Kosovo Albanians attack U.N.-escorted Serb lawyers

Reuters ^ | May 25, 2006

[joan]

Thu 25 May 2006 11:52 AM ET
(Updates with U.N. statement, details)

PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro, May 25 (Reuters) - U.N. police in Kosovo fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of ethnic Albanians who stoned a United Nations convoy escorting Serb defence lawyers in the west of the province on Thursday.

Three U.N. police officers and one translator were wounded when villagers blocked a road and lobbed stones at vehicles escorting two Serb members of a defence team accredited to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, a U.N. statement said.

"Police then had to clear the crowd, unfortunately resulting in injuries to a number of citizens who received medical treatment from an ambulance at the scene," it said.

The stoning of Serb convoys in Kosovo is not uncommon.

The province, legally part of Serbia, has been run by the U.N. since 1999, when NATO bombs drove out Serb forces accused of ethnic cleansing in a two-year war with separatist guerrillas.

An estimated 10,000 ethnic Albanians died and another 800,000 fled into neighbouring Macedonia and Albania.

U.N. prosecutors in The Hague say Serb police killed 100 men in the village of Mala Krusa two days into the 78-day NATO bombing campaign.

The case is included in the indictment against former Serbian president Milan Milutinovic, whose trial begins in July.

The U.N. governor in Kosovo, Soren Jessen-Petersen, said he was "outraged and disappointed" by the incident.

"It is important for the people of Kosovo to understand that their quest for justice can only be achieved through the course of justice, not by extra-judicial means," he said.

Signs of reconciliation in Kosovo are rare. Around half the Serb population fled a wave of revenge attacks after the war and the 100,000 who stayed live on the margins of society, targeted by sporadic violence.

After seven years of U.N.-imposed limbo, the major powers are pushing for a solution to Kosovo's final status in direct Serb-Albanian talks that began in February in Vienna.

The 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority is pushing for independence, but is under pressure to improve the security and rights of Serbs.

The U.N. mission says ethnically motivated crime in 2006 is down compared with previous years.

[joan]

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[PBRSTREETGANG]

Well, just being lawyers may be enough to provoke an attack.

[Leatherneck_MT]

This is why you don't give up your guns. EVER

Rocks against vehicles and weapons?

Brave, but not a good idea.

[joan]

The mob had thought they were Serb villagers returning to see their homes. If that was the case the UN police wouldn't have fired back. However, these are lawyers working for the ICTY court, which makes them important, even though it's a kangaroo court against Serbs. It want a pretext of fair trial.

[joan]

They do have guns.

They used rocks and stones because they thought it was Serb villagers. They routinely stone Serbs just for traveling through a village.

These villagers were women and children.

The Albanian children and teens were notorious for attacking defenseless elderly Serbs who stayed behind.

They aren't brave, just didn't know it wasn't the typical convoy of Serb civilians which the UN allows them to freely pelt, usually causing broken windows and sometimes causing injures.

They deserved to get hurt.

[tomzz]

Albanian Kosovars are basically savages.

[Leatherneck_MT]

I don't care if they are savages or not. I'm referring to the occupation of their country or their community by UN troops.

THEY are the real savages.

Wherever they go.

[tomzz]

Kosovo is not their country or their land. Kosovo has belonged to Serbia since the early middle ages. It was GIVEN to the Kosovar Albanians by Slick KKKlinton and the UN, and it needs to be given back to its rightful owners.

[Leatherneck_MT]

and this changes the fact that UN troops are stomping on people how?

If Slick Willie and the UN hadn't been involved in the first place, those people would have solved their problems on their own, either in war or in some other fashion.

I don't care who's land it was, it's who's land it is now.

I don't have any love for the UN whatsoever and would rather see the entire pisshole organization dumped into the East River.

Blue hats?

Kill 'em all.

[tomzz]

You will care whose land Kosovo was when the UN steps in demanding that we hand Texas and California over to Vincente Fox on the same stupid premise of ethnicity being everything and things like rightful ownership and sovereignty not meaning anything any more.

[joan]

The people were stoning what they thought were other people - NOT the UN. The stoners were used to the UN allowing them to attack the other group - not knowing it was more important people than the usual civilians.

Instead of stepping back, the UN didn't. The UN and police got hurt by the mob which wouldn't stop and so they got tear gassed.

Would you be happy if you or your children or your elderly parents were regularly stoned by people - even if they were women and children throwing those rocks?

What if your children were regularly stoned on their bus rides by a particular ethnic mob? Would you mind then if police fired tear gas back at the stone throwing mob?

[Bokababe]

The UN should have never been there --agreed -- but the UN is (as usual) DEFENDING the savages.

Check this out: http://www.acton.org/ppolicy/comment/article.php?article=325

[kronos77]

You got point there, but UN isnt stomping Kosovo as land, but UN is stomping Serbian Christian land giving it to the muslims.
That is the fact.

[FormerLib]

Peace and justice will only return to Kosovo alongside the Serb Army.

And these things will come to pass.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"You got point there, but UN isnt stomping Kosovo as land, but UN is stomping Serbian Christian land giving it to the muslims.
That is the fact."

That may very well be, but you see.. I have a bigger hatred (yes Hatred) of the UN than I will ever have towards a Muzzie.

The UN tries to put itself across as the savior of the world.

All the while they are attempting to subjugate us and the rest of the world under it's authority.

The Muzzies I at least KNOW what they are trying to do, they admit it outright.

[Dragonfly]

Bttt

[tgambill]

UUUUrah, I'm a former Jarhead myself....in any case, I was in Kosovo for five years (99-04). In 2001 the following happened....

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http://www.ce-review.org/01/7/kosovonews7.html

Bus bomb kills returning Serb families

The deaths of seven Serbs in a bomb attack on a bus on Saturday inside the Kosovo border with Serbia marks the worst single escalation of violence against a minority since the end of the NATO bombing in 1999. The Serbs were returning to their villages to visit graves on the Orthodox Day of the Dead, when the departed are commemorated. The deaths, and more than forty injuries, were caused by a large explosive device left in a culvert under the road near the border town of Podujevo. The explosion was triggered by wire. KFOR troops were accompanying the convoy of buses, which had left from Niš, and a separate KFOR unit had been searching the road for bombs and booby traps. They were distracted by a group of men they saw on a hill above the convoy route, and went to arrest them. It was as the KFOR troops were returning to restart the security checks that the convoy passed. The lead KFOR vehicles were allowed to pass before the device was detonated under a bus containing men, women and children.

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There is more about this "OPERATION" in the link. It was a well planned operation by Albanian extremist, that included several other attacks several days later against Serb busses. The PERP was caught by a combination of German and British KFOR efforts, long story short, and turned over to the Americans at Camp Bondsteel. The Perp, Florin Ejupe wasn't in Bondsteel very long. He "escaped" from Bondsteel very quickly. Word is he was trained by the CIA and his escape was not by accident. We have supported the Albanian extremist since the beginning. Actually it goes beyond Klintoon. It goes back to 1948, in our effort to break down Yugoslavia. Interesting CIA operation that has spanned decades.

They are not brave. They do this to provoke, as they know they won't be shot at or absolutely nothing done to them. The children who stone are paid or prompted to throw the stones as the busses return from Serbia or heading to Serbia......it's well planned and orchestrated.

Once Kosovo becomes independent they will target Macedonia and Southern Presevo. We even had MPRI provide advisors for the NLA during their terrorist activities in 2000-2001 time frame.....

It's a mess and the innocent Albanians, (who want a normal life), Serbs and other minorities plus internationals will become targets. The "innocent Albanians" do support the independence because of the dream but they are aware that the Mafia owns and controls Kosovo working with specific UN personnel to strengthen the organized crime. All others turn a blind eye and move on after their mission is over......this is a very short comment about the issue.....and our tax dollars are supporting it.....

[TeddyCon]

"Ethnic" Albanians stoning those evil Christian Serbs? This can't be true!

The Balkans are my parents neck of the woods (Greece) and everybody there knows that the Christians are the "Black Hats" while those poor, misunderstood, peace-loving muslims are the white ones!

Uh..SARC

[Celebratelife008]

kosovo albanians are the balkan's palestinian hoard...