Three people have been killed and twenty others wounded by gunshot in Mitrovica (Kosovo)

KosovaLive News Agency ^ | March 17, 2004

[joan]

Three people have been killed and twenty others wounded by gunshot in Mitrovica, sources at the Emergency at the Emergency center in Mitrovica confirmed.

[GeraldP]

>>>It's just their nature, you know.

There it is. Your true colors for everyone to see.

[FormerLib]

Nah, I'm just going to make sure that the al-Qaeda loving Demonrats don't win in the US so that there will be no more support for the KLA when the Serbs retake Kosovo-Metohia. ;-)

[FormerLib]

Your true colors for everyone to see.

My true colors? Recognizing the murderous KLA (regardless of what they are calling themselves today) for the genocidal monsters that they are is now a color?

LOL! You're getting stressed. Go hunt down some Roma and relax, eh?

[joan]

The Washington Post reports Albanian media saying it was Serb children that chased them into the river, and the alleged survivor boy was in the river too and swam with his little brother on his back until the boy slipped off. Then why wouldn't the police have been looking for children that had been known to have fallen in the lake. Instead it was simply missing children they were looking for. Also, being a witness, it seems police would have mentioned the survivor boy and had him bring them to the spot on the bank where it happened. It looks like the Albanian media stirring things up:

Kosovo Albanian television on Tuesday quoted a fourth boy as saying he and friends were chased by Serb children and had jumped into the Ibar to escape. He said he swam with his little brother on his back, but the boy slipped off and went under.

[FormerLib]

Sounds as if the Albanian media is trying to cook-up some justification for shooting more swimming Serb children.

The religion of Albanians is al-Qaeda!

[GeraldP]

>>>It looks like the Albanian media stirring things up:

No, it looks like you looking at things through your usual propagandistic distorting lens.

[Kate22]

There are no al-Qaeda in Kosova. "Genocidal means" were used by those who stand trial at the Hague. Kosova is not a "temporarily-conquered area", it is home to two million people with every right as you and me.

It is Kosovo. It is a province within Serbia and the name is KosovO, not Kosova, which is the Albanian language version. Genocide in Kosovo has been withdrawn as a charge at the Hague, where apparently it is acceptable to alter the charges after an arrest.

I agree that the inhabitants of Kosovo deserve to live peacefully, which includes the Serbs, Roma and non-KLA supporting Albanians who have been killed, terrorized or hounded out of their homes by the KLA post liberation (I hope that the 'international community' never 'liberates' us!!). The Serbian people should have the right to attend their own church within their own country without a military escort. Their children have a right to go to school without an armed guard. This is still Serbia as laid out in UN Resolution 1244.

Before NATO so ludicrously decided to support the KLA in its bid to annex territory from a sovereign nation as part of a well documented aim for Greater Albania, there was peace in Kosovo. All of the local signs were in Serbian and Albanian and the schools were mixed. If there was an argument about equal rights it could have been sorted out peacefully through diplomacy. The KLA wanted Nato to do its dirty work and NATO needed some ground soldiers. That alliance would not be so automatic if trouble kicked off again now.

[Marko37]

Update: 7 dead (3 Serbs and 4 Albanians) and over 200 wounded. Two Serbs were killed by snipers from southern (Albanian) part of the town [Mitrovica]. Couple of thousand of Albanians crossed the bridge into northern (serbian) part of the town and that's what started the riot.
In village of Chaglavica (where two days ago a Serbian teenager was shot) the Albanians are advancing and destroying everything. Houses are burning and the Serbs are preparing to flee the village.

[FormerLib]

Sounds like "Feja e shqiptarit eshte Shqiptaria" in action to me!

They're going on a killing spree! Maybe Bush should start bombing them?

[GeraldP]

>>>It is Kosovo. It is a province within Serbia and the name is KosovO, not Kosova, which is the Albanian language version. Genocide in Kosovo has been withdrawn as a charge at the Hague, where apparently it is acceptable to alter the charges after an arrest.

"Genocidal means" is different than "genocide". I call it KosovA to represent my support for the right of Kosovars to self-determination. This is my own personal statement and I have no problem with the name KosovO.

>>>I agree that the inhabitants of Kosovo deserve to live peacefully, which includes the Serbs, Roma and non-KLA supporting Albanians who have been killed, terrorized or hounded out of their homes by the KLA post liberation (I hope that the 'international community' never 'liberates' us!!).

You're missing the point here. I look at the KLA in three stages.

Stage 1 (pre-1998): This KLA is an extremist organization with limited support, limited supplies, and limited funds. They are marginalized by Kosovar Albanians.

Stage 2 (post- Jashari crackdown): Kosovar Albanians look at the past decade, and see that their peaceful protests and civil disobedience have gotten them nowhere, and that Milosevic will brutally suppress any demonstration, and that he will not grant them autonomy. Many Albanians start to believe that they are going to have to take up arms if they want to win their freedom. They continue to protest, only to have their protest Tienanmened. This combined with the brutal crackdown in areas where the KLA has take hold, swells the ranks of the KLA. The KLA increases attacks, and Milosevic increases the degree of brutality with which he cracks down. The Serb paramilitary commits massacres, the images of murdered women and children incendiate the Kosovar Albanian population. The KLA turns from a small guerilla/rebel group to a full-fledged armed popular rising. At this point the KLA numbers in the tens of thousands. The name KLA is irrelevant, it could have been called anything, the armed popular uprising would have happened one way or another. The fact that the KLA was already there and had some organization was what made Kosovars turn the KLA from a small group to a real Liberation Army. This is the KLA I speak of, the KLA that was filled with 30000 Kosovar Albanians, who felt they were fighting for the survival of their people. This KLA died when NATO rolled in, because there was no longer a need for it.

Stage 3 (post-war): There no longer is a KLA, however there are a number of people who have made war, and now find it difficult to live in peace. Some turn to crime, some go to Macedonia, and many join the newly-formed Kosova Protection Corps. A small number do the first and the last, i.e. join the KPC but are corrupt.

>>>The Serbian people should have the right to attend their own church within their own country without a military escort. Their children have a right to go to school without an armed guard. This is still Serbia as laid out in UN Resolution 1244.

The churches should and will be protected, however I'm afraid anything short of independence would be a disaster. The only way to assure stability is to create the independent Republic of Kosova. Anything short of that would be practically and morally wrong.

>>>Before NATO so ludicrously decided to support the KLA in its bid to annex territory from a sovereign nation as part of a well documented aim for Greater Albania, there was peace in Kosovo. All of the local signs were in Serbian and Albanian and the schools were mixed.

Do not revise history. Kosovar Albanians had created their own parallel government, their own schools and their own institutions before Slovenia even seceded.
Except for a very, very small number of people (look at Stage 3 above) noone is interested in Greater Albania.

>>> If there was an argument about equal rights it could have been sorted out peacefully through diplomacy.

There was an argument about equal rights since at least 1981, and they tried for 17 years to resolve it peacefully. The response? they had their autonomy stripped, they were kicked from local government, and in the end they were kicked from their homes.

[JCB]

Al Qaeda isn't a religion, mate!

And if it were, the Albanians have almost no part in it. How many NATO infidels have been killed by the KLA in the last four years?

[DTA]

>>>>>There was an argument about equal rights since at least 1981, and they tried for 17 years to resolve it peacefully. The response? they had their autonomy stripped, they were kicked from local government, and in the end they were kicked from their homes.<<<<

I assume this is an example of sqhiptaria at work. And accuse others of revising history.

1981 Shqiptar riots were the first riots reported by the he media. Previous large one (1968) was censored.

In 1981 Kosovo was ruled by Shqiptar Communists, not Serbs. They ruled with near absolute power, pilfering federal funds and asking no one. Just like today with UNMIK funds. Life is good when somebody else foot the bill. Yet, Shqiptars rioted looking for SECCESSION from Yugoslavia (KOSOVA REPUBLIKE)

Savage riots in 1981 were like Kosovska Mitrovica, Ceglavica and Pec today. Shqiptaria at work.

Until this misrule was dissolved, Serbs were subjected to the arsons, killilings, rapes, beatings, cattle blinding, well poisoning. Very much the same arsenal we will see in the days to come.

The reason for abolition of Kosovo misrule was not the treatment of Serbs but the REQUEST OF IMF THAT THE SQUANDERING OF BORROWED FUNDS MUST STOP.

You of course know this but continue to weave tall tales about "poor innocent Kosovo Albanians"

Yes, poor innocent Kosovo Albanians who are on rampage called "Feja e shqiptarit eshte Shqiptaria", to grab the land rightfully belonging to other people.

Feja e Shqiptarit eshte NAZISM under any convenient name.

[FormerLib]

Sorry, I didn't realize that it was only the lives of NATO infidels that counted.

I thought all humans might have. Guess killing all those Serbs is OK by you then?

Of course, the presence of the NATO infidels is the only reason they can still operate in Kosovo, isn't it? Perhaps they aren't completely stupid.

[FormerLib]

So, what do you call California these days in recognition of the Mexicans right to self-determination?

Supported the right of the Bosnian Serbs for self-determination anytime lately?

[FormerLib]

Wow, this guy could give Clinton lessons on the "Deny, deny, deny" strategy!

The KLA changes its name and POOF! the murderious thugs are nothing more than law-abiding, peace-loving law-enforcement officers.

And if you'll believe that, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn that we're taking bids for!

[Destro]

So the earlier atempted murder of a Serb outside of Pristina should be ignored?

Kosovo Serbs riot after teen's shooting (stone NATO/UN troops - block roads)

[vooch]

Both UNMIK and KFOR are in gross violation of their treaty obligations to provide for a safe and secure environment for the people of Kosovo and Metohija.

The KLA has murdered some 1,000 Albanians and UNMIK barley lifts a finger

[FormerLib]

You know he's going to claim that a Serb started it. Probably threw himself in the path of an Albanian bullet that clearly had the right of way or some such rot!

[JCB]

I never said the KLA were anything more than murderous thugs. But for you to suggest that the Kosovo Albanians are somehow Islamic Jihadists is utter BS! There's a reason they Hachi and company lost the elections to Rugova - and it isn't because Albanians are KLA-loving fanatics.

The only reason the KLA became the group they were is because of Serb crackdowns on civilians in 1998-99 that swelled the KLA's ranks.

Had the Serbs acted against the KLA as they later did against the Albanian rebels in the Presevo valley we wouldn't even be having this discussion.

[GeraldP]

>>> So the earlier atempted murder of a Serb outside of Pristina should be ignored?

We should not. Justice should know neither nationality nor religion.