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BELGRADE - In the period from June 10 to September 28 this year, in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija armed terorist "KLA" gangs have carried out 2,599 attacks, of which 2,564 on civilians. In those terrorist attacks were killed 216 Serbs and Montenegrins, 47 Albanians and four members of other national communities, and 348 civilians have been injured.
According to the Serbian Interior Ministry, in three and a half months since the arrival of KFOR in the territory of the southern Serbian province, have been committed daily on average 23.1 terrorist attacks on citizens, which is 11 times more than the daily average of attacks in 1998 and 1999 (till June 10), when Serbian Interior Ministry members were in charge of the security of citizens in the province.
Detailed data about the violence of Albanians in Kosovo, against non-Albanian residents, which escalated evidently after the arrival of KFOR in the territory of Serbia, were provided, pointing to terrorism and mass crimes, by Serbian Interior Ministry analysts Milos Nedeljkovic an Mile Novakovic at a recent symposium in Novi Sad held on the subject - NATO's aggression on FR Yugoslavia 99.
According to the authors of the report titled terrorism of Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Metohija and their methods of operation illustrates very well the security situation in that province and the inefficincy of KFOR and the international community in the realization of commitments from Security Council Resolution 1244 and the military-technical accord from Kumanovo.
That the attacks of Albanian terrorists have become synchronized and more frequent since the arrival of KFOR in Kosovo-Metohija is evident from the facts that on June 10 and June 12 were carried out three terrorist attacks, on June 13 eight, on June 14 as many as 9 terrorist attacks. After that, the number of attacks increases every day, especially following the incursion of armed terrorist gangs from Albania.
By opening state borders towards Albania, KFOR enabled the unimpeded entry of 20,000 armed "KLA" members, stationed in camps in northern Albania. It also enabled the entry into Kosovo-Metohija of armed Albanian criminal gangs who commit mass crimes on a daily basis, massacres, kidnappings, rapes, arsons and lootings against Serbian and other non-Albanian populations, and then return unpunished to the territory of the Republic of Albania.
It is characteristic, the authors of the report said, that terrorist attacks were at first directed at the ethnic cleansing of non-Albanian populations in villages and towns in Metohija, than in Serbian enclaves in Kosovo, especially in Pristina and its surroundings. The most intensive attacks and ethnic cleansing are currently directed at the regions of Gnjilane, Vitina, Kosovska Kamenica and other towns in Kosovo Pomoravlje, and in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Pointing to numerous examples, the analysts cited the case of the murder of a 14-year-old Serbian boy, Zoran Jankovic, while he was recovering from wounds sustained in a previous attack by Albanian terrorists on him and on his father Zivorad, in Gnjilane on July 15. The boy was brutally knifed to death in Pristina hospital.
Testifying to the systematic genocide and ethnic cleansing conducted by Albanian terrorists in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija are mass graves and mass liquidations and massacres of non-Albanian populations in Pec and surroundings, in the surroundings of Gnjilane, in Staro Gracko, in Ugljare, in the marketplace of the village of Bresje near Kosovo Polje and others.
Nedeljkovic and Novakovic said that terrorist "KLA" gangs in the territory of Kosovo-Metohija have formed more than 20 prisons (village Petrovo-Stimlje, Prizren, suburb Priskote - Djakovica, village Ponosevac and Radonjicko jezero, the village Bibe and Kamena glava - Urosevac, village Malisevo - Gnjilane, the village Vrelo - Istok, PKB Orvin and the village Zrze - Orahovac, the village Budisavce and Svrhe - Klina, the village Junik - Decane, several locations in Pristina), which has been confirmed partly by KFOR representatives.
Serbian police has at its disposal information that a number of kidnapped persons are in "KLA" camps and prisons in the territory of Albania, near the airport Rinas near Tirana and in Kukesh.
Albanian terrorist gangs also targetted ethnic Albanians, loyal citizens, whose only "sin" was that they considered Serbia and Yugoslavia as their state. Since January 1 last year till September 28 this year, Albanian terrorists have killed 243 members of the ethnic Albanian minority.
During this year, especially after the arrival of KFOR forces, has continued the showdown of "KLA" terrorist gangs with fellow ethnic Albanians, under the pretext that they had collaborated with Serbs. That is why a growing number of ethnic Albanian businessmen and private businessmen are leaving Pec, because they feel that their personal security and their property are endangered by Albanian robbers and terrorists who are on the rampage in that town.
Persecuted by Albanian terrorists is also an increasing number of ethnic Albanians of the Catholic faith, especially from Djakovica and surrounding villages (Pljancor, Novo Selo, Doblibare, Bardosan and others), and the situation is similar in other towns and villages in Kosovo-Meothija.
Targetted also by Albanian separatists are members of the Turkish and Muslim ethnic communities, the Roma, and Goranies, the authors said and cited the fact that since the arrival of KFOR forces (June 10) have been committed 49 attacks on members of national and ethnic communities living in Kosovo-Metohija.
Terrorist attacks targetted especially facilities of Serbian Interior Ministry members. In the epriod from January 1 last year till the withdrawal of Interior Ministry members from Kosovo-Metohija in June this year, in the territory of Kosovo-Meothija Albanian terrorists have committed a total of 1,849 attacks on Interior Ministry members and faciltiies in which were killed 287 and wounded 911 interuor Ministry members.
The largest number of terrorist attacks on Interior Ministry members were committed in the course of 1998 (1,129) in which 115 were killed, 216 seriously wounded, and 187 slightly wounded Interior Ministry members. Moreover, Albanian terrorists kidnapped 15 policemen. Three policemen have been released, while the fate of nine policemen is still unknown.
The authors also called attention to the fact that only three days after an agreement was reached between Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and U.S. special envoy Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, armed Albanian terrorist gangs attacked on October 17 last year policemen in the village Orlate, Glogovac municiplaity, killing three and seriously wounding two policemen.
Policemen and their family members were the target of attacks of terrorist groups also this year. Since January 1 till the departure of Interor Ministry members from Kosovo-Metohoja, were committed 720 terrorist attacks on the police in which were killed 172 and wounded 508 Ministry members.
The authors of the report pointed out that in the course of last year Albanian terrorists used as an operation method the kidnapping of citizens od Serbian and Montenegrin nationality and also of ethnic Albanians loyal to Serbia and FR Yugoslavia.
In the period from January 1 to December 31 last year, in the region of Kosovo-Metohija Albanian terrorists have kidnapped 293 citizens, of which 173 Serbs and Montenegrins, 101 Albanians, 14 Roma, one Macedonian national, one member of the Muslim national minority and one member of the Bulgarian national minority, and two persons of other national minorities. Among the kidnapped are 54 women and 14 minors, of whom 6 (six) children.
Of the total number of kidnapped, 31 have been killed, 110 have been released, nine have escaped, while the fate of 143 citizens is still unknown.
Kidnappings, mistreatment and murder of kidnapped citizens have been a frequent method of terrorist activity of Albanian separatists also in the course of 1999, particularly since the arrival of KFOR.
In the period from January 1 to September 28 this year Albanian terrorists have kidnapped a total of 557 persons, including 23 policemen. Most of the kidnapped are Serbs and Montenegrins (420), then follow ethnic Albanians (87). In that period have been killed 53 citizens and five policemen, while 428 kidnapped persons are still missing. Of the 557 kidnapped this year, as many as 449 have been kidnapped in the period since the arrival of KFOR forces in Ksoovo-Metohija.
Most of the attacks and kidnappings occured before the eyes of KFOR and U.N. Civilian Mission members, who have been informed in advance about all those cases, but have undertaken very little, or nothing, to prevent the terrorist activity or to find and set free the kidnapped persons, analysts of the Serbian Interior Ministry Nedeljkovic and Novakovic said in their report.