[ALBSA-Info] ethnic cleansing?

[Snjezana Beronja]

 DISSAPEARANCES OF SERBS IN THE PERIOD BETWEEN JAN 15
- JULY 30 1998

"The information gathered by the HLC indicates that
KLA members are responsible for the
disappearance of several tens of Serbs, Montenegrins
and Roma whose whereabouts and fate remain unknown,
and the deaths of several of these abducted persons.
KLA members are responsible also for the disappearance
of a number of ethnic Albanians, described as
"collaborators of the Serbian regime" and "loyal
citizens of the Republic of Serbia" by the ethnic
Albanian public and Serbian authorities, respectively.
"

FROM
KOSOVO - DISSAPEARANCES IN TIME OF ARMED CONFLICT
Humanitarian Law Center

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II DISAPPEARANCES OF SERBS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE KOSOVO
LIBERATION ARMY
2.1 Unknown fate of Dara and Vukosava Vujosevic, and
Milovan and Milka Vlahovic of Gornji Ratis

The Serb inhabitants of Gornji Ratis fled on 21 April
when the KLA took control of the area, and found
refuge at the Youth Center in the town of Decani,
close to the medieval Visoki Decani monastery. Only
four remained in the village: the sisters Dara (69)
and Vukosava (65) Vujosevic, and Milovan Vlahovic (60)
and his wife Milka (62). No Serb has managed to enter
Gornji Ratis since 21 April to find out how these four
elderly people are faring. The Vlahovics' daughter,
who left the village with her brother on 21 April,
told the HLC they tried to return the next day for
their parents but were stopped and turned back by KLA
members.

Source: HLC

2.2. Unknown fate of Slobodan Radosevic, and Milica
and Milos Radunovic of Dasinovac

The KLA took control of Dasinovac on 22 April. Most
Serbs fled the village the day before; only Slobodan
Radosevic (64), Milica Radunovic (59), her husband
Milos (60), and the Markovic family remained.

Radosevic's wife Rosa and their son Stanisa tried to
return for Slobodan the next day. They were able to
reach Pozar village where they were stopped at an KLA
checkpoint and taken to the KLA headquarters in
Glodjane, where, they told the HLC, Stanisa was
physically abused. They were released later that day
but were not allowed to go to Dasinovac for Slobodan.

Milos and Milica Radunovic were last seen by their son
and daughter-in-law on 22 April when they came from
Decani to take the elderly couple back with them. They
were, however, unable to persuade Milos and Milica to
leave and returned home thesame day. They have had no
news since then. Albanian friends of the family went
to Dasinovac to look for MIlos and Milica but with no
success.

According to several sources, including the
Albanian-language daily Koha Ditore, Slobodan
Radosevic and Milos Radunovic were killed. Relatives
have heard that they were buried by the roadside in
Glodjane but no one has seen the graves.

Source: HLC

2.3. Arbitrary detention of Vladan, Igor and Slobodan
Mikic of Klina

Vladan (31), Igor (21), and Slobodan Mikic (17) were
released on 30 April after being held for four days.
They said they were accosted by a group of armed
Albanians on Popova Glavica hill, blindfolded, taken
to Ozrim and, later, to Vocnjak village. They were not
ill-treated.

Source: Belgrade media

2.4. Arbitrary detention of Krsta and Dejan Jeftic,
and Stanko Stankovic of Recane

Krsta Jeftic (19) and his twin brother Dejan, and
Stanko Stankovic (48) of Recane, Suva Reka Township,
were released on 5 July. They were taken the day
before while pasturing their livestock.

Source: Belgrade media

2.5. Arbitrary detention of Vojko and Ivan Bakrac,
refugees from Croatia

A group of armed Albanians stopped a Djakovica Ekspres
bus near Crnaljevo on the Prizren-Stimlje road on 29
June. Four passengers, of whom three Serb refugees
from Croatia, were taken off the bus and to an unknown
destination. Two of the abducted, Vojko Bakrac and his
18-year-old son Ivan, were released on 8 or 9 July
through the efforts of the International Committee of
the Red Cross (ICRC). There has been no news of the
other two passengers.

Source: Belgrade media

2.6. Arbitrary detention of three women from Veliki
Djurdjevak

Four Serb families left Veliki Djurdjevak in the
afternoon of 20 June. An HLC witness said they were
evacuated swiftly by police because of an expected
attack, and had no time to take any belongings.

On 23 June, three women, including the HLC witness,
returned to feed their livestock. They had just
entered their homes when three armed Albanians
appeared, one in uniform and two in civilian clothes.
One of the latter was from the neighboring village.
The women did not know the other two. At gunpoint, the
women were put into a Mercedes car with Ivangrad
license plates and two of the men drove them to
Likovac.

Likovac had its own police station up to 1987. As in
many other all-Albanian villages, the police were
withdrawn by 1990, after which the building served as
the village community center. This is how the HLC
witness describes the place where she was held for 36
hours:

There were some trees, big ones, in front of the
building. As you go in, there were beds and a doctor's
office. There were tidy beds, a bathroom, a table in
the middle and chairs. They took the three of us into
a small room and gave us three chairs to sit on. There
were uniforms in the room, and car license plates with
UCK 1/11, 1/12, 1/13 on them, standing for Drenica.
The uniforms were complete, black and dark blue,
almost like police uniforms. There were boots and
shoes also. They offered us food but we couldn't eat.
I heard the voice of Drago Vostic in the next room;
the connecting door was a thin one. Then I also heard
Radomir talking in that room (HLC note: Drago and
Radomir Vostic from Jelovac went missing on 20 June
while they were making hay outside the village.) The
Vostic brothers speak very good Albanian. I heard them
talking but couldn't make out the words. They asked
Drago Vostic about his son. They questioned us too,
asked where we 
were from, where our husbands, our brothers-in-law
work. Nothing else. Then they let us go; it was
Wednesday (HLC note: 24 June), about three or four in
the afternoon, and they said: "Don't you even think
about going back home; we won't let you go next time."

According to the witness, a senior officer drove them
to Dusevica village in a white van, from where they
walked to the police station in Josanica.

Source: HLC

2.7. Arbitrary detention of Milosav and Vojislav
Smigic of Leocina

On 18 May, 25 Serbs left their homes in Leocina,
Srbica Township. Five, all with the last name Smigic,
of whom four over the age of 70 - Milosav and his wife
Sultana, Aleksandra "Lenka" and her son Radomir, and
Krstiva Smigic - stayed in the village. On 9 June, a
group of armed Albanians in military uniforms forced
their way into their houses. The incident was
described by Krstiva Smigic, who reached the police
station in Rudnik village early in the morning of 13
June, and told the police she feared something had
happened to her relatives Milosav, Sultana, Radomir
and Lenka. That same day, she joined seven Serb
families who moved out of Rudnik for Zubin Potok, a
small town with a majority Serb population near the
boundary with Serbia proper.

The Leocina Serbs said they were forced to leave their
homes. In April, their Albanians neighbors stopped
speaking to them although relations between the two
communities had been normal until then.

Earlier that month, Milosav and Vojislav Smigic were
walking home to Leocina from Kosovska Mitrovica. They
were stopped by three armed Albanians, put in a car
and taken to the KLA headquarters in Turicevac
village. Milosav Smigic's relatives saidhe did not
realize immediately that he had been abducted,
believing he and Vojislav were being given a lift.
They were taken to a store in Trnava and, as they got
out, Milosav said," Thanks children, you've saved us a
long walk." In front of the store, one of the
Albanians used a walkie-talkie to ask what should be
done with two Serbs they had captured. Milosav
realized then that he and Vojislav had been abducted.
He heard an elderly Albanian who came by tell the
three uniformed men, "Don't you hurt them now; they've
done nobody no harm."

A van with dark windows arrived and drove the two
Smigics to the KLA headquarters in Turicevac, where an
officer was expecting them. Milosav recounted to his
relatives that guns were pressed to his and Vojislav's
necks but that they were not otherwise mistreated.
They were each given 10 aspirin "so their heads
wouldn't hurt" and ten cigarettes. Milosav wished the
KLA men a happy Bayram holiday. Vojislav said to his
relatives that the men at the KLA headquarters told
them, "This isn't your country," and warned them that
they could no longer stay in their village.

On 9 May, the teenage brothers Bojan and Goran Smigic
were harrassed by unidentified Albanians while bussing
to school in Rudnik, and told that there was no more
school for them. After this incident, the Leocina
children transferred to a school in the small town of
Istok, where there is a police station.

Source: HLC

2.8. Arbitrary detention of Jovan Lukic of Brnjaca

At about 6 p.m. on 17 July, when he was driving past
Seljazin Breg at the crossroads outside Orahovac,
Jovan Lukic was stopped by a group of armed Albanians.
Some were in civilian clothes, others in uniform, and
Lukic said later he knew most of them by sight. He was
taken to Crvenica on a mountain near Orahovac, where
he saw two Serbs, Srdjan and Srecko Vitosevic, who had
been taken before him. Ceda Cabarkapa and Dusko
Dzinovic were brought in somewhat later.

The abductors tied the hands of the Serbs, pulled caps
over their eyes, and used Lukic's and their own car to
drive them to the former police station in Malisevo.
Among the prisoners there, Lukic recognized a Roma man
by the first name of Azem, his wife and 12-year-old
daughter, a Dusko from Orahovac, a Toma and his son,
and a man and his son from Mlecane whose names he did
not know. They were separated into groups and led into
different rooms. Lukic was in a room with two doctors
from the Orahovac Medical Center, one of whom from
Serbia proper and other from Velika Hoca, and the two
Vitosevics. They were held in the building for two
days and two nights. Five or six Albanians came into
the rooms at intervals of 10-15 minutes and beat the
prisoners.

During the second night, Lukic noticed that groups of
men were being taken out and driven away in a van,
which later returned empty. He and the others in his
room were the last group to be taken out. Their hands
were tied, they were bundled into the van and four
soldiers took them into the woods. As they were coming
out of the van, Lukic managed to break his bonds and
attempted to seize a gun from one of the soldiers. The
soldier struck him and broke his arm. Lukic started
running, shouting to the others to follow suit. The
soldiers fired after him and chased him for a while.
Lukic went cross country to Suva Reka, from where the
police took him to the Prizren hospital. He does not
know what happened to the other prisoners.

Source: HLC

2.9. Arbitrary detention of seven monks, a nun, and
villagers from Orahovac vicinity

Serbs from Zociste recounted that the village was
attacked on 19 July by around 1,000 armed Albanians -
local inhabitants and "some strangers." About 200
armed Serbs tried unsuccessfully to repulse the
attack. Younger people fled to neighboring Velika
Hoca, a village with some 400 Serb homes; others,
mostly elderly, sought refugee at the Serbian Orthodox
monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian. Early next
morning, the monastery came under fire and its guest
house was hit by two shells. Local Serbs said the
Albanians did not target the church, aiming at the
other monastery buildings, and that the attack lasted
about two hours.

The monks tried to resist with the four rifles they
had but, realizing it was in vain, decided to
surrender. The Albanians searched the monastery, led
out the people hiding inside, and demanded that all
Serbs leave "because we don't want to see you in the
village any more." In a bus belonging to the Termomont
company of Orahovac, the Serbs were taken to the
Albanian-language elementary school in Semetiste near
Suva Reka. They were held there under guard until 22
July when they were handed over to the ICRC. They told
news reporters they were not mistreated but that a
visiting priest from Serbia was whipped.

The following Serbs were released to the ICRC: Stanoje
Misic (25), Mitra Misic (25), Darinka Misic (70),
Borka Trpkovic (18), Zagorka Stojanovic (33), Vukadin
Krstic (83); Father Jovan from the monastery; Dragomir
Prodanovic, Radmilo Jelic (25), Vladimir Rancic (25),
Andjelka Djordjevic (49), Branko Preradovic (22), Ivan
Trajkovic (48), Goran Djordjevic (36), Radomir Krstic
(67), Olga Simic (53), Slavica Bandzic (42), Ljubica
Krstic (88), Branko Krstic (50), Dobrila Bozanic (26),
Dragica Bozanic (42), Duska Bozanic (59), Milutin
Djurdjic (85), Desanka Bandzic (80), Stanoje Kostic
(66), Momirka Kostic (53), Slavka Djurdjic (57),
Kosara Kostic (62), Danica Kostic (54), Lazarka Kostic
(62), Petra Kostic (60), Danica Kostic (54), Mirjana
Nikolic (38), Leposava Misic (84), and Desanka
Cucurevic (72).

Source: Belgrade media, Kosovo Red Cross

2.10. Unknown fate of Milosav, Sultana, Radomir and
Aleksandra Smigic

Krstiva Smigic told HLC researchers that all Serbs
moved out of Leocina apart from herself, Milosav,
Sultana, Aleksandra "Lenka" and Radomir Smigic.
Milosav flatly refused to leave his home and his wife
Sultana did not want to leave without him. Aleksandra
decided to stay because she was very close with
Sultana, and her son Radomir was unwilling to leave
her. On 8 July, an Albanian neighbor came to warn them
that they would be attacked. Krstiva said neither she
nor the others believed him. At about 10 a.m. the next
day, four men in camouflage fatigues and caps came
into her yard. She describes what happened next:

As soon as I saw them, I ran over to Milosav and
Sultana's. The soldiers beckoned to me but I was
afraid to let them get close up. The four of them came
after me and asked us, "What are you doing here? This
is Albania; there's nothing here for you." To which
Milosav replied, "It's been Serbia up to now. And even
if it's Albania, we can find a way to live together in
peace." Then they hit Milosav with their gun butts and
kicked me and Sultana. They ransacked the house, broke
the furniture. They put us in one room, set fire to
the bedding and said they'd be back in an hour. The
quilts were 
burning and we tried to put them out. We opened the
window and climbed out. Milosav told me and Sultana to
flee.

Radomir and Lenka saw what was happening from their
yard and called to us. We left Milosav in his yard. We
talked about where we could hide. Radomir told me,
Sultana and Lenka to go into the wheat fields and said
he would hide upstairs. Us three women left the house
and went into the fields. After a while, Sultana and
Lenka said they wanted to go back. Sultana went to her
husband, and me and Lenka went back to her house, to
Radomir. But about 30 of them were going into the yard
and, when they saw us, then came toward us. They were
armed, some in uniform and some in civvies. 
Ten of them went into Radomir's house. They found him
upstairs. We heard screams and Lenka rushed upstairs.
I stayed below. I heard terrible screams and moaning
from above. I couldn't bear it any more and went out
again. I heard three rifle shots before I got into
some high grass. I didn't see them drag Radomir or
Lenka downstairs.

>From her hiding place, Krstiva saw the Smigic houses
in flames. The next day, she cautiously approached
Milosav's house, called Sultana, and then went to
Radomir's house and called him and Lenka. There was no
response. Krstiva spent the next two nights near the
fire-gutted remains. On the fourth night, she set out
for Rudnik, knowing there were Serbs and police in the
village.

2.11. The abduction of Dostana Smigic of Srbica

Hearing that her mother Krstiva had stayed in Leocina
although almost all the other Serb inhabitants had
left, Dostana Smigic went to get her on 19 May. She
left Srbica, where she lived, in her Yugo car (license
plates KM 316 06). According to information gathered
by the HLC, Dostana Smigic was seen as she passed
through Rudnik and several other villages near
Leocina. She was reportedly stopped in Ozrim and taken
to Likovac village, also in the Drenica area.
According to many Serbs, the former police station in
Likovac has been turned into a detention facility for
Serbs and for Albanians who fail to comply with KLA
orders.

2.12. The abduction of Cedomir Kandic of Kotor

Cedomir "Cedo" Kandic (55), an employee of the
Belgrade-based Termoelektro company, was taken from
his home in Kotor, Srbica Township, on 13 June. His
brother, a police officer with the Kosovska Mitrovica
Police Department, said Cedo was in poor health: he
was convalescing following an ulcer operation, and
suffers also from rheumatism and a vascular disorder.
Cedo, his brother says, "never hurt a fly in his whole
life."

Seven armed Albanians came to the Kandic house, in
which Cedomir lived with his step-mother Angelina
"Draginja", took a pistol for which he had a permit,
and a knife used to slaughter pigs. They took Cedomir
away, telling Draginja he would be back in half an
hour, after he made a statement. The other five Serb
families in Kotor fled as soon as they heard Cedomir
had been taken. Only Draginja and Mileva Vukovic (73)
stayed. Cedomir's relatives told the HLC that ICRC
delegates managed to take Draginja Kandic and Mileva
Vukovic out of the village on 29 June, when they
visited Kotor for the second time. After the first
visit, the ICRC delivered to Cedomir's brother a note
someone had written on behalf of the illiterate
Draginja: "I am in good 
health. But I can't live alone and I can't get out of
here either."

2.13. The abduction of Miroslav Sulinic of Vidanje

Miroslav Sulinic (29) of Vidanje disappeared on 21 May
on his way home from Dobri Dol near Kursumlija (Serbia
proper) where he worked at a lumber mill. He was last
seen passing through the police checkpoint at Komorane
in his Toyota Corolla car. At some point after the
checkpoint, he was reportedly stopped by a group of
armed Albanians. Sulinic was carrying a pistol for
which he had a permit. His relatives have heard that
he is being held in Likovac and that, as a civilian,
he is not ill-treated and is put to work with other
prisoners on digging trenches.

Source: HLC

2.14. The abduction of Branko Staletic of Mlecane

On 20 June, armed Albanians in camouflage fatigues
appeared in Mlecane and forced the Serb families to
move out to Kijevo. They retained one villager, Branko
Staletic, and took him away.

Source: Belgrade media

2.15. The abduction of Ratko and Cedomirka Miljkovic
of Pantina

Thirteen Serb families fled Pantina amidst gunfire in
the early morning of 26 June. Ratko Miljkovic (55) and
his wife Cedomirka (52) remained in the village. Cveta
Simic (65), was the only person to stay in Hercegovo,
about one kilometer from Pantina. The Miljkovics'
daughter, Snezana, last saw her parents on 25 June,
when her father went to negotiate with their Albanian
neighbors.

My father went over to our neighbor Bajram, to ask him
to go with him to Dr Ismet Saciri, the most respected
Albanian in the village, and negotiate our moving out
peacefully. So they went together. But they came back
soon because they were told the doctor wasn't there
and would send for them when he returned.. And, at
about 7.30 a.m., some children came for my father. He
went and never came back. At around 9 o'clock, I heard
my mother's voice from the front of the house, crying
out to us to take care, that we were surrounded.

With her uncle and other Serbs families - the Vasics,
Milenkovics, Zivkovics and Spirics - Snezana fled
through the fields to Svinjarevo. On 14 July, the HLC
learned that Cveta Simic was found beside the road
between Pantina and Vucitrn and subsequently
hospitalized in Belgrade. When they visited her in the
hospital on 18 July, HLC researchers observed serious
injuries on her body. Cveta Simic was unable to say
how she was hurt or how she got to the spot where she
was found, and mentioned only an elderly Albanian
giving her a glass of water.

Source: HLC

2.16. The abduction of Zarko Spasic of Sibovac

Zarko Spasic (35), employed as a driver at the
Belacevac strip mine, was abducted at 9.30 p.m. on 14
May near the bus station at Grabovac village. People
who were waiting at the station told his father,
Milorad Spasic, that Zarko was stopped by armed and
uniformed Albanians and taken in the direction of
Dobrosevac, Glogovac Township.

Source: HLC, Belgrade media

2.17. The abduction of Bozidar Lempic and 10 employees
of the Belacavac mine

After taking control of the Belacevac strip mine on 22
July, KLA members abducted nine mine workers: Zoran
Andjancic, Pero Andjancic, Dusan Andjancic, Filip
Gojkovic, Dragan Vukmirovic, Mirko Buha, Mirko
Trifunovic, Srboljub Savic, and Bozidar Lempic.

Investigating the incident, the HLC found that six KLA
members stopped a bus taking 40 employees of the mine
from Obilic to Belacevac. Twelve were reportedly taken
off the bus. Two Albanian mine engineers were released
immediately while 10 Serbs were taken away. Among them
was Bozidar Lempic from Gojbulja near Vucitrn, who is
not a mine employee.

The HLC also established that Mirko Buha, a manager at
the mine, was not among those taken off the bus. He
went missing the same day while on his way to
Belacevac from Obilic via Crkvene Vodice and Ade in
his Lada automobile (license plates BR 657 67).

Source: HLC, Belgrade media

2.18. The abduction of Zvonko Marinkovic and Jefta
Petkovic of Musutiste

According to Aleksandar Naspalic, the parish priest in
Musutiste, two villagers, Zvonko Marinkovic and Jefta
Petkovic, and another four Serbs from Racan were
abducted. The priest refuted a report in the Belgrade
daily Blic that "the terrorists castrated three of the
men and killed another."

Source: Politika, Blic,

2.19. The abduction of Stamen Genov and Djordje Cuk, a
refugee

Stamen Genov, an ethnic Bulgarian from Bosilegrad
(eastern Serbia), employed as a medical technician at
a military medical facility in Djakovica, took a bus
to Belgrade on 29 June to enroll in college. He,
Djordje Cuk, and a man identified only by his last
name, Bakrac, both Serb refugees from Croatia, were
taken off the bus. Bakrac was subsequently released.
There is no information on the fate of Genov and Cuk.

Source: HLC, Belgrade media

2.20. The abduction of Djordje Djoric of Orahovac

Djordje Djoric (28), was taken from the Orahovac
Medical Center early in the morning of 18 July. Djoric
was driving a neighbor, a woman who had started her
labor pains, and her husband, to the Medical Center.
They were stopped by armed Albanians who ordered
Djoric out of his Yugo car and said they knew his two
brothers were police officers. After some 20 minutes,
the KLA members brought the three to the Medical
Center, went inside with them and took them up to the
fourth floor. There were no patients on the floor. A
midwife told them that several KLA groups had come
into the Medical Center on 17 July, that some doctors
had fled, and that a Dr Dusko from Velika Hoca, and
Drs Stojanovic and Isuf had been taken by the KLA.

Djoric was interrogated by the KLA members who had
stopped his car and others who came during the night.
He was taken into the hallway, asked questions about
his brothers, and beaten. A KLA group appeared at
about 3 a.m on 18 July and said they were members of
the Drenica KLA. They asked who the Yugo outside the
Center belonged to, took the keys from Djoric and
drove him away.

Source: HLC

2.21. The abduction of Sinisa Lukic and Veselin Lazic
of Gornje Nerodimlje

Sinisa Lukic and Veselin Lazic were abducted at about
7.30 p.m. on 20 July while on their way from Gornje
Nerodimlje to the nearby town of Urosevac. According
to the Politika newspaper, they were taken to Jezerac
village where the KLA has a headquarters and runs a
detention camp for Serbs from this area of Kosovo.

Source: Politika

2.22. The abduction of police officer Dejan
Stamenkovic

Dejan Stamenkovic, a police officer from Ropotovo,
Vitina Township, was taken off a bus running between
Kosovska Mitrovica and Pec. The bus was stopped at
Cubrelj village in the Drenica area on 19 May. There
has been no information on his whereabouts since then.
The official Serbian media reported that Stamenkovic
was off duty, in civilian clothes and traveling on
personal business.

Source: Belgrade media

2.23. The abduction of police officer Ivan Bulatovic

Police officer Ivan Bulatovic was taken off a
Pec-Kosovo Polje train when it stopped at the Banjica
station on 23 May. His wife has heard that he is being
held at a KLA detention center in Likovac. Quoting as
its source the Albanian-language Gazeta Shqiptare,
Politika reported that Bulatovic was at the KLA camp
in Izbica, also in the Drenica area.

2.24. The abduction of police officers Nikola
Jovanovic and Rade Popadic

Two Serbian police officers, Rade Popadic of Sabac and
Nikola Jovanovic of Loznica, went missing at Babaloc
village on 25 May. On 29 May, the Belgrade daily Danas
quoted senior police sources in Kosovo as saying the
two police officers had been taken prisoner and were
believed to be well-treated by the KLA. The paper
further reported that there had been contacts between
the police authorities and the KLA on exchanging
captured police officers in return for food supplies.

On 10 July, Danas said the District Court in Pec had
been asked to institute a judicial investigation
against Dem Ramosaj and another four Albanians on
charges of involvement in the abduction of Popadic and
Jovanovic. The paper added that the investigations
until then had indicated that the suspects had no
knowledge of what happened to the two police officers
after their abduction. It noted also the increasing
talk in police circles in Kosovo about the possibility
of exchanging abducted Serbs for 
arrested Albanians.

Besa Arlati, member of the Democratic Alliance of
Kosovo organization in Djakovica, was questioned at
the Djakovica Police Department several times in
connection with the abduction of officers Popadic and
Jovanovic. The first time was on 26 May when Police
Chief Sreten Camovic demanded that she tell them
everything she knew about the alleged abduction. Besa
Arlati said the police inspectors cursed her "Albanian
mother" and called her a whore, and Chief Camovic
punched her in the face. She was held all night in a
cellar, flooded with sewage some 10-15 centimeters
deep. On 28 May, she was questioned continuously for
nine hours. She was then allowed to go on condition
she returned the next day, dressed in track suit and
sport shoes, ostensibly to accompany police on a
search for the abducted officers. When she reported on
29 May, police took off her jewelry and again took her
down to the same cellar, where she remained until 11
p.m. on 1 June when she was released.



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IV DISAPPEARANCES OF SERBS AND ROMA IN UNCLEAR
CIRCUMSTANCES

4.1 Radomir Ivanovic of Maznik

Radomir Ivanovic went missing on the night of 23/24
April on the road to Maznik. He had fled the village
two days earlier and, with other Serbs families from
Gornje Ratiste and Maznik, was placed at the Youth
Center in Decani.

Source: Politika

4.2. Branko Stamatovic

At the end of April, HLC researchers learned from
displaced Serbs at the Decani Youth Center that Branko
Stamatovic had been missing since 25 April. On 27
April, Politika quoted an unidentified Albanian family
as saying Branko Stamatovic of Prilep had been taken
"to the notorious village Glodjane." In mid-June, HLC
researchers were told by a displaced Albanian in
Montenegro that he saw Stamatovic come to Prilep with
police at about 3 p.m. on 28 May and set fire to the
house of his Albanian neighbor, Avdilj Lokaj.

Source: Politika, HLC

4.3. Gurim Bejta, Agron Berisa and Ivan Zaric of Dolac

Gurim Bejta and Agron Berisa (16), both Roma, and Ivan
Zaric (24), a Serb, left Dolac on 20 May with a
cart-load of corn for milling in the neighboring
village of Grabanica. They never returned. They were
last seen by Gurim's father, Ramadan Bejta, when he
saw them off.

Source: HLC

4.4. Ragip Gutic and Vucic Vukovic of Krusevac, and
Novica Vujisic of Dubovik

Ragip Gutic, Vucic Vukovic (35) and Novica Vujisic
(17) disappeared on 18 June at Krusevac, a village in
Suva Reka Township.

Source: Politika

4.5. Radomir and Dragutin Vostic of Jelovac

The Vostic brothers from Jelovac, Radomir (67) and
Dragutin (69), disappeared on 20 June. Radomir's wife
told the HLC they left home early in the morning to
make hay between Josanica and Dusevici villages. When
they did not return, she went to look for them. All
she found were their scythes and their jackets hanging
from a bush.

Source: HLC

4.6. Djuro Latas of Rakovica

Disappeared on 4 July on the Pristina-Suva Reka road.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Belgrade daily Glas

4.7. Jugoslav Kostic of Retimlje

Disappeared on 11 July at Brestovacke Padine.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas,

4.8. Slobodan Mitrovic and Milovan Krstic of Recane

Disappeared on 24 June at Krusevac, Suva Reka
Township.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.9. Zeljko Kovacic of Javoran

Disappeared on 24 June on the Pristina-Suva Reka road.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.10. Svetomir Bisevac of Ostrog

Disappeared on 4 July on the Pristina-Prizren road

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.11. Srboljub Miladinovic of Recane

Disappeared on 24 June on the Pristina-Suva Reka road.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.12. Srdjan Perovic of Pec

Disappeared on 6 July at Lodj.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.13. Alija Nasret of Dolovo

Disappeared on 20 May at Grabanica.

Source: Kosovo Red Cross, Glas

4.14. Resad and Suhad Hadza of Kosovoska Mitrovica

Resad and Suhad Hadza were last seen while on their
way to the bus station in Kosovska Mitrovica in a van
belonging to Resad Hodza (licence plates BR 369 74).
They had been at the house of the Hodza family to buy
plastic products and asked them for a lift to the bus
station.

Source: HLC

4.15. 52 persons from Orahovac, Velika Hoca, Opterusa,
Djakovica and Retimlja

The following persons disappeared during fighting
between the police-military forces and the KLA in the
period from 17-22 July: Dusko Dolasevic and Dusko
Patrnogic of Velika Hoca; Djordje Baljosevic, Tomislav
Baljosevic, Slavka Baljosevic, Srdjan Vitosevic,
Srecko Vitosevic, Cedo Cabarkapa, Dusko Djinovic,
Krsta Stanojevic, Azem Isaku, Visar Isaku, Aleksandar
Stojanovic, Ivica Simic, Svetozar Tomic, and Milorad
Filjdjokic of Orahovac; Mladen Bozanic, Nemanja
Bozanic, Duska Bozanic, Spasa Banzic, Slavica Banzic,
Desanka Banzic, Srecko Banzic, Olga Simic, Spasa
Djurdjic, Pedja Djurdjic and Jova Vasic of Opterusa;
Lazar Kostic, Todor Kostic, Sasko Kostic, Zivko
Kostic, Srecko Kostic, Miroljub Kostic, Veroslav
Kostic, Svetomir Kostic, Nebojsa Kostic, Miodrag
Kostic, Zvonko Kostic, Rajko Nikolic and Cvetko
Nikolic of Retimlje; Nenad Tomic of Djakovica.

The names of Vitko Kostic and five members of the
family of Jovan Lukic of Orahovac, Olga Simic, Milutin
Djurdjic, Stanojka Djurdjic and Slavka Djurdjic were
also on this list. The HLC has learned in the meantime
that Vitko Kostic was released, and that the five
Lukics were not abducted. The Kosovo Red Cross and
local Serbian authorities reported that Olga Simic,
Milutin, Stanojka and Slavka Djurdjic were also
released.

Source: Belgrade media, HLC



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UPDATE

1. 10 Orahovac Serbs released

Ten Serbs captured by the KLA during the fighting in
Orahovac were released on the night of 29/30 July.
Only the released members of the Baljosevic family
have been identified by name: Slavka, her
daughter-in-law Snezana, and her 13-month-old grandson
Ninoslav.

2. Ratko and Branko Staletic killed

On 30 July, police found the bodies of the Mlecane
villagers Ratko Staletic and his son Branko near the
village of Orlate, on the Pristina-Pec road. The
Staletics were taken from Mlecane on 20 June by a
group of armed Albanians in camouflage fatigues.
 



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