Posted on 03/17/2004 12:25:43 PM PST by joan
Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Prizren torched - Fate of eight Serbs, including two children, unknown - Fr. Dragan Kojic in Vitina wounded and requesting urgent assistance
ERP KIM Info Service
Gracanica, March 17, 2004 18:05
Albanian extremists have just set fire to Sts. Cyril and Methodius Seminary in Prizren which temporarily housed eight Serb laypeople, including two children and one pregnant woman. The fate of these Serbs is unknown. The Seminary was not protected by German KFOR. The unbridled rioting of the Albanians throughout Prizren continues, according to the monks of Holy Archangels Monastery and priest-monk Miron Kosac who remains isolated in the Bishop's residence in Prizren.
We have just received news that the Albanians are attacking the seat of the Diocese in Prizren and threatening to set it on fire. The evacuation of the German soldiers and Fr. Miron is expected at any time. There are about 60 elderly Serbs remaining in Prizren.
Fr. Dragan Kojic in Vitina has been attacked and wounded. He is requesting urgent assistance and evacuation.
All Serb houses in Belo Polje on firePEC -- Wednesday – A mob of angry Albanians from Pec have set fire to all 25 houses belonging to repatriated Serbs in the village of Belo Polje.
The Serb repatriates have been evacuated to an Italian KFOR base.
“The village is deserted now. The houses they built for our return are now on fire,” one of the Serbs told media.
Albanians threaten to torch the Pec PatriarchateAlbanians threaten sisterhood of the Pec Patriarchate: Tonight your monastery will go up in flames
The ERP KIM Info Service has received word from the monastery of the Pec Patriarchate that the Albanians have been repeatedly calling its sisterhood by telephone and threatening to set the monastery on fire. Presently in the monastery are the 24 nuns of the sisterhood, priest-monk Epifanije and Bishop Joanikije of Budim, who is visiting the monastery and was scheduled to visit Serb returnees and other Metohija monasteries during the afternoon.
The situation in the monastery is calm and the sisters are collected and devoted to their prayers. The Italian command has been informed regarding the threats to the sisterhood by Albanian extremists and all necessary measures will be undertaken to protect the monasteries of the Pec Patriarchate and Visoki Decani in an appropriate manner.
The monks of Holy Archangels Monastery have been informed by the German KFOR command that the monastery is being sealed off and that monks are prohibited from leaving the monastery. At the same time strong armed forces have been deployed around the monastery residence halls. In Prizren the Albanians are staging demonstrations and the fate of some 60 Serbs who remain in the city and the churches which are no longer under KFOR protection remains unknown.
LIPLJAN -- Wednesday – Two bombs have been thrown at houses near the Serbian Orthodox church in the centre of Lipljan, south of Pristina, municipal official Borivoje Vignjevic said this evening.
Vignjevic told journalists that there was gunfire from all directions in the town and that more than fifty houses in the Serb-occupied centre of the town had been destroyed.
“There are no UNMIK police or KFOR troops in the streets,” he said.
Feja e Shqiptarit e terrorism
CAGLAVICA -- Wednesday – A crowd of ethnic Albanians has set light to two Serb houses in the village of Caglavica, near the Kosovo capital Pristina, Beta news agency reports.
Beta’s correspondent reports clashes between Albanians and members of the international peacekeeping force (KFOR).
The situation is said to be calm but tense.
Serbs in the village have been blocking the main road in protest at the shooting of a teenage boy on Monday evening.
CAGLAVICA -- Wednesday – Thirty armoured vehicles carrying US KFOR troops have arrived in Caglavica from the direction of Urosevac, where the US military base, Camp Bondsteel is located.
A number of UNMIK vehicles are burning beside the access road to the village on Veternik Hill.
International security forces are reported to be attempting to pull out soldiers and policemen injured in clashes with Albanian gangs from Pristina.
About ten Serb houses are burning after being set alight earlier during the day’s clashes.
Caglavica has about a thousand Serb residents.
OBILIC -- Tuesday – KFOR troops have defused a hand grenade thrown into the yard of an elderly couple in the village of Obilic.
The couple say they became aware of the grenade during the day, but have no idea how it got there.
Only fifteen Serbian families remain in the part of Obilic where the couple live. Three members of one family were killed in the village last year, before their house was set on fire.
Police and international peacekeepers have failed to find those responsible.
http://www.inet.co.yu/
Thirty US KFOR armoured vehicles from Bondsteel army base have entered Caglavica. Dozen Serb houses in Caglavica have been set ablaze. Hospital in Kosovo Polje has been set ablaze and burned to ashes.
Here's the real take, from a reputable source, courtesy Bloomberg News.
Kosovo Clashes Kill 7 Residents; Peacekeepers Among 300 Injured March 17 (Bloomberg) -- Seven people were killed and about 300 were injured when ethnic Albanians stormed the Serbian- majority section of a town in Kosovo, throwing rocks and explosives in the worst bloodshed there in five years, a United Nations spokesman said.
The Albanians pushed across a bridge connecting the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica, about 30 miles northwest of the provincial capital Pristina, and began fighting Serbs, UN spokesman Gyorgy Kakuk said by telephone. UN police tried to intervene and break up the melee and were unable to impose order, Kakuk said.
Four Albanians were killed along with three Serbs, he said. French peacekeepers were among those hurt. The violence came amid outrage over the drowning deaths of ethnic Albanian boys in an incident that may have involved Serbs.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization peacekeepers, all French, were dispatched to the area ``but stone throwing and (the use of) explosive devices didn't stop,'' Kakuk said. Sniper fire started from roofs, he said.
The violence was the deadliest in the UN-administered region since 1999 and may test the world body's efforts to build a stable political and economic base there. Kosovo came under UN control in 1999 after a North Atlantic Treaty Organization bombing campaign to stop a rampage orchestrated by then-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic. About 80,000 Serbs remain in Kosovo, living in enclaves protected by peacekeepers. Ethnic Albanians living in the province want independence.
Fred Eckhard, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, urged all sides to halt the fighting, ``which jeopardizes the stability of Kosovo and the security of all its people.''
French Soldiers Hurt
Eleven French soldiers in the multinational KFOR contingent were hurt, three seriously, Agence France-Presse reported.
``It was a violent clash'' that lasted for ``several hours,'' said Kakuk, who was fired upon and hit by a stone. Dozens of UN policemen were hurt, mainly suffering broken bones and other injuries from stones, he said.
The violence began after reports that two ethnic Albanian boys drowned in an icy river trying to escape a mob of angry Serbs, the Associated Press reported. A third boy was missing. German Lieutenant General Holger Kammerhoff, KFOR's commander, expressed condolences today about the drownings and asked Albanians for restraint. ``Again, do not pass judgment on any one person or ethnicity before the investigation process starts,'' a statement on KFOR's Web site said. Kakuk blamed the ethnic Albanians for instigating the confrontation. The northern, Serbian-majority part of the town was ``tense but calm,'' he said. In the southern, Albanian quarter, ``there's still some fighting with local thugs.'' Javier Solana, the European Union's foreign policy chief, condemned the attacks, saying ``these criminal acts are completely unacceptable and severely threaten Kosovo's progress towards a better future. The perpetrators must be brought to justice.''
These attacks are very organized and started by aggressive Albanians, who are even burning UN vehicles, in villages not even connected to where the children drowned.
After reports from the Albanian media. Yeah, no bias there.
People are getting killed on both sides, more than 10 so far. You need expensive help if this is laughing matter to you.
But Albanian press deliberatelly published this to incite poor innocent Kosovo Albanians. Press is resposible, but who was behind the orchestrated violence across Kosovo province
1. The background of this is the scathing report of COE about Kosovo Albanian extremism.
2. Today 4 Kosovo Albanian terrorists were arrested and as a result, tens of thousansds supoporters gathered in 27 protests across Kosovo. They were arrested because they murdered ALBANIANS.
By your sick, sick comment you have finally blow your cover.
Feja e Shqiptarit e terorism.
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