ANTI-VIOLENCE PROTESTS CONTINUE IN KOSOVO

( Editorial: --> 9936 ) PRISTINA, March 16 (Hina) - Kosovo Albanians on Monday continued their protests against the Serbian violence in the area of Drenica and for a peaceful solution of the Kosovo crisis. Several thousand women set out on foot around 9am today from the Pristina suburb of Dragodane towards the area of Drenica, where the Serbian police killed at least 80 Albanians in the past two weeks. Expressing solidarity with the people of Drenica, participants in the protest carried bread, to be given to children and women in Drenica. Demonstrators also carried placards in English and Albanian saying: 'Europe, stop the terror in Kosovo', 'Stop ethnocide' 'Stop the violence' and 'Drenica, we are with you'. "Children and women, including pregnant women and ill and old people, were killed in Drenica. Terror and ethnic cleansing continue. Not one door of hope has been opened so far," said the organisers of the protest, the Circle of Albanian Women and the Forum of Albanian Women of Kosovo. (hina) rm 161114 MET mar 98