There exist numerous definitions of terrorism, but it is a fact that terrorism becomes a global threat, therefore all states, both big and small ones, may become victims of terrorist activities. However, in practice, terrorism is easily recognized, and, for the understanding of the substance of terrorism, there is a most appropriate definition presented by The American Terrorism Research Center:

"Terrorism is the illegal use of power or of violence against people and property, in order to scare or repulse a Government, civilian population, or a part of it, in order to achieve political or social objectives." (The FBI definition of terrorism)

For a more realistic identification of the degree of danger of terrorism, and in connection to that, the threats faced by Serbia and by The FR of Yugoslavia, and the neighboring countries of the Balkan Region as well, it is indispensable to start from the fact that terrorism of the Albanian separatists is present at Kosovo.

TIRANA, August 18, 1998

It turned out that (some) "people who entered Albania are now identified as responsible for terrorist attacks in other countries", the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pascal Milo, stated.

The Albanian Minister issued this statement several days after the United States of America withdrew the members of the families of their embassy in Tirana, and the personnel whose work was not indispensable for the moment, fearing possible attacks, similar to those on American embassies in Kenia and Tanzania.

Four militant Islamists where arrested in Albania and extradited to Egypt in July, and that operation was done, according to the Albanian press, with the assistance of the American Central Information Agency (CIA).

Speculations that the recent attacks against American embassies in Nairobi and Dar Es Salam were maybe a revenge for the extradition of the mentioned four, were stimulated by the warning to Washington about possible revenge, addressed by the banned Egyptian militant organization Jihad.

The Albanian newspapers state today that ten foreigners, from non-mentioned countries, left Albania during the last five days, thus avoiding police raids in their homes. However, that was not officially confirmed, Reuters said.

The Cult of Mujahedins

The Albanian national-separatist movement in Kosovo and Metohija used terrorism from the very beginning as a means for the achievement of its strategic objective, and that is the secession of Kosovo from Serbia and from the FR of Yugoslavia, and its annexation to Albania, i. e. the creation of the so-called Greater Albania in the Balkans, at the expense of the neighboring countries, primarily of Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Greece.

The terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija got a lot of strength during 1989, by various forms of violence and torture against Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo and Metohija, by attacks against military facilities, police, enterprises, and by massive destructions of state and private property.

Terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija escalated in its worst form during 1998. In the time period between January 1st, and October, 31st, 1998, the Albanian terrorists committed, in the territory of the AP of Kosovo and Metohija, a total of 1.496 terrorist attacks, out of which 624 or 41.7% against citizens and other facilities. During these attacks, 152 citizens were killed (out of which 69 members of the Albanian national minority, 37 Serbs and Montenegrins, three Roms and 42 persons whose identity was not established). 69 persons were heavily injured, and 64 injured.

In their actions, the terrorists killed civilians, women, children and elder people, in fields, in the yards of their houses, in vehicles. The murders were committed in cruel and ruthless ways, often in front of the members of the families or in front of the peasants, in order to scare the population, and in order to make them participate in terrorists’ actions.

In the time period between January, 1st, and October, 31st of the current year, the Albanian terrorists killed in terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Metohija a total of 152 citizens, out of whom 69 or 45.3% Albanians - loyal to Serbia and to Yugoslavia. 30 persons belonging to the Albanian national minority have been heavily injured, and 32 persons injured. The members of the Albanian national minority who are loyal towards Serbia and Yugoslavia, as their states, represent the majority of the victims of the attacks of the terrorists.

The bands of Albanian terrorists attacked, on April 14th, in the village Budisavci, Commune of Klina, Ramadan Uka (1971) and his wife Zoja (1972), for Ramadan’s father Nezaj voted at the elections for the President of the Republic of Serbia, which took place in December of the last year. They beat Ramadan heavily, and raped his wife in front of him; by the beginning of May, the terrorists first killed by hanging Beg Shabanaj and Hajder Kuci from Decani, whose corpses they then threw in the Bistrica river; on April, 24th, they killed Desko Cverim (1955) from Klincina, Commune of Klina - he voted the previous day at the referendum, although the separatists ordered boycott.

In the terrorist attack against the family Salja, in the village Senik, Commune of Malisevo, during the night between August 14th and 15th of the current year, a pregnant woman, Veljbona Salja, mother of two, was heavily injured. After several hours of siege of the house of the Salja family, known for its loyalty to Serbia, the Albanian terrorists withdrew, and the injured pregnant woman Veljbona was medically assisted at the surgery ward of the General Hospital Prishtina, where she was operated, and is now in state of convalescence. However, because of the stress and of the consequences of bleeding of Veljbona - who was eight months pregnant, her baby was lost.

During the night between August 22nd and 23rd of the current year, at the Prizren - Suva Reka road, near the village Toplicane, they killed by shots from automatic weapons Ljatifa Koljola, and her nineteen year old daughter Rusa. Their corpses were found in the trench along the road, with hands tied at the back, and with bindings over their eyes. Otherwise, the Koljoli family is known for its public condemnation of the separatist policy of the Albanian terrorists.

The Albanians of Roman-Catholic confession were one of the main objectives of the terrorists bands. They took from them, by force, the firearms they possessed quite legally - with the approval of the responsible state organ, they ill-treated them and threatened them with physical liquidation if they do not join them in their terrorist activities. So, on May, 19th of the current year, around 8 p.m., after the intrusion in a shop in the village Smac, Commune of Djakovica, the Albanian terrorists mistreated eight Albanians of Roman Catholic confession, saying: "what are you doing here, while you, the Catholics, drink and have good time, we fight for you", and they plundered them and killed Pnisi Nedzat, an Albanian Roman Catholic with an automatic rifle; on March, 19th, the Albanian terrorists inflicted heavy injuries to Nikaj Uku and Nikaj Dedu, from the village Lug Bunar; on July, 17th, they killed Gasi Marko (1927) from the village Dobri Do, Commune of Orahovac., and threw his corpse on the pavement of the main road Kosovska Mitrovica - Srbica; on August, 6th, they killed by automatic armament Merturi Pren (1933), Merutri Mire (1934), Krasnici Perko (1932) and Krasnici Prend (1935), all Albanians of Roman Catholic confession from the village Mece, Commune of Djakovica, where their corpses were found.

The Albanian terrorist bands attacked also the members of the Turkish national minority, Roms and members of the Moslem nationality. So, in the village of Mamusa near Prizren, exclusively populated by the Turkish national minority, the Albanian terrorists attacked, on June 5th, 1998, the peasants in this village, well known for their loyalty towards Serbia and Yugoslavia. On April, 10th of the current year, at the road between Stimlje and Suva Reka, at the place "Caf-Dulje", the Albanian terrorists waited in an ambush and attacked by automatic firearms three Gorans who were in a passenger vehicle immatriculated in Prizren; one of them was heavily injured.

On May, 14th, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped, in front of his house, Sope Muhamed, (1959) a Rom, whom they killed after torture, and left his massacred corpse beside the road Stimlje -. Suva Reka in the vicinity of the village Dulje; on May 18th, in front of the peasants of the village Crni Lug, Commune of Klina, they killed Krasnici Naim (1953), a Rom, the Head of the Record Service in that village, etc.

During the time period from January 1st to October 31st, 1998, the Albanian terrorists committed, in the territory of the AP of Kosovo and Metohija, a total of 872 attacks against the facilities of the police and the police, or 58.2% of the total number. In these attacks, 108 police were killed, 204 heavily injured and 172 injured. Besides, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped 11 police. The fate of 10 police is still unknown, while one of them was killed after torture.

The Albanian terrorist bands committed their terrorist attacks mainly from ambushes, when the police controlled the vehicles and the passengers, assured the safety of important economic facilities and of the communication lines, the refugees’ settlements, and performed their routine jobs and the tasks fixed by the law.

So, on March, 24th of the current year, in the village Dubrava, Commune of Decani, the Albanian terrorists killed one policeman from an ambush, injured heavily two of them, and injured five; on May, 6th, at the bus station in Kosovska Mitrovica, two police where killed when performing their regular patrol, while one was heavily injured; on May 23rd, on the road Djakovica - Pec, two policemen were heavily injured and five injured in a terrorist attack; on June, 18th, on the road Kijevo-Klina, near the village Iglarevo, there was an ambush, at both sides of the road, along some 500 meters, with over 300 acting Albanian terrorists; they killed one policeman, two police were heavily injured, five injured; on July, 6th, in the village Brezanik, near Pec, in a terrorist attack committed by a number of terrorists in an ambush, four police were killed, four heavily injured and four injured; on July 15th, in the village Gornja Klina, Commune of Srbica, four police were heavily injured and 16 injured in a terrorists attack with infantry arms, bazookas and mortars, etc.

A cruel and ruthless murder was committed by the terrorists against the police captain Srdjan Perovic, who was kidnapped on July, 6th of the current year, during the de-blocking of the population which was surrounded by the Albanian terrorists in the village Brezanik near Pec; his corpse was found on August, 16th, in the village Lodja, Commune of Pec. The autopsy found out that Perovic was first tortured, all his ribs were broken, his ears and nose were cut off, his left eye was taken out, his collan-bone was broken at the left side, his shoulder blade was taken out, there was a great number of cuttings and stab wounds on the calfs on both legs, they broke his scull, and then killed him.

The Albanian terrorists also put various obstacles and barriers on roads and railway lines, entered the trains and asked for identity cards in order to find and kidnap police. So, on May, 23rd of the current year, they entered a railway carriage at the railway station Banjica, Commune of Glogovac, and took out by force from the train a policeman, Bulatovic Ivan (1961), who was returning, with his wife, also employed by the police, from Pec where he gave an obit to his deceased daughter.

Riddled police vehicle

The Albanian terrorists attacked police facilities and buildings as well, but also family houses and apartments where the families of the police were accommodated. So, on July, 17th of the current year, when they tried to occupy Orahovac, they attacked the building of the police station in Orahovac and the "Park" hotel, in which police were accommodated; on January, 12th, they fired a number of shots from automatic firearms at an apartment house in Stimlje, in which there were six families of the police; on April, 25th, they fired a cumulative mine on the "Toplica" hotel in Podujevo, in which the police were accommodated; the mine hit and demolished the wall on the third floor of the hotel; they also fired at the family houses of the police in Urosevac, in the villages Berkovo and Belice, Commune of Istok, in the village Babaloc, Commune of Decani, etc.

Many times, the Albanian terrorists fired at the police helicopters which transported wounded persons to hospitals for urgent medical assistance.

In the time period between January 1st, and October 31st, 1998, the Albanian terrorists killed 37 Serbs and Montenegrins, heavily injured 34, injured 27, which represents more than four times as many killed and injured as in the previous seven years period (1991-1997).

Numerous examples tell about the crimes of the Albanian terrorists. On May 4th, 1998, the Albanian terrorists first massacred by a knife the body of Nenad Jaredic, Acting Post Office Director in the Dobra Voda village, Commune of Klina, and then shoot him in the head; on May 20th they took out of the yard of his home a young boy, Dalibor Lazarevic, from the village Budisavci, near Klina, and killed him by a shot from a firearm.; on June 24th, in the village Kijev, Commune of Klina, they killed Spasic Rados (1945), Director of the Primary School "Laza Lazarevic" in that village, etc. On August 6th of the current year, near the main road Djakovica-Pec, near the village Erec, Commune of Djakovica, an Albanian, Sinanaj Musa killed with a gun Knezevic Velimir (1923) from Erec; the murder was ordered by the so-called "OVK", with a promised reward of 5.000 DEM, in order to stimulate, in that way, the Serbs and Montenegrins in this and in the neighboring villages to leave Kosovo and Metohija. The Albanian terrorists tortured and raped Simic Cveta (1929) from the village Pantina, Commune of Vucitrn, whom they kidnapped from her house on June 26th of the current year, and then they threw her, exhausted and unconscious, beside the road Vucitrn-Pantina (June 7th). The mentioned woman was wounded on her head by blunt objects. There was a stab wound on her neck, with visible traces of strangling, and traces of burns by a hot object on the chest. Simic Cveta died from the injuries she got during her imprisonment, in the military Hospital in Belgrade, on August 19th.

In the action of the liberation of the region Klecka, Commune of Lipljan, on August 27th of the current year, the police found an improvised prison in which the Albanian terrorists kept the kidnapped Serbian civilians, including some children. They applied against them the most cruel forms of torture, and ill-treated and raped women. The police also found a crematory and a lime pit in which the terrorists burnt, after shooting, the corpses of 22 kidnapped Serbian civilians. Adjacent to the prison, a grave was found in which the Albanian terrorists buried big human bones which were not completely burnt, after the incineration of the shot. The crimes against the kidnapped Serbian civilians are also confirmed by the testimonies given to the investigators by the arrested terrorists from Orahovac, the brothers Ljuan and Bekim Mazreku, who stated that during only one shooting 10 persons were killed, including two children - seven and eleven years of age, and three women between 28 and 38 years of age. In the Klecka camp, girls between 12 and 15 years of age were raped; boys and other kidnapped persons of Serbian nationality had their ears cut, they eyes taken out, their arms cut up to the articulations. Then the Albanian terrorists put them in a line and shot them.

Burnt remnants of human bodies in the village Klecka

Out of many similar statements of the terrorists there is a prominent one, given to the investigators by one of the leaders of those crimes from the village Opterusa, Safet Kabasi (36) who joined the so-called "OVK" by the beginning of July, 1998, after returning from Austria, where he was as temporary labor. During a terrorist attack against Opterusa and Retimlje, villages in the vicinity of Orahovac, Kabasi raped, at the order of his "commanders", two Serbian girls, in front of the imprisoned Serbs from Retimlje, and then shot Rajko Nikolic, one of the imprisoned who expressed loudly his discontent. The other terrorists ordered the seventeen-year old son of Rajko, Cvetko, to bring gasoline - then they poured it on Rajko who was only wounded, and burnt him alive. Kabasi also stated that 47 soldiers of the "OVK" raped two Serbian girls.

On August, 9th, 1998, in the vicinity of the village Glodjane, Commune of Decani, where the headquarters of the terrorist organization "OVK" was situated, i. e. in the channels and around the Radonjicko Lake, a new place of execution was discovered, with 34 unidentified corpses of male and female persons. Besides, on October, 3, 1998, in the village Volujak, near Klina, in an abandoned mine pit, five unidentified corpses in the state of advanced putrefaction were found. Their identification is now in course.

The Albanian terrorists attacked every day and shelled the refugees’ settlement Babaloc, near Decani, and activated two hand grenades in the yard of the Historical Archives in Podujevo, on February, 19th of the current year. The refugees Tomic Slavoljub and Biocanin Bogoljub were accommodated in that building. Also, they committed a number of murders and of kidnappings of the refugees, who are under the protection of the UNO. So, for instance, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped, and then killed the refugee Bisevac Svetomir, residing in the village Ostradje, Commune of Leposavic, on July, 4th of the current year, on the road to Prizren. His corpse was found on July, 7th, on the road Orahovac - Malisevo. The fate of the refugee Latas Djura (1949), also from the Republic of Croatia, residing in the village Lesak, Commune of Kosovska Mitrovica, who was kidnapped together with Bisevac Svetomir, is still unknown.

The Albanian terrorist bands committed armed attacks against the buildings accommodating school pupils and children. Numerous armed attacks and shellings of school buildings and pupils’ dormitories have been recorded (the building of the Primary school in Stimlje on January, 12th, 1988, the high School Center in Srbica on April 19th and 27th of the current year, the Home of High School Students in Prizren on May, 22nd of the current year, the Primary School "Kosta Vujinovic" in Podujevo on September, 25th of the current year, etc.).

The Albanian terrorists attacked frequently the employees in the public services, enterprises, and important businessmen - owners of private enterprises.

During the time period between January, 1st and October, 31st, 1998, the Albanian separatists committed, in the territory of the AP Kosovo and Metohija, 86 terrorist attacks against 182 persons employed in public services and enterprises. Most of the attacks were committed against the employees of "EPS" (40) and of PE "Srbija Sume" (34), then against the employees of the PTT (2), etc. In those attacks, the Albanian terrorists killed 9 persons, including three forest rangers, two workers in the PTT, one worker in "EPS", etc.

So, on January, 12th, 1998, in the village Gradica, Commune of Glogovac, the Albanian terrorists waited for, at the village road, and killed with automatic rifles Sejdi Mujo, forest ranger in Glogovac, father of eleven; on February 13th, at the bus station in the village Gornje Obrine, Commune of Glogovac, they killed Mustafa Kurtaj (1971), employee of the PTT Serbia - Dep. Glogovac; on May, 7th, in the immediate vicinity of the monastery Visoki Decani, during the attack against the service vehicle of the "EPS", with the workers of "Elektrodistribucija", Pec, Vebi Mustafa was killed,while the other attacked workers of the EPS, Vlahovic Bosko (1963), Mijovic Miso (1948), Muminovic Ernan (1972) and Djurisic Dragan, worker in the PE ‘Srbija Sume", were heavily injured, in life danger; on May, 14th, and June, 22nd, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped on the open pit of the coal mine "Belacevac", Commune of Obilic, and by the village Grabovac, Commune of Kosovo Polje, a total of 9 workers of the EPS, whose fate is still unknown. Also, on September, 2nd of the current year, in the villages Belasica and Murgula, Commune of Podujevo, in the morning hours, armed Albanian terrorists kidnapped 18 workers of the PE "Srbija Sume", together with their machines, and then freed them on the same day, around 7.30 p.m.

Numerous terrorists attacks were also committed against important enterprises, and especially against the PE "Trepca", the PKB "Orvin", etc.

The Albanian terrorists committed seven attacks against medical personnel (against medical stations in Decani, Kosovska Mitrovica, Srbica and Orahovac, against the medical team of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Serbia in the village Smonica, Commune of Djakovica, against the vehicle of the Health Center Klina and against the private Specialists’ Medical Office "Internist", owned by Semsedin Sadiku, from the village Gornja Budriga, Commune of Gornja Vitina). There is a characteristic case of an attack of the Albanian terrorists when they kidnapped, together with the medical personnel, and took to an unknown place numerous patients, including pregnant women and children The Albanian terrorists attacked an ambulance vehicle of the Health Center in Klina (August, 25th, 1998), on the road between the villages Grabanica and Zajmovo, Commune of Klina, which transported a patient, Rahima Morina, to dialysis in the Pec hospital. The vehicle was hit by a number of shots, the physician of the health center in Klina, Pren Rapi, the driver Mark Dedaj and the person who accompanied the patient, Imer Morina, were injured.

The Albanian terrorists attacked also successful businessmen - Albanians, loyal citizens of Serbia and of Yugoslavia who refused to participate in the terror against Serbian and Montenegrin population. In order to terrorize, the Albanian terrorists liquidated a number of those citizens, they mistreated physically others, used against them various kinds of violence and torture. So, on April, 3rd, they kidnapped six persons, members of the Albanian national minority, successful businessmen in the region of the Commune of Klina. They killed them and threw their corpses on April, 6th, beside the road Orahovac - Malisevo, at a place called "Carevac". These were Berisa Sali, owner of a fuel pump in the village Kijevo, Commune of Klina, his brother Avduljaj Bajram, truck owner and his sons Ramadan and Fadilj, and Salijaj Ibrahim, from Klina.

The terrorist bands of the Albanian separatists attacked also religious buildings and cultural monuments. The Orthodox nuns’ monastery in Devic , Commune of Srbica was attacked, and the monastery of Saint Cosma and Damian in the village Zociste, was shelled by the Albanian terrorists. Besides, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped in this monastery seven monks and one nun, and 27 old men of Serbian and Montenegrin nationality, from that village, who looked there for shelter from the attacks of the Albanian terrorists. During a terrorist attack against Opterusa, a village in the vicinity of Orahovac, the Albanian terrorist bands plundered the Orthodox church in that village.

Destroyed Serbian grave

During the time period between January, 1st and October 31st, 1998, the terrorists committed, in the region of the AP of Kosovo and Metohija, 13 attacks against journalists and interpreters. In those attacks, they kidnapped five persons - three journalists and one driver of the RTS - Radio Prishtina, of Serbian nationality, and one Albanian (interpreter), whose fate is unknown.

Yugoslav and foreign journalists have also been the objects of the attacks of the Albanian terrorist bands: a journalist of the Prishtina "Jedinstvo", Prentic Dragutin (on May, 6th), the correspondents of the AFP and of Associated Press from Belgrade, Milosin Ljubomir and Gec Jovan (on May 11th), the journalists of the German papers "Die Welt", "Berliner Norgen Post" and "Die Zeit", Boris Gregor Kalnoku, Suzan Simon, Otmar Joachim Jenner and Wolfgang BellWinkel (on May 24th), a journalist of the Izvestia newspaper from Moscow, Mitin Sergei (on July 17th), the journalists of the Russian State Television Oleg Sofician, Galanov Alexander and Mamaev Viktor, and the interpreter Hoti Saban (on July 21st), a journalist of France Press and the interpreter Nore Ljamoje (on August 12th), the correspondent of the Japanese agency Kiodo and the cameraman of Reuters’ (August), the journalists of the TV team WTN (May), the correspondent of the Croatian Jutarnji List, Srdjan Spanovic and his Czech colleague (by mid-May), who were physically mistreated, and to whom they took their money, their vehicles and their equipment.

The Albanian terrorist bands kidnapped, on August 21st, on the road to Zociste, Commune of Orahovac, a journalist of the RTS - Radio Prishtina, Slavuj Djura (1958) and his driver Perenic Ranko (1958) from Prishtina, and kidnapped, on October 18th of the current year, the journalists of TANJUG Dobricic Vladimir and Radosevic Nebojsa. On August 24th, on the road along the Yugoslav-Albanian border, a terrorist attack was committed against the team of the TV Novi Sad, the journalist Petko Koprivica, the cameraman Radoslav Jaksic, a journalist of the Prishtina Jedinstvo Dragutin Prentic and the driver Zoran Luzajic. In the terrorist attack, two policemen were injured, while the journalists were not injured.

In four cases, the Albanian terrorists committed attacks against the vehicles and the personnel of humanitarian organizations: a convoy of 7 vehicles of the humanitarian organization ECHO, in the village Makrmalj, Commune of Srbica (on March 26th); against two vehicles of the Red Cross with humanitarian aid, in the village Prilep, Commune of Decani (July 1st), and against Marlene Graven from the Netherlands, member of the humanitarian organization "Medecins sans frontieres", in the village Lodja, Commune of Pec (on July 23rd). On September 30th, on the road Gornje Obrinje - Likovac, a vehicle of the ICRC, driven by Brysson Margareth from New Zealand hit a mine put by the Albanian terrorists. In the explosion, Spetim Robaj (1957) from Prishtina, a physician working for the ICRC, was killed. Margareth Brysson, Tolaj Ilir (1961) from Djakovica and Linda Bunjaku (1963), from Prishtina, members of the ICRC team, were injured.

During the time period between January 1st and October 31st, 1998, four terrorist attacks against diplomatic representatives of foreign countries, in the territory of the AP Kosovo and Metohija, have been recorded: on April 27th, attack against the attaché of the Japanese Embassy in Belgrade, Mme Takako Ugaje, whose diplomatic vehicle was hit by two shells from automatic armament, while driving along the road Srbica - Klina, near the village Lausa, on September 3rd, against the members of the diplomatic observers’ missions from the United States and Russia, near the village Pagarusa, on the road between Malisevo and Orahovac, and on September 14th, against the members of the diplomatic observers’ mission from Canada; one member of the mission was injured. On August 26th of the current year, unidentified persons threw a "Molotov Cocktail" at the building of the US Information Center in Prishtina, which provoked a small fire. There were no injured.

Attack against the diplomatic vehicle of the Japanese Embassy

During the time period between January 1st and October 31st, 1998, in the region of the AP Kosovo and Metohija, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped 260 persons - 168 Serbs and Montenegrins, 79 Albanians, loyal citizens of Serbia and Yugoslavia, 10 Roms, one citizen of the FYR of Macedonia, one person of Moslem, and one of Bulgarian nationalities. Among the kidnapped, there were 50 women and 14 minors, including six children.

Out of the total number of the kidnapped persons, 30 were killed, 95 were released, nine escaped from the imprisonment of Albanian terrorists, while the fate of 126 citizens (92 Serbs and Montenegrins, 27 Albanians, 5 Roms, one Moslem and one Bulgarian), is still unknown. However, the corpses of the kidnapped Serbian civilians in the mass graves in the village Klecka, Commune of Liplja, in Glodjani and in Volujak, whose identification is now in course, should be added to the number of killed.

The citizens kidnapped by the Albanian terrorists were subject to torture.. This is seen on the massacred corpses of the kidnapped persons and confirmed by the testimonies of the people who escaped, or were released by the Albanian terrorists.

Among the kidnapped persons whose fate is still unknown, there are 12 members of the family Kostic from the village Ratimlje, Commune of Orahovac, and six members of the family Smigic, from the village Leocin, Commune of Srbica: Dostana (1957), Milisav (1918), Radomir (1944), Aleksandra (1923), Sultana (1922) and Dragan (1960).

Thanks to the intermediary of the International Committee of the Red Cross, refugees from Croatia, Bakrac Gojko (1950) and his son Ivan (1979), kidnapped by the Albanian terrorists on June 29th in a bus in Crnoljevo, Commune of Stimlje, and a group of 35 persons of Serbian nationality from the village Zociste, including seven monks and one nun from the monastery of Saint Cosma and Damian in Zociste, were released. (on July 22nd of the current year).

There are numerous examples of forced mobilization of the peasants and citizens, members of the Albanian national minority, who were forcibly mobilized by the Albanian terrorists, forcibly armed and compelled to dig trenches and participate in terrorist actions. The Albanian terrorists were merciless against those who resisted in any way, they killed them, burnt their houses, raped their wives, their daughters and mothers, and mistreated and terrorized families in other ways. By a group of nine members of a group of terrorists, who were condemned by the District Court in Prishtina, on August, 24th, to a total of 32 years and six month imprisonment, there were found lists for the liquidation of Albanians and of members of other nationalities who did not support the terrorist policy and the terrorism of the Albanian extremists.

Return of forcibly distributed armament

The terrorists limited the freedom of movement of the forcibly mobilized persons. They took away from them their identity cards, passports, medical care cards and all other documents which they could have used for identification. and for free movement. A great number of such documents was found in Malisevo, Junik, Glodjani, and in other villages, after the actions of the police. During the seizure of Junik, archives were found in the village Tofaj, in which it is said, i. a. that among 270 recently recruited terrorists from the villages Huljaj, Slup, Djocaj, Voksa, Drenovac, Rastavci, Kodralija, Pozara and Ljubusa, there were children of 15 years of age. The character of the forced mobilization is also shown by the great quantities of armament thrown away by the citizens of many villages in flight, and by the armament distributed by the Albanian terrorists to the peasants, which they returned collectively.

Seized weapons after the flight of the terrorists

The Albanian separatists quite often destroyed transformer stations and water supply facilities, damaged PTT facilities and lines in order to leave the population without water and electricity, thus increasing their fear and sense of insecurity. Such were the cases in Pec, Decani, Djjakovica, Orahovac and Istok, whose citizens were during many days deprived of electricity. The Albanian terrorists also tried to take or destroy the vital facilities in the great economic systems and enterprises (the open pit mine "Belacevac", the Trepca Mines in Stari Trg, "Orvin" in Orahovac, etc.), in order to put them out of operation for a long time. Besides, they took trench-diggers and other construction machines in some enterprises, for the construction of fortifications. Until now, the assessed material damage amounts to many millions of US dollars.

The Albanian terrorists abused, in the course of the last ten months, many times, the Moslem religious buildings, using them as machine-gun nests, from which they fired at vehicles, citizens, police and military convoys. So, for instance, the Albanian terrorists fired from the mosque in the village Hamidije, Commune Obilic, with automatic weapons and killed the police Lukic Zivorad (1965) and Karavelic Branko (1967), and heavily injured the policeman Bogicevic Dalibor (1973). Sniper fire was opened from the mosque in the center of Junik, a number of policemen who guarded the communication line Pec - Decani - Djakovica,were killed or wounded.

The Albanian terrorists use, for the purchase of armament and of diversion-terrorist equipment, important funds earned in the illegal sales of narcotics in a number of Western European countries and in the USA. The Albanian Narco-Mafia has an extremely powerful smuggling network in the world, mainly consisting of Albanians from Kosovo and Metohija. This is shown by the data of INTERPOL: INTERPOL arrested, during the first 8 months, 1998, 84 Yugoslav citizens because of smuggling and sales of narcotics; almost all of them were Albanians (81 persons). 120 kg and 658 grams of heroin, 8 kg and 834 grams of cocaine, 3.100 kg of hashish and 2kg of Marijuana were seized from them.

The foundation "Domovina zove" with numerous branch offices in European countries, was established in Switzerland, and the "Dardania Bank" in Tirana, for the purchase of armament for the needs of the terrorists. These organizations receive the illegal taxes, imposed to Albanians abroad, in the amount of 3% of the earnings of all persons, and voluntary contributions, in the amount of at least 1.000 DEM or 1.000 Swiss Franks per annum.

Beside the purchase of armament, a part of the profit from narcotics is used by Albanians for the purchase of estates from Serbian and non-Albanian population, under various kinds of pressures, in their endeavors to create an ethnically clean area.

The accounts of the fund "Domovina zove", published on Internet

In the region of Kosmet, the majority of Albanians doing business do not respect the regulations regarding the bookkeeping and the taxes, already for a long time. At the same time, they pay taxes, via the "Democratic Alliance of Kosovo" to the illegal institutions of the self-proclaimed "Republic Kosovo": this is proven by numerous receipts for the taxes paid, and lists of enterprises and persons, found by the criminal police. The so-called "OVK" receives important funds coming from foreign countries, as well. The police found many times important amounts of foreign currency by members of the Albanian national minority coming from abroad.

Important quantities of armament possessed by the Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija come from Albania, either via state channels, or from plundered state warehouses during the riots in that country in 1997, which are now sold at the black market. Also, an important part of the armament is bought by the terrorists, using the above mentioned sources of finance, at the world black market of armament.

Among the armament seized, there were also some mines used massively by Albanian terrorists

During 1998, illegal introduction of huge quantities of armament from Albania into Yugoslavia was organized - introduction of automatic and semi-automatic rifles of western manufacture, machine guns, sniper rifles, submachine guns, bazookas, mortars (mainly 62mm caliber), recoilless cannons, guns, hand grenades, offensive and defensive, anti-tank and anti-infantry mines, explosives, equipment for night observation and aiming, communication facilities (radio equipment, mobile telephones, etc.)

  Bazookas of western origin

Among the weapons and ammunition seized from the terrorists, especially along the state border to the Republic of Albania, there have been found sniper Swiss-made rifles "Sig-Sauer", caliber 7.62mm with exploding ammunition, which is, otherwise, banned by international conventions, German sniper rifles "SSG 99", American automatic rifles M-16, fast firing cannons "Broving", caliber 12.7mm, mortars caliber 64mm, and anti-armor German-made rockets "Ambrust", British made minesearchers, American big caliber sniper rifles, etc.

It was ascertained that the Albanian terrorists used medical material originating in the NATO warehouses. Besides, there have been found, in the improvised hospitals used by the terrorists, certain quantities of drugs coming from various international humanitarian organizations. So, for instance, in the village Krusevac, Commune Pec, beside important quantities of drugs and medical material, an X-ray apparatus, a surgery table, and complete surgical equipment, worth around 500.000 DEM, have been found.

One of the ways of weapon smuggling for the Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija

Terrorism in Kosovo and Metohija serves the purpose of creating an ethnically clean "Greater Albania". The Republic of Albania admitted, after quite a long time, that logistic support has been provided to the Albanian terrorists in Kosovo and Metohija from its territory. In the camps and bases in Northern Albania (Bajram Curi, Tropoja, Krum, Kuks and Peskopeja), terrorists are recruited, organized, armed and trained. One of the main headquarters of the terrorists is situated in Bajram Curi, in Albania, and it consists of the former officers of the YPA, of Albanian officers, of officers of the Croatian and Slovenian armies, of the officers of the army of the Moslem-Croatian Federation and of foreign mercenaries.

There are, in Albania, many members of Islamic and other international terrorist organizations, one part being included in the Albanian terrorist units in Kosovo and Metohija. Albania became a nest of terrorism, and it represents a real danger for Europe.

The mixed unit of Mujahedins, "Abu Bekir Sadik" was active in the region of Drenica, and a small group in the region of Smonica; a part of that group was arrested, and the others escaped to Albania.

The terrorist organization, the so-called OVK in Kosovo and Metohija established contacts with radical Islamic countries, where it gets financial aid for the purchase of armament and of military equipment. Centers for the purchase and organization of transport of armament for the needs of the terrorists were also organized in the territory of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Modern armament was purchased in those centers (anti-tank rockets "Maljutka", "Fagot", "Needle", anti-aircraft guns, bazookas "Zolja" and "Osa", tromblons, mines, etc.) Most of this armament is sent by sea to the Republic of Albania, for smuggling into Kosovo and Metohija.

An armed Albanian in Tropoja, Albania

The Albanian separatists in Kosovo and Metohija frequently resorted to the abuse of children for political purposes, thus violating the provisions of the Treaty on the Rights of Children, adopted by the UN General Assembly on November, 11, 1989. By the beginning of June of the current year, the Albanian separatists organized the so-called "children demonstrations" in Pristina, in which children carried slogans and shouted slogans, inviting hatred and terrorism. That happened in the ‘eighties and ‘nineties as well, when the Albanian separatists pushed, during the demonstrations, children as "living shields" in front of them, or when they abused children in the farce of the so-called "uninational poisoning". The greatest responsibility falls on the Albanian separatist for depriving, due to political reasons, children of the Albanian national minority in Kosovo and Metohija of the right to education which is contrary to the mentioned Treaty on the Rights of Children. It is a characteristic fact that they abused several times, during the first ten months of 1998, children for smuggling armament over the state border with the Republic of Albania and for the observation of the border area, in order to collect security interesting data.

After an agreement was reached on October 13th, 1998, between the President of the FR of Yugoslavia, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic, and the Special American Envoy, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, the remnants of the defeated bands continued terrorist actions and attacks, especially against police buildings and police.

During the time period between October 13th and October 31st, 1998, the Albanian terrorists committed a total of 137 terrorist actions, which is above the average of the terrorist attacks in the previous period of the current year.

112 terrorist attacks, or 81.7% out of the total number of the attacks in this period were committed against the police buildings and the police (Glogovac, 29; Suva Reka, 11; Djakovica and Orahovac 9, each Srbica, 8; Stimlje and Lipljan, 7 each; Prishtina, 5; Pec, Urosevac and Klina 4 each; Kosovska Mitrovica, Obilic, Decani and {Prizren, 3 each; Kosovo Polje, Podujevo and Strpce 1 each); four police were killed, 8 heavily injured, 7 injured. In most of the cases, the attacks were committed against temporary police stations and against the police who were on security points, or engaged in the security of transport lines, control of the traffic and during the performance of other routine tasks. It is important to stress that in this period the number of attacks against the police buildings and against the police increased by three attacks a day more than during the past nine months of the current year.

On October 17th, 1998, during a terrorist attack against the police in the village Orlate, Commune of Glogovac, by automatic armament, bazookas, and by activating hand grenades, three police were killed and two heavily injured.

There were 25 terrorist attacks against the citizens and against other buildings, or 18.3% of the total number of terrorist attacks during the observed period: one person was killed (Albanian). three persons heavily injured, three persons injured. A corpse of a person of Moslem nationality, killed by the Albanian terrorists already in July, and one unidentified corpse, were found near the village Rastavica, Commune Decani.

On October 13th, 1998, in the village Grabovac, Commune of Kosovo Polje, there took place a terrorist attack against the workers assuring the safety of the open pit mine "Belacevac", who were in a service vehicle, taking them to their jobs. Two members of the safety crew, of Serbian nationality, were injured. There was another attack against the safety personnel, on October 16th, 1998, when one worker, of Serbian nationality again, was heavily injured.

During that period, the Albanian terrorists kidnapped four persons of Serbian nationality, whose fate is still unknown (Dobricic Vladimir and Radosevic Nebojsa, TANJUG journalists, Radosavljevic Ranko, farmer from a village near Leposavis, and Milanovic Milena from the village Socanica, Commune Leposavic). Besides, after the arrest of two members of the terrorist organization "OVK", it was discovered that Radunovic Zdravko (1955) from Pec, was kidnapped in the village Dujak, Commune Pec. He was taken, tied, to the village Glodjane, Commune Djakovica, and his further fate is unknown.

Beside the terrorist attacks against the police and the citizens, four terrorist attacks against the members of the Yugoslav Army took place during that time period, from the territory of the Republic of Albania. The attacks took place on October 21/22, 24, 25 and 27 1998, when groups of terrorists (between 8 and 50), opened fire, from the territory of Albania, with infantry armament, on the members of the Yugoslav Army, in the sector of the watchtowers "D. Radanovic" and "Mitar Vojinovic", and near the place "Vrapce", Commune Prizren. There were no injured Yugoslav soldiers in those attacks.

The Albanian terrorists committed three attacks against the positions of the members of the Yugoslav Army (in Oct, 20, 1998 in Suva Reka, on Oct. 21 in Podujevo, and on Oct. 22 in Glogovac). In the attack of Oct 22, 1998 in the village Careva Cesma, Commune Glogovac, one soldier was killed and one heavily injured. Besides, during the night between Oct. 22/23, in the sector "Crni Kamen", Commune Djakovica, a terrorist attack took place against the Yugoslav Army, by Albanian terrorists who penetrated into our territory from the territory of the Republic of Albania. There were no injured soldiers in that attack.

The stabilization of the security situation in the region of Kosovo and Metohija, after the expelling of the terrorist from the majority of the villages in which they terrorized their compatriots, too, who refused to join them, created the conditions for the return of the Albanian population who escaped to their homes. Most of those persons responded to the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Serbia and returned to their homes.