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People died because of hunger in
the commune of Malishevė - Help deperately needed for the remaining IDPs!
Malishevė, April 25 (Kosovapress) First victims caused because of starvation have fallen
within two days, in he commune of Malishevė.Our sources have informed that in the
mountains of Turjake, these persons have died because of starvation: Rasim Sejdi Halilaj
(40), from Llapqeva Muhamet Abaz Kryeziu (64), from Bubaveci Rexhep Hajzer Bllaca(43),
from Bubaveci Tasim Brahim Foniqi, from Llazica Xufe Krasniqi, from Drenoci Mihrije Sherif
Krasniqi, from Drenoci Also a eight month baby Blerina Toplanaj from Kijeva All these
persons come from commune of Malisheve. Serbian terrorist and barbarious forces have
forced albanian population to leave their house and after looting everything, they set on
fire all of them, as result albanian population living in miserable conditions up in the
hills, now is facing the death cause by lack of food. This total serbian blockade in this
commune and all over Kosova is causing the death of many people now.
Serbian terror in the city of
Gjakova continues
Gjakovė, April 25 (Kosovapress) The city of Gjakova and the villages around are under
wild serbian terror. For every single day, albanians houses are being looted and burnt by
serbian terrorist police.Numerous serbian forces with tanks and armored vehicles are
placed in the Gjakova“s bus station where it's environs are declared as military
zones.Whereas sport gymnasium "Shani Nushi"there are indications that 120
albanian young people from Gjakova are being kept there.Our sources are confirming that
there are no informations about Mark Malota, Besim Nagavci,Hysen Nagavci,Gėzim
Bella,Arben Kumnova,Lutfi Bunjaku with his son, Shpėtim Ymeraga,Dem Binishi,a son of
Osman Efendiu,two brothers with the surname Qerkezi fate, who were arrested three weeks
ago etc.It is known that killings of albanian people by serbian terrorists have continued
even during these days.In the "Sadik Stavileci" road,these persons have been
killed into their houses: Skėnder Binaku, Ruzhdi Curri, Xhemail Qiraxhia, Xhevat Bega
with his son,one person with surname Dafota, Pleurat Qiraxhia and two unidentified persons
,whereas Ylber Xėrxa is wounded. Near by the interior secretary affairs building,these
persons have been killed:Nuredin Zherka, Mehmet Ukė Krasniqi and another one person
unknown.Meanwhile the family of Ganiu,has been burnt alive inside his home.Only one young
person member of this family was lucky one to survive. Some sources are reporting to us
that during yesterday,serbian forces after burnings in the new block they have killed
three other persons:one with the surname Krasniqi and two others with the surname Dedaj.
Grave situation is prevailing in Reka e Keqe whose villages are emptied.KLA units are
keeping strong to their positions and they have caused to serbian terrorist forces a lot
of losses in the combatians held in the Reka e Keqe and in the Dushkaja.The exact number
of the killed enemy soldiers is unknown,but there are predictions that this number is over
than 100.The KLA forces have reached to destroy tens of the enemy tanks and other armored
vehicles.There are informations also that tens of the serbian soldiers are
deserting,meanwhile the ranks of the KLA are increasing day by day with new volunteers.The
moral among the KLA soldiers is very high and they are finishing their duties with honour
and successfully in accordance with war conditions.
Another massacre committed by serbian terrorists
over civil population in the village Sllovi of Lipjani
Lipjan, April 25 (Kosovapress) Our confidential sources are reporting that on April 15 in
the village Sllovi, commune of Lipjani, serbian terrorist forces have committed new
another massacre over civilian albanian population. In this case, 31 persons have been
killed, 11 others are being wounded, whereas 13 others either are arrested, killed or
disappeared. The massacred and killed persons in the village Sllovi of Lipjani on April 15
are: Faik H. Krasniqi (39), Rifat Gashi (47), Ajvaz Gashi (55), a girl about 20 years old
and a woman about 50 years old. There 5 other unidentified persons for whom is supposed to
have been guest in this village, whereas Milaim Gashi (21) is wounded. The arrested or
disappeared persons are: Bajram Gashi (34), Jakup Gashi (43), Agim Berisha (35), Ilmi
Berisha, Ramadan Kryeziu (30), Mehdi Pacolli (53), Murat Gashi (65) with his nephew from
Prishtina, Enver Gashi (41) with his son, Ymer Gashi (39). Also there no reports about
four other persons who were inside in their houses during that day: Mehmet Sopa (75),
Shehide Sopa (90), Qamile Sopa (68) and Adem Bytyqi (55). There is a fear that the number
of the massacred and disappeared people is higher. meanwhile, two persons from the village
Zhegoc, are killed and they are buried in the lavenders of Sllovisė. In Terbufc, near
Sllovisė a girl has been killed whereas another young girl and an old age man are being
wounded.
Eight cadavers of the massacred
albanians, have been found
Klinė, April 25 (Kosovapress) Our sources direct from the region are reporting that in
the mountains of the villages of Golluboc and Negroc, eight cadavers of the massacred
albanians by serbian terrorist have been found.These albanian civilians are massacred a
week ago by serbian terrorists. The massacred persons are: Sheremet Brahim Maloku (65)
Avni Aziz Maloku (16) Mexhit Ramiz Maloku (15) Jeton Muharrem Maloku (16) Zeqir Rexhep
Gashi (55), Sylė Haxhi Thaēi (86), all from Plloqica, commune of Klinė. Also, two
unidentified cadavers have been found. There indications that there a lot of other
cadavers to be found in the mountains of these villages, all albanian civilians massacred
and killed by serbian terrorists.
Dr. Flora Brovina is kidnapped
Prishtinė, April 25 (Kosovapress) Dr. Flora Brovina, age (48), doctor, publicist and
well-known humanitarian person from Prishtina, according to some sources not completely
confirmed, is being kidnapped by serbian terrorist forces in the ward "Aktash"
of Prishtina before three days. Dr. Flora Brovina was not displaced from Prishtina. She
was famous about her medical and humanitarian work in the service of the civil population
of Prishtina.
In the abandoned Kaēanik, more than 700 serbian
military troops are being placed
Kaēanik, April 25 (Kosovapress) New serbian military reinforcements have arrive today in
Kaēanik by two buses and two military trucks. They are placed in Dushkajė, ward that
extend in the left side of Kaēaniku entrance. Serbian terrorist and all their military
means are being placed in empty albanian houses. In the village Bob, in the left side of
Kaēaniku exit, serbian forces are being placed. Former sanatorium, which later became a
sanitary textile factory "Saniteks" above Kaēanik, is full of masked serbian
military technique. This factory now is transformed in a military barrack. It is estimated
that only in Kaēanik, over than 700 serbian troops are being placed and they are equipped
with heavy military technique, whereas Kaēanik now from its 10.000 inhabitant, counts
only serbian troops placed there because albanian civil population was forced to leave by
serbian bar bars. Meanwhile in Kaēanik i Vjetėr, in the left side of its entrance, a lot
of armoured military vehicles are being placed there and they are covered with hay.There
are a lot of serbian soldiers placed in the albanian houses behind the school in Kaēanik
tė Vjetėr. There are other bases of serbian military-police forces in Drenogllavė, then
in Gurėt e Zezė, at the police network in the road Doganaj-Tetovė, and between villages
Stagovė, Kaēanik i Vjetėr and Begracė, and there are missile systems placed there too.
More than 70 albanian civilians are massacred in
the latest massacre in Gallap
Podjevė, April 25 (Kosovapress) Over than 70 civil albanians are being massacred in the
latest serbian terrorist offensive in the region of Gallapi. These are the massacred
persons that could have been identified up to now: Mehmet Muharrem Bala (47), from
Rimanishta Fadil Mehmet Bala (19), from Rimanishta Avdyl Osman Sejdiu (50), from
Rimanishta, all these three persons have been burnt Mehdi Sefa (21), from Podjeva Nysret
Jaha, Faik Jaha (49) Fadil Jaha (43), Fehmi Osman Musolli (52), from Shajkoci Hazir Ejup
Selmani (19), from Surkishi Fadil Hazir Ademi (24), from Gėrdoci Ferat Azem Bajoku (63),
from Dyzi Rifat Azem Bajoku (57), from Dyzi Vesel Azem Bajoku (71), from Dyzi Sadik Bajram
Berisha (60), from Dyzi Ragip Mulolli, from Shajkoci Behram Haziri, from Podjeva Isa A.
Mustafa (44), from Bellopoja Shefki Ramė Llugaliu (74), from Surkishi Mustafė Ismail
Llapashtica (43), from Dyzi Sahit Ejup Elshani (45), from Dyzi Latif Maliq Berisha (43),
from Batllava Hazir Shaip Islami (65), from Dyzi Hasan Bajrami (50), from Gėrdoci Bajram
Ismail Topanica (63), from Sfeqla Daut Arif Asllanaj (21), from Gėrdoci Rrustem Selim
Rrustemi (41), from Pollata Bekim Qazim Berisha (20), from Batllava Fehmi Sekiraqa (49),
from Hertica Mustafė Bajrami (49), nga Gllamniku Bahri Mehmeti (19), from Podjeva Perso
with the surname Berisha (44), from Batllava Ismat Ahmeti (52), from Llapashtica Islam
Xhafa (54), from Konushevci Musė Berisha (50), from Konusheci Sofije Berisha, from
Konusheci Mensur Sadik Mustafa (12), from Bellopoja Zojė Sadik Mustafa (7), from
Bellopoja We have no informations yet for 25 other persons who are massacred in this
massacre. All the massacred persons are buried in the village Dyz and in Koliq.
Refugees tell of Serbs seeking
women for rape in Kosova (CNN)
BRAZDA, Macedonia (AP) -- City by city and village by village, Serbs are hunting down
young women to rape as they loot, empty and burn Kosova's ethnic Albanian communities,
women escaping beyond the province's borders say.
International monitors, war crimes investigators and NATO all are reporting numerous
accounts of rapes in Kosova -- atrocities that Yugoslav and Serb officials deny.
Witness testimony so far indicates the rapes in Kosova are "neither isolated nor
incidental," said Patricia Sellers, a U.N. war crimes prosecutor at The Hague,
Netherlands, whose workers are gathering the first accounts.
"When the police entered the town, that was the first question they asked: 'Are there
any women here?"' said Valbona Rrustemi, 19, of the southern Kosova town of Urosevac.
Rrustemi fled Urosevac with her family April 16, the day after two girls came running
through her family's garden, saying Serb police were after them, she said.
Minutes later, police knocked at the family's door, asking if there were any young women,
she said. Her father said no while she hid, Rrustemi said.
Word later reached her of four Urosevac women who had been caught by the Serbs that day,
she said. They included a friend who was raped in the street, Rrustemi said. She named the
friend and gave her age, 22.
The woman's cousins had confirmed the attack, Rrustemi said. No one has heard of the woman
or her immediate family since.
"I don't know what happened to them. I hoped they escaped," said Rrustemi, one
of several women at the Brazda refugee camp to give accounts of rapes in Urosevac.
NATO, also citing refugee accounts, contends there have been several instances of mass
rapes, well-organized on at least a local level:
At Djakovica, near the Albanian border, Serb soldiers allegedly took women from their
families and sent them to an army camp where they were held for repeated rapes.
In Pec, a local Serb commander allegedly held ethnic Albanian women at a hotel, organizing
a schedule by which his soldiers could come to spend an evening.
At an ammunition factory and ferronickel plant at an unspecified site in Kosova, 100 women
allegedly were still being held as of mid-April.
On Sunday, the reports continued: Refugees arriving in Macedonia said Serb paramilitaries
raped four girls ages 15-20 before killing them, along with about 15 other people of their
village of Ribar i Vogel last week.
In many cases, word that Serbs were separating ethnic Albanians into groups of women and
men was enough to send families fleeing -- making rape a means of emptying communities, as
much as massacres, arson and looting.
"The intent is to not just intimidate and humiliate the actual physical victim but
also to somehow intimidate those who are standing there either looking at it or hear about
it," Sellers said.
The United Nations first prosecuted rape as a separate war crime after the 1992-95 Bosnian
war. In the first case to focus exclusively on rape, the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for
former Yugoslavia sentenced a Bosnian Croat paramilitary chief in December to 10 years in
prison for failing to stop subordinates' 1993 rape of a Bosnian Muslim woman.
Serb forces in Bosnia were widely accused of using rape as a means of "ethnic
cleansing." Sellers said it was too early to tell if rapes in Kosova were as
widespread as in Bosnia.
Refugees from Kosova say the targeting of women continued even as their convoys were being
escorted out of the province.
In one instance, Serbs looking for women stopped vehicles of residents from the area of
the southern city of Gnjilane en route to the border, but the convoy's Serb escorts
protected the women, villagers said.
Many of the accounts of Serbs seeking out women to rape come from people who escaped
rather than those who were caught.
So far, reports gathered by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe number
in the dozens, "and not many dozens," said Jorgen Grunnet, a spokesman for the
head of the OSCE's Kosova mission.