Posted on 01/06/2002 3:02:43 PM PST by DTA
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Jan. 6 — A 36-year-old Serb man was blown up on Sunday by a booby-trapped grenade in his shop in eastern Kosovo, the Yugoslav province's United Nations police force said.
Serb leaders expressed outrage at the killing, which took place on Christmas Eve in the calendar of the Orthodox Christian faith to which most Serbs belong.
Police initially believed a hand grenade had been thrown into the store in the town of Kamenica but later discovered evidence that the grenade had been linked to a trip wire.
''The victim entered the shop from the rear door and when he proceeded to the front door to unlock it, he stepped or tripped on the wire and triggered the grenade,'' U.N. police spokesman Meeraj Singh told Reuters.
Serbs have been the targets of many attacks by members of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority since NATO bombing in 1999 ended repressive Serb rule in the province and made the territory an international protectorate.
The Serbian government's Kosovo coordination centre said the victim of Sunday's blast was shop owner Dragoslav Markovic.
It called on the United Nations and NATO peacekeepers to do everything possible to find the perpetrators and to take more measures to ensure freedom of movement for non-Albanians in Kosovo.
''This loathsome terrorist act on Christmas Eve, before the great Christian holiday, once more warns us that after two years, the international community is not managing to find an answer to terrorism,'' a statement by local Serb politicians said.
Just another example how U.S. fights terrorism.
Just another example how U.S. fights terrorism.
This environment for Serbs - one of living behind barbed wire in little enclaves and/or constant terror - is really the one NATO planned all the while preaching about multiculturalism and diversity. Their sick lies.
They have the Serbs right where they want them, and Albanians are allowed to committ violence against Serbs and never pay - temporarily detained, perhaps - but eventually allowed to "escape" from prison, as was the case of the Albanian arrested for blowing up a bus of Serbs coming to visit graves; or being let go for lack of evidence; or being excused as "being drunk" after making a U-Turn, driving up on a sidewalk and running over several Serb children.
That these killings often happen on significant or celebrated days adds extra punch to the hurt - NATO's sick jokes.
VRN
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