The KLA freedom fighters....doing what they do best
Elderly Kosovo Serbs killed in Prizren
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22 June, 1999
Reported by BBC Ceefax
Two elderly Serb civilians have been killed in their
homes in the southern Kosovan town of Prizren.
The deaths -- of a man and a woman -- were
confirmed by German KFOR troops.
The attack is said to have been carried out by
Kosovo Albanians armed with an axe. The bodies
were badly mutilated when German troops found
them.
Earlier, Serb sources said the bodies of six Kosovo
Serbs kidnapped by the KLA near Obilic had been
found.
Fears grow after four brothers are murdered
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22 June, 1999
By Andrew Buncombe
The Independent
independent.co.uk
THE bodies of the four Serbian brothers were found early yesterday in
the village of Gracanica, near Pristina. They were hidden in woodland
just a few hundred yards from where they had been tending their
animals.
Zivojin, Zivko, Trogan and Dimitrice Simic were in their fifties. Each
had been stabbed - in the heart, in the kidneys or in both.
"I didn't see anything. We just found them this morning," cried their
younger brother Milos. "They had been stabbed - ripped open.
"Now I am not scared, I am really scared. These were innocent people."
Mr Simic said he had not seen his brothers abducted or murdered. Nor
had he seen the killers when they dumped the men's jackets and walking
sticks at the end of the track which led to their bodies.
Yet he had no doubt who was responsible for these killings in the
hamlet of Slivovo, next to the village of Gracanica, which the locals
say is 100 per cent Serb.
"It was the terrorists - it was the KLA," he said. He said all Serbs
were now frightened of being attacked.
Yesterday afternoon a unit of Royal Artillery, which has taken over
the police station in Gracanica, was preparing to take the bodies into
Pristina. The Royal Military Police have launched an inquiry ,though
no one is holding their breath.
"There is a large number of KLA in Slivovo," said Lt Charles Taylor,
whose men were wrapping the bodies in blankets and placing them in a
truck behind him. "They were not mutilated but they had been stabbed
in the heart or in other organs. One of them had his arm broken in
three places.
"There is not a lot we can do now. We're just trying to keep the
peace."
The villagers are not convinced. Murders such as these are exactly
what the Serbs of Kosovo have been afraid of ever since Nato took
control of the province.
"Your British soldiers do nothing," said one villager, Novica
Markovic, the local representative of the Serbian Renewal Movement.
"When they first came I was quite confident, but now I am not. I do
not think the British want to protect us."
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