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Kosova Daily Report #1663, 99-01-14
Kosova Information Center
KOSOVA DAILY REPORT #1663
Prishtina, 14 January 1999
CONTENTS
[01] Secret Serb Police Behind the Assassination of Enver Maloku, U^K
Spokesman Says
[02] Eight Serb Soldiers Released as Part of Deal to Release U^K Prisoners,
U^K Claims
[03] Serb Forces Shell Two Suhareka Villages
[04] Podujeva-K&rpimeh Roadway Blocked by Serb Forces
[05] Serbs Engage in Shooting Spree, One Albanian Wounded
[06] Four Serb Policemen Wounded in De^an Village
[01] Secret Serb Police Behind the Assassination of Enver Maloku, U^K
Spokesman Says
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - Bardhyl Mahmuti, a spokesman for the U^K (Kosova
Liberation Army) abroad, said Serbian secret services were behind the
assassination of Enver Maloku, the Kosova Information Center (KIC) head,
who was killed Monday afternoon in the Kosova capital, Prishtina.
Speaking during a press conference in Geneva today, Mr. Mahmuti said the
Serb secret services have been targeting not only the U^K, but also
Albanian "journalists and intellectuals". After killing them, the Belgrade
regime fuels speculation, as part of a special warfare to mislead the
public and cause disunity amongst the Albanians, Bardhyl Mahmuti said.
"These Serbian schemes will fail, because Albanians are committed to
liberate Kosova from Serbian occupation", the U^K representative concluded
in Geneva.
The assassinated KIC head, Enver Maloku, was buried in his native village
of Bradash, half a dozen km north of Podujeva, in the presence of U^K
fighters who paid their last respects to Maloku, alongside around 4,000
other compatriots from all parts of Kosova.
[02] Eight Serb Soldiers Released as Part of Deal to Release U^K Prisoners,
U^K Claims
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - The eight Serbian ('Yugoslav') soldiers, taken
prisoner by the U^K last Friday, were released Wednesday afternoon in Likoc,
central Kosova, after an agreement concluded between the U^K General Staff
members and representatives of the international community, headed by
William Walker, head of the OSCE Kosova Verification Mission.
U^K representatives claimed the deal meant an exchange of prisoners of war,
adding that Serbs would have to release U^K fighters taken prisoner late
last year.
Ambassador Walker called the deal a fair and 'balanced one'.
In a statement issued today (Thursday), the U^K General Staff said the
agreement had been reached as part of an deal with the EU, USA, and OSCE
KVM representatives, that is with "guarantees by the latter that U^K
prisoners be released" in exchange, in conformity with international
rules.
[03] Serb Forces Shell Two Suhareka Villages
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - Serbian forces opened automatic and shell fire
against the villages of Javor and Luzhnic& villages of Suhareka around
midday today, Hamz& Gashi, an LDK activist, told the KIC speaking from
Ngucat village.
Serb forces were firing from two locations, Bajrak and Lisat e Dug&s, he
said.
The residents of a family compound at Luzhnic& left their homes after the
Serb firing, Gashi added.
[04] Podujeva-K&rpimeh Roadway Blocked by Serb Forces
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - Heavy Serb military and police troops continue
being deployed along the Prishtina-Podujeva highway and the Podujeva-
K&rpimeh roadway, as well as in other strategic locations in the northern
municipality of Podujeva, despite the fact that eight Serb soldiers taken
prisoner by the U^K late last week were released Wednesday afternoon. This
had been cited as the pretext for the Serb buildup in northern Kosova.
Eight Serb tanks and a lorry left Podujeva for the village of Peran, five
km north, at 10 o'clock in the morning today, LDK sources said, adding that
they returned to Podujeva later in the day.
The Podujeva-K&rpimeh roadway has been closed off today by the Serb forces,
LDK sources said.
The Albanian population has been displaced from a dozen villages in the
Podujeva area in the wake of recent Serb military offensives.
A 15-year-old Albanian, resident of Bradash village, was killed over the
weekend while fleeing the fighting initiated by Serb forces in Podujeva.
[05] Serbs Engage in Shooting Spree, One Albanian Wounded
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - The local Serb community engaged Wednesday night
in a shooting spree in capital Prishtina and elsewhere in Kosova, arguably
to celebrate the traditional Serb New Year Eve, which falls on 13 January.
The Serb and Montenegrin community in Kosova has been fully armed by the
Serb regime in the 1990s.
A 20-year-old Albanian, Abaz Hoti, was wounded in Carralluk& village of
Malisheva by Serb fire opened from the Mirusha plantations.
Meanwhile, LDK sources said Fehmi Krasniqi, resident of Drenoc village, a
biology teacher at the "Abdyl Frash&ri" high school in Malisheva, has been
missing for three weeks now.
[06] Four Serb Policemen Wounded in De^an Village
115 Serb policemen killed in Kosova last year, Serb press says
PRISHTINA, Jan 14 (KIC) - On Tuesday afternoon, four Serb policemen were
wounded in Dashinovc village of De^an, western Kosova, when their car ran
into an anti- tank mine planted on the road, the Serb regime press said.
Last year, 115 Serb policemen were killed and 399 wounded and injured in
Kosova, the Serb Blic daily reported.
Serbian military and paramilitary police waged a war of aggression in
Kosova early in 1998, killing around 2,000 Albanians, most of whom
civilians, turning half a million people into refugees, and destroying
hundreds of Albanian villages in Kosova.
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