62 ALBANIAN TOMBSTONES DESECRATED IN KOSOVO TOWN OF PEC

PRISTINA, Oct 12 (Hina) - Shortly after the midnight, October 12, unknown perpetrators desecrated 62 tombstones of ethnic Albanians around five mosques at the town of Pec on Kosovo (southern Yugoslavia), the (Albanian) Kosovo information centre reported on Saturday. Gravestones of Albanian patriots Haxhi Zeko, Ali Pasha Gucia and other eminent people from Albanian history were damaged. Besides, a door was broken and a mausoleum (called 'turbe') burnt down at the courtyard of Hamam-Mosque, the same source said. Pec Albanians protested against such barbarian acts that had caused disturbance among ethnic Albanian population. In the meantime Serbia's police, that has not yet officially commented on events, arrived at the yard of one of mosques in Pec. (hina) mš 121931 MET oct 96