NINE ETHNIC ALBANIANS ON TRIAL IN KOSOVO

PRISTINA, April 5 (Hina) - Nine ethnic Albanians, former employees with Kosovo Province police, were brought to the county court in Pec, Kosovo. They were indicted for establishing an Albanian parapolice in the Pec county area, and committing a crime of "threat to territorial integrity of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia". Another 14 Albanians were sentenced to a total of 68 years in prison, under the same charge last year. Southern Serbia's autonomous province of Kosovo, 90 percent ethnic Albanian populated, was denied its autonomy by Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic when he had come to power. Before Kosovo had had a federal unit's status in the former Yugoslavia. (Hina) jn bk 052136 MET apr 95