PRISHTINA, March 14 there are reported that 24 Albanians from Rahovec had been sentenced to over 88 years of prison by a Serb court in Prizren. The Albanians charged of terrorism have been seized by Serb forces in an operation launched last summer in Rahovec. Since the start of the year, the Serb courts have ruled long sentences estimated at 500 years of prison. Some 1.200 Albanians were expected to face trial soon. BAJRAM CURRI, March 13 there is an increasing of violence by the Serb army in Kosova villages near the border area between Albania and Kosova has forced Kosova people to flee war zone and go to Tropoja, Albania. In the last two days, 19 people, mainly women, children and elderly people, crossed the border in Zherke village, Tropoje despite the danger in that area, Muharrem Gjyriqi, chief of local police commissariat said to ATA on Saturday. Fighting, which erupted recently, forced the inhabitants of Tropoja area and officials of the local government to be ready and tackle with fresh influx of people from Kosova. The Kosova people were helped by the border police and settled among their relatives in Golaj village, Has district. Tropoja is the district, which faced the first influx of refugees from Kosova last June where at least 17 thousand people crossed the border within a few days. The number of the people accommodated there is almost one thousand.
