NATO LEADERS ENCOURAGE 
                VIOLENCE AGAINST SERBS IN
                KOSOVO
 

                   By their visit to Kosovo capital Pristina,
                   NATO leaders have only encouraged the followers
                   of the self-styled "KLA", who interpreted the visit as
                   support to their terrorist acts aimed at ethnic
                   cleansing of the province.

                   Violence against Serb inhabitants of the province
                   intensified while NATO political and military
                   leaders were visiting Kosovo, Brussels
                   media said in their reports on the visit by NATO
                   Secretary-General Javier Solana and NATO
                   Commander for Europe Wesley Clark.

                   Only a vew hunderd meters from the place where
                   Solana was speaking, KFOR had to intervene against
                   a group of "KLA" members who were looting local
                   shops, and three Serbs were killed in Pristina
                   Thursday, the media said. This demonstrated that
                   Solana's appeal for an end to violence had not
                   reached the "KLA".

                   Solana promised reconciliation between Serbs and
                   ethnic Albanians, but remarked only in passing that
                   lasting peace cannot be established without
                   disarming the "KLA" or meeting other demands from
                   the relevant Security Council Resolution.

                   Solana urged all ethnic communities to remain in
                   Kosovo under KFOR protection, although
                   it is clear that safety cannot be guaranteed even to
                   ethnic Albanians whom the "KLA" believes to be
                   loyal to Serbia.

                   Comparing the Kosovo reality of daily acts
                   of terrorism, looting and forced expulsions of non
                   ethnic Albanians from their homes and jobs with
                   Solana's statement that he was happy to be in "free
                   Kosovo" makes one wonder about the way
                   "freedom" is imagined in Brussels, especially as
                   Clark said he was completely satisfied with what
                   had been done so far.
 
 

                   The violence committed against Serbs by
                   ethnic-Albanian terrorists has especially been in
                   evidence throughout Kosovo the past
                   days, according to Spanish dailies.

                   The dailies said the violence had been the worst in
                   Pristina, Pec, Gnjilane and Djakovica.

                   The Madrid Al Pais set out that the threat of
                   ethnic-Albanian terrorists and the ineffective KFOR
                   protection were the chief reasons why Serbs were
                   leaving the province.

                   "The KLA wants to use the arrival of KFOR in
                   Kosovo for the glorification of their
                   own alleged victory. They have become so arrogant
                   as to consider themselves some kind of a
                   police or national guard," the daily stressed.

                   It quoted a Serb in Pristina as saying that Serbs
                   "want to live together with ethnic-Albanians, with
                   whom we have had no problems, but we are
                   threatened by the KLA. They are breaking into our
                   homes, driving us out from them, killing and
                   plundering, while KFOR does not seem able
                   effectively to prevent this."

                   The Barcelona El Periodico said the international
                   war-crimes tribunal in The Hague would have a lot
                   of work because of the "many crimes against
                   humanity committed by ethnic-Albanians against
                   Serbs in Kosovo."