Serb home torched in Kosovo village
BBC Monitoring Europe (Political) - February 6, 2006 Monday

Excerpt from report by Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA

Kosovska Vitina, 6 February: Unidentified persons torched Trajan Savic's house in the village of Cernica near Kosovska Vitina yesterday, the Kosovo Police Service has said.

Six members of Savic's family were asleep when their home was set ablaze but they managed to escape.

Cernica Serbs have urged the international community [peacekeepers] to set up a checkpoint and to secure constant Kosovo Police Service patrols.

Two weeks ago, a bomb was hurled at the Cernica home of Milorad Todorovic, deputy chairman of the Coordination Committee for Kosovo-Metohija.

Forty-five houses have been torched in the village of Cernica since 1999 [NATO intervention].

Some 120 Serb families used to live in the village until the arrival of the UN mission in Kosovo-Metohija and now only 40 remain.

Source: SRNA news agency, Bijeljina, in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian 0924 gmt 6 Feb 06

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