian woman and man
and a Macedonian man, all 18 years old, were admitted to the hospital in
the western town of Tetovo late Friday after being shot during a clash
that ended in a shooting, a doctor told AFP.
The three were not
seriously injured, the hospital source added.
Police broke up the
fighting after an hour. No reason was immediately given for the
clash.
Several armored police vehicles were deployed on the city's
central squares. Tetovo was the scene of serious clashes between ethnic
Albanian rebels and Macedonian police and army forces during a seven-month
conflict in 2001 that ended with a NATO-brokered peace deal.
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