Milenko Vulic from village of Devet Jugovica brutally beaten
Radio Television Serbia - May 9, 2005

Milenko Vulic, a 62 year-old Serb man from the village of Devet Jugovica near Pristina, was admitted to the hospital in northern Kosovska Mitrovica today after being beaten up on Saturday by Albanians, deputy hospital director Milan Ivanovic told Tanjug news agency.

Ivanovic said that Vulic was brutally beaten by four neighbors of Albanian nationality in front of his own house and that he was admitted to hospital with serious head injuries.

According to Vulic, the Albanians told him that he must leave Kosovo.

After receiving treatment for head injuries, a neurological specialist was consulted and Vulic was subsequently placed in intensive care for further therapy. "His injuries are serious and it remains to be seen what complications will result from the fact that he was transferred to our hospital with a delay," said Ivanovic.

"This attack on a Serb elderly man demonstrates that UNMIK chief Soren Jessen-Petersen's assessments that standards are being fulfilled and that the security situation in the Province is better than it was before are false. All his assessments serve solely to justify the catastrophic UN mission in Kosovo and Metohija," said Ivanovic, who is also the president of the Serb National Council of Northern Kosovo.

He condemned the attack on Vulic, emphasizing that it represented "yet another brutal ethnically motivated attack on an innocent elderly Serb in Kosovo and Metohija" and asked when the perpetrators would be found and brought to justice.

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