Posted on 10/25/2001 7:32:56 AM PDT by Pericles
Thursday October 25 9:52 AM ET
Peacekeeper Found Dead in Kosovo
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - A Russian peacekeeper was found dead early Thursday, shot in the back and the back of the head. A U.N. official suggested the killing was linked to the victim's attachment to a local woman.
The soldier's body was found in the village of Redinci, near the town of Kamenica, about 20 miles east of Pristina, the capital, said the spokesman, Squadron Leader Daz Slaven. In Moscow, Vyacheslav Sedov of the Russian Defense Ministry press service said the body was found near the base of the soldier's unit, adding that he had left the base without permission Wednesday night.
Officials in Moscow identified the victim as Stanislav Ivanov.
Slaven said the body was found in a private yard. U.N. police were investigating, but U.N. spokeswoman Susan Manuel said that ``apparently a woman is the source'' of the killing.
Tensions are rife between Kosovo's majority ethnic Albanians and Russians. The Albanians consider the Russians to be allies of the province's minority Serbs, their enemies during the 1999 war ended by NATO bombing.
Russia strongly opposed NATO's 1999 airstrikes on Yugoslavia over Serb treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, but later joined the NATO-led peacekeeping force. Russian peacekeepers also serve in Bosnia.
Quoting military sources, the Russian Itar-Tass news agency on Thursday reported without details that Moscow's troops in Kosovo were being reduced from 3,600 to 2,000, along with a coming change of command of the Russian contingent.
Maj. Gen. Nikolai Krivenstov will replace Maj. Gen. Vladimir Kazantsev, who returns to Russia Oct. 31, said Itar-Tass.
This is the reason why American troops are not allowed to mingle with the Albanians we "saved" from the Serbs.
Yep, this has muslim/arab written all over it.
PS
Interestingly there haven't been any incidents of Serb suicide-bombers or terroristm against U.S interest, despite the fact that we bombed them back to the 19th century. Hmmmmmmm......
Odd how sophisticated our "liberal media" fancy themselves, and they're willing to interview Osama bin Laden.
But would they interview the parents of this dead Russian trooper?
No.
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Whatever happened, I feel terribly sorry for the poor soldier's family.
Wow! The speed with which the UN can discover the root causeof the murder of a Slav is breathtaking. However when any one else, for example an Albanian, is punched in the nose, it requires the full force of the global bureacracy to study the problems of Serb racism, religious bigoty and all-around cussedness--and some bombing for good measure.
Modern life is very mysterious. Or maybe I'm just not cut out for it...
< might be sarcasm > On the other hand, maybe the Russian failed to pay for services rendered? < /might be sarcasm >
Good point...it seems the Serbs are not the uncivilized barbarians that the sheeple were led to beleive. But then, fighting for the right of national self-determination has its price in today's world.
That does fit the profile. Last time I was in Kosovo--way back in 1988-- I remember being warned that it was an insult to the men of an Albanian household if you just happened to linger on the street in front of their house. (Surely, you were just hoping to catch a peek through the window, of their daughters'/sisters'/neices'/cousins'. Snaggle-toothed, earthly representations of Everlasting Lovliness, all 16 of them.)
Albanian women weren't supposed to go out unescorted or unchaperoned, and always had to wear scarves and overcoats.
I can't imagine what having KLA/KFOR "Emporiums of Dance", all over the place, is doing to that culture. My cousin, a paratrooper in the JNA, always claimed that serving with the Albanian dudes, if you were straight-up with them, one on one, they'd always watch your back. But in a bi-polar cultural framework, it's always the naive, the youngest and most inexperienced that have the hardest time coping. I'd sure hate to be coming of age with that kind of backdrop. Code of Lek meets "Exotica".
Moscow, October 25, 2001. /RIA Novosti/. - Stanislav Ivanov, serving with the parachute troops, became the 11th Russian peacekeeper to be killed in Kosovo since Russian forces arrived there in the summer of 1999. A representative for the Ministry of Defence informed the RIA Novosti correspondent about this on Thursday.
According to the minister, Stanislav Ivanov's body was discovered with bullet wounds to his head by Kosovo Albanians in the early hours of Thursday morning, near the village of Korminjane close to the population point Kosovska Mitrovica, where the Russian Forces Contingent /RFC/ the 13th Tactical Group are based. The personal weapon of the soldier who had served as a driver in Kosovo for six months, was missing.
As a result of the Russian peacekeeper's death criminal proceedings have been instigated. Members of the military prosecutor's office of the RFC are conducting inquiries.
The Russian "army" nothing but an unprofessional lot of rabble recruited from the prisons and gulags of the former Soviet Union to terrorize Chechen citizens and loot Kosovo. This coward found not another helpless woman to rape, but instead a focused team of professionals. Hopefully this a lesson to all Slavic murderers...
Apparently those that criticise this defense of Kosovo province have never seen the classic American movie "Red Dawn." There American freedom fighters kill Russian paratroopers with a calm and cool demeanour -- a stellar example for all those that support American values and ways of life...
Let us hope that when Islamic entente forces attack on American soil again that US freedom fighters will rise up in this same fashion to protect the innocent. Russians have no business in Kosovo or Chechnya except to propagate their Slavic terrorism...
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
The Russian "army" nothing but an unprofessional lot of rabble recruited from the prisons and gulags of the former Soviet Union to terrorize Chechen citizens and loot Kosovo.
I don't see what beef the Albanians have with the Russians - after all the Russians did nothing to prevent the ethnic cleansing and murders of the Serbs. What does it say for "Slav brotherhood"? - It says it is lame and pathetic.
And of course in the Summer '99 three Serbs who were defending their village from drive-by Albanian terrorists were all shot by the Russians. Oh how Solana and his ilk commended the Russians for that act, and how relieved they seemed that they didn't have to worry about Russians defending the Serbs after all.
The Russians are more like a 5th wheel there in Kosovo, so it's no surprise they are drawing their troops down.
They do, though, sometimes treat Serbs who've been injured by the Albanians in their hospital - they treated Serb children, for instance, who had been run down by an Albanian after he made a U-turn and drove up on the sidewalk.
Probably the Albanians are angry about the Serbs getting medical treatment. Afterall, it is clear the Albanians have genocide on the brain towards Serbs and assorted other non-Albanians.
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