Ethnic Albanian attacks plague Kosovo

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Oct. 30 (UPI) Polish soldiers of the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, have found the body of a woman at Orlovcevo, near Strbac, KFOR spokesman Ole Irgens said Saturday.

Irgens said the woman, aged between 50 and 60, was stabbed with a knife and shot in the head.

Irgens also said that a Serb was shot and wounded from a moving car in Vitina Friday night and was being treated in a military hospital.

Six Albanians attacked another Serb with clubs not far from Vrbisnica late Friday afternoon. The man was hospitalized with bad injuries in Strbac, Irgens said.

A hand grenade was thrown at a house in Gnjilane Friday, slightly injuring a Serb woman who was in the courtyard, local Serbian church sources reported Saturday. The sources said she received injuries in the face and limbs and was treated by U.N. doctors.

The KFOR commander, German Gen. Klaus Reinhardt, was said Saturday he was extremely angry at the recent attack by a crowd of Albanians on a convoy of Serb refugees in Pec on Oct. 27, Belgrade radio B2-92 reported.

He sternly rebuked the KFOR officers involved in the incident for their inadequate and slow reaction to the attack but praised Italians with the international police force, which came to the rescue of the assaulted Serbs.

Reinhardt visited the Serbian monastery of Gracanica Friday to discuss with members of the Serbian leaders the security situation and measures that should be taken to put a stop to the suffering of the Serbian people in Kosovo, Yugoslav media reported Saturday.

During the meeting Serb representatives again raised the question of establishing Serbian cantons and an exclusively Serb protection force to parallel what they see as the Albanian-dominated Kosovo Protection Corps.

The Serbian proposals have so far been rejected by representatives of the international community as being contrary to the idea of a multi- ethnic Kosovo. But Kosovo Serb leader Momcilo Trajkovic told media after the meeting with Reinhardt that he had detected a change of heart on these issues among recent U.N. and European visitors to Kosovo.