KOSOVO HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE RELEASES ANNUAL REPORT

PRISTINA, Jan 9 (Hina) - The Kosovo Committee for Human Rights today released its annual report on "systematic and brutal" violations by Serbian authorities of the personal and collective rights and freedoms of the ethnic Albanian community in Yugoslavia's southern province of Kosovo. According to the report, last year 17 Albanians were killed by firearms or as a result of physical maltreatment by Serbian police. Eleven were wounded and about 2,200 were physically maltreated. The list included 28 children and 22 women. Serbian police searched more than 3,500 Albanian homes and arrested 2,960 people, among them members of political parties and humanitarian agencies and teachers. Ninety Albanians received prison sentences for endangering the territorial integrity of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro), the report said. (hina) mm vm 091112 MET jan 95