Posted on 11/30/2005 11:48:00 AM PST by kronos77
Serb teenager wounded in Kosovo
KIM Info-service Gracanica, 30 November 2005.
A Serb teenager, Dragomir Jovanovic (17) was wounded today in a drive-by shooting in central Kosovo near Pristina, Kosovo police and local Serbian sources confirmed.
The victim was hit on the left arm and his condition is not life-threatening, said Dr. Dragan Peric, from Simonida hospital in the nearby Serbian village of Gracanica. He confirmed that the state of the young man is stable.
The Serb teenager was shot at from a passing dark red Audi A4 on the regional road in the ethnically mixed village of Susica, 10 km east from Pristina.
According to the statement of the victim's father Momir Jovanovic, the young man was on his way to the local school library and the attack occured 100 meters away from the school building. According to eye witnesses the car with attackers sped towards Pristina.
Another 17 year old Serb teenager Dimitrije Popovic was killed in nearby Gracanica village in a similar drive-by shooting on June 5, 2004. After the police investigation an international prosecutor charged two ethnic Albanians for the murder and unauthorized possesion of weapons. Popovic was killed by a AK-47 rifle standing at a hamburger shop, 3 km away from the location on which occured the today's incident.
The police investigation is continuing.
ICTY news:
(Exclusively for the use of the media. Not an official document)
The Hague, 30 November 2005 CT/MO/1028e
o Limaj and Musliu found not guilty on all charges o Both to be released o Bala convicted and sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment
The Tribunal today found Fatmir Limaj and Isak Musliu not guilty of all the charges contained in the indictment against them regarding their alleged involvement in crimes committed in the Llapushnik/Lapusnik area of Kosovo and at the Llapushnik/Lapusnik prison camp in 1998. The judges ordered that they be released as soon as the practical arrangements can be made.
In the same ruling, Judges Parker (presiding), Thelin and Van Den Wyngaert found Haradin Bala guilty of torture, cruel treatment and murder. This relates to the mistreatment of three prisoners at the Llapushnik/Lapusnik prison camp; his personal role in the "maintenance and enforcement of the inhumane conditions" of the camp; aiding the torture of one prisoner; and participation in the murder of nine prisoners from the camp who were marched to the Berishe/Berisa Mountains on 25 or 26 July 1998 and murdered. Seven counts against him were dismissed.
The indictment had alleged that Fatmir Limaj was a commander in the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) with responsibility for the Llapushnik/Lapusnik area and the prison camp of the same name; that Isak Musliu was a KLA commander and at times acted as a guard at the prison camp; and that Haradin Bala was also a KLA commander and guard at the prison camp.
This is the first judgement handed down by the Tribunal relating to crimes alleged to have been committed in Kosovo. The Tribunal has issued a number of indictments against several other persons regarding the alleged crimes in Kosovo. Among those charged for their role in the deportation of approximately 800,000 Kosovo Albanians and the murder of hundreds of others in 1999, are the following senior members of the political and military leadership of Serbia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) at the times the crimes were allegedly committed:
* Slobodan Milosevic, then President of the FRY * Milan Milutinovic, then President of Serbia * Nikola Sainovic, then Deputy Prime Minister of the FRY * Dragoljub Ojdanic, then Chief of the General Staff of the Yugoslav Army * Nebojsa Pavkovic, then Commander of the Third Army of the FRY * Vladimir Lazarevic, then Commander of the Pristina Corps of the FRY Third Army * Vladimir Djordjevic, then Assistant Minister of the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP) and Chief of the Public Security Department of MUP * Sreten Lukic, then Head of the MUP staff for Kosovo
The following individuals are charged by the Tribunal for crimes allegedly committed against the Serb civilian population and members of the Albanian and Roma/Egyptian civilian population in the Dukagjin Operational Zone in western Kosovo in 1998:
* Ramush Haradinaj, then KLA Commander of the Dukagjin Operational Zone * Idriz Balaj, then KLA member who reported directly to Haradinaj and acted as the commander of the "The Black Eagles" * Lahi Brahimaj, then Deputy Commander of the Dukagjin Operative Staff
Since its inception in 1993, the Tribunal has charged 161 individuals for war crimes committed in the former Yugoslavia. To date, proceedings against 85 persons have concluded. Seven indicted persons remian at large.
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The UN is a semi-Muslim organization. If you add up the Muslim bloc, the African bloc, and the Francophile-Russo-Euro bloc, you can see why. Through these alliances Islam controls a majority of votes in the General Assembly and usually has three reliable permanent votes on the Security Council, plus several rotating votes.
They would hand Kosovo over to the Albanians tomorrow if they thought they could get away with it. Meanwhile, Muslims there can burn churches and shoot Serbs without much fear of paying any penalty to the UN "peacekeepers."
This has happened in Iraq many times--good Christian boys getting wounded by Muslims.
Well at least they do things in style. An A4 isnt too bad. LA usually sees drive buys out of old beaters.
"Poor prosecuted" Albanians on Kosovo are driving Audi A4`s.
Don`t shoot them in the tiers. Shoot the airbags!
:)
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