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September
26/27, 2003
ERP KIM Newsletter
27-09-03
71 YEAR OLD SERB
HEAVILY BEATEN IN CENTRE OF PRIZREN - SERB HOUSE IN ORAHOVAC SET ON FIRE
Today the old
Serb quarter of Potkaljaja is more like a ghost town - After June 1999
and the expulsion of the Serbs from the city, Albanian extremists
looted dozens of
Serb homes and then set them on fire - Only some
60 elderly Serbs remain in the city
CONTENTS:
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- YEAR OLD SERB HEAVILY BEATEN IN CENTRE OF PRIZREN
AFP
- KOSOVO TRIAL WITNESS NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH
KOSOVO
SERBS PROTEST IN BELGRADE
SERB
HOUSE IN ORAHOVAC ROBBED AND SET ON FIRE
COLIN
POWEL MET SCG PRESIDENT MAROVIC IN NEW YORK
PERPETRATORS OF GORAZDEVAC MASSACRE STILL NOT ARRESTED - DAY 43...
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YEAR OLD SERB HEAVILY BEATEN IN PRIZREN
Two young men of Albanian
nationality came out of the building of the sports center not far from the
Jankovic house and first began to verbally provoke Janko and Dostana. Then
one of the young men lunged at Janko and began to beat him on the head
with a stick; when he had finished, the other young Albanian continued the
beating. The abuse of the Serb man lasted almost half an hour while his
wife Dosta watched in tears. During the beating Jankovic lost
consciousness and lost a considerable amount of blood. None of the
Albanian passers-by stopped to offer assistance or chastise the attackers;
some of the more curious lingered to observe the public
lynching.
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ERP KIM
Info Service
September 26, 2003
On Thursday, September
25, 2003 at about 15,15 hours two unknown Albanian young men physically
attacked Janko Jankovic (born 1931), a Serb man from Prizren, as he was
returning with his wife Dostana from the city and inflicted serious wounds
to his head and arms.
Two young
men of Albanian nationality came out of the building of the sports center
not far from the Jankovic house and first began to verbally provoke Janko
and Dostana. Then one of the young men lunged at Janko and began to beat
him on the head with a stick; when he had finished, the other young
Albanian continued the beating. The abuse of the Serb man lasted almost
half an hour while his wife Dosta watched in tears. During the beating
Jankovic lost consciousness and lost a considerable amount of blood. None
of the Albanian passers-by stopped to offer assistance or chastise the
attackers; some of the more curious lingered to observe the public
lynching. Finally, after the attackers had already fled, an UNMIK and
Kosovo police patrol (according to the police report it was a KFOR patrol)
appeared and transferred the beaten and unconscious Jankovic to Prizren
Hospital, where he received medical treatment.
According to
the statement of Fr. Miron Kosac, the representative of the Diocese of
Raska and Prizren in Prizren, this was not the first Albanian attack
against Jankovic. He and his family have previously been the victims of
numerous physical and verbal attacks when they decided to remain in
Prizren. Janko's wife Dostana was recently accosted by Albanian youths who
told her: "Go to Serbia already, skijo [derogatory term for Serbs]" to
which Dostana courageously retorted: "I'm not leaving from Prizren, the
city of Serbian kings. If you want Albania, you are free to go
there."
The wounded
Jankovic was visited today by a medical team from Simonida Hospital in
Gracanica. Sister Dr. Irina Petrovic examined Jankovic who was released
from the hospital and is currently recuperating at hope. The medical team
travelled to Prizren at great risk in the Gracanica Monastery ambulance
because their Kosovo police escort was cancelled at the last minute.
In the city
of Prizren there are currently some 60 primarily elderly Serbs. According
to Diocese representatives, recently they have been able to move more
freely through the city but intolerance and ethnic discimination is felt
at every step, which is one of the main reasons why there are no Serb
returnees to the city itself. The majority of the remaining Serb homes are
surrounded by barbed wire and some elderly Serbs regularly place
barricades on their doors at night. The residence of the Bishop of Raska
and Prizren and the Orthodox Cathedral of St. George (Sv. Djrodje) are
still under the military protection of KFOR, and the priests who tend to
the remaining Serbs and the property of the Church move through the city
only when escorted by German KFOR troops.
LIFE BETWEEN BARBED WIRE AND FEAR
Coordinating
Center for Kosovo and Metohija head Dr. Nebojsa Covic
during a recent
visit to the remaining Serb sin Prizren
UNMIK POLICE
REPORT - "UNKNOWN MALE SUSPECT ASSAULTS ANOTHER MALE"
ERP KIM
Info Service
September 26, 2003
In
accordance with the usual practice of UNMIK police the ethnically motivated attacks, including this one,
where the victim is a Serb are covered up by anonymous and filtered
reports.
By this practice
UNMIK police wants
to demonstrate that ethnically
motivated crimes do not occur at all in Kosovo and Metohija. Therefore, it
is hardly
surprising that the attack of Janko Jankovic by Albanian hooligans was
characterized in the report just as any other physical altercation between
two "unknown male suspects".
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
Prizren - 25/09 - 1515 hrs. An unknown
male suspect assaulted another male with a stick, which he hit on his
head. The victim was transported by KFOR to the hospital. No arrest
reported. (Daily UNMIK police report, Sep 26)
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KOSOVO TRIAL WITNESS NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH
Ramiz
Muriqi, a prosecution witness in the trial of five former rebels jailed
for illegally detaining and murdering four fellow ethnic Albanians in
1999, was targeted in the attack using an explosive device placed in a
manhole.
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http://www.ptd.net/webnews/wed/as/Qkosovo-unrest.RA_X_DSQ.html
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
Friday, 26-Sep-2003 9:54AM
 PRISTINA,
Serbia-Montenegro, Sept 26 (AFP) - A Kosovo witness in a high-profile
murder case narrowly escaped an assassination attempt Friday, officials
said.
Ramiz Muriqi, a prosecution witness in the trial of five former rebels
jailed for illegally detaining and murdering four fellow ethnic Albanians
in 1999, was targeted in the attack using an explosive device placed in a
manhole.
The attack happened early Friday in the western town of Pec when the
device was set off as Muriqi drove over the manhole.
"This was a cowardly act that we believe was aimed at Muriqi and took
place in a densely populated area in Pec, close to a children's
playground," said Joel Singelton, spokesman for the UN police in the town
some 85 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital Pristina.
Singleton said no suspects have been arrested.
Earlier this year two other witnesses in the well-publicised trial were
assassinated after the former members of the now disbanded Kosovo
Liberation Army received up to 15 years for the murders.
Kosovo came under UN and NATO control in June 1999 after the Alliance
waged a 78-day bombing campaign against Yugoslav forces to punish them for
their crackdown on ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
ONE OF CLOSEST ASSOCIATES OF THE DSK LEADER IBRAHIM RUGOVA AND THE WITNESS
IN THE TRIAL OF KLA REBELS SERIOUISLY WOUNDED IN AN ATTACK
Radio Serbia-Montenegro
26/09/03-1755
UNMIK Police spokesman in Pec Zol Fingentol has communicated that the
activist of the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo Ramiz Murici has been
seriously injured in today’s explosion in the center of this town
inhabited exclusively by Albanians.
Fingentol told Tanjug that an explosive device had been placed under
Murici’s car. This is the third attempt of assassination of Murici who is
one of the closest associates of the DSK leader and President of
Kosovo-Metohija Ibrahim Rugova.
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KOSOVO
SERBS PROTEST IN BELGRADE
Around 100 Serbs
from Kosovo have begun protesting in Belgrade outside the embassies of
countries with a military presence in the UN-governed province.
TOP
Beta
News Agency, Belgrade
September 26, 2003
BELGRADE -- Friday - Around 100 Serbs from Kosovo have begun protesting in
Belgrade outside the embassies of countries with a military presence in
the UN-governed province.
The members of the Kosovo Democratic Youth Association and the Serb
National Council of Metohija are calling for the arrest of those
responsible for the killing of two Serb youths in the town of Gorazdevac
in August.
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SERBIAN
HOUSE IN ORAHOVAC ROBBED AND SET ON FIRE
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ERPKIM
Info-service
Orahovac, September 26, 2003
Serb sources from Orahovac confirmed to the ERP KIM Info Service today
that in the night between Thursday and Friday (25/26 September) ethnic
Albanians robbed the family home of Novica Filipovic and set the house on
fire. At the time of this incidents the Filipovics were not at home. The
fire was extinguished a few hours after midnight.
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President of Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) with Colin
Powell
COLIN
POWELL MET SERB-MONTENEGRIN PRESIDENT SVETOZAR MAROVIC IN NEW YORK
Powell said he was
satisfied with the latest decisions of the Contact Group referring to the
commencement of dialogue on Kosmet. According to Marovic, US influence
will prove inevitable in that process.
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RADIO
SERBIA-MONTENEGRO
Belgrade, SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
Serbia and Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic was told in talks with US
State Secretary Colin Powell that the procedure of the normalization of
trade relations between the two countries would be intensified.
He informed Powell of the current preparations for including a number of
Serbia and Montenegro Army members in international peace missions
worldwide and emphasized that their participation could be expected in the
first half of 2004. Powell said he was satisfied with the latest decisions
of the Contact Group referring to the commencement of dialogue on Kosmet.
According to Marovic, US influence will prove inevitable in that process.
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Serbia and
Montenegro President Svetozar Marovic said at the UN General Assembly in
New York that the authorities of the state union would do everything to
ensure the success of the forthcoming Belgrade-Pristina dialogue.
We are aware that we cannot change the past, but we can do much to improve
the present and future. We want to find peace for all citizens who have
been rendered homeless and who number more than 650,000 in Serbia and
Montenegro, Marovic said. He emphasized that Serbia and Montenegro is
turned to the stabilization of circumstances in the region of the West
Balkans, the cooperation of countries in the region, fight against
organized crime and full cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, as well as
with European integrations. Marovic voiced readiness by the state union to
help world peace missions.
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