Yugoslav Daily Survey, 98-03-05

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[01] TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

[01] TERRORIST ATTACKS IN THE PROVINCE OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA

Tanjug, 1998-03-06

In the course of 1997 in the territory of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, 55 armed terrorist attacks were launched by Albanian terrorists, of this number 31 attacks were launched against the members and facilities of the Ministry of the Interior, 14 against the civilians, one against a justice administration official, one against a refugee centre and eight against other facilities.

In these attacks, eleven people have been killed including one member of the Interior Ministry and 10 civilians. Fifteen people (8 Interior Ministry members and 7 civilians) have sustained serious injuries and 12 minor injuries (5 Interior Ministry members, two justice administration officials and 5 civilians). The attacks have also caused damage to 12 Interior Ministry facilities; seven tenements; two Orthodox Church temples; the seat of the municipality of Podujevo, and 2 official and 18 private vehicles.

In order to repel the attacks, Police have used firearms and shot dead 5 terrorist attackers. Out of the above*mentioned number of terrorist attacks, 11 were mounted in the area of the Srbica municipality; nine in the areas of the Podujevo municipality; six in the Decani and Klina municipalities; five in the Pec and Glogovac municipalities; three in the Vucitrn and Pristina municipalities; two in the Suva Reka municipality; one each in the municipalities of Djakovica, Prizren, Urosevac, Orahovac and Stimlje. In these terrorist attacks, the Kosovo Albanian terrorists have used individually or in groups machineguns 24 times, machineguns and handgrenades six times, machineguns and a portable rocket launcher four times, machineguns and a thromblon charge once; a machinegun, handgrenade and a portable rocket launcher once; explosives eleven times; pistols and revolvers four times; handgrenades and a thromblon charge three times. - 1998 (January and February)

In the period from January to 2 March 1998, in the territory of AP Kosovo and Metohija, 63 organized armed terrorist attacks were carried out by Albanian terrorists. Out of these, 15 were attacks on the facilities and members of the Interior Ministry of the Republic of Serbia (in Srbica 4 attacks; in Klina 3 attacks; in Orahovac and Podujevo 2 attacks each; in Stimlje, Urosevac, Glogovac and Decane one attach each). In these attacks, five members of the Interior Ministry were killed, four received serious and one slight injuries. In ten of the cases the police officers were attacked while pursuing their duties. In four cases accommodations and homes of police officers came under attack, and in one case masked terrorist gunmen stopped and attacked private cars.

Forty six terrorist attacks were launched on civilians in which eight civilians died (in Klina two Serbs and one ethnic Albanian; in Glogovac two ethnic Albanians; in Srbica one Serb and one ethnic Albanian; in Decani one Serb)), three people sustained serious injuries (in Pec two Serbs; in Decani one ethnic Albanian), while two Serbs and one ethnic Albanian were slightly injured.

Two attacks were launched on other facilities (Podujevo and Obilic) in which except for the material damage done, there were no casualties. In these attacks, the Albanian terrorists have used individually or in groups machineguns 21 times, machineguns and portable rocket launchers 14 times, an explosive device and handgrenades on one occasion, and physical force also on one occasion. In the remaining 25 cases, the Albanian terrorists issued threats to use firearms.

Forty four criminal charges were pressed against unidentified perpetrators for the criminal act under Article 124 of the Penal Code of the FRY. In addition to the terrorist attacks, 13 cases of stopping cars and asking for IDs and searches of vehicles and passengers by masked armed Albanian terrorists on some roads in AP Kosovo and Metohija were reported and three cases of these people bursting into homes and other facilities.

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