Serb returnee shot by Kosovo Albanian living in her house

Serb returnee shot by Kosovo Albanian living in her house: UN
Agence France Presse (Excerpt) - October 4, 2003

PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, Oct 4 - An ethnic Albanian was arrested Saturday for shooting and wounding a 73 year-old Serb woman who had returned to her home in the southern Serbian province of Kosovo, UN officials said.

"She was shot three times in a stomach by a 53-year old Kosovo Albanian who was living in her house," UN mission spokesman Andrea Angeli said.

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A 15-member Kosovo Albanian family was living in her house in Gnjilane, 40 kilometres (24 miles) east from the provincial capital Pristina.

The woman was transferred to the Pristina hospital, and seemed to be stable, Angeli said.

Kosovo continues to be wracked by ethnic tension four years after the 1998-99 war between Serbian security forces and separatist guerrillas from the province's ethnic Albanian majority.

More than 200,000 Serbs fled to escape ethnic attacks, while those who remain -- a number estimated between 80,000 and 120,000 -- live in enclaves protected by the NATO protection force (KFOR).

The war ended with the establishment of a UN protectorate after a NATO bombing campaign to drive Serbian forces out of the province.