Днес пуснах на руския форум извадки от последния отчет на Комисията по Правата на Човека към ООН и им зададох въпроса - "След като цитирате разни статии, кажете защо вашия представител в СБ на ООН, Сергей Лавров, не опровергае тези данни? Нали имате в Косово 3600 войника и възможност да провеждате собствени експертизи, защо той мълчи и не протестира?" Само да знаете как тихо стана.... ______________________________________________________________________________________________Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Situation of Human Rights in Kosovo xxxxxxxxxx ADVANCE, UNEDITED REPORT Geneva, 7 September 1999 C. Killings-executions The displacement and expulsion of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo occurred in a climate of lawlessness and total disregard for human life and dignity which resulted in an extremely high level of violence. According to several sources, and to the appalling discoveries made by KFOR and UNMIK upon the return to Kosovo, as many as 10,000 Kosovo Albanians died during the period of the NATO campaign and several thousand remain missing. The majority of refugees interviewed by OHCHR indicated having witnessed at least one incident in which one or more individuals died a violent death. In some instances, civilians died as a result of military actions and indiscriminate shelling against towns and villages. It was especially vulnerable and elderly people, incapable or unwilling to leave their houses upon observation of increased military activities, who died in these circumstances In the municipality of Podujevo, for example, Serbian aircraft reportedly launched two rockets on a village killing 30 civilians; in March eight people died as a result of a grenade explosion in Prizren.. However, only a small number of cases reported refer to incidents of this nature. About ten percent of the cases reported refer to orchestrated actions conducted by military, police and paramilitary forces in order to gather crowds of fleeing Kosovo Albanians in specific locations where the latter were subsequently robbed and executed On 27 March, in Belanica, Suva Reka municipality, Serb forces reportedly surrounded the village precluding any escape and then gathered the villagers in an open space to extort money and valuables from them. Those who had no money were taken to a private house and shot dead. Similar cases are reported to have happened in Celina, Orahovac municipality, and in Slovinje, Liplijan municipality.. Almost one third of the cases reported refer to random executions of civilians perpetrated mainly by police and paramilitary forces. In many instances, men of military age were killed at police checkpoints upon presentation of their ID documents, because they had come from areas believed to be KLA strongholds. When villages and towns were besieged, civilians became victims of appalling acts of violence at the hands of Serbian military, police and paramilitary forces. In these circumstances, many individuals were reportedly robbed, questioned, tortured, and, in some cases, killed in their own houses Some of these incidents allegedly took place in Maticane, Urosevac, Glogovac and Staro Selo. In Mramor, a man who had been previously wounded by a grenade, was executed in his house because suspected of having been injured while fighting against Serbian forces.. Kosovo-Albanians were also targeted by virtue of their real or supposed affiliation with political associations or because they were believed to support NATO intervention in Kosovo In Kacanik, local Serbs and police officers prepared a list of all Albanians affiliated with different political organizations and went house to house to question them. Some men were killed in the process. An interviewee indicated that in Djakovica, in the early stage of the bombing campaign, postal workers provided lists of addresses for targeted groups and individuals. Concerning Pristina, OHCHR interviewed an eyewitness to the murder of the Kosovo Albanian lawyer Bajram Kelmendi and his two sons. They were seen being taken out of two white police jeeps. Kelmendi was asked to kill one of his son and refused to do it, then his older son was asked to kill his father and he also refused to do it. Then police officers asked Bajram Kelmendi whom they should kill first, and in spite of the desperate appeal of the lawyer they shot his two sons dead in front of him, and 30 seconds later they shot him as well. In Stimlje, a father and son were killed because they had rented their house to an American OSCE officer. In Kosovo Polje two men were stopped at a police checkpoint while going to repair their television and killed because they were accused of wanting to watch "NATO air strikes". In Orahovac a young man was killed because he had a KLA emblem in his wallet.. Many displaced Kosovo Albanians decided to return to their villages in search of food, valuables or relatives and friends they had left behind and were killed by Serbian soldiers who had re-settled in their homes and/or established control over the village In the municipality of Gnjilane, on 06.04.99, five men who had returned to their village were ordered to lie face down by paramilitary forces and then shot dead. In Liplijan municipality (Smolusa) after a first round of forced displacement, a group of inhabitants decided to go back to their homes. Paramilitary groups and police forces returned to the village and killed them. Similar events were reported in Vitina, Verban and Stagova.. Many of the reported killings occurred in the process of displacement itself, in what seemed to be an attempt to gather and keep under control crowds of terrified civilians and to speed up the process of departure, as well as to show determination and to intimidate those who were reluctant to leave. Reportedly, in many cases, shots were fired into crowds of civilians, houses were set on fire and those who tried to escape were shot at and killed In the village of Gladno Selo, Glogovac municipality, paramilitaries set houses on fire killing as many as 45 civilians, mainly elderly women. In Suva Reka as many as 350 civilians were allegedly killed in the process of displacement. In Pristina, while forcing people to the railway station the police killed several civilians.. A considerable number of the killings reported to the KEO refer to incidents in which police and/or paramilitary and/or army forces attacked groups of IDPs hiding in the mountains or proceeding to the border in convoys. Sometimes fire was opened against civilian convoys, while in other instances individuals were picked out of the crowd and executed In Grastica, 30 young men were taken out of a convoy and shot dead; in Kralan, two wounded women were asked to get off a tractor and, since they couldn't because of their injuries, they were burned alive on the tractor; in Kolic, Serb forces fired into a group of IDPs allegedly killing 91 civilians.. A small number of the executions reported appear to have been perpetrated by Serb forces in response to KLA activities or by way of revenge or reprisal against KLA offensives. In some instances it also appears that civilians who had sought KLA protection in the mountains died as a result of fighting between KLA and Serb forces, or were captured and killed by Serb forces upon retreat of KLA In the village of Vrbovac, Glogovac municipality, upon retreat of KLA, a group of about 50 civilians was caught, ordered to gather in rows, tortured and executed by paramilitary forces. In Srbica, after a KLA offensive and subsequent withdrawal, 5 old men were killed. In Pusto Selo after fighting between KLA and Serbs in the area, Serb forces by way of reprisal allegedly executed 106 persons after having humiliated and mistreated them.. One case of execution of an ethnic Albanian by the KLA was reported to OHCHR-KEO. The man was suspected of collaborating with Serb forces and was killed at a KLA checkpoint close to Kacanik the day after he had allegedly buried bodies of KLA soldiers killed in fighting against Serb forces. The corpses of executed Kosovo-Albanians were either buried by civilians (sometimes upon explicit demand by the perpetrators), or KLA soldiers, or taken away by Serbian forces. In other instances Serb forces reportedly returned to the place of massacres, dug out bodies previously buried in secret by civilians, and took them away. Many refugees declared to have observed tractors or trucks carrying piles of dead bodies driven by Serbian police to unknown destinations. OHCHR heard testimonies and saw evidence of deliberate burning of bodies, while in different occasions Serb forces were observed digging mass gravesThe police were seen transporting some 40 bodies in Kosovo Polje in early April. In Kacanik paramilitary groups and some Romas were observed digging holes with bulldozers after the massacre at "Racak stream". In Slovinje, Liplijan municipality, Serbian forces buried 16 bodies and the day after ordered the relatives of the executed to exhume the bodies and re-bury them in a cemetery.. Romas were reportedly often involved in the transport and burial of corpses For example, Romas were allegedly observed burying bodies of Kosovo Albanians executed in Rezala, Srbica municipality, after Serb forces had exhumed them. In Vucitrn, Romas allegedly buried some 100 Kosovo Albanians who had been killed by "snipers". In Grastica, Pristina municipality, some Romas were reportedly observed loading a tractor with dead bodies.. The majority of the killings documented were allegedly carried out by paramilitary and police forces with the cooperation or complicity of the army. However, in a few cases, police officers reportedly stopped paramilitary forces from committing crimes and cruelties against ethnic Albanians For example in Kisnica/Pristina, on 25.03.99, paramilitary groups, wearing red bandanas, black masks and camouflage uniforms, entered a house and started robbing and killing the inhabitants one by one, until a police officer arrived and stopped them.. Paramilitary groups and special police units were described as wearing camouflage or black uniforms, gloves, black masks, and some of them wore red scarfs and had shaved heads and wore a red insignia with a white eagle on their uniforms. Some refugees have explicitly described the paramilitaries as Arkan troops, while others have reported the involvement of "Seselj" troops in the killings. Some ethnic Albanians claimed that Serbs from neighboring villages participated in abuses against them. Russian mercenaries have also been reported present and active in Kosovo on the side of Serb forcesRussian mercenaries, were reportedly present, among other places, in Glogovac, Djakovica, Srbica. It appears that the action of paramilitary troops was characterized by a very high level of violence and cruelty. Paramilitaries were allegedly responsible for killings of women and children, for stabbing people and mutilating dead bodies.