SERBIAN ARMY KILLED BANUSH SADIKU AND WOUNDED FAKIR FEJZA

Kosova Information Center, Prishtina, September 9, 1993

Prishtina-based "Bujku" newspaper reports today that in the Sharr mountains of the Shterpe region, where the Serbian army has been stationed, Serb soldiers shot a two Albanian youngsters who were breeding their cattle, killing Banush Selim Sadiku (20) and badly wounded Fakir Selim Fejza (19), both from Firaje village of the Shterpe region. After the local residents heard about this episode, around two hundred of them gathered at spot. The Serbian army did not allow any of them get near to the killed Banush Sadiku, and theatened that if they did the army would use guns.

Unconfirmed reports say that the local police had said to the family of Banush Sadiku that the late Banush was shot while trying to cross the border (with Macedonia) illegally. Sources say, however, that the incident occurred one mile away from the borderline.

Fakir Fejza, who was badly wounded, was taken to the hospital where he is being kept under intensive care.

KOSOVA POSSESSES ALL THE PREROGATIVES OF A STATE, SAYS KOSOVA PRIME MINISTER

"Hesitations vis-a-vis Bosnia has brought about a disaster on all fronts, human and humanitarian, as well as more than a crisis amidst politicians and lawyers.

We have seen the London Conference being discarded by a defying Serbian aggression, and what's more, the same mediators pushing the victims to succumb to the results of the ethnic cleansing and the partition of their lands.

We have, in short, a bleak atmosphere and testimony where military might can lead international law and reality, in the extremes of unacceptance", begins a Kosova Statement of Approach presented by the Republic of Kosova Prime Minister Bujar Bukoshi before a Meeting of Fondazione CINI (Liberal, Democratic and Reform Group of the European Parliament) in Venice on 6-8 September 1993.

Prime Minister Bukoshi said that not only Kosova but the whole region is in danger and that the situation in Kosova could be easily exacerbated and explode, and undoubtedly involve more than the Albanians of Kosova.

Further, Kosova Prime Minister highlights the ongoing repression in Kosova exercised by the Serbian police and military, home searches for alleged arms possession, the paralysis of mass-media in Albanian, Serbian war-mongering propaganda and incidents on the Albanian border, adding that "the scenario is wellknown".

Pointing out the forming of new states in the territory of former Yugoslavia and the international community help in delineating borders which in past did not exist even as administrative borders, Dr. Bukoshi said: "There are a lot of substancial differences between us (Kosova) and the new states in the forming. They never had any government and parliament: Kosova has always had theirs, which, despite the will of communist dictatorship, exist and function. Kosova has taken Yugoslav presidency like the other republics; those states in forming did not have a rapresentative of their own. Kosova possesses all the prerogatives of a state which those new states in forming acquired through blood and connivance of the international community" ... whereas, "one feature differentiates Kosova: the peaceful means resorted to by the people and its leadership. We still believe that the international community will promote our peaceful search for stability in the region. Otherwise Kosova will know how to adopt to the situa

tion. Only at a very expensive cost for the stability of Europe.

"We request that the West intervene in Kosova NOW. Now is the time to enforce peace in Kosova so that the negociations on our future can start, based on the situation on the ground", said Prime Minister of the Republic of Kosova, Dr. Bujar Bukoshi.