WOMEN, CHILDREN
REPORTEDLY INJURED IN RAID ON KOSOVO
SERB ENCLAVE
Tanjug - April 10, 2004
Kosovska Mitrovica, 10 April: Numerous members of the
Kosovo Police Service (KPS) and UNMIK
(UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo)
police, after a false tip-off that he allegedly shot at Albanians three nights
ago, arrested on Saturday (10 April) around 1000 in Suvo Grlo near Kosovska
Mitrovica respected householder Sinisa Tomasevic, Community of Serbian
Municipalities and Towns in Kosovo-Metohija
president Marko Jaksic said.
Jaksic, speaking at the International Press Centre in Kosovska Mitrovica, said
that UNMIK and KPS policemen carried out a real raid on the small Serbian
enclave of some 20 houses, and by the unnecessary use of tear gas and physical
force, injured a number of Serbian women and children. He said that Tomasevic
was denounced by a member of the Albanian terrorist organization ANA and
villager of Suvo Grlo Ismet Haliti, who is suspected of planting mines one and a
half years ago on the road Suvo Grlo-Drljen that caused the death of two
Tomasevic family members.
Haliti has so far destroyed about 10 cars owned by Serbs there, by waiting and
hurling stones at them on the road Suvo Grlo -Banje and Suvo Grlo -Drljen.
"Some 20 Serbian homes in that village a completely surrounded by over 300
Albanians and it is completely out of the question that some Serb would even
think about shooting at the far more numerous Albanians," Jaksic pointed out.
He said that the apparent intention of Albanian separatists and terrorists, with
the full support of UNMIK and KPS, was, by arresting the richest Serb in the
village, owner of a store and a bakery, to force the other Serbs to leave their
homes and abandon them to the mercy of Albanian arsonists.
Source: Tanjug news agency, Belgrade, in English 1528 gmt 10 Apr 04
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