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Around a thousand Albanians surrounded the Post Office in Kosovska Mitrovica
September 24, 1999

The law of the wild West under patronage of KFOR

Kosovska Mitrovica, September 24th (Tanjug) - More than a thousand Albanians surrounded this morning after 7:00 a.m. the main Post Office building in the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, where all Serbs were previously expelled from, in order to take it over by force, confirmed the head of technical services Petar Pisevac today to Tanjug.

He and 70 more employees are in the Post Office building, unable to get out, and the number of Albanians in front of the building is increasing by the hour.

French KFOR troops, armed with rifles, are preventing the Albanians to enter the building. Some dozen KFOR armed transporters are parked in front of the building.

Albanian representatives demanded in public the Serbs to 'hand over' the Post Office, an integral part of Serb Telekom, to them.

French KFOR troops failed to prevent Albanians to gather, in spite of Kosovo-Metohija county chief administrator Martin Garod's explicit order to report all rallies and gatherings 48 hours in advance.