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MITROVICA, Yugoslavia, Sept. 18 (UPI) A spokesman for Kosovo's international peacekeepers said Saturday there was no sign of paramilitary activity among Serbs in northern Kosovo.
Responding to rumors that Yugoslav soldiers plan to come back in civilian clothes after the Kosovo Liberation Army is demilitarized, Commandant M. Declercq of KFOR's Mitrovica contingent said there is no indication this is actually happening.
Declercq said Serbs in northern Kosovo are using walkie-talkies not because they are paramilitaries, but because they are afraid.
He said anything could happen, and if there is violence, "we will intervene."
The KLA's demilitarization is scheduled to be completed by midnight on Sunday.
NATO waged an 11-week war against Yugoslavia this spring to stop Serb-led ethnic cleansing of Kosovar Albanians.
Many Serbs abandoned the province after the war, and some of those left behind have been targeted in apparent revenge attacks by ethnic Albanians.
Serbian Resistance Movement leader Momcilo Trajkovic says Yugoslav soldiers are allowed to come back under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244, which permits the army to watch over historical sites and to mark mine fields.
No date for their return is specified in the resolution.