EDITORIAL NOTE: All of the killed persons referred to in the following article are article are Albanians who were killed by the KLA. After you finish reading this article ask yourself what sort of ethnic cleansing or discrimination could the Serb police be engaged in if they were making Albanians policemen, and appointing them to important positions such as police station commander? Also how was the KLA supposed to be protecting Albanians if it was killing them, and by its actions exposing them to retaliatory action by the legitimate authorities?

KOSOVO: UCK COMMANDER CLAIMS WARTIME VICTIMS WERE SERBIAN POLICE OFFICERS
KosovaPress - November 10, 2003

Kacanik, 10 November: "The UCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) did not kill civilians," Xhabir Zharku, former commander of the Agim Bajrami 162nd Brigade from Kacanik, has said. "Riza Kiki, Rrahim Elezi, Faik Reci and Nezir Topojani, who were allegedly killed during the war - just like Agim Idrizi - were not civilians. They were police officers in the Serbian MUP (Interior Ministry)," Zharku said.

He made these comments at a press conference in Kacanik.

He also stressed that all four could have been killed during armed clashes between the UCK and the Serbian military and police forces, as, according to him, their kind had often headed the Serbian troops in attacks against UCK positions.

Zharku stressed that, during the war, the UCK had obtained concrete evidence of all Albanians working for the local police, which had been set up by the Serbian MUP.

"During the war, our intelligence services managed to obtain a copy of the local police payroll. That list contains the names of Kiki, Elezi, Topojani, Reci and Idrizi. Kiki was even appointed commander of police station 2," Zharku said. He added that the list had been published in Fakti, a Shkup-based (Skopje) daily, only a few days after the NATO strikes against Serbia had begun.

Otherwise, five members of the UCK, Ejup Ranjeva, Rrustem Dema, Enver Axhami, Bujar Tafili and Nuhi Provaliu, were arrested by the UNMIK (UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo) police on 27 October on charges of war crimes committed between 27 February and 8 March 1998 under the law of the former Yugoslavia. All of them have been reported to the police by witness Agim Idrizi.

Source: Kosovapress news agency web site, Pristina, in Albanian 10 Nov 03

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