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June30
- The United Nations mission in Kosovo
has to take action now that more assaults have been made by ethnic Albanians
on ethnic Serbs and more Serbs have been killed in that province. Chief
U. N. emissary in Kosovo Bernard Couchner and the Archbishop of Kosovo
Artemy have signed an agreement under which a special security force will
insure the personal safety of Serbs and their right to free travel. Ten
Serbs have been killed in Kosovo in the past few days, and 250,000 Serbs
have been forced to flee their home province since last June.
- The commander of the armed forces
of Yugoslavia general Neboisha Pavkovic has made a two day trip to the
southern regions of Serbia close to Kosovo. The Yugoslav army is holding
military exercises in the regions, and according to Serbia news media news
media bands of Albanian militants have stepped up their activity there
lately.
June 29
- The Serbian community in Shtrptsi
held a funeral procession and mass rally to protest against the killing
of a Serb abducted last week by Albanian extremists. The body of a herdsman
from the village of Sushiche with signs of torture was found by the servicemen
of the KFOR on Tuesday, and handed over to his relatives. Immediately after
this more than five thousand people gathered to stage a rally of protest.
Serbs from Sushiche and nearby villages were angered by the fact that Albanian
extremists abducted the man almost in front of the KFOR servicemen.
June 28
- The Russian Deputy Military Chief
of Staff Valery Manilov believes that Russia may withdraw its peace-keeping
contingent from Kosovo in case of the province being torn away from Yugoslavia.
The interview with General Manilov was published in the Trud newspaper
today. In Valery Manilov's words, Russia is now taking efforts to guarantee
participation of Yugoslav structures in the restoration of law and order
in Kosovo as required by the United Nations resolution.
- In Kosovo a team of Russia TV newsmen
and a group of Serbian monks were attacked by a crowd of Albanians on Tuesday.
This follows from a statement made by a representative of KFOR. The attack
took place on the territory of a Christian Orthodox monastery in the village
of Musuista. The newsmen were filming the life of the monastery when the
Albanian extremists broke into the grounds and demanded handing them over
one of the monks. Russian and Austrian peace-keepers who arrived at the
place of the incident turned back the bandits.
June 27
- Meeting in Moscow on Monday President
Vladymir Putin and his Greek counterpart Konstantinos Stefanopulos signaled
common approaches to a number of major international problems including
European security. The Greek president took seriously Russia's proposal
to set up a common missile defense system. The two leaders pointed out
that peace in the Balkans had to be achieved on the basis of the UN resolutions.
A member of NATO, Greece condemned the alliance's military campaign against
Yugoslavia last year and the two countries have called for demilitarization
of Kosovo, disarmament of Albanian extremists and preservation of the integrity
of Yugoslavia. Today Mr.Stefanopulos will continue talks with Russian officials.
On the program of his visit is a meeting with the Patriarch of Moscow and
All Russia Alexey II.
- Russia-NATO Joint Permanent Council
at its meeting in Brussels has discussed possible cooperation in the creation
of an European anti-missile system. According to a communique released
by the diplomats of Russia and NAT0 member countries, it also discussed
in details the situation in former Yugoslavia and cooperation in carrying
out peacekeeping operations in the region.
- Kosovo Albanians continue to kill
Serbs in the province. Another resident of the village of Kosovo-Pole,
to the south of Pristina, fell victim to a grenade attack on his house
by Albanian extremists. In the north western city of Poduevo, Albanians
abducted a Serb traveling in a car, though the vehicle was in a convoy
guarded by international peacekeepers.
June 26
- A Serb has been killed in his house
in the city of Kosovo-Pole when a hand grenade threw into his room. In
a separate incident another Serb was injured when his vehicle came under
fire. According to a KFOR official in the past few days 11 people have
been killed and another 20 injured in the hands of Albanian extremists.
On Sunday four Albanians wearing Kosovo Liberation Army uniform abducted
a 15 year old Serbian boy.
June 24
- Russia deplores the recent decision
by the United Nations Security Council not to allow the man who acting
as Yugoslavia's Ambassador to the United Nations to be present at the Security
Council hearing into the Balkan developments. Russian Ambassador to the
United Nations Sergei Lavrov said the Security Council decision contradicted
the letter and spirit of the UN Charter, and the principles and objectives
of the Security Council and the United Nations. It is practically meaningless
to talk the Balkan development in the absence of the Yugoslav representative,
Lavrov said before walking out on the session. The Chinese Ambassador to
the United Nations also protested the Security Council decision by refusing
to attend the Balkan hearings.
- Javier Solana has told newsmen
on behalf of the European Union that Russia is doing its best for a Balkan
accommodation. The Russian peacekeepers are doing more than cooperate with
the KFOR contingent. The were engaged, Solana reminded newsmen at the United
Nations headquarters in New York, in the peacekeeping efforts in Bosnia.
June 23
- Some 210.000 refugees from Kosovo
have been registered on the territory of Yugoslavia and 31.000 displaced
persons in the province, itself. This was announced in Belgrade by the
press secretary of the UN High Commissioner for refugees Maki Shinohara.
He added that these are only officially registered refugees. Their actual
number is much bigger and 80 per cent of them are Serbs. According the
Serbian officials, 350.000 people have fled the province, the overwhelming
number of which are Serbs, since KFOR was deployed in Kosovo in July of
last year.
- Russia's representative to the
UN Security Council Sergey Lavrov has accused the International Tribunal
for former Yugoslavia of conducting a policy of double standards. As Russia's
foreign ministry says, Sergei Lavrov told the Security Council that there
is a clear "anti-Serbian leaning" in the work of the tribunal.
Having determined in advance who is responsible for the Yugoslav tragedy,
the Tribunal closes its eyes to cases of violation of International Humanitarian
Law by other sides in the conflict.
June 22
- Two ethnic Serbs - a man and a
women - have come under fire and wounded, downtown the administrative capital
of Kosovo, Pristina. The people who assaulted their car fired automatic
rifles. Ten people have fallen victim to the latest assaults on ethnic
Serbs, and a few dozen have been wounded. Twenty or even more Serbs were
wounded in the city of Kosovska Mitrovitse, in the north of Kosovo, Wednesday.
A truckful of ethnic Albanians attempted to break a way into the Serb -
3/4 populated neighborhood of that city.
- On Wednesday at least 20 serbs
were injured during clashes with Albanian extremists who tried to broke
into the Serbian part of the city of Kosovka-Mitrovitsa. The Belgrade independent
a news agency Beta said that during the clashes NATO servicemen of the
international force KFOR and international police supported extremists.
- The chief prosecutor of the International
tribunal in Hague has told the journalists in Kosovo that an investigation
has been launched to look into crimes committed by the Kosovo Liberation
army in the province. So far the investigators have focussed on five incidents
involving KLO leaders. Several thousands of Serbs and other non-Albanians
were killed in the hands of Albanian militants. More than 250 thousand
people were expelled from the province and many Christian churches were
destroyed.
June 21
- The leaders of KFOR and the UN
civilian mission in Kosovo are unable to carry out the tasks set to them
by the resolution of the UN Security Council. This has been stated in Belgrade
by a special UN representative for Human Rights in former Yugoslavia Irji
Dinstbir. The Czech diplomat criticized the international community for
failing to prevent ethnic cleansing of Kosovo Serbs. He stressed that the
Western countries are creating a new catastrophe in the province.
June 20
- According to the Russian military
command headquarters in Kosovo, Russian peace-keepers have been taking
an active part in the biggest so far operation to retrieve weapons stashed
away by Albanians. A KFOR representative has said a large number of anti-tank
weapons, dozens of machine-guns, mortars, thousand of mines and grenades
and about half a million cartridges have been found in two bunkers belonging
to the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army. Meanwhile, Albanians opened fire
at a Russian-American patrol in the city of Kosovska-Kamenitsa on Monday.
June 19
- The biggest arms cache belonging
to Albanian militants has been discovered in Kosovo. Among the weapons
hidden in several big bunkers were several hundreds of rifles, machine
guns, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, many anti-tank and land mines.
The weapon dump was in the village of Klechka, to the west of Pristina,
a stronghold of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The international peacekeepers
mainly consisting of NATO contingents should have disarmed the Albanian
militants last year. But this decision has remained on paper only.
June 18
- The Yugoslav authorities have warned
they are not giving an entry visa to the Chief Prosecutor of the Hague-based
International Tribunal Karla del Ponte. Next week Mrs. del Ponte intended
to visit Montenegro, one of the two republics that form Yugoslavia, and
Kosovo. According to a statement by the Yugoslav government, Karla del
Ponte will not be allowed in because she represents the interests of NATO,
which carried out the bombing campaign against Yugoslavia last year. Early
this week the chief prosecutor rejected Belgrade's demand to launch an
investigation into NATO leaders and countries that participated in the
bombing of Yugoslavia.
June 16
- Russia has voiced strong disagreement
with a decision by the international tribunal in The Hague to refuse to
launch proceedings against NATO for its aggression against Yugoslavia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry in corresponding statement says a decision
adopted by international prosecutor and head of the tribunal Carla del
Ponte was biased and politicized and must be reviewed. 34 thousand bombs
were dropped on Yugoslavia during the aggression. About 500 people were
killed and more than 380 civilian targets were destroyed. The material
damage from the bombings is estimated at 100 billion dollars.
- Russia's Foreign Ministry has assessed
as biased and politicized the decision of the prosecutor of the International
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia Karla del Ponte to refuse as investigation
into facts of violation of international norms on the part of NATO during
its military campaign against Yugoslavia last year. This is said in a statement
of Russia's Foreign Ministry circulated on Thursday evening .The ministry
believer the decision of the tribunal's prosecutor should be reviewed.
- The leader of the opposition Serbian
movement of renovation Vuc Draskovic was slightly wounded in the head in
a terrorist act today. She terrorists shot at him through the window of
his house in Budve, in Montenegro. The press secretary of the movement
said his life is not in danger.
June 15
- NATO aircraft flew 658 sorties
to bomb predominantly civilian targets. The aircraft used the banned cluster
bombs to attack the environs of Belgrade and the oil refinery in Novi Sad.
As a result several blocks of flats, where the oil refinery workers made
their home, were razed to the ground. In Kosovo aircraft dropped luster
bombs near the city Prizren. By June 8, 1999 more than 1,500 people had
died and several thousand others had been wounded in the NATO aggressive
war against Yugoslavia.
- Russia is interested in stability
in the Balkans and is prepared to help achieve it. This came in a statement
by the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov during a meeting with his Albanian
counterpart Pascal Millieu in Moscow on Thursday. Igor Ivanov stressed
that Russia was concerned about the situation in the Balkans and pointed
out that it was only through a concerted effort that a solution to regional
problems could be found. She Albanian Foreign Minister for his part stressed
that Russia was an indispensable factor in international developments.
- The human rights watch Amnesty
International has expressed disagreement with a conclusion by the UN Tribunal
for former Yugoslavia that NATO committed no war crimes during its military
campaign against the country. The group's Executive Director William Shultz
made the announcement in Washington as he commented on the decision by
the tribunal's Chief Prosecutor Karla del Ponte to drop charges against
NATO leaders and western countries that took part in the campaign. Mr.
Shultz said Amnesty International intends to get the tribunal to reconsider
its decision and launch further investigation into the deaths of Yugoslav
civilians during the aggression.
June 14
- Moscow has taken notice of a report
presented by the authoritative international Human Rights organization
" Amnesty International " which has been time with the first
anniversary of the end of NATO's aggression against Yugoslavia. It contains
concrete facts proving that the NATO countries have repeatedly violated
its international and legal commitments when picking the sites of their
attacks and means of warfare. As a result of unlawful action of the alliance
from 400 to 600 civilians were killed. Amnesty International also expressed
concern over the fact that neither NATO nor the participating countries
investigated the generally known cases of violation of international law.
June 13
- The international public tribunal
has found US and NATO leaders responsible for crimes against humanity they
committed during last year's military campaign against Yugoslavia. More
than 500 participants in the tribunal's meeting in New York on Monday demanded
the lifting of the embargo against Yugoslavia and the end of the occupation
of Kosovo by the NATO contingent. They also demanded that Yugoslavia be
paid compensations for the death of its citizens and the damage inflicted.
- China and Yugoslavia have accused
NATO and the United States of undermining European and international security
in last year's campaign against Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav President Slobodan
Miloshevic and the Chairman of the Chinese parliament Li Peng made the
statement after their meeting in Belgrade on Monday. The two leaders demanded
the withdrawal of KFOR international forces and the United Nations mission
from Kosovo because of their failure to implement any of the Security Council
resolutions. The two sides called for a multi-polar world and equal relations
between countries that would exclude dictate or hegemony.
June 11
- A package of agreements on environmental
protection were signed in Belgrade yesterday after a meeting of the Russian-Yugoslav
intergovernmental commission on co-operation in environmental protection.
A program was endorsed to assess the effects of NATO airstrikes on the
flora and fauna of Yugoslavia. Agreement was reached on co-operation in
processing and storing dangerous nuclear waste.
June 10
- At a meeting of the United Nations
Security Council Russia has demanded that all provisions of the Council
resolution 1244 on Kosovo should be observed closely and fully. Russia`s
permanent representative at the United Nations Sergey Lavrov said it was
the only way to unlock the conflict situation in the Balkans and to turn
the region into a zone of peace and stability. The Russian Ambassador to
the UN pointed out that a year ago,- on June l0, 1999, - the Security Council
passed the resolution 1244 which has since served as the basic document
for settling the crisis in Kosovo and around it. Sergey Lavrov deplored
the, fact that no major breakthrough in carrying out the resolution had
occurred in the past year.
- Today is one year since the NATO
air operation against Yugoslavia drew to a close. According to official
statistics, 2,500 people died and some 5,000 others were injured in the
course of the 78-day bombing campaign. Yug0slavia`s material loss is estimated
at 100 billion dollars.
June 9
- This week the foreign affairs committee
of the British parliament has announced that NATO bombings of Yugoslavia
carried out last year were illegal. The conclusion was drawn after a protracted
investigation into the issue. The Moscow-based New Izvestia daily notes
in this connection that a year ago Britian was among the most active advocates
of NATO air strikes on Yugoslavia and called for a large-scale ground intervention
defying protests by Russia. The committee's statement passed unanimously
says that NATO is a defense organization and has not right to conduct military
actions outside its territory without approval from the U. N. Security
Council.
- The terrorist grouping of the Seventeenth
of November has claimed responsibility for the assassination of British
military attache Stephen Sanders. Sanders was killed in Athens Thursday.
The Seventeenth of November wrote earlier today to the Greek newspaper
Elefterotypia to say it killed the Briton who was well versed in the Balkan
affairs , to protest the British strategy in the Balkans and last year's
aggression of the North Atlantic Alliance against Yugoslavia.
- Russia's foreign ministry has
expressed serious concern about difficulties occurring in carrying out
the UN Security Council resolution 1244 for Kosovo. The minsitry in its
statement points out that the resolution approved with the active participation
of Moscow, made it possible to put an end to NATO's aggression against
Yugoslavia and return the process of a Kosovo settlement into the United
Nations political and legal sphere. However, certain action by the leadership
of the UN mission and by KFOR provoke a dangerous course of events linked
with the province being broken away from Yugoslavia. Today is one year
since resolution 1244 was approved.
- UN Secretary general Kofi Annan
has stressed that safety conditions for the non-Albanian population in
Kosovo have worsen in the past few weeks. In a report to the Security Council
he pointed to the growth of violence against the Serbs in the different
regions of the province on the part of the Albanian extremists. He added
that failure to put and end to attacks on the Serbs turn Kosovo into a
hotbed of violence and crime.
June 8
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DAY NATO
aircraft flew 658 sorties to bomb predominantly civilian targets. The aircraft
used the banned cluster bombs to attack the environs of Belgrade and the
oil refinery in Novi Sad. As a result several blocks of flats, where the
oil refinery workers made their home, were razed to the ground. In Kosovo
aircraft dropped luster bombs near the city Prizren. By June 8, 1999 more
than 1,500 people had died and several thousand others had been wounded
in the NATO aggressive war against Yugoslavia.
- Russia is interested in stability
in the Balkans and is prepared to help achieve it. This came in a statement
by the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov during a meeting with his Albanian
counterpart Pascal Millieu in Moscow on Thursday. Igor Ivanov stressed
that Russia was concerned about the situation in the Balkans and pointed
out that it was only through a concerted effort that a solution to regional
problems could be found. She Albanian Foreign Minister for his part stressed
that Russia was an indispensable factor in international developments.
- Russian Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev
is going to visit Belgium where he will attend a session of the Russian-NATO
Council. Sergeyev and the Defense Ministers of the NATO member-nations
will, according to the Russian news agency ITAR-TASS, discuss the situation
in Kosovo and the results of the KFOR efforts in that province, as well
as a wide range of the fields of global security, non-proliferation of
the mass destruction weapons and fight against international extremism.
They will focus on the military doctrine of Russia and the strategies of
the North Atlantic Alliance. The session is opening in Brussels tomorrow,
on June 9.
- The Russian foreign ministry has
summed up the results of Wednesday's meeting between Foreign Minister Igor
Ivanov and the speaker of the Yugoslav legislature Milomir Minic by saying
that Russia and Yugoslavia would both favor bilateral cooperation in every
field, including joint moves by the national legislatures. Ivanov and Minic
stressed the importance of moves to meet United Nations Security Council
resolution 1244 on Kosovo and the efforts to safeguard the sovereignty
and territorial integrity of Yugoslavia. They voiced concern about the
terrorist acts committed by Separatist-oriented Kosovo of inhabitants Albanian
descent.
- An American think tank sees the
NATO military operation against Yugoslavia as a US foreign policy flop.
It feels the US interference in Kosovo brought ethnic Albanians to commit
acts of violence against ethnic Serbs and other non-Albanian residents
of Kosovo. The only one to profit from the war action is the Kosovo Liberation
Army which indulges in ethnic cleansing.
June 7
- Kosovo Serbs are embarking on new
forms of protest against Albanian terrorists. Reports from the ITAR-TASS
news agency say, Serbs will be blocking highways in Eubin-Potok, Leposavic,
Kosovska-Mitrovitsa and Zvechan. Calls to do so came from the Serbian national
assembly of Northern Kosovo. According to the assembly's statement, attacks
from Albanian terrorists have created an atmosphere of complete lawlessness
towards Serbs and their property. 22 Serbs have been killed and dozens
of Serb homes and two churches have been burnt down in the past two months.
- The Human Rights organization International
Amnesty on Tuesday accused NATO troops of destroying the civilian population
in Kosovo in the course of last year's aggression. This is said in the
organization's report published in Washington. The air strike hit at a
clearly civilian site - a TV and radio center of Serbia in which 16 persons
died - is a war crime, says the document.
- There was a large-scale protest
action by the Serbs in Grachanitsa, Kosovo on Tuesday, following another
terrorists act on the part of the Albanian extremists. Six Serbs were wounded,
two of them seriously when two grenades were thrown from a passing car
in the center of the city in the morning. In a protest action the Serbs
burnt down nine cars belonging to the UN and KFOR. British servicemen of
KFOR opened fire on the demonstrators. Three of the protestors were wounded.
June 6
- According to the Russian defence
journal ZARUBEZHNOYE VOYENNOYE OBOZRENIYE, the bombs and rockets that NATO
used against Yugoslavia contained at least ten tonnes of depleted uranium.
Most of the uranium-containing ammunition hit areas along the border between
Kosovo and Albania and around the Kosovo towns of Klin and Prizren. The
parts of Kosovo under patrol by soldiers from Germany, Holland and Turkey
are genuine minefields of radioactive debris. Depleted uranium is highly
toxic and weakly radioactive. Both factors can lead to cancers.
- 6 Serbs were wounded as a result
of a new act of terror in the Kosovo city of Gracanica, and 2 out of these
6 received serious wounds, as eye-witnesses told a France Press correspondent
earlier today. They say that 2 grenades were thrown the passing car in
the center of Gracanica this morning. Last week the Albanian extremists
killed 8 Serbs in Kosovo. Understanding that the KFOR forces are unable
to secure the safety of the national minorities in Kosovo, the Kosovo Serbs
leaders have decided to suspend their participation in the work of the
interim administration council in the Serb Kosovo province.
- 133 assassinations and 67 abductions
of people have been registered in the Serbian province of Kosovo since
January. Only in the last week nine people, including eight Serbs, were
killed. Growing violence against Serbs shows that the United Nations mission
and international peacekeeping force have failed to implement the UN resolution,
says the Yugoslav committee for cooperation with the UN mission. The committee
has demanded that the UN Security Council withdrew the mission from Kosovo.
June 5
- The checkpoint of the Russian peace
keepers again came under fire in Kosovo near Malishevo last night. The
KFOR spokesman says that none of the Russians has suffered. In recent times
the Albanian extremists have increased their attacks on the Russian checkpoints.
Observers believe that this is caused by the recent conflict between the
Russian peace keepers and the leader of the Union for the Future of Kosovo
Albanian Ramusha Hurdinai. The Russian peace-keepers discovered firearms
in his car, for which he had no permission. He resisted arrest and, therefore,
received some wounds.
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DAY the
cities Prizren and Dikani, in Kosovo, came under bomb and missile attacks.
Air-raid warning sirens wailed in Belgrade. Civilian deaths and destruction
were reported from the Grosevac and Djakovica communities in Kosovo, and
from the Uzice area, in Eastern Serbia. 1,200 civilians had been killed
and more than 5,000 wounded in Yugoslavia by early June last year. Russia
demanded an immediate end to bombing raids on Yugoslavia, which accepted
the G-8 peace settlement plan for Kosovo.
- The leaders of the Serbian community
in Kosovo have suspended their participation in the province's Provisional
Administrative Council to protest against a wave of murders of Serbs by
Albanian extremists. The Kosovo Serbian National Council will a delegation
to the United Nations Security Council to demand that the Security Council
should re-consider its resolution on Kosovo. The Serbian National Council
insists that drastic measures should be taken to guarantee security to
the Kosovo Serbs. Thousands of Serbian families were forced to flee from
Kosovo after international peacekeepers had been deployed there.
June 4
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DAY NATO
warplanes continued to bomb Yugoslavia's cities, communication facilities,
fuel dumps and other civilian sites. A railway bridge across the Yasenitsa
river in central Serbia was destroyed. Strikes were also dealt at electricity
supply facilities over the entire territory of the republic. A number or
missiles were fired at a television relay center close to the border with
Macedonia. And in Kosovo bombs were dropped on the administrative center
of Pristina and the city of Prizren. Following Russia - China also demanded
ending at once the bombing of Yugoslavia. It qualified NATO's aggression
as a dangerous precedent for other parts of the world.
- The decision by the Chief Prosecutor
of the international tribunal for former Yugoslavia Karla del Ponte to
drop the investigation into violations of international law by NATO during
its last year's military campaign against Yugoslavia testifies to a political
bias on the part of the tribunal. In its Saturday statement the Russian
Foreign Ministry says it is not for the first time that the tribunal has
turned a blind eye to the breaches of international law on the part of
those responsible for the tragedy in Yugoslavia. An approach of this kind,
the statement says, does nothing to promote a political settlement in the
region.
June 3
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS NATO aircraft
bombed the Belgrade television relay stations throughout Serbia. Bombs
were again dropped on civilian facilities, gas and petrol tanks in the
towns Orbobran and Sombor. Strikes were also delivered at targets in the
areas of the Serbian province of Kosovo near the Albanian border. Also
on June 3d the United Nations leadership presented a special report to
determine the consequences of the NATO aggression against Yugoslavia as
a humanitarian disaster. Russia again demanded an immediate end to the
bombings and action on the international plan for a peaceful settlement
in the Balkans.
- Reports from Kosovo say two Serbs
were killed and three others, a woman and two children, wounded when their
car hit a mine south of the province's administrative center Pristina.
A spokesman for the international peace keeping force, KFOR, said on Friday
that the wounded had been taken to a Russian military hospital in Kosovo
Pole. A total of 8 Serbs have been killed and dozens wounded by ethnic
Albanians elsewhere in Kosovo since Monday.
- The Prosecutor of the Hague-based
Tribunal for former Yugoslavia CarIa del Ponte has failed to pluck up the
courage to investigate accusations against NATO leaders who launched aggression
against Yugoslavia last year. According to Carla del Ponte, she was pleased
to note that NATO delivered no strikes at civilian targets during last
year's military campaign in the Balkans. Carla del Ponte believes that
the destroyed electric power stations, plants and factories turning out
products for civilians, bridges across the Danube, blocks of flats and
school buildings are act related to civilian targets. The statement made
on behalf of Carla del Ponte by a United Nations Security Council official
is yet another proof that the Hague Tribunal is fully dependent on NATO.
June 2
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DAY NATO
warplanes bombed the suburbs of Belgrade, Novi-Sad and the Panchevo and
Chupria communities. Missiles were fired at a power station in Obrenovats
30 kilometers from Belgrade. As a result even the few districts in Belgrade
which had electricity in their homes were blacked out. And in three cities
in the south of Serbia a mourning was announce for more than 50 civilians
who died in NATO air raids in the few pervious days. In Surdulitsa there
were attacks on a sanatorium for lung patients and on a home for the elderly.
- In the village of Klokot in Kosovo,
Albanian extremists on Thursday attacked a group of Serbs and shot dead
a woman. Three men were wounded. And on Wednesday the Albanians killed
two Serbs in the north of Kosovo, and last Sunday three Serbs were murdered
including a child. That was in the south-east of the province. Since KFOR
was introduced into Kosovo in June of last year - made up mainly of NATO
troops - hundreds of local residents of non-Albanian nationality were killed.
June 1
- ONE YEAR AGO ON THIS DAY NATO
aviation kept up their bombings of civilian targets in Yugoslavia. Dozens
of people died when allied missiles hit a residential area in the town
of Novy Pazar. The NATO military also targeted power supply grids just
outside Belgrade in city of Nis effectively blacking out large areas in
Serbia.
- The Yugoslav Ambassador to the
United Nations Vladislav Jovanovic has protested against a recent visit
by the Albanian President to Kosovo without obtaining any prior agreement
from the Yugoslav authorities. According to the official the Albanian President
visited Kosovo to support terrorism, social split and organized crime there.
In this context Ambassador Jovanovic urged the UN Security Council to condemn
illegal visits to Kosovo and reaffirm Yugoslavia's sovereignty and territorial
integrity.
- One Serb was killed in the village
of Babin Most, and another in the village of Novo Sjelo, in northern Kosovo
last night. The shots were fired from the window of a passing car, and
local residents put the blame on ethnic Albanians. Three Serbs, including
a four-year-old child, were killed by an ethnic Albanian in southeastern
Kosovo last Sunday. Hundreds of non-Albanian residents of Kosovo have been
killed since a NATO-led peacekeeping contingent entered that province,
a year ago.
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