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"Iornale": A year after, Serbs are the victims
June 11, 2000



Rome, June 10th - A year after the signing of Kumanovo military-technical agreement, hatred, crime, prosecution and killing of Serbs and other non Albanian citizens rule in Kosmet - it is the united estimation of the Italian press, which today pays considerate attention to the 1st anniversary since the end of NATO aggression on FR Yugoslavia.

Journal "Iornale" in the article titled "A year after, Serbs are the victims", emphasizes that Kosmet is very unstable area.

"It is the pit where hatred and vengeance are mixed and where blood constantly calls for blood. It certainly is not a pacified Kosmet imagined a year ago by representatives of United Nations", "Iornale" emphasizes.

The journal notices that only from February till May this year, 26 Serbs were killed in Kosovo-Metohija. In the same period, 105 Serb houses were burnt, "Iornale" specifies and concludes that on the occasion "of constant violence, the highest representatives of the International Community just a bit louder raised their voice against Albanian extremists".

Journal "Avenire" also reminds of the disastrous one-year results of UN international peace forces in Kosmet.

The journal publishes an interview with perfect Areza Mario Marcone, who was an administrator in Kosovska-Mitrovica, from December 22nd to March 10th. Marcone left Kosmet before his mandate expired because of the Albanian violence and threats.

"I warned in February that extremists are applying 'tension strategy'. The main problem is the fact that a part of Albanian population in Kosmet does not wish to accept and obey the Security Council Resolution 1244 about Kosmet. Unfortunately, as we can see, violence intensified in the last few days. Structures of International Mission have never before been the targets of the assassins", Marcone emphasizes.

According to his opinion, the situation is more impeded by "reckless and arrogant attitudes of Ibrahim Rugova and Hashim Thaqui, all the more so because they do not give up the idea of independent Kosmet".

Unfortunately, with created institutions, Kosmet is on its way to independence, although American Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright has repeated that the implemented criterion is only wide autonomy within Serbia, Marcone says.

Perfect Areza emphasizes that "the fact that Kosmet Albanian leaders` insistence upon independence, certainly does not help to set up conditions for joint living".

"It should be said that Serbs would never accept that. That would be definitive break up with the UN Security Council Resolution and with Serbs. I am afraid that independent Kosmet would represent constant danger" prefect Mario Marcone warns in his interview to the journal "Avenire".
 


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