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PRISTINA - Veljko Odalovic of Kosovo and Metohija's Serb National Assembly said Monday that the U.N. peacekeeping force KFOR had failed to act in line with its mandate over the past three and a half months and was fully responsible for the biggest exodus ever of Serbs and Montenegrins from the Yugoslav republic of Serbia's southern province.
Odalovic, head of the Assembly's executive board, said that more than 300 persons had been killed and about 500 abducted since KFOR's deployment to the province.
"The aim of bringing along gangs from Albania that entered the province together with KFOR, of cooperation with the (ethnic Albanian) terrorist organisation KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army) and of anarchy and lawlessness has been to expel Serbs and Montenegrins from the province," he said.
"No one has opposed the idea of temporarily displaced persons, who sought refuge in Albania, Macedonia and other countries during NATO's aggression, returning to the province, but no one has expected that the KFOR mandate will mean loss of control over these lands," he said.
"It is evident that KFOR commander Gen. Michael Jackson and head of the U.N. civilian mission to Kosovo and Metohija (UNMIK) Bernard Kouchner are trying to create room for chaos and lawlessness that have forced 250,000 unprotected Serbs, Montenegrins, Romanies, ethnic Turks and Moslems to leave these lands," he said.
He said that the transformation of KLA into so-called Kosovo protection forces was yet another attempt to make possible the transition from the irregular situation to elections and the setting up of bodies and institutions in order to hand over the province to 'war allies.'