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The Yugoslav government has requested an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council over a massacre of Serb civilians in a village in the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's U.N.-secured Kosovo-Metohija province.
The government and people are deeply shocked by the delayed report that the bodies of 15 Serb civilians have been found in the village of Ugljare near Gjilane, among them those of Dragan Tomic and two members of the Zdravkovic family, abducted by ethnic Albanian KLA terrorists on July 10, a government statement said.
U.S. troops of the international KFor force, in whose zone of responsibility the crime against humanity was discovered, have known about it since July 24 and have concealed the knowledge from the world, the statement averred.
The suppression of the atrocity, committed barely a day after 14 Serb villagers were hacked to death in the village of Staro Gracko on July 23, indicates an intention to hide from the world the systematic terrorising of Serbs and other non-Albanians, it added.
This shows that KFor is acting deliberately to protect the ethnic Albanian terrorist so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) from condemnation by the U.N. Security Council and the international public, the statement said.
It is significant that KFor has only just disclosed the massacre, after Yugoslavia had officially requested an investigation on the basis of the known facts, which is another proof not only of tolerance for, but of a deliberate suppression of KLA crimes.
Foreign Minister Zivadin Jovanovic filed on Wednesday a strong protest with the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. Secretary General over the matter, demanding an emergency session of the Council.
In the letter, Jovanovic demands that concrete steps be taken to ensure that the mandates of KFor and the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) in Kosovo-Metohija be discharged in full, in line with Resolution 1244 of 1999.
He demands especially the discharge of obligations and guarantees of security for the Serbs and other non-Albanians, as well as that a stop be put to all terrorist operations of the KLA and other criminal gangs.