PERQUISIZIONE DELLA POLIZIA SERBA NELLA SEDE DEL CONSIGLIO DI DIFESA DEI DIRITTI UMANI E DELLE LIBERTA' DI PRISTINA E ARRESTO DEL MEMBRO DEL CONSIGLIO SAMI KOLTECI

Pristina-Budapest, 8 luglio 1993. Questa mattina la polizia serba ha fatto irruzione nei locali del Consiglio per la Difesa dei Diritti Umani e delle Liberta' del Kossovo, procedendo non senza brutalita' e violenze ad una serie di controlli ed arrestando uno dei leader del Consiglio Sami KOLTECI.

Mentre la perquisizione era in corso e' arrivato il presidente del Consiglio, Adem DEMAQI (Premio Sakarov per la pace) che ha subito chiesto alla polizia il permesso di perquisizione.

A cio' i poliziotti hanno risposto dicendo che "la nostra divisa e' il permesso", profferendo allo stesso tempo alcune altre affermazioni del tipo "Demaqi, Lei e' il nostro nemico numero 1", "bisogna amazzare tutti gli albanesi", ...

Sempre durante la perquisizione la polizia ha confiscato le pallotole con le quali sono stati ammazzati vari albanesi durante delle manifestazioni, le foto dei manifestanti ammazzati, quelle dei feriti durante gli scontri, quelle ancora di varie persone perseguitate. La polizia si e' inoltre impossessata di vari documenti, video-cassette ed elenchi di membri del Consiglio per la Difesa dei Diritti Umani e delle Liberta' del Kossovo.

* News from Kosova Daily Report

MORE POLICEMEN NEEDED, SERBIAN OFFICIAL SAYS

According to today's Belgrade-based "Borba", Radmilo Bogdanovic, chairman of the Council for Defence and Security of the House of Republics (Yugoslavia Parliament) said: "Serbia is not a police state and that assumptions that there were too many policemen were not true." He added that "the balance is not reached yet, amongst others because a number of policemen is situated in Kosova because of known reasons. We, in Serbia have not yet reached the per capita average, especially in the large towns."

Bogdanovic anticipated an increase in the number of police force.

Some days ago, according to an article by the same newspaper "Borba", it was indicated that there were some 60-70.000 Serbian standing policemen, besides the reserve contingent, while former president Cosic was quoted as saying that the exact number reached in fact 80.000. "Borba" said in the article that there were seven policemen in one thousand people in Serbia.

ENRAGED POLICEMEN WERE DRUNK, SERB OFFICIAL SAYS

Pristina-based bi-monthly Fjala quotes today (monday) an unidentified Serbian police commander in Pristina as saying that the policemen who were involved in an expedition against people who were promenading at the Kodra e Diellit Avenue in Pristina were drunk. Dozen of Albanians, including children and women, were beaten up on Friday.

It is a wonder, though, how could it be that some 20 policemen who were involved in the police raid were drunk ! Furthermore, the unidentified police commander is quoted as saying that the policemen had no warrant to undertake such an expedition.

For two hours, the Kodra and Diellit Avenue was under a curfew.

Friday, 2 July 1993, was the third anniversary of the Kosova Independence Day.

SERBIAN POLICE RAID ON ITUK OFFICE IN PRISTINA

Since 9.30 this morning (Monday), heavy Serbian police forces commenced an exhaustive search of the Office of Independent Trade Unions of Kosova (ITUK) in Pristina. A top official of this association, Burdan Kavaja, told KIC (Kosova Information Center) around noon (while the search has yet been going on), that the police had been thorughly searching the offices and documentations, and two Trade Unions activista were detained.

FYR of MACEDONIA EXPELS KOSOVA ALBANIAN FROM ITS FIRMS

According to an article published today in "Fjala" of Pristina, 1.000 employees, Albanians from Kosova, were expelled from the "Pelagonia" firm, some of them after being with the firm for more than 30 years. It is evident that FYR of Macedonia too wants to get rid of its Albanian employees like the Serbian and Greek authorities have been doing. Representatives of dismissed workers told "Fjala" that they were organize a rally of protest on the case in front of the trade unions building in Skopje this Monday.