From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.centraleurope.com/news.php3?id=288468 Serbs, Albanian Rebels in Violent Battle in Southern Serbia PRISTINA, Feb 13, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) A violent battle between the Yugoslav army and Albanian separatists in which heavy artillery, mortars and tanks were used raged for four hours in southern Serbia on Monday, a separatist military commander said. The officer, Commander Luli of the self-proclaimed Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac (UCPMB), said the battle had lasted most of the afternoon, in the course of which "the Serbs tried to infiltrate" the zone controlled by the UCPMB. Luli told AFP that the Yugoslav army had during the battle brought out heavy artillery, tanks and mortars to bombard separatist positions near the villages of Bukovac and Gornje Shoshaje. He said his troops had only started returning fire once they came under attack. According to a member of the Serbo-Yugoslavian mission in Bujanovac, Milovan Cogulic, quoted by the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, however, "the Albanian terrorists fired... several mortar shells from Bukovac on Yugoslav army positions at Golemo Brdo. The army counter-attacked only when the attackers approached within 400 meters (yards)." The UCPMB also "launched a frontal attack on police positions" on Monday afternoon, Cogulic said. The latest clashes come amid fresh efforts to negotiate a political solution in the troubled region bordering Kosovo. ((c) 2001 Agence France Presse) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
