What Serbs Did Seven years ago today, Can Do Again (April 26, 1999, 3:40 PM EST Edition)

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SERBIAN _MASSACRES_ Updated at 3:40 PM on April 26, 1999
* People died because of hunger in the commune of Malishevë -
Help deperately needed for the remaining IDPs
* Serbian terror in the city of Gjakova continues
* Another _massacre_ committed by serbian terrorists over civil
population in the village Sllovi of Lipjani
* Eight cadavers of the _massacred_ albanians, have been found
* Dr. Flora Brovina is kidnapped
* In the abandoned Kaçanik, more than 700 serbian military troops
are being placed
* More than 70 albanian civilians are _massacred_ in the latest
_massacre_ in Gallap
* Refugees tell of Serbs seeking women for rape in Kosova (CNN)

People died because of hunger in the commune of Malishevë - Help
deperately needed for the remaining IDPs!

Malishevë, April 25 (Kosovapress) First victims caused because
of starvation have fallen within two days, in he commune of
Malishevë.Our sources have informed that in the mountains of
Turjake, these persons have died because of starvation: Rasim
Sejdi Halilaj (40), from Llapqeva Muhamet Abaz Kryeziu (64),
from Bubaveci Rexhep Hajzer Bllaca(43), from Bubaveci Tasim
Brahim Foniqi, from Llazica Xufe Krasniqi, from Drenoci Mihrije
Sherif Krasniqi, from Drenoci Also a eight month baby Blerina
Toplanaj from Kijeva All these persons come from commune of
Malisheve. Serbian terrorist and barbarious forces have forced
albanian population to leave their house and after looting
everything, they set on fire all of them, as result albanian
population living in miserable conditions up in the hills, now
is facing the death cause by lack of food. This total serbian
blockade in this commune and all over Kosova is causing the
death of many people now.

Serbian terror in the city of Gjakova continues

Gjakovë, April 25 (Kosovapress) The city of Gjakova and the
villages around are under wild serbian terror. For every single
day, albanians houses are being looted and _burn_t by serbian
terrorist police.Numerous serbian forces with tanks and armored
vehicles are placed in the Gjakova´s bus station where it's
environs are declared as military zones.Whereas sport gymnasium
"Shani Nushi"there are indications that 120 albanian young people
from Gjakova are being kept there.Our sources are confirming that
there are no informations about Mark Malota, Besim Nagavci,Hysen
Nagavci,Gëzim Bella,Arben Kumnova,Lutfi Bunjaku with his son,
Shpëtim Ymeraga,Dem Binishi,a son of Osman Efendiu,two brothers
with the surname Qerkezi fate, who were arrested three weeks ago
etc.It is known that _killings_ of albanian people by serbian
terrorists have continued even during these days.In the "Sadik
Stavileci" road,these persons have been killed into their houses:
Skënder Binaku, Ruzhdi Curri, Xhemail Qiraxhia, Xhevat Bega with
his son,one person with surname Dafota, Pleurat Qiraxhia and two
unidentified persons ,whereas Ylber Xërxa is wounded. Near by the
interior secretary affairs building,these persons have been
killed:Nuredin Zherka, Mehmet Ukë Krasniqi and another one person
unknown.Meanwhile the family of Ganiu,has been _burn_t alive
inside his home.Only one young person member of this family was
lucky one to survive. Some sources are reporting to us that
during yesterday,serbian forces after _burn_ings in the new block
they have killed three other persons:one with the surname
Krasniqi and two others with the surname Dedaj. Grave situation
is prevailing in Reka e Keqe whose villages are emptied.KLA units
are keeping strong to their positions and they have caused to
serbian terrorist forces a lot of losses in the combatians held
in the Reka e Keqe and in the Dushkaja.The exact number of the
killed enemy soldiers is unknown,but there are predictions that
this number is over than 100.The KLA forces have reached to
destroy tens of the enemy tanks and other armored vehicles.There
are informations also that tens of the serbian soldiers are
deserting,meanwhile the ranks of the KLA are increasing day by
day with new volunteers.The moral among the KLA soldiers is very
high and they are finishing their duties with honour and
successfully in accordance with war conditions.

Another _massacre_ committed by serbian terrorists over civil
population in the village Sllovi of Lipjani

Lipjan, April 25 (Kosovapress) Our confidential sources are
reporting that on April 15 in the village Sllovi, commune of
Lipjani, serbian terrorist forces have committed new another
_massacre_ over civilian albanian population. In this case, 31
persons have been killed, 11 others are being wounded, whereas 13
others either are arrested, killed or disappeared. The
_massacred_ and killed persons in the village Sllovi of Lipjani
on April 15 are: Faik H. Krasniqi (39), Rifat Gashi (47), Ajvaz
Gashi (55), a girl about 20 years old and a woman about 50 years
old. There 5 other unidentified persons for whom is supposed to
have been guest in this village, whereas Milaim Gashi (21) is
wounded. The arrested or disappeared persons are: Bajram Gashi
(34), Jakup Gashi (43), Agim Berisha (35), Ilmi Berisha, Ramadan
Kryeziu (30), Mehdi Pacolli (53), Murat Gashi (65) with his
nephew from _Prishtina,_ Enver Gashi (41) with his son, Ymer
Gashi (39). Also there no reports about four other persons who
were inside in their houses during that day: Mehmet Sopa (75),
Shehide Sopa (90), Qamile Sopa (68) and Adem Bytyqi (55). There
is a fear that the number of the _massacred_ and disappeared
people is higher. meanwhile, two persons from the village Zhegoc,
are killed and they are buried in the lavenders of Sllovisë. In
Terbufc, near Sllovisë a girl has been killed whereas another
young girl and an old age man are being wounded.

Eight cadavers of the _massacred_ albanians, have been found

Klinë, April 25 (Kosovapress) Our sources direct from the region
are reporting that in the mountains of the villages of Golluboc
and Negroc, eight cadavers of the _massacred_ albanians by
serbian terrorist have been found.These albanian civilians are
_massacred_ a week ago by serbian terrorists. The _massacred_
persons are: Sheremet Brahim Maloku (65) Avni Aziz Maloku (16)
Mexhit Ramiz Maloku (15) Jeton Muharrem Maloku (16) Zeqir Rexhep
Gashi (55), Sylë Haxhi Thaçi (86), all from Plloqica, commune of
Klinë. Also, two unidentified cadavers have been found. There
indications that there a lot of other cadavers to be found in the
mountains of these villages, all albanian civilians _massacred_
and killed by serbian terrorists.

Dr. Flora Brovina is kidnapped

Prishtinë, April 25 (Kosovapress) Dr. Flora Brovina, age (48),
doctor, publicist and well-known humanitarian person from
_Prishtina,_ according to some sources not completely confirmed,
is being kidnapped by serbian terrorist forces in the ward
"Aktash" of Prishtina before three days. Dr. Flora Brovina was
not displaced from Prishtina. She was famous about her medical
and humanitarian work in the service of the civil population of
Prishtina.

In the abandoned Kaçanik, more than 700 serbian military troops
are being placed

Kaçanik, April 25 (Kosovapress) New serbian military
reinforcements have arrive today in Kaçanik by two buses and two
military trucks. They are placed in Dushkajë, ward that extend in
the left side of Kaçaniku entrance. Serbian terrorist and all
their military means are being placed in empty albanian houses.
In the village Bob, in the left side of Kaçaniku exit, serbian
forces are being placed. Former sanatorium, which later became a
sanitary textile factory "Saniteks" above Kaçanik, is full of
masked serbian military technique. This factory now is
transformed in a military barrack. It is estimated that only in
Kaçanik, over than 700 serbian troops are being placed and they
are equipped with heavy military technique, whereas Kaçanik now
from its 10.000 inhabitant, counts only serbian troops placed
there because albanian civil population was forced to leave by
serbian bar bars. Meanwhile in Kaçanik i Vjetër, in the left side
of its entrance, a lot of armoured military vehicles are being
placed there and they are covered with hay.There are a lot of
serbian soldiers placed in the albanian houses behind the school
in Kaçanik të Vjetër. There are other bases of serbian military-
police forces in Drenogllavë, then in Gurët e Zezë, at the police
network in the road Doganaj-Tetovë, and between villages Stagovë,
Kaçanik i Vjetër and Begracë, and there are missile systems
placed there too.

More than 70 albanian civilians are _massacred_ in the latest
_massacre_ in Gallap

Podjevë, April 25 (Kosovapress) Over than 70 civil albanians are
being _massacred_ in the latest serbian terrorist offensive in
the region of Gallapi. These are the _massacred_ persons that
could have been identified up to now: Mehmet Muharrem Bala (47),
from Rimanishta Fadil Mehmet Bala (19), from Rimanishta Avdyl
Osman Sejdiu (50), from Rimanishta, all these three persons have
been _burn_t Mehdi Sefa (21), from Podjeva Nysret Jaha, Faik Jaha
(49) Fadil Jaha (43), Fehmi Osman Musolli (52), from Shajkoci
Hazir Ejup Selmani (19), from Surkishi Fadil Hazir Ademi (24),
from Gërdoci Ferat Azem Bajoku (63), from Dyzi Rifat Azem Bajoku
(57), from Dyzi Vesel Azem Bajoku (71), from Dyzi Sadik Bajram
Berisha (60), from Dyzi Ragip Mulolli, from Shajkoci Behram
Haziri, from Podjeva Isa A. Mustafa (44), from Bellopoja Shefki
Ramë Llugaliu (74), from Surkishi Mustafë Ismail Llapashtica
(43), from Dyzi Sahit Ejup Elshani (45), from Dyzi Latif Maliq
Berisha (43), from Batllava Hazir Shaip Islami (65), from Dyzi
Hasan Bajrami (50), from Gërdoci Bajram Ismail Topanica (63),
from Sfeqla Daut Arif Asllanaj (21), from Gërdoci Rrustem Selim
Rrustemi (41), from Pollata Bekim Qazim Berisha (20), from
Batllava Fehmi Sekiraqa (49), from Hertica Mustafë Bajrami (49),
nga Gllamniku Bahri Mehmeti (19), from Podjeva Perso with the
surname Berisha (44), from Batllava Ismat Ahmeti (52), from
Llapashtica Islam Xhafa (54), from Konushevci Musë Berisha (50),
from Konusheci Sofije Berisha, from Konusheci Mensur Sadik
Mustafa (12), from Bellopoja Zojë Sadik Mustafa (7), from
Bellopoja We have no informations yet for 25 other persons who
are _massacred_ in this _massacre_. All the _massacred_ persons
are buried in the village Dyz and in Koliq.

Refugees tell of Serbs seeking women for rape in Kosova (CNN)

BRAZDA, Macedonia (AP) -- City by city and village by village,
Serbs are hunting down young women to rape as they loot, empty
and _burn_ Kosova's ethnic Albanian communities, women escaping
beyond the province's borders say.

International monitors, war crimes investigators and NATO all are
reporting numerous accounts of rapes in Kosova -- atrocities that
Yugoslav and Serb officials deny.

Witness testimony so far indicates the rapes in Kosova are
"neither isolated nor incidental," said Patricia Sellers, a U.N.
war crimes prosecutor at The Hague, Netherlands, whose workers
are gathering the first accounts.

"When the police entered the town, that was the first question
they asked: 'Are there any women here?"' said Valbona Rrustemi,
19, of the southern Kosova town of Urosevac.

Rrustemi fled Urosevac with her family April 16, the day after
two girls came running through her family's garden, saying Serb
police were after them, she said.

Minutes later, police knocked at the family's door, asking if
there were any young women, she said. Her father said no while
she hid, Rrustemi said.

Word later reached her of four Urosevac women who had been caught
by the Serbs that day, she said. They included a friend who was
raped in the street, Rrustemi said. She named the friend and gave
her age, 22.

The woman's cousins had confirmed the attack, Rrustemi said. No
one has heard of the woman or her immediate family since.

"I don't know what happened to them. I hoped they escaped," said
Rrustemi, one of several women at the Brazda refugee camp to give
accounts of rapes in Urosevac.

NATO, also citing refugee accounts, contends there have been
several instances of mass rapes, well-organized on at least a
local level:

At Djakovica, near the Albanian border, Serb soldiers allegedly
took women from their families and sent them to an army camp
where they were held for repeated rapes.

In Pec, a local Serb commander allegedly held ethnic Albanian
women at a hotel, organizing a schedule by which his soldiers
could come to spend an evening.

At an ammunition factory and ferronickel plant at an unspecified
site in Kosova, 100 women allegedly were still being held as of
mid-April.

On Sunday, the reports continued: Refugees arriving in Macedonia
said Serb paramilitaries raped four girls ages 15-20 before
_killing_ them, along with about 15 other people of their village
of Ribar i Vogel last week.

In many cases, word that Serbs were separating ethnic Albanians
into groups of women and men was enough to send families fleeing
-- making rape a means of emptying communities, as much as
_massacres_, arson and looting.

"The intent is to not just intimidate and humiliate the
actual physical victim but also to somehow intimidate those
who are standing there either looking at it or hear about
it," Sellers said.

The United Nations first prosecuted rape as a separate war crime
after the 1992-95 Bosnian war. In the first case to focus
exclusively on rape, the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for former
Yugoslavia sentenced a Bosnian Croat paramilitary chief in
December to 10 years in prison for failing to stop subordinates'
1993 rape of a Bosnian Muslim woman.

Serb forces in Bosnia were widely accused of using rape as a
means of "ethnic cleansing." Sellers said it was too early to
tell if rapes in Kosova were as widespread as in Bosnia.

Refugees from Kosova say the targeting of women continued even as
their convoys were being escorted out of the province.

In one instance, Serbs looking for women stopped vehicles of
residents from the area of the southern city of Gnjilane en route
to the border, but the convoy's Serb escorts protected the women,
villagers said.

Many of the accounts of Serbs seeking out women to rape come from
people who escaped rather than those who were caught.

So far, reports gathered by the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe number in the dozens, "and not many
dozens," said Jorgen Grunnet, a spokesman for the head of the
OSCE's Kosova mission.

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