After more than a year of imperialist occupation UNMIK and KFOR is fully responsible for the situation described below. >From a recent Human Rights Watch report: Full text at: http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/eca/kosovo-election-bck.htm The Pre-Election Climate in Kosovo More than a year after the end of the war in Kosovo, the security situation in the province remains a cause for serious concern. Attacks on minorities, including murder, continue. The weeks surrounding the first anniversary of the entry of the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) into Kosovo in June saw an upsurge in violence against minorities in the province. A series of grenade and land-mine attacks and drive-by shootings targeting Serbs left eleven dead and more than a dozen wounded. Violence continued during the summer: On July 12, a Serbian Orthodox priest and two seminary students were wounded in a drive-by shooting near the village of Klokot. A grenade was thrown from a moving car into a group of children at a basketball court in the Serb village of Crkvena Vodica on August 18, leaving ten wounded. On August 27, an Albanian man drove his car into a group of children in the same village before fleeing the scene, killing one child and wounding three. An eighty-year-old Serb farmer from the same village was shot dead later the same day. On September 14, a forty-five-year-old Serb woman was shot dead at her home in Kamenica. A sixty-year-old Serb shepherd who had been reported missing was discovered dead near Strpce on October 4, with gun-shot wounds to the body. With most minorities displaced outside Kosovo or living in minority enclaves under permanent KFOR guard, the decision by Serbs to boycott registration should have come as little surprise, even without the alleged manipulation by then-Yugoslav president Milosevic. In the case of Kosovo's minorities, therefore, it is hard to argue that the minimum conditions exist for the holding of free and fair elections. _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
