PRISTINA, March 22 (Hina) - At least ten Kosovo Albanians were killed and four wounded during the intensified attacks of the Serb forces in Kosovo, Albanian sources reported in Pristina on Monday morning. Serbs were setting fire to
houses in the village of Donje Prekaze near the town of Srbica, while a special unit had executed seven ethnic Albanians in that town. One child was killed and four other members of that family sustained injuries in the Serb shelling of the village of Trnava near Podujevo, the Albanian sources reported adding that one fighter of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and one Albanian civilian lost their lives in the Podujevo area during Sunday's fighting. Albanian-populated villages in central Kosovo have been exposed to the shelling since Sunday evening. Schools in Glogovac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Podujevo, Djakovica and Vucitrn are being temporarily closed due to the deterioration of the situation. Fresh rein
PRISTINA, March 22 (Hina) - At least ten Kosovo Albanians were
killed and four wounded during the intensified attacks of the Serb
forces in Kosovo, Albanian sources reported in Pristina on Monday
morning.
Serbs were setting fire to houses in the village of Donje Prekaze
near the town of Srbica, while a special unit had executed seven
ethnic Albanians in that town.
One child was killed and four other members of that family sustained
injuries in the Serb shelling of the village of Trnava near
Podujevo, the Albanian sources reported adding that one fighter of
the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) and one Albanian civilian lost
their lives in the Podujevo area during Sunday's fighting.
Albanian-populated villages in central Kosovo have been exposed to
the shelling since Sunday evening.
Schools in Glogovac, Kosovska Mitrovica, Podujevo, Djakovica and
Vucitrn are being temporarily closed due to the deterioration of
the situation.
Fresh reinforcement have been dispatched to Serb troops. Seven
tanks have left Pristina and headed toward Podujevo today. Fresh
forces along with up to 60 armoured carriers have been deployed also
in Lipljani 15 kilometre south of the province's capital.
The UNHCR has warned that the latest clashes forced at least 20,000
Albanians to leave their homes. Since the beginning of this year
estimated 100,000 people have fled their home, and 70,000 of them
had to leave houses in the past six weeks, according to UNHCR
figures.
The National Movement for the Liberation of Kosovo, which has been
illegally operating mainly abroad for years, issued a special
statement saying that results of the recent international
conference on the Kosovo problem were the worst possible option for
ethnic Albanians. The statement, conveyed by the "Koha Ditore"
daily on Monday, read that promises given by the international
community did not differ from its pledges ten years ago.
The National Movement called on the Kosovo people and the KLA
headquarters to be resolute in resistance to Serb forces.
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