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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"*Harry Hope" |
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30 Aug 2005 07:03:37 PM |
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Clinton's quagmire rolls on folks |
Two Serbs shot dead in southern Kosovo
Reuters (via Swiss Politics) ^ | Aug. 28, 2005 | Reuters
Posted on 08/28/2005 8:44:38 AM PDT by pythagorean
PRISTINA, Serbia and Montenegro (Reuters) - Two Serbs were killed and two
wounded on Saturday night when their car was shot at in southern Kosovo, a
local political leader and police sources said.
Serbs have been the target of frequent attacks in Kosovo by the ethnic
Albanian majority since the end of the 1998-99 war, which led to the
withdrawal of Serb forces from the southern Serbian province and the arrival
of a U.N. administration.
The four Serb men were fired on from another car shortly after 11 p.m. (2100
GMT) as they drove near the town of Strpce near Kosovo's southern border
with Macedonia, town mayor Stanko Rakovljevic told Reuters.
"They were shot at from a Mercedes which had followed them," he said. The
Serbs were driving a car with the old "PR licence plates denoting Pristina,
rather than the U.N.-imposed "KS" plates used by the ethnic Albanian
majority.
A police source confirmed the killings. The condition of the two wounded men
was not immediately clear.
The killings are the worst since a Serb teenager was shot dead in June last
year in the Serb enclave of Gracanica, for which two ethnic Albanians have
been charged.
It comes as a U.N. envoy prepares to submit a report next month on whether
Kosovo has made enough progress on democracy and minority rights for
negotiations to begin on its "final status".
The 90-percent Albanian majority wants formal independence from Serbia,
which Belgrade opposes.
Western powers intervened in the 1999 war with 78 days of NATO bombing to
drive out Serb forces accused of killing and expelling thousands of ethnic
Albanian civilians.
After the war, an estimated 180,000 Serbs fled a wave of revenge attacks.
Some 100,000 stayed, many in isolated enclaves guarded by members of the
17,000 NATO-led peace force.
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| User: "Rich Travsky " |
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| Title: Re: Clinton's Kosovo Success rolls on folks |
01 Sep 2005 12:06:17 AM |
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REMF Fake Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/yugo-ops.htm
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By the end of 2004 the only remaining American forces in the Former Yugoslavia
were the 1,000 Ohio Army National Guard soldiers of the 37th Armor Brigade
deployed to Kosovo as peacekeepers.
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