Beta News Agency, Belgrade
May 22, 2004
Unknown attackers set fire to Serb house in Lipljan
LIPLJAN/BELGRADE - Unknown attackers have set fire to and demolished the house of 61 year-old Plavojka Kostic which is located in the center of Lipljan, Radio Television Serbia reports.
When Plavojka and her 32 year-old son Milos Kostic returned from Kosovska Mitrovica, they found the bedroom full of smoke and all other rooms demolished.
"In the bedroom where a fire had obviously been started, the furniture had burned and in all the other rooms everything has been demolished," said Milos Kostic. He added that neither KFOR nor the Kosovo Police Service reacted in a timely manner.
Kostic said that the KPS patrol did not arrive until 5:00 p.m. and that all they did was fill out a report and leave.
"At this very moment, in front of the Kostic house is the UNMIK administrator for Lipljan Gzavije Ble and another UNMIK representative responsible for minorities. They have expressed horror at this act, emphasizing that until this moment they have been trying to get in touch with someone from KFOR without success," reported Lipljan deputy mayor Borivoje Vignjevic.
Last weekend in the yard next door to the Kostices, unknown attackers tried to set fire to the house of his cousin, Petar Kostic, but they were unsuccessful, reports RTS.
