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April
22, 2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
22-04-03
Memory
eternal to Zoran Djindjic
40 day commemoration service to the assassinated Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic
served by Bishop Atanasije Rakita in presence of the Serbian Government
and Djindjic family
St. Sava Cathedral - Belgrade, April 19
CONTENTS:
NOWICKY: RETURN OF DISPLACED PERSONS
DEPENDS SOLELY ON ALBANIANS
The present situation is not encouraging. I do not see signs indicating
that, generally, the attitude of the Albanian community has changed to the
point where we can say there is a chance. This attitude is not helping
prospective returns; it is not helping the Serbs Roma and non-Albanians
living in Kosovo and thinking about their future in this region. They are
very pessimistically disposed," stated Kosovo Ombudsperson Marek Antoni
Nowicky
NEW INCIDENTS: STONING IN GNJILANE - ABUSE IN MITROVICA
New icidents in Kosovo and Metohija
- Serb owned cars stoned in Gnjilane area, Kosovo police officer pointed
abused Serbs in Mitrovica - Servera ANA members arrested
OLIVER IVANOVIC: STEINER
WILL SLOW DOWN TRANSFER OF COMPETENCES
Steiner now
understands, that the present Kosovo institutions have neither
political, nor expert level maturity to accept additional authority, says
Oliver Ivanovic
MANY A.N.A. GRAFFITI AT
PUBLIC PLACES IN GNJILANE
Many
ANa graffiti have appeared in Gnjilane recently, especially on the walls
of the large buildigns in this city
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NOWICKY:
RETURN OF DISPLACED PERSONS DEPENDS SOLELY ON ALBANIANS
The present
situation is not encouraging. I do not see signs indicating that,
generally, the attitude of the Albanian community has changed to the point
where we can say there is a chance. This attitude is not helping
prospective returns; it is not helping the Serbs Roma and non-Albanians
living in Kosovo and thinking about their future in this region. They are
very pessimistically disposed," stated Nowicky
TOP
Beta News
Agency, Belgrade
April 21, 2003
(photo: Kosovo
Ombudsperson - Marek Antoni Nowicky)
 PRISTINA - The success of refugee returns to Kosovo depends solely on the
support of the Albanian majority, Kosovo Ombudsman Marek Antoni Nowicky
stated today.
"We can have good programs for returns, donors, financial means, even
people who are ready to return; but the return itself can only succeed in
the Kosovo Albanians accept the returnees as their neighbors," said
Nowicky for Pristina's Blue Sky Radio Serbian language program.
In his opinion, the Albanians will decide whether various forms of
integration will be possible in Kosovo.
"The present situation is not encouraging. I do not see signs indicating
that, generally, the attitude of the Albanian community has changed to the
point where we can say there is a chance. This attitude is not helping
prospective returns; it is not helping the Serbs Roma and non-Albanians
living in Kosovo and thinking about their future in this region. They are
very pessimistically disposed," stated Nowicky.
Nowicky said that the Kosovo government and municipal authorities should
employ returnees in order to create an atmosphere of good inter-ethnic
relations.
"One of the main criteria for determining the level of development of a
democracy and the level of culture of a society is the protection of the
rights of minorities," said the Kosovo Ombudsman.
Nowicky requested that Kosovo Albanian leaders take a more active role in
pointing out to their compatriots that continuation of hate, enmity and
attacks on non-Albanians are not helping achieve a better future for
Kosovo.
TOP
STONING IN GNJILANE - ABUSE IN MITROVICA
New icidents in Kosovo and Metohija - Serb owned cars
stoned in Gnjilane area, Kosovo police officer pointed abused Serbs in
Mitrovica - Servera ANA members arrested
TOP
TANJUG
State News Agency, Belgrade
April 21, 2003
STONING IN GNJILANE
Gnjilane - A van belonging to Zvonko Dimitrijevic of Pasjane near Gnjilane
was stoned on the Presevo-Gnjilane road in the village of Mucibaba. The
windows on the vehicle were smashed but no one was injured. On Saturday a
similar attack occurred on the same part of the road near the
administrative border between Kosmet [Kosovo and Metohija] and central
Serbia. Two passenger vehicles owned by Serbs were stoned.
ABUSE IN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA
Kosovska Mitrovica - An Albanian member of the Kosovo Police Service
abused a young Serb, Srdjan Gudzica of Dobrotin near Lipljan, local media
report. "While returning home, a white car stopped in the center of the
village. The Albanian man got out and pointed a gun at me for no reason
whatsoever," stated Guzic. He added that the same policeman also pointed
the gun at a group of young Serb men who promptily gathered to find out
what was going on. Local residents of Dobrotine insist that this incident
is part of the strategy of Albanian extremists. Serbs have already been
expelled from every village from Urosevac to Lipljan, and the village of
Dobrotin appears to be the next target on the list for radical Albanian
groups.
UNMIK
ARRESTED SEVERAL ANA MEMBERS
Pristina
- Immediately after UN Kosovo mission chief Michael Steiner decided that
the ethnic Albanian National Army (ANA) be proclaimed as a terrorist
organization, the international police put in custody several persons that
are suspected of being connected with the organization, UNMIK spokesman
Barry Fletcher has told Radio Free Europe.
Fletcher also said that the persons had been brought in on suspicion that
they were members of a certain organization, or were helping it, as well
as those they were suspected of having blown up a bridge in the village of
Banjsaka.
TOP
OLIVER
IVANOVIC: STEINER WILL SLOW DOWN TRANSFER OF COMPETENCES
Steiner "now
understands," that the present Kosovo institutions "have neither
political, nor expert level maturity" to accept additional authority
TOP
DANAS
(Belgrade daily)
Novi Sad, April 21, 2003
Oliver Ivanovic, the Kosovo Parliament Presidency member, stated that the
TOA by UNMIK to the Kosovo temporary institutions, "in essence didn’t even
start," and the UNMIK Chief Michael Steiner "will slow down this story."
In the statement for the Gradjanski list daily (Novi Sad), Ivanovic
evaluated that Steiner "now understands," that the present Kosovo
institutions "have neither political, nor expert level maturity" to accept
additional authority.
"The Serbian Government clearly said that Serbians don't trust these
institutions, which are not multiethnic and democratic, and the proceeding
of the TOA will lead only towards new tensions between ethnic unions, so
that is not a solution," said Ivanovic.
Rada Trajkovic, the "Povratak" coalition member, said that SNV will
continue to organize protests against the TOA by UNMIK to the Kosovo
temporary institutions, and added that she knows, that soon, there will be
a transfer of authorities in the Decani community. "That means, the UNMIK
administration is withdrawing, and Kosovo police takes over Decani under
control. For me, as a Serbian, it is a disabling of the refugees return
process," stated Trajkovic.
TOP
MANY "ANA"
GRAFFITI AT PUBLIC PLACES IN GNJILANE
Many ANA graffiti have
appeared in Gnjilane recently, especially on the walls of the large
buildings in this city.
TOP
KOHA DITORE (Kosovo
Albanian daily)
Pristina, April 21, 2003
Many ANA
graffiti have appeared in Gnjilane recently, especially on the walls of the
large buildings in this city. ANA graffiti can be seen by everyone who
passes by these buildings. The graffiti have been written in different
colors, but the most of them are in black, so it can be said that these
graffiti could have been written in one night.
Probably UNMIK officials did not notice these inscriptions, even though
they are written in large letters.
None of the citizens are able to say when these inscriptions were written,
while is difficult to get any information from the police, because their
information officials are absent.
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THE LATEST EDITION OF KOSOVO
CRUCIFIED AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET
/ckos/page_01.htm
 The
latest edition of KOSOVO CRUCIFIED with fully documented 107 destroyed or
damaged Serbian Orthodox churches is available on the Internet. Each
illustrated page can be seen as a jpg image, approximately 180 kb large.
The latest, third edition was published in summer 2001. In the meantime
five other churches were damaged or destroyed by Kosovo Albanian
extremists, the last attack being in November 2002 when the church in
Ljubovo near Istok was blown up and a church in Djurakovac damaged.
All
documented churches were destroyed or damaged during the UN peace mission
in Kosovo, since June 1999
Historic
Books on Kosovo and Metohija -
kosovo.net historic
library
(complete
Internet editons)
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