[CTRL] 705 Serbs, Montenegrins killed in Kosovo since June

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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The Committee for National Solidarity
Tolstojeva 34, 11000 Belgrade, YU


January 20, 2000

705 Serbs, Montenegrins killed in Kosovo since June

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:

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
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