[kcc-news] Serb Hooligans Provoke Albanian Passers-bye in Downtown Prishtina

[Mentor Cana]

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Kosova Information Center
KOSOVA DAILY REPORT # 1629
Prishtina, 5 December 1998

U^K Does Not Settle for Anything Less than Full Independence, U^K
General Staff Says

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - The Kosova Liberation Army (U^K) stands
firm in its commitment to the "just fight towards the creation of
our independent and democratic state", the General Staff of the U^K
said in a statement, referred to as Political Declaration # 19,
carried by today's Albanian-language press in Prishtina.
The U^K will not accept any political solution which "harms the
ideals of our people for independence, or else would sanction, be
it even temporarily, an imposed co-existence in an anti-Albanian
and anti-democratic edifice, such as Yugoslavia - Greater Serbia
would be".
The statement contravened remarks Mr. Adem Dema^i, the U^K
Political Representative, made last Tuesday in a press conference
in Prishtina. He stated the U^K would be willing to accept republic
status for Kosova - on a par with Serbia and Montenegro within
'Yugoslavia' - on a temporary basis, with guarantees that in three
years' time the people of Kosova would determine their future in a
referendum.
The General Staff of the U^K called on the international community,
first and foremost the United States of America, to support Kosovar
independence, "which would mean also the triumph of democratic
principles in this part of the volatile Balkans, and would result
in a lasting peace in the future".
The Serbian aggressor's forces have been attacking the civilian
Albanian population in certain parts of Kosova, and the U^K has
been responding to such attacks in defense of the population, the
General Staff of the U^K said. "We are making efforts to preserve
the cease-fire that we have ourselves declared", the U^K said.
"Although unjustly excluded from the agreement on the deployment of
international observers in Kosova, and therefore not obligatory to
us", the U^K welcomes their arrival and will undertake all measures
within its power to cooperate with them as well as to ensure their
security, the statement said.

Dushkaj& Villages Targeted by Serb Fire Saturday Afternoon

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - Serbian forces stationed at a location
called Pishat e Volljak&s opened fire today (Saturday) afternoon,
beginning at 15:15 hrs, towards the villages of Kralan, Kpuz, and
^eskov& of the Dushkaj& region, municipality of Gjakova, an LDK
source said.
The sound of the Serbian fire could be heard in the villages of
Malisheva - Ponorc, Rub, Llap^ev& and Sferk& e Gashit - Fetah Rudi,
a local LDK activist, said. He could not specify what kind of arms
were being used by the Serb forces, though.

Further Details Surrounding Shoot-out Incident in Peja Hospital

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - One young Albanian woman, Myrvete Maksutaj
(20), resident of an Istog village, was shot dead and several other
people were wounded in a yet unsolved shoot-out incident in the
Peja hospital on Thursday, sources said.
An Albanian couple, Xhevat and Shemsije Qarri from Peja, were
amongst those who suffered gunshot wounds, LDK sources said.
Mr. Qarri told the LDK chapter the incident happened at 11:30 hrs.
"At the time I was in the hospital to get my son's wife out of the
delivery ward", he said, adding that while getting out of the
Admissions Office he realized he was shot twice in his right leg.
His wife, Shemsije, was shot in her left leg, he said.
Xhevat Qarri could not offer other details surrounding the
incident.
Meanwhile, an eye-witness said, speaking on condition of anonymity,
that a young man, who was together with the killed Myrvete, had an
argument with a Serb policeman and grabbed his automatic rifle. The
young man shot and wounded the policeman, the hospital guard, and
four other Albanian citizens.
The unidentified man and Myrvete were running away in the hospital
area when the police shot at them. The wounded Myrvete could not
make it, whereas the man did run away to an unknown direction, the
eye-witness said.
Shaban Brahimaj and Jeton Mulaj are two other Albanians known to
have been wounded in the incident.
The late Myrvete Maksutaj will be buried Sunday in her native
village of Orob&rd&, Istog, on Sunday, sources from Peja said.
Meanwhile, the Serb press said today a member of the Serb reserve
police, Mitar Stanisic, who is employed as staff member in the
security of the hospital building, tried to check the identity of
a man and a woman who had entered the hospital hall. The man threw
a spray in the policeman's eyes, whereas the woman placed her
handgun in his head, the Serb press said, adding that the man then
snatched the rifle from the policeman. The woman tossed a hand
grenade which did not explode, whereas the man opened fire wounding
Stanisic and several patients, Milun Sedlarevic, Xhevat and Shemsie
Qarri, Shaban Brahimaj and Jeton Mulaj, the Serb version of the
incident runs.
The security members opened fire toward the running man and woman,
killing the latter (Myrvete Maksutaj), whereas the man ran away,
the Serb press concluded.

Arms Shooting, Tensions Reported in Rahovec

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - Around 17:00 hrs on Friday, arms shooting
originated from a building nearby the main traffic lights in
downtown Rahovec ('Orahovac'), causing panic amongst the Albanian
citizens, the local chapter of the Council for the Defense of Human
Rights and Freedoms (CDHRF) said.
Two covered lorries came to the vicinity of the Park hotel in
Rahovec, which continues to be sealed off by Serb forces, the CDHRF
said.
Meanwhile, on 2 December, the Serb police arrested Agim Kastrati
(37), a schoolteacher from Mal&sia e Vog&l. He was on his way back
from the Serbian town of Vranje, where he had gone to pay a visit
to his imprisoned brother, when he was arrested at a location
between the villages of X&rx& and Gexh&, the CDHRF said.
The Human Rights Council said Sedat Ali Gashi (35), resident of
Opterusha village, who is a guest-worker in Austria, was arrested
several days ago in the border crossing while on his way back home.
The Gashi family said they knew nothing about Sedat's fate.
The Serbian police in Rahovec has vowed to arrest all Albanians
originating from the villages of Opterusha, Zoqisht& and Ret, the
CDHRF said.

Serb Hooligans Provoke Albanian Passers-bye in Downtown Prishtina

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - A number of Serb hooligans who had entered
the Prishtina football stadium, where a sports event was taking
place today (Saturday), spent several hours late in the morning and
early afternoon today in the upper parts of the stadium provoking
passers-by and the Kosova Information Center (KIC) and Kosova
Presidency's staff in Prishtina, capital of Kosova.
The whole Serb hooligans' spree was being closely watched by Serb
police and security from their building situated just opposite the
football stadium.
The Prishtina football stadium (now run by the Serb regime), the
Serb security headquarters, and the KIC and Kosova Presidency's
offices, make a triangle in the center of Prishtina.

LDK Activists Held in Custody, Questioned for 2 Hours, in Obiliq

PRISHTINA, Dec 5 (KIC) - Around 17:00 hrs on Friday, after a
meeting of the Presidency of the LDK chapter in Obiliq, the Serbian
police arrested five activists of this chapter near their offices,
the LDK said.
The police arrested Rexhep Kelani, chairman of the LDK chapter in
Obiliq, as well as four other senior LDK activists, Hajriz
Bekteshi, Idriz Konjusha, Hajredin Mjeku, and Hasan S. Mjeku.
The five activists were taken to the Serb police station in Obiliq.
They were released after two hours of questioning, the LDK chapter
said.

Kosova Information Center


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