Italian Troops Find Man In Illegal Kosovo Jail
PRISTINA, Jul 19, 1999 -- (Reuters) Italian troops in Kosovo have
discovered an illegal jail staffed by men in Kosovo Liberation Army
uniforms, the NATO-led peacekeeping force said on Monday.
KFOR spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Louis Garneau said the troops had
found one man on Sunday being illegally detained in the building in
Porosevac, in southwestern Kosovo.
"The individual appeared to have been beaten. He was not in very good
shape," Garneau said.
Several men found in the building had been detained, Garneau told a
news briefing in the Kosovo capital Pristina. He said if the jail had
been run by the KLA it would be a breach of the guerrilla group's
agreement to disarm and demilitarize.
"We are taking this very seriously,[LOL]" Garneau told reporters, saying
KFOR would take up the incident with KLA commanders.
Although the KLA has agreed to disband as a military force, some
Kosovans say the group is acting as a local police force in several
towns since the pullout by Serbian troops at the end of NATO's air
campaign against Yugoslavia last month. ((c) 1999 Reuters)
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