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[jeton ademaj]

hello all,

here is an aricle documenting the process i've been warning about...
pay particular attention to the statements from the UN police commander 
regarding enclaves (partition) in Kosova.... i suspect it's a growing burden 
for Kosova on her way to recognition of her independence...

ps to dardan, i know u may block this from -l bcuz it's english, but it's 
certainly relevant.....



Sunday, July 30 8:36 PM SGT

Police warn of "enclavisation and mafia rule" after Kosovo violence
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, July 30 (AFP) -
Four Kosovo Serbian homes were attacked by extremists in one night, a UN 
spokesman said Sunday, as a senior policeman warned the province faced 
"enclavisation" and mafia rule.

Gary Carrell, regional commander of the international UN police force in 
Gnjilane, southwestern Kosovo, said that following attacks on minorities, 
"Albanians have lost their right not to have 'enclavisation'. They have had 
their chance."

On Saturday a Serb house in the mixed town of Kosovo Polje near Pristina was 
attacked with a Molotov cocktail, Serb houses in nearby Obilic and Gnjilane 
in the southwest were hit by hand grenades and in Orahovac in the southwest 
another was burned to the ground, the spokesman said.

The attacks, which caused no injuries, are apparently the latest in a series 
of ethnically motivated crimes directed against minority groups in the 
province.

Previous attacks have been found to be the work of ethnic Albanian 
extremists.

Many of the 100,000 Serbs still living in Kosovo, around a third of those 
who lived there before the province's 1998-1999 civil war, now live in 
enclaves guarded by soldiers of the KFOR multinational peacekeeping force.

The ethnic separation has led to accusations from ethnic Albanian 
politicians that the international community is overseeing the cantonisation 
of the province.

Carrell said his officers were trying their best to protect minorities from 
crime and allow normal life to continue, but their efforts were being 
frustrated by the refusal of local people to cooperate.

"It's getting harder and harder to maintain the morale of my force," he told 
AFP.

"The most frustrating thing is that the general population does not seem 
ready or willing to participate in democracy. If they don't understand that 
they need to help then there can't be a democracy," he said.

Carrell compared the situation before the arrival of Kosovo's UN 
administration last year, when a huge Yugoslav security presence used often 
brutal means to control crime and unrest, with his own limited resources and 
powers, under which he had to rely on witnesses coming forward.

"They are not willing to play their part if they see a serious crime," he 
said.

If the population were not prepared to assist a democratic police force then 
the end result could only be a return to totalitarian government or the 
triumph of organised crime, he warned.

"The worst case is that the mafia could control this place. That's the 
bottom line," he said.


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