Posted on 03/26/2004 7:23:53 PM PST by MarMema
BELGRADE, March 18 (Itar-Tass) - “We strongly condemn the instigators of the current riots in Kosovo and want them to be stopped immediately, since they may explode the situation both within the territory and in the entire region,” Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Razov stated here on Thursday, commenting on the current situation in Kosovo. “The Russian side is ready to take part in the search for ways to settle this problem by means of the instruments it possesses,” Razov stated. The Russian deputy foreign minister had planned to visit Kosovo in the course of his three-day visit to Serbia and Montenegro. However, in reply to a request from Head of the U.N. Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Harry Holkeri, the visit had to be put off due to the dangerous situation there.
The situation in Kosovo is still very tense – Albanian extremists are attacking the Serbs, the U.N. police and International KFOR units. Dozens of houses in the predominantly Serbian villages were burned down. The U.N. police and KFOR soldiers are waging real battles against throngs of Albanians. At least fifteen men were killed and not less than three hundred others were wounded during the Wednesday clashes of Albanian extremists with Serbs, KFOR soldiers, and U.N. policemen. These figures were released by the Crisis HQ of the Clinical Centre of Pristina University.
The most dangerous situation is in the village of Chaglavica, not far from Pristina, where approximately one thousand Serbs had lived. The Albanians broke through the U.N. police cordons into the village forcing Serbian women and children to flee to the neighbouring Serbian village of Laple-Selo. About ten U.N. police vehicles are aflame on the road into Chaglavica. About thirty armoured cars of the American KFOR contingent were moved into the village. The Americans were able to save the lives of at least ten wounded servicemen of the international force. Serbian houses are aflame in the village.
Albanians attacked on Wednesday afternoon the several dozens of Serbians, still remaining in Pristina. Their apartments were stoned and incendiary bombs were hurled into them. A curfew was clamped down on the city on Wednesday. However, according to a report of the Serbian BETA News Agency, about two thousand armed Albanians were moved towards the city from other districts of Kosovo.
Albanian extremists have set fire to the Holy Archangel Orthodox Monastery near the town of Prizren. The Monastery had celebrated the 650th anniversary of its foundation two years ago. The St. George Church in Prizren is also on fire. The Albanians ransacked a Serbian Orthodox Church in Djakovica, where five women had sought asylum. The fate of about two hundred Serbs from Gnilan in eastern Kosovo is still unknown. All the Serbian houses there were burned down. The population of Gnilan tried to flee to Serbia, but only five burned automobiles were so far found on the Bujanovac-Gnilan road with no bodies inside. The Albanians had most likely captured them all.
The Belgrade television describes the Kosovo events as an “ethnic purge”. There are about two million Albanians and 70-100 thousand Serbians and people of other nationalities living in Kosovo today. Increasing numbers of Serbian politicians believe Kosovo will shortly be “ethnically clean” due to the Wednesday massive exodus of Serbians from their lands, which can be expected to continue in the next few days. After that the Albanians will be able to declare their independence from Serbia.
Head of the Serbian Government’s Coordination Committee on Kosovo Affairs Neboija Chovic has accused the U.N. police in Kosovo and KFOR for “guarding only themselves”. For his part, Head of the Interim U.N. Administration Mission in Kosovo Harry Holkeri described Wednesday as “a black day for Kosovo”. He called on the population to keep the peace and to give the U.N. police and KFOR soldiers a chance to guarantee “safety for every citizen”.
It was learned that an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Kosovo would be held in New York on Thursday.
Ahh typical Western media/politics self aggredizing excusing for being sluts and whores to Islam...enjoy the terror you bring to own doorstep by own greed and stupidity...just remember, every dead American in NYC and Spaniard in Madrid is fault of this and every other action of West in long prostitution, that goes on regardless, to Islam.
Pimps will biatch slap their whores...and Saudi Arabia/Pakistan is US/EU pimp.
This message has to go out to all American churches. Something has to change here.
I wonder what you think about Bush not saying anything about the pogroms in Kosovo. I was expecting a statement or something. Then again, I guess if he did say something, most of this country would not know what he was talking about.
We're making kulich today, *lots* of it. The fragrance of saffron...
I'm sure that the new Socialist government in Spain favors handing over Kosovo to reward the Muhammedan terrorists. Appeasement seems to be part of their master plan.
Can you tell me how did the American heroes protect the village????
They moved in and rescued UN police and the houses were burnt. How did they protect it??
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