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GNJILANE/PRISTINA -- The school year has not begun as it should have on Sept. 1 in Gnjilane and in ethnically mixed villages in that district of U.N.-secured Kosovo-Metohija.
The reason is that all nine school buildings in the town have been occupied by ethnic Albanian terrorists, with the condonation of the U.N. civilian mission (UNMIK) and the international KFor force in that province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia.
A school building begun two years ago, which was to be inaugurated on Wednesday, has remained closed after UNMIK refused to permit that finishing work on the building be completed, TANJUG learns at the Pristina sub-committee on education.
UNMIK has refused also a request that classes be held in improvised facilities in Gnjilane, with the explanation that KFor troops cannot guarantee safety to Serb children.
Barely 20 percent of the original 1,500 pupils of the Vuk Karadzic school have enrolled this year. The others have fled the town with their parents before onsloughts of ethnic Albanian KLA terrorists.
The situation is similar in Pristina where, for the first time in 143 years, Serb schools have remained closed at the start of a new school year.
Classes in the Serbian-language primary schools began on Wednesday in all Serb villages in the Podujevo area, and secondary schools are expected to follow suit by Sept. 20.
An exodus of Serbs and other non-Albanians has kept the school-bells silent this Sept. 1 throughout the Metohija region.
The Prizren theological academy, too, has remained closed, for the first time in centuries.