Kosovo gunmen attack swimming teenagers, 2 young Serbs die, many wounded

iol.ie ^ | 13/08/2003 - 15:21:35 | breakingnews.iol.ie

[Destro]

Kosovo gunmen attack swimming teenagers

13/08/2003 - 15:21:35

Gunmen sprayed bullets on teenagers swimming in a Kosovo river today, killing at least one and injuring five others.

“The gunfire was directed against children swimming, and all those hit were youths,” said Derek Chappell, a UN police spokesman in Kosovo. Chappell said.

A Serb teenager died and four Serb teenagers and one ethnic Albanian girl were injured, some of them seriously, he added.

He did not confirm a report by Belgrade television that said two children had died, one on the scene and one en route to a hospital.

UN spokesman Andrea Angeli said the attackers had been hiding in the bush near the river.

“They were prepared and waiting for the youngsters,” he said, adding the attackers used AK-47 automatic rifles.

Belgrade’s independent B92 radio station identified one fatal victim as 18-year-old Milos Jovovic.

“The kids were swimming and playing on the beach when an attacker sneaked to about 50 yards from them and opened fire,” Ratko Manojlovic, a local Serb, told the radio.

Two of those injured were in serious condition and were set to be flown to a German military hospital for treatment, Angeli said.

The teenagers were swimming in the Bistrica River, near the ethnic Albanian village of Zahac which neighbours the Serb enclave of Gorazdevac.

The area is 50 miles from the provincial capital Pristina.

Nato’s top commander in Kosovo, General Lieutenant Fabio Mini, condemned the attack and called it “a bad signal for the possibility for Kosovo to achieve tolerance.”

“This is not Kosovo that we want,” he said.

Police had no suspects and had sealed off the area to investigate.

Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and Nato-led peacekeepers since June 1999, after the alliance’s 78 day bombing campaign halted Serb forces’ crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians.

Since the war, Kosovo’s Serb minority has been targeted by ethnic Albanian extremists in revenge attacks for atrocities committed during the conflict.

Two young Serbs die in Kosovo shooting

13.08.2003 - 17:45 PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - At least one attacker has opened fire on Serbs bathing in a river in western Kosovo, killing two teenagers and injuring six other youngsters, officials in the U.N.-run province says.

"Gunfire was directed at a group of children swimming in the river on a hot summer afternoon," said U.N. police spokesman Derek Chappell. "It is the act of a madman."

The shooting was the worst attack against members of the beleaguered Serb minority in the mainly Albanian province since a family of three were killed in the town of Obilic near Kosovo's main city of Pristina in June.

It took place near Gorazdevac, a village populated by Serbs who often live in enclaves protected by NATO in case of attack by Kosovo Albanian militants.

U.N. officials said one Serb male was killed on the spot while another died later in hospital. Among the injured, one was an Albanian female while the others were believed to be Serb males. Chappell said police had so far made no arrests.

Kosovo was placed under U.N.-led administration in 1999 after NATO's 11-week bombing campaign to end Serb repression of Albanians when Slobodan Milosevic ruled Yugoslavia.

Fearing revenge attacks, about 180,000 Serbs fled Kosovo. Many of those remaining live in enclaves protected by NATO peacekeepers, or in the Serb-dominated north of the province.

Serbian media, including the official Tanjug news agency, described Wednesday's victims as children. But Belgrade's B92 radio said the dead person was an 18-year-old male.

Chappell said he did not know the victims' exact ages but they were all youngsters. "It is a very confusing scene."

[Destro]

Albanian Muslim terrorists Clinton allied scums!!

[Destro]

bump

[DTA]

posted on an earlier FR thread

A lasting Clinton legacy.

[Destro]

I am disgusted...war on terror my ass.

[SkyPilot]

Gunmen sprayed bullets

That is how the story begins. "Gunman." Who are they? Ooooooohhh! They mean Islamic Terrorists! Well, at least they didn't use the dreaded un-PC "T" word there.

"sprayed bullets." Why, did they need painting? Oooooohhh! They fired weapons at people.

I just love these wonderful reporters.

[concerned about politics]

Clinton is so proud today.
He was honored by his minions for what a great job he did "fixing" this problem.

[concerned about politics]

The kids were swimming and playing on the beach

My heart hurts over this. Those poor kids.

[aynrandfreak]

Obviously the children must have been Zionist collaborators. (Sarcasm)

[MattGarrett]

Man, it takes a stone cold heart to open fire on a child.

Hell's gonna be waiting for these guys. I can only hope someone sends them there soon.

[DTA]

>>>>>>Clinton is so proud today.He was honored by his minions for what a great job he did "fixing" this problem.<<<

POOR INNOCENT KOSOVO ALBANIANS

A scam brought to you by:

Architects: Morton Abramowitz, Madeline Albright, Richard Holbrooke

Special Effects:

Willam Walker a.k.a. Mr. Massacre

Catering: Pseudo-humantitarian organizations (such as HRW, Physicians for Human Rights) and others

Free Event Advertising: Liberal Media

their deeds and lies are well documented on FR and extremely valuable now when the results of their crime can not be hidden any longer.

[eyespysomething]

Off the topic, but why the phrase "ethnic Albanians" and "ethnic Albanian village"? Why not Albanians?

[RussianConservative]

Is US not still in Kosovo protecting islamo-terrorists?

[singsong]

Reduced force but still there. I think there is some limited Russian force too? Stack in Kosovo is what it is. Too much political luggage is packed in that place. The entire West, after Clinton and whoever was advising them at that time, were working on their own destruction. It hurts them to admit that they were the bosos who put down the dam and almost drowned in the flood. The outcome is by no means certain even today.

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

All together now.

MOOOOOOOOOSSSSLIMS ARE EEEEEEEEEVILLLLL

[FreePaul]

“This is not Kosovo that we want,” he said.

That is the Kosovo that you bought and paid for. As long as you protect the muslim crazies you can't expect anything better. Diversity shouldn't apply when the muslims are involved.

[getgoing]

RBJ, the crimes of the past 24 hours are EVIL*.
To mock the anguish of the past 24 hours, years of struggle for survival is PERVERTED**.
Continued failure to crush/kill/capture Albanian TERRORISTS is EVIL* and PERVERTED**.

Albanian violence in the the past 24 hrs -
PRISTINA -- Wednesday – UNMIK has confirmed that two adolescents were killed and six wounded in an attack near Pec today.

GORAZDEVAC -- Wednesday – Two Kosovo Serbs were attacked today as they drove teenagers wounded in this morning's riverside slaughter to Pec Hospital.

MERDARE -- Wednesday -- UNMIK representatives have handed over the bodies of five Serbs, who disappeared from Kosovo in 1999, at the administrative border between Serbia proper and Kosovo.

BELGRADE -- Wednesday -- Kosovo-Serb Dragan Tonic, shot in the head while fishing in Kosovo, has been transferred to Belgrade's Serbian Clinical Centre.

BELGRADE -- Tuesday -- A gang of around 15 Albanian extremists opened fire on a Serbia-Montenegro Army reconnaissance patrol in southern Serbia this afternoon, failing to hit a target.

*EVIL:(n)1) something that brings sorrow, distress, or calamity; 2)the fact of suffering, misfortune, and wrongdoing.

[oldironsides]

They sure are and the Albanian Kosovars are running "Albanca" to Europe per usual. 15 Albanian familes control the heroin trade and distribution. They keep the KLA in modern weponry and money. The Serbs can be murdered at will. Nobody cares

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Albanian Muslim terrorists Clinton allied scums!!

Sub-human islamist monsters. Kill them all until they stand down. It's the only sensible response from a civilized world. When will the civilized world get on with the business at hand?

[FreedomPoster]

>>Off the topic, but why the phrase "ethnic Albanians" and "ethnic Albanian village"? Why not Albanians?

Because they weren't in the country of Albania, and the reporters weren't talking about Albanian citizens.

I want to know why the shooters weren't identified as Muslim terrorists.

[Celebratelife008]

those disgusting scum....hunting down innocent kids with automatic weapons. Just when you think albanian terrorists can't go any lower in their murdering ways, they break new records.