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To: Machaon who wrote (12475)	6/18/1999 7:29:00 PM
From: goldsnow	Respond to of 17770

now forever known as "Field of BlackDeeds". or Balkans... Viva mudjaheedins "freedom fighters" :(

To: Machaon who wrote (12475)	6/19/1999 1:57:00 AM
From: Douglas V. Fant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

RB, "Field of Black Deeds" Indeed- except now it is the Albanians who are committing the black deeds. Tonight CNN reported that KFOR Forces freed 15 gypsies who were being held prisoner and systematically beaten and tortured by KLA members. To me it is just unbelievable what is going on in the Balkans- neither side has any equities as far as I'm concerned and are both pretty damned vile and repugnant. And as the Albanians drive out the "undesirables" and establish an ethnically pure monoculture have they yet realized the stupidity both economically and geopolitically as to what they are currently doing? Do you realize the significance of their mistakes Robert?

To: Machaon who wrote (12475)	6/19/1999 8:15:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Suspect killed as KLA rounds on 'traitors' By Philip Smucke in Prizen Troops arrive in time to rescue victims of Serbs NATO forces yesterday discovered what appeared to be a KLA interrogation centre in the heart of Pristina. German troops freed 15 ethnic Albanian and gipsy prisoners that the KLA had accused of being traitors. They also found a 70-year-old man who had been bound to a chair. He was dead. Hanns-Christian Klasing, a spokesman for the German military, said: "We entered the former Serbian police headquarters to check it out and found injured and maltreated prisoners. One of them was a 70-year-old man, obviously beaten and dead." German soldiers disarmed 25 KLA soldiers who have controlled the building all week, took their names, and then handed them back to their own KLA authorities. Asked why the soldiers had not been arrested, officer Klasing said: "KFOR is not a judge, a prosecutor, and we don't have a jail to put them in." A reporter for The Telegraph also saw Albanian rebels and civilians looting and burning Serb homes and churches near Prizren. A new German "get tough" policy towards the KLA announced yesterday came too late for a 16th-century church which was still smouldering after being looted and burned. Inside the holy sanctum, a pile of charred bibles was found near to seared icons and melting yellow candles. Beneath the ancient monastery, which had been defended by Yugoslav Army artillery positions until a week ago, several Serbian homes were in flames as machine-gun fire resounded through the mountains. Sadik Abdulaga, 40, a local KLA official, said: "The Serbs won't be welcomed back here; they lost their credit. If they had been more decent and more gentle they could have come back." Mr Abdulaga brought in the village's only remaining Serb, an 80-year-old woman, Tonka Jovanovic, who claimed that KLA soldiers had shot her crippled son in the chest earlier in the week before setting her house on fire. "My son is dead but I'm angry at the Serbs too," said Mrs Jovanovic, who said she had not eaten in three days. A KLA official said he hoped to "exchange" Mrs Jovanovic for Albanian prisoners from the village he claimed were being held by Serbian authorities. Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, has challenged the KLA's seizure of administrative control in Prizren, a city of 120,000. But UN officials have yet to arrive and are facing a fait accompli. KLA officials say they want Prizren to be "a model" for the rest of Kosovo. With one of Kosovo's major cities already in the hands of the KLA, ethnic Albanians and the few remaining Serb residents, are expressing grave concerns about the future. A reporter discovered three KLA soldiers plundering a Serb home yesterday. Moments later, German peacekeepers arrived and ordered them to stop looting. A German soldier said: "You don't go there. Put down your weapons. We have freedom here now." The KLA men obediently handed over their guns but soon were asking for them back, promising there would be no more trouble. "I've heard that too many times," said the German soldier. "Now go." telegraph.co.uk