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Subject: 705 Serbs, Montenegrins killed in Kosovo since June


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> The Committee for National Solidarity
> Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU
> Tanjug
> January 20, 2000
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> 705 Serbs, Montenegrins killed in Kosovo since June
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> Belgrade -- Over the past seven months, since the international KFor
> force and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) were deployed to the
> Yugoslav republic of Serbia's Kosovo-Metohija province, 793 people have
> been killed, 705 of them Serbs and Montenegrins, according to an
> overview of ethnic Albanian terrorist crimes and violations of U.N.
> Resolution 1244, distributed by the Yugoslav foreign ministry to foreign
> diplomats in Belgrade on Thursday.
>
> The full text of the Overview follows:
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> OVERVIEW of terrorist and other acts of violence and of certain
> violations of Security Council resolution 1244 (1999) in the Province of
> Kosovo and Metohija since the arrival of KFOR and UNMIK in the period
> from 12 June 1999 to 16 January 2000
>
> 1. Number of terrorist attacks -- 3,688
> Out of which 3,491 were committed against Serbs and Montenegrins, 87
> against Albanians and 110 against Roma, Muslims, Goranci, Turks and
> members of other nationalities.
>
> 2. Number of abducted and missing persons -- 688
> Out of whom 630 were Serbs and Montenegrins, 36 Albanians and 22 members
> of other nationalities.
>
> The fate of 581 persons is still unknown; 69 abducted persons were
> killed, 6 persons escaped while 32 were released.
>
> 3. Number of killed persons -- 793
> Out of whom 705 were Serbs and Montenegrins (22 massacred, 84 mutilated
> and 5 burned to death), 63 were Albanians and 25 members of other
> nationalities in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> 4. The latest brutal crimes:
> - Killing of the Skenderis, a four member Muslim family, in Prizren on
> 11 January 2000;
> - Rape and killing of a 11 year old Albanian girl by a KFOR member near
> Vitina on 13 January 2000;
> - Killing of three men of Serbian nationality who tried to return to
> their ancestors homes in the village of Pasjane on 16 January 2000;
>
> 5. Number of arbitrarily arrested persons by KFOR and UNMIK: 57
> Arrested Serbs are detained in prisons in Pristina, Prizren, Sojevo near
> Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Gnjilane, Lipljan and Kolokot Banja.
>
> They have been arrested without any explanation or charges, only on the
> ground of information provided by the Albanians, most frequently by the
> members of the terrorist so-called "KLA".
>
> 6. Number of wounded persons: 611
>
> 7. Reported cases of physical assault, harassment and inflicted grave
> bodily harm -- 416.
>
> 8. Registered cases of serious threats -- 356
>
> 9. Registered number of private dwellings broken into and forcibly taken
> occupancy of:
> 776 in Pristina, over 200 in Kosovska Mitrovica, 190 in Gnjilane, 124 in
> Orahovac, a large number in Kosovo Polje and Lipljan.
>
> 10. Ethnic cleansing:
> - In the campaign of ethnic cleansing following the deployment of KFOR
> and UNMIK over 350,000 Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims, Goranci,
> Turks and other non-Albanians were expelled from Kosovo and Metohija, of
> whom 250,000 are Serbs.
> - The following towns and villages are ethnically cleansed of Serbs,
> Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other non-Albanians:
> Prizren, Djakovica, Pec, Srbica, Podujevo, Vucitrn, Glogovac, as well as
> the villages of the municipality of Istok; Dzakovo, Osojane, Tucepom,
> Kos, Zac, Belica, Krnjine, Maricane, Kacanik, Stimlje, Kmetovacka
> Vrbica, surroundings of Urosevac, Slivovo, Nedakovac, Nevoljane, Vrpica,
> Ljestar, Zegra (municipality of Gnjilane), Zitnje, Pozaranje, Grmovo,
> Drobes, Kabas and Binac (municipality of Vitina).
> - The ethnic cleansing has been in its final stages in Pristina (all the
> Serbian population has been driven out of the largest residential
> quarters: Ulpijana, Suncani Breg, Dardanija, Univerzitetsko naselje),
> Gnjilane, Urosevac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Lipljan, Kosovo Polje where 80
> per cent of the Serbian population has been expelled (houses burned
> down, looted, property seized from the owners of shops, Albanian
> terrorists maltreat and physically abuse Serbs, who refused to sell
> their houses and move out of Kosovo and Metohija, before the very eyes
> of the members of KFOR), Kosovska Kamenica, area of Vitina and Kosovsko
> Pomoravlje, as well as in the villages of Toplicane, Rujice, Magure,
> Slovinja, Staro Gracko.
>
> Members of the terrorist "KLA" make special pressure on the region of
> Gora populated by indigenous ethnic group -- Goranci who are not allowed
> to use their mother tongue, i.e. the Serbian language, in schools and in
> everyday life, in an attempt to misrepresent this ethnic group as
> members of Albanian nationality.
>
> 11. Destruction of churches, monasteries and cultural monuments:
> About 80 churches, monasteries and other cultural monuments were burned
> down, demolished or seriously damaged including the following: the
> Church of Assumption of Our Lady in Dolac, monastery of St. Marco in
> Korisa from 1467, monastery of Prophets Kosmo and Damien in Zaociste
> from 14th century, the church in Kijev from the 14th century, the Holy
> Trinity monastery from the 14th century near Musutiste, monastery Devic
> built in 1440, church of St. Paraskeva in Drenik from the 16th century,
> church of St. Dimitri near Pec, the Orthodox church in Grmovo near
> Vitina, church of St. Ilija in Zegra near Gnjilane, church of Holy
> Mother in Musutiste from 1315, church of St. Prophet Ilija in Bistrizin,
> church of Apostles Peter and Paul in Suva Reka, monastery of St. Uros in
> Nerodimlje, monastery of St. Archangel Gabriel from the 14th century in
> Binac, church of the Holy Virgin from the 16th century in Belo Polje,
> church of St. John the Baptist in Pecka Banja, churches in the villages
> of Naklo, Vucitrn, Petrovac, Urosevac, Podgorce, Djurakovac, Krusevo,
> Osojane, Samodreza, Dresna near Klina, Rekovac, Petric, monastery Dinac
> near Vitina, Holy Trinity Cathedral in Djakovica.
>
> Clergy, monks were terrorized and prosecuted. More than 150 parish
> residences were destroyed or damaged. Over 10,000 icons and other sacred
> objects most of which are cultural monuments under the special
> protection of the State, were stolen or destroyed.
>
> The following cultural monuments were damaged and demolished:
> - monuments in memory of gianst of Serbian and Montenegrin literature
> Vuk Karadzic and Petar Petrovic Njegos in the very centre of Pristina;
> - monuments in memory of King Uros in Urosevac and King Dusan in
> Prizren;
> - memorial to Prince Lazar in Gnjilane and the memorial to Serbian
> rulers from the Nemanjic dynasty in the village of Gornje Nerodimlje.
> 12. Forced and illegal taking over of public institutions:
> - Forcible and illegal take-overs of premises and buildings of post
> offices, banks, medical institutions, water and power supply systems,
> university, elementary and secondary schools, municipal and other
> authorities of local administration, local communes, buildings of the
> Ministry of the Interior and the Army of Yugoslavia, factories,
> enterprises, cooperatives, etc. in Pristina (premises of the Clinical
> centre "Pristina" and the health station, the Federal Customs
> Administration, the Public Housing Company, Institute for Urban
> Planning, the public enterprise "Vodovod", thermal power plant "Kosovo
> B", depots and petrol stations of "Jugopetrol", the share-holding
> companies "Kosmet-Pristina", "Kosovo-Trans", the public enterprise
> "Energoinvest", the public enterprise "Autopristina", "Car shock
> absorbers plant", "Jugotrans", etc.) as well as in Prizren, Dragas,
> Podujevo, Lipljan, Strpci, Kosovska Mitrovica, Kosovo Polje (with the
> assistance of the members of KFOR), Djakovica (with the assistance of
> the members of KFOR).
> - By forced and illegal taking over of public enterprises and
> institutions over 20,000 employed Serbs, Montenegrins, Roma, Muslims,
> Goranci, Turks and other non-Albanians were sacked and left with no
> means for living.
>
> 13. Registered armed attacks on villages:
> Slovinj, Maticane, Orahovac, Konjuh, Berivojce, Gornja Brnjica, the
> villages around Kosovska Kamenica: Grncar, Magila, Ajvalija, all the
> villages of the Istok-Klina region, Gorazdevac near Pec, Svinjare,
> Klokot, Novo Brdo, Zjum, Donja and Gornja Gusterica, Susica, Badavac,
> Bresje, Vrbovac, Vitina, Cernice, (municipality of Gnjilane), Dobrusa,
> Veliko Ropotovo (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica), Partes
> (municipality of Gnjilane), Pasjane (municipality of Gnjilane), Ljestar,
> Budriga, Dobrotin (municipality of Lipljan), Grncar, Binac, Ranilug,
> Silovo, Odovce, Rajanovce, Bosce, Caglavica, Paravolo, Lebane, Gojbulja,
> in the following villages in the area of the municipality of Gora:
> Brodosvce, Belobrod, Kukavce -- frequent attacks against the houses of
> Goranci, Muslims and Albanians who are loyal to the FR of Yugoslavia.
> All this runs counter to the assertions about the disarming of the
> terrorist "KLA".
>
> 14. Sieges of towns and villages:
> Gadnje, Orahovac and Velika Hoca, Koretin, villages around Gnjilane,
> Priluzje, Gornja Srbica, Gorazdevac. About 3,500 Serbs, residents of
> Orahovac, have been living for more than seven months since the
> deployment of KFOR and UNMIK in the only concetration camp in Europe
> after the Second World War -- under the siege of the terrorist "KLA".
>
> 15. Armed threats against villages and terror committed on a daily basis
> against non-Albanian population:
> Ugljari, Srpski Babus, Stimlje, Novo Selo, Bresje, the area around
> Kosovo Polje, Milosevo (against which the armed attack was carried out),
> village of Zebnice (dramatic humanitarian situation), majority of the
> mainly Croatian Catholic population who lived in the villages of
> Letinice, Vrnez, Vrnavo Kolo and Sasare have moved out, Drenovac (50
> Serbs massacred), village of Cernice (series of incidents in which
> members of the US contingent of KFOR maltreated Serbs), Pozaranje,
> Gotovusa, Gatnje, Zubin Potok, Veliki Alas, Vrelo and Radevo.
>
> 16. The looted Serb villages from which the residents were forced out:
> Muzicani, Slivovo, Orlovic, Dragas, the area around Kosovo Polje,
> Sofalija, Livadice, Mirovac, Sirinicka Zupa, Medregovac, Grace,
> Zlociste, Sofalije, Dragoljevac, Tomance, Koretin, Lestar, Donja
> Sipasnica.
>
> 17. Serb neighbourhoods set on fire:
> Istok, Klina, Donja Lapastica, Obrandza, Velika Reka, Perane, Lause, the
> villages around Podujevo, Grace, Donja Dubica, Zociste, Orahovac, Naklo,
> Vitomirice, Belo Polje, Kojlovice, Alos-Toplicane, Krajiste, Rudnik,
> Donji Strmac, Goles (municipality of Lipljan), Orlovic (municipality of
> Pristina), Krpimej and Lausa (municipality of Podujevo), Muzicane (all
> Serbian houses burned down), Zaimovo, Denovac, Lesjane, Gornje and Donje
> Nerodimlje (all Serbian houses looted and then burned down), Sinaje
> (municipality of Istok), Belovac, Mali Talinovac, Ljubizda, Klobuka
> (municipality of Kosovska Kamenica).
>
> 18. Registered number of homes burnt down:
> about 50,000 houses of Serbs, Roma, Muslims, Goranci and other
> non-Albanians were burned down in Kosovo and Metohija.
>
> 19. Registered number of illegal entries of foreign citizens into the
> territory of the FR of Yugoslavia (Kosovo and Metohija) without the
> necessary papers (visas and registration of stay with the competent
> authorities) -- 677:
> Over 200,000 foreigners have illegally entered into the Province with
> the consent of UNMIK and KFOR. The Government of the FR of Yugoslavia
> has officially requested on several occasions their expulsion. These
> requests have not been met although those persons are international
> terrorists, criminals, drug dealers, mafia members, women and children
> traders, organizers of bordellos and other forms of international crime.
>
> 20. Registered number of stolen wehicles:
> Over 12,000 vehicles. As a result of open borders with Macedonia and
> Albania 250,000 vehicles were brought into Kosovo and Metohija without
> payment of customs duties and most of these vehicles were stolen.
>
> 21. Registered number of criminal acts of illicit trafficking and
> possession of goods without appropriate documents- 137
> 22. Registered number of cases of violation of the land security zone by
> KFOR- 236
>
> Secretary General
> Mrs. Jela Jovanovic
> Art  historian
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