(Compiled from daily reports of U.S. element of KDOM) (600) (The following KDOM Daily Report was compiled by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports of the U.S. element of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission and released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, September 30, 1998.) KDOM Daily Report September 30, 1998 This morning at about 10:30 a vehicle operated by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) hit a land mine 2 km. southeast of Likovac (near the site where a Canadian vehicle hit a mine on September 14 and a Serbian police vehicle was destroyed, killing five, on September 26). One doctor was killed and two others injured. The fatality was an ethnic Albanian; the injured, another Albanian and a New Zealander. A U.S. KDOM team was nearby at the time of the explosion and able to provide assistance, including arranging for Serbian authorities to provide a medevac helicopter to pick up the injured and move them to the Pristina hospital. KDOM performed a preliminary investigation of the alleged massacre of 14 Albanian men in Golubovac. An alleged eyewitness told the team that, while Serbian police attacked the village (see KDOM Daily 9/29) another group tortured, mutilated, then shot the 14 victims whose bodies were buried in the woods 2 km. east of the village. KDOM saw the site, pools of blood in the dirt, tools allegedly used to stab the victims, and some small-caliber shell casings. Residents of the area told KDOM of the surrounding hills being littered with large numbers of bodies. KDOM could not substantiate these reports. IDPs [internally displaced persons] in the Suva Reka region told KDOM that the Serbian offensive there began on September 26. First with artillery then infantry, the Serbians forced an estimated 20,000 villagers from their homes and into the mountains. A convoy of 240 IDP vehicles fleeing the offensive was stopped and attacked by Serbian police on September 27, according to IDPs. KDOM located the remains of the convoy on the Vranic Road and noted that 150+ of the vehicles were burned or destroyed. The IDPs traveling with the convoy were detained for 24 hours without food, water, or facilities. IDPs also alleged that some women in this group were sedated, beaten, and raped. Some of the men were reportedly tortured, and one old woman and three children died during the detainment. Local authorities told KDOM that several villages (Vic, Kastanenevo, Biti, and Izhance) southwest of Urosevac were attacked by VJ [called for translation] and police forces without warning on September 28. 2,500 local residents reportedly fled to Urosevac. UNHCR teams were in Likovac, Pec, Prizren, and Orahovac today, and a small convoy delivered supplies to IDPs in the area east of Komorane. The German NGO Kinderberg surveyed medical facilities in the Paragusa valley where approximately 45,000 people reside (including 35,000 IDPs). The prevalent problems remain diarrhea, pediculosis, scabies, and infectious diseases. Supplies of vacines in the valley are low. KDOM visited the F.R.Y. ["Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"] humanitarian relief center in Glogovac where the director said they had been in operation for 3 months. KDOM noted that, as of 9:55 am seven people had visited the center for supplies. All had ethnic Albanian names. KDOM noted approximately 300 IDPs living in the open near Golubovac. (End of document) s
as for the Yugo military equipment...most of it was made right in country.......the Sov's didn't supply much of anything. You might as well call India a Soviet stooge for buying MIG's instead of Lockheed.
Kate22......thks for explaining things to ABrit