INADEQUATE PROTECTION OF SERBS,  
                MONTENEGRINS IN KOSOVO  

                   The international peace force in Kosovo 
                   (KFOR) has not done enough so far to protect Serbs, 
                   Montenegrins and other non ethnic Albanians in the 
                   province from violence by ethnic Albanian 
                   extremists. 

                   This attitude of the peacekeepers is enabling ethnic 
                   Albanian separatists and terrorists, especially the 
                   self-styled "Kosovo Liberation Army", to pursue 
                   their ethnic cleansing in the province that they 
                   initiated decades ago. 

                   If KFOR does not urgently undertake decisive 
                   actions to stop the rampaging terrorists, the process 
                   of return of displaced Serbs to the province will 
                   have to be be halted. 

                   NATO has devastated Yugoslavia under the pretext 
                   of preventing a humanitarian disaster for ethnic 
                   Albanians, who were allegedly subjected to ethnic 
                   cleansing. 

                   A few days only after the pullout of Yugoslav 
                   security forces from the province and the much 
                   publicized arrival of KFOR, the western states 
                   which constitute the core of international security 
                   presence have come under the criticism of their own 
                   peoples for allowing unprecedented ethnic cleansing 
                   of the province of its non ethnic Albanian population. 

                   The principal targets of rampaging "KLA" gangs are 
                   Serbs and Montenegrins, but terrorists have not 
                   spared either the Romanies, ethnic Turks, Muslims 
                   and other ethnic communities in Kosovo. 

                   Many of them are behaving in an absolutely 
                   unacceptable manner, burning Serb homes, 
                   destroying Christian holy sites, looting and stealing, 
                   KFOR Commander Mike Jackson admitted 
                   recently. 

                   The international humanitarian group Human Rights 
                   Watch said it had gathered sufficient evidence of 
                   killings, rapes and other forms of harassment to 
                   which the "KLA" leaders have resorted 
                   systematically in order to expel the Serb minority 
                   from Kosovo. 

                   The London Times writes that British officers 
                   compare ethnic Albanian gangs with the Irish 
                   Republican Army and other para-military forces in 
                   Northern Ireland. 

                   However, western officials have so far avoided 
                   replying to the essential question why they are 
                   condoning the violence by the terrorist "KLA". 

                   "KLA" members, whose "leaders" are notorious drug 
                   dealers and money launderers, are now walking 
                   around freely in Kosovo and passing 
                   arbitrary "judgments" according to the customs of 
                   medieval warlords. 

                   They consider each and every Serb or Montenegrin 
                   as culprits and accuse Romanies of looting and 
                   spying for Serbs. 

                   Since KFOR arrived in the province, over 10,000 
                   Romanies have fled their homes. 

 
                   KFOR has promised it would protect the non ethnic 
                   Albanian population, but usually does nothing to 
                   prevent terrorists from persecuting Serbs and 
                   Montenegrins, remaining a silent witness of 
                   violence. 

                   NATO headquarters in Brussels has so far refused to 
                   answer why it has allowed ethnic cleansing of Serbs 
                   in Kosovo, why it does not control the 
                   Yugoslav-Albanian border that Albanian gangsters 
                   and criminals are crossing daily on looting 
                   expeditions, and who has  given the right to self-styled 
                   ethnic Albanian  "premier" Hashim Thaci and his 
                   followers to judge  who is right and who is wrong in 
                   the province. 

                   It is also unclear why the "KLA" terrorists have been 
                   given the long deadline of 90 days to demilitarize. 

                   As the terrorists are using their weapons daily 
                   against civilians, one may wonder who has drawn up 
                   the policy being followed by KFOR, which has come 
                   to Kosovo under UN aegis. 
 
 

                   Ethnic Albanian separatists continue terrorizing 
                   Serbs and ethnic Albanians loyal to the Yugoslav 
                   state, while the peace force members, if and when 
                   they prevent them from doing so at all, release them 
                   immediately afterwards, an Italian KFOR officer 
                   said in an open letter published Friday by the Rome 
                   daily Liberazione. 

                   The officer illustrated his testimony by describing a 
                   manhunt on Serbs he had witnessed. This is a 
                   favorite sport to which ethnic Albanian criminals 
                   wearing elegant US uniforms with "KLA" insignia 
                   resort with joy, he said. Hidden in the woods, ethnic 
                   Albanians fired in the legs of women and girls 
                   waiting in line to get water from a tank provided by 
                   the Italian army. After three womenwere wounded, 
                   the officer and two of his men fired into the air 
                   (as such were the orders), dispersing the criminals. 
                   After a long chase, they captured one of the bandits 
                   who said it was just  a game - one leg - one dollar. 
                   Then he screamed "They must have been Serb 
                   whores!" Obeying the orders, the Italian troops were 
                   forced to release the  criminals, the officer said. 

                   At the end of his letter, the officer, who gave his 
                   name only as Alesio for obvious reasons, said that 
                   the Italian troops were endeavoring to do their duty 
                   with seriousness and honor in order to help the poor 
                   but proud people in Kosovo. 
 

                   French peacekeepers within KFOR have sent an 
                   armored vehicle to protect the nuns of the Devic 
                   monastery, 6 km from Srbica in Kosovo, 
                   the Devic nuns said on Saturday. 

                   The French troops stationed in this medieval Serb 
                   monastery regularly supply the nuns with food by 
                   helicopter. 

                   Ethnic Albanian terrorists plundered Devic about 
                   two weeks ago. The terrorists stole the monastery's 
                   agricultural machinery, vehicles, all the food and 
                   smashed many icons and objects of art.