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KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- The commander of the French contingent of the international force in Kosovo and Metohija (KFOR), Brigadier General Bruno Kich, confirmed on Sunday that in Vucitrn there are 450 and in Srbica 250 members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) whom it will be very hard to return to civilian life as they refuse to meet the deadlines from the agreement on demilitarization.
According to Tanjug's sources, armed ethnic Albanian terrorists in uniforms are stationed in socially- and privately-owned buildings in Srbica and Vucitrn where they are imposing their own "law and order."
The ethnic Albanian are flying the flag of neighboring Republic of Albania on the buildings they have siezed.
The commands of the French peacekeepers and the U.N. Civilian Mission (UNMIK) in Kosovska Mitrovica also testify about the large number of armed and uniformed ethnic Albanian terrorists in Vucitrn and Srbica. These commands do not recommend to Serbs, but also to others, to travel from Kosovska Mitrovica to Srbica, only 20 km away, and further on to Pec and Klina, and from Vucitrn to the Serb villages beneath Mt. Cicevica.
According to Serb witnesses, in Srbica's biggest local community Rudnik, which has a population of 12,000, the ethnic Albanian terrorists have siezed the building of the Serbian Interior Ministry in the centre of the town where they openly strut armed and in uniforms before the KOFR troops.
Numerous ethnic Albanians openly admit that they are forced to give money to this terrorist organization.
In southern Kosovska Mitrovica, from where all Serb families and non-Albanians have been driven out, it is well-known that the seat of the terrorist so-called KLA is located in the Centre for Social Work and that armed ethnic Albanians are stationed in the clothing factory Jumko.
The French KFOR officers have refused repeated appeals by the Jumko management to help them visit the plant saying that they could come under fire by the ethnic Albanians.
The armed ethnic Albanian terrorists in souther Kosovska Mitrovica have also forced busses, which resumed running between this city and Zubin Potok, to change their regular routes.
Serbs living in villages beneath Mt. Cicevica are still unable, even with KFOR escort, to visit their homes because the international troops say that there are armed ethnic Albanians in the region and that this is why they are unable to guarrentee the safety of the Serbs and of themselves.
A senior French officer in Kosovska Mitrovica told the Serbs from the village of Vrnica, who fled to Kosovska Mitrovica and Zvecane, that the situation in the French sector would calm down only after Sept. 19 when KFOR assumes full responsibility for security in all parts of the territory.
This officer, who requested anonymity, said that after that date "every metre of Kosovo and Metohija territory will be safe for free movement and that KLA would be totally neutralized."