Posted on 11/25/2001 10:17:31 PM PST by Pericles
Friday November 23 5:44 AM ET
Kosovo Serb Woman Shot Dead, Husband Hurt
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a 60-year-old Kosovo Serb woman and seriously injured her husband in a drive-by shooting, a U.N. spokesman said on Friday.
Spokesman Andrea Angeli for the U.N. mission in Kosovo said they were shot near the town of Obilic west of the provincial capital Pristina on Thursday evening after getting off a train.
He said Milica Mirosavljevic and her 70-year-old husband Stojadin were attacked with gunfire from a passing vehicle. He said an explosion was also heard.
It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was ethnically motivated.
Minority Serbs in Kosovo have been targeted in numerous attacks by majority Albanians, angry at years of repression from Belgrade, after NATO's 1999 bombing campaign drove out Yugoslav forces from the southern province.
But international officials have said the number of violent incidents has declined this year. Thursday's attack was the first such killing since Saturday's landmark election, designed to establish self-rule in the U.N.-run Yugoslav province.
Our soldiers never dishonor their nation on their appointed missions but this nation sometimes dishonors our soldiers by what missions are appointed to them.
Clinton stained more than a dress.
The Wag the Dog crowd undoubtedly probably mostly are. The more I learn about it, the more ashamed and angry I become.
One day the truth will be known.
Never was. Unless we're supposed to celebrate some global group-think idiocy which promotes muslim terrorism over an industrialized and civilized country, I never did see the point. It was totally driven by the left-wing media and politicians (and provided a convenient diversion from Monica).
Some people would have us believe this is progress.
VRN
Obviously a justified 'revenge' killing. The only reason there's no evidence 60 year old women were involved in the Albanian genocide is due to the Serbian Army's compelte and total removal of that evidence as they dodged NATO's 24-7 bombing raids. [sarcasm off]
Pristina dean urges unity of "ethnic Albanian countries"
20:17 PRIZREN, Monday – The Albanian Dean of Pristina University has urged support for “the uniting of all ethnic Albanian countries,” during an address to the first ‘Congress of Albanians’ in Prizren, Kosovo.
“Kosovo should be independent,” Pajazit Nusi, Dean of the University’s Albanian branch, told an audience of over a thousand ethnic Albanians from across the Balkans.
“Kosovo has, historically, ethnically, politically and territorially, always had some sort of independence,” said Nusi, adding that it is the “natural right” of Kosovo Albanians.
Among the audience was Ramush Haradinaj, a former Kosovo Liberation Army commander, whose political party came fourth in last weekend’s Kosovo general election.
Today was the first day of the congress. Tomorrow, members will elect the so-called National Council of the Albanian World League.
Kosovo protection corps leader questioned over abductions
18:53 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Monday – A commander of the civil Kosovo Protection Corps was questioned today on suspicion of abducting five Serbs in 1999.
Gani Imeri, a former leader of the Kosovo Liberation Army, was arrested yesterday by special units of the international police in Pristina.
Journalists were refused access to questioning in the Kosovska Mitrovica court.
The Kosovo Protection Corps is a civil body formed by the UN administration in Kosovo after the rebel KLA was disbanded. It has been plagued by controversy in recent months concerning alleged links with Albanian rebels across the border in Macedonia. (FoNet)
[Source: B92]
Journalists were refused access to questioning in the Kosovska Mitrovica court.
suspect he wasn't paying enough graft to his KLA capos....
For Reuters, "It was not immediately clear whether the shooting was ethnically motivated." And Reuters, no doubt, views this as honest journalism. For Reuters the only thing that is"immediately clear" are the "years of oppression from Belgrade," and--the implication is clear--the justifiable anger of the majority (ethnic) Albanians. The article ends with a positive flourish that there has been a decline in the number of violent incidents, thus reducing another vicious attack to a palatable statistic, thereby serving the necessary propaganda needs.
This is a murder rate some 3x's higher than before x42's bombing.
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