[ALBSA-Info] CHRONOLOGY-Post-war Kosovo's catalogue of unsolved killings

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CHRONOLOGY-Post-war Kosovo's catalogue of unsolved killings
  
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Violence has continued to plague 
Kosovo since it was transferred from Serb to international rule after NATO's 
1999 bombing to end Belgrade's repression of ethnic Albanians. 

Following are some of the most serious violent incidents in Kosovo since 
NATO-led peacekeepers and the United Nations took charge in June 1999. 
According to international officials, no one has been convicted of any of the 
crimes listed below. 

1999 

July 23 - Fourteen Serb farmers shot dead in a field near the village of 
Gracko, south of the capital Pristina. 

Sept 28 - Two Kosovo Serbs killed and scores of others wounded in grenade 
attack on marketplace in town of Kosovo Polje, just southwest of Pristina. 

Oct 6 - One Serb stoned to death and around 20 people wounded in clashes 
between Serbs and Albanians in the city of Mitrovica after funeral to rebury 
ethnic Albanians killed in Kosovo conflict. Eighteen peacekeepers wounded. 

Oct 11 - Valentin Krumov, a Bulgarian member of Kosovo's U.N. mission, shot 
dead in centre of Pristina, apparently after angering a group of ethnic 
Albanian youths because he spoke Serbian. 

Nov 29 - Serb professor shot dead, his wife and 76-year-old mother-in-law 
assaulted, by mob in Pristina in midst of ethnic Albanians celebrating 
national "Flag Day" holiday. 

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2000 

Feb 2 - Attackers fire rocket at bus run by U.N. refugee agency travelling 
between two Serb enclaves in northern Kosovo. Two Serbs, a woman of 53 and 
man aged 65, killed. Three more, including an 88-year-old woman, wounded. 

Feb 3 - At least eight ethnic Albanians, including an eight-year-old boy, 
killed in single night of violence in Serb-dominated northern Mitrovica the 
night after the bus attack. Around 20 people, most of them Serbs, wounded. 

April 17 - Besim Mala, a former commander in the ethnic Albanian Kosovo 
Liberation Army, shot dead in a shoot-out in Pristina. 

May 8 - Attackers gun down Ekrem Rexha, another former KLA commander, outside 
his home in the southwestern city of Prizren. Rexha, also known as Commander 
Drini, was widely seen as a moderate who worked closely with international 
officials. 

May 29 - A drive-by shooting in the eastern village of Crnica killed three 
Serbs, including a four-year-old boy. 

Aug 2 - Three Gypsies killed and one wounded by a booby-trap outside their 
home in the village of Mali Alas, around 15 km (nine miles) south of 
Pristina. 

Aug 4 - Remains of burned body of Shaban Manaj, an Albanian lawyer and 
activist in the moderate Democratic League of Kosovo party, discovered. He 
had been kidnapped in late July. 

Aug 18 - Bomb rips through building in central Pristina housing local 
political parties and offices of Yugoslav authorities in Kosovo. Two people 
slightly injured. 

Aug 18 - Nine children injured after two grenades thrown onto basketball 
court in village of Crkvene Vodice, a Serb enclave north of Pristina. 

Sept 10 - Shefki Popova, a journalist from the Rilindja daily, is shot in 
Vucitrn, 30 km (19 miles) north of Pristina. Popova dies in hospital of his 
injuries. 

Sept 11 - Rexhep Luci, local director for town planning, reconstruction and 
development, shot dead in a Pristina suburb. 

Nov 9 - Four men from the Ashkali Gypsy minority found shot dead in the 
village of Dasinovac, central Kosovo. Three have bullets through their 
foreheads, according to a witness. 

Nov 22 - One man killed in bomb blast at residence of Yugoslav government's 
representative in Pristina. 

Nov 23 - Xhemajl Mustafa, a top adviser to ethnic Albanian moderate leader 
Ibrahim Rugova, shot dead in an ambush outside his home in Pristina. 

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2001 

Jan 29 - A 15-year-old ethnic Albanian boy killed in a grenade attack in 
northern Mitrovica. 

Feb 13 - Attackers ambush bus carrying Serbs near the village of Strpce, 
southern Kosovo. One Serb passenger killed and two wounded. 

Feb 16 - At least seven Serbs killed and dozens wounded when bomb explodes 
under bus carrying Serbs shortly after it crosses into northern Kosovo from 
Serbia proper.