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Amnesty International и Кофи Анан [re: Безродник] |
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Публикувано | 02.12.99 02:37 |
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FRY: Amnesty International calls for more international civilian police in Kosovo after attack on Serbs
The killing and beating of ethnic Serbs in the centre of Priština during national holiday celebrations yesterday is a clear signal that more civilian police are needed to enforce law and order in Kosovo, Amnesty International said today.
Sixty-two-year-old Dragoslav Bašiÿ, a Serb professor from Priština University, was driving his wife and mother-in-law through Priština in the early hours of Monday morning when their car was set upon by a group of ethnic Albanians who dragged him from the vehicle and shot him dead. His wife and mother-in-law were also pulled from the car and violently beaten while a large number of ethnic Albanians looked on.
Amnesty International believes that the incident is part of a pattern of revenge attacks perpetrated by ethnic Albanian groups and individuals against Serbs, Roma and moderate Albanians in Kosovo since the deployment of an international security presence (KFOR) and the United Nations interim administration (UNMIK) in June 1999.
While these attacks have decreased in recent weeks, Amnesty International is concerned that unless the international community deploys the required number of international civilian police necessary to maintain law and order in Kosovo, violent human rights abuses will continue. To date only 1,717 civilian police have been deployed in Kosovo out of the 4,718 requested by the Secretary-General of the United Nations...
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