PRISTINA (Reuters) - A detailed
                     human rights survey published on
                     Monday presents witness accounts
                     from ethnic Albanian refugees of how
                     Serb forces targeted women and
                     children as well as men during the
                     Kosovo conflict.

 But the report also catalogs repeated incidents in which elderly
 Serbs became victims of revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians --
 often children -- after the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops in June.

 The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
 (OSCE) published two extensive reports into human rights
 violations in Kosovo before, during and after NATO's 11-week
 air war against Yugoslavia.

 The first report covered the period between October 1998 and
 June of this year when the province was still under Serbian rule.

 Based on more than 2,700 interviews with refugees, it paints an
 ugly picture of how ethnic violence with mass killings, torture and
 rape escalated after NATO launched its bombing campaign on
 March 24.

 The 433-page report describes how various groups -- men,
 women, children, elderly and handicapped -- were affected.

 Although young ethnic Albanian men of fighting age were
 especially targeted by Serbs, the report showed that no group
 was spared.

 It cited reports of deliberate killing of children by armed forces,
 saying there were many witness statements describing how
 Kosovo Albanian children were specifically targeted.

 Children Targetted To Punish Parents

 ``There is chilling evidence of the murderous targeting of children,
 with the aim of terrorizing and punishing adults and communities,''
 it said. ``Girls were raped and boys were killed because they
 were seen as potential UCK (ethnic Albanian guerrilla) fighters.''

 It said one of those interviewed had recounted how Serb forces
 had gathered all villagers in Gornje Grabovc in central Kosovo
 together in a yard. ``One family tried to escape and when they
 were caught a child from the family was decapitated in front of
 the parents.''

 Many women were raped or suffered other forms of sexual
 violence, the report said.

 One 17-year-old boy cited by the survey described how one
 police officer in the village of Vucak in late March asked a
 woman carrying a baby child in her arms whether she had enough
 milk to feed him. The woman said that she did.

 ``For some reason the police got very angry with this answer,''
 the report said. ``He took the baby from her, grabbing it out of
 her arms...He tore the woman's dress, took out his knife with his
 right hand, held the woman with his left hand and cut her breast
 off with one quick movement.''

 The survey said age was no barrier to violence. ``Elderly and
 disabled people were widely reported as being either shot dead
 and then burned or being burned alive.

 Human rights violations continued after the Serb withdrawal, the
 report said, but this time in the form of revenge attacks directed
 mainly at remaining Serbs and other minorities.

 ``The report repeatedly catalogs incidents throughout the area
 where vulnerable, elderly Kosovo Serbs have been the victims of
 violence,'' said the second OSCE volume, which dealt with the
 June-October period.

 Serb Woman Burned To Death, Report Says

 In one case cited in the report, an 82-year-old Kosovo Serb
 woman was burned to death in her home in the eastern village of
 Kolarci, having previously been beaten and threatened.

 In a foreword to the report covering post-conflict Kosovo, U.N.
 envoy Bernard Kouchner said one of the most alarming trends
 documented was the increasing participation of juveniles in human
 rights violations.

 ``We read here of case after case of young people, some only 10
 or 12 years old, harassing, beating and threatening people,
 especially defenseless elderly victims, solely because of their
 ethnicity,'' Kouchner said.

 Sometimes, he added, adults used children to commit abuses
 because the adults knew that the NATO-led KFOR
 peacekeeping force would not detain them in the absence of a
 juvenile detention facility.
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