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The last Serb remaining in the Ajvalija suburb of Kosovo-Metohija capital Pristina, Vojislav Stojanovic, was expelled Monday morning and his house was burned down by ethnic Albanians.
Activist of the Pristina-based Center for Peace and Tolerance Svetlana Mitic was assaulted by an ethnic Albanian Sunday about 4 p.m., but was saved by a British guard who arrested the attacker.
A UNHCR team visited Monday ten Serbs in Pristina and gave them some food. A team doctor said the Serbs were undernourished and ill, and three had to be taken to hospital immediately.
Sunday about 6 p.m., three ethnic Albanians broke down the door of the home of Serb poet Darinka Jevric and tried to evict her at gunpoint, but a friend of hers called KFOR peacekeepers and the attackers fled.
Jevric, journalist Mirko Cupic and his wife and pensioner Vlajko Petrovic are the last Serbs resisting eviction threats in the Pristina district of Kupusiste, which was inhabited by 280 Serb families until two and a half months ago when KFOR arrived in the province.
In Gnjilane, ethnic Albanians burned the homes of two Serb and one Romany family, and settled illegally in six other homes owned by Serbs and looted several shops owned by non ethnic Albanians, the local national church committee said.
A few days ago, all 69 Serb homes in Srpski Babus, Urosevac municipality, were burned down. The about 300 local Serbs had earlier asked the UNHCR, the UN civilian mission and KFOR peacekeepers to help them return to their homes they had to abandon two months ago under threats by ethnic Albanian terrorists, but a UNHCR team that visited the village said they no longer had any homes there.
The situation is the same in the neighbouring village of Crnjilo, which used to be inhabited by 13 Serb families.
Ethnic Albanians have torched over 50 percent of Serb homes in the Urosevac area, which used to be inhabited by 1,514 Serb families, a local Orthodox priest testified.
Not a single Serb is left in the Urosevac municipality. In the villages of Nekodin, Nerodimlje and Zaskok, terrorists have torched all Serb homes and destroyed churches and Orthodox cemeteries.