Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (5943)	10/29/2003 12:35:29 AM
From: calgal	Respond to of 10965

Oct 28, 10:50 PM EST U.N., NATO Arrest Five in Balkan Crimes By FISNIK ABRASHI Associated Press Writer PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- U.N. police and NATO-led peacekeepers arrested five former ethnic Albanian rebels for alleged war crimes in Kosovo, officials said Tuesday. The five were arrested Monday in the town of Kacanik, 36 miles south of Pristina, said Chris Thompson, a spokesman for the NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo. They have been charged by a local U.N.-run court with the illegal detention, torture and killing of four fellow ethnic Albanians suspected of collaborating with Serb authorities during Belgrade's 1998-1999 crackdown on Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority, local media said. They are also charged with torturing a fifth victim who survived. All five were low-ranking members of the now-disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army, which battled Serb forces during the war. One is a member of Kosovo's police service, media said. The arrest of the five ethnic Albanians in Kosovo was the second time a U.N.-run court in the province moved against the former rebels and their alleged involvement in war crimes committed in the province. Latest News U.N., NATO Arrest Five in Balkan Crimes Bosnian Serb Prison Camp Guard Sentenced Bosnian Serb Captain May Get 20 Years Earlier this year, a court in Pristina convicted and sentenced four former rebels to prison terms ranging from five to 17 years for ordering the killing, illegal arrest and torture of fellow ethnic Albanians suspected of collaborating with the Serbian regime of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. The United Nations and NATO have administered Kosovo since June 1999, following an alliance bombing campaign that ended the crackdown of Serb forces on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians. Copyright 2003 Associated Press. All rights reserved.