English: Wekly Report #320

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>REPORT No 320
>
>ON THE WIDESPREAD REPRESSION AND HARASSMENT PERPETRATED BY THE
>SERBIAN POLICE AND OTHER AUTHORITIES IN KOSOVA FROM SEPTEMBER 22
>UNTIL SEPTEMBER 29, 1996
>
>In our last report, we informed that Besim and Osman Rama were
>taken for weapons by the police of Skenderaj. In the meantime, we
were informed that the mentioned above Besim Sokol Rama (1956)
>from Prekazi i Ep=EBrm village and Avni Smajl Nura from Prelloc
>village of Skenderaj, on September 17, while going by tractor
>to Galica village, were taken by "some unknown civil persons and
>nothing is known about them since". The very same day, Besim's
>brother, Osman Sokol Rama, was attacked by seven persons, while he
>was working in his garden, nearby the Mitrovica-Peja highway.
>The attackers after covering his face with a black mask, put him in a
>black BMW and drove away with him, accompanied by another
>car. Osman was kept for six days in an unknown place, and after
>being released, he stated that, being in the hands of the
>kidnappers, he was tortured and had to seek for medical
care. He also stated that in the place where he was held,
>he had also heard the voices of his brother Besim and his friend
>Avni. In the meantime, the Sub-Council of Skenderaj informs that
>the same Osman Sokol Rama (1944), farmer from Prekazi i Ep=EBrm
>village, after being released by the "kidnappers", on September 27,
>was arrested by three policemen from Skenderaj, one of which called
>Marko, who after putting him in their "Niva" car, drove away in the
>direction of Mitrovica.
>It has to be remembered that in the same way there were also kidnapped
>by "unknown persons" some years ago Dr. Bujar Bukoshi, actual
>chairman of the Government of the Republic of Kosova in exile, Dr.
>Abdyl Krasniqi, member of the Council for the Defence of Human
>Rights and Freedoms in Prishtina, and Prof. Abdyl Kadolli, activist
>of the Forum of Albanian Intellectuals.
>
>September 22nd,
>
>MITROVICA: Vesel B. Strana (50), former miner of the "Trep=E7a" combine,
>from Mazhiqi village, participant in two miners' strikes, was
>physically ill-treated and arrested without any reason by the
>policeman Velovic. After the two strikes, Vesel had escaped to Germany
>and for the first time after 6 (six) years, respectively on
>September 21, he came back home. After being released from the
>police station, Vesel immediately left for Germany.
>VUSHTRRI: Nearby Dob=EBrlluka village, the police stopped the private
>bus "Saranda-Turist" coming back from Tuz, and plundered the
>goods of some Albanian merchants. One of the plundered ones, Idriz
>R. Hasani, stated that he was plundered 580 DM.
>
>September 23rd,
>
>GLLOGOC: On September 16, at the moment when a group of Albanian
young men, sent back by the German government, arrived at
Prishtina airport, the airport police immediately took
>for "informative talks" Xhafer Bardiqi (1967) from Gradica village,
>who was also sent back with this group, after he had stayed for three ye=
ars=20
>in Germany. Xhafer was summoned to the local police station of
>Gllogoc, where he was interrogated about his stay in Germany
>and about the political activities of the Albanians in Germany. He
>was also insulted on moral and national basis, was physically
>ill-treated and had to seek for medical care. He was released
>in order to report again to the police station on September 26.
>MITROVICA: On September 18, four policemen went into the house of
>Behram H. Igrishta (72) and searched for his son Rama (40), who is
>now for four years in Switzerland. As Rama was not there, the
>policemen arrested his brother Izber (43) and brought him to the local
>police station of Starit=EBrg, where he was asked to bring by a weapon
>which allegedly was given to him by his brother Rama, and then he
>was physically ill-treated. He was released in order to report
>again the next day, when he was interrogated again and ordered to
>report again today. Izber followed the order and did so. The policemen a=
gain
asked for a weapon allegedly given to him by his brother,
>physically ill-treated him and ordered him to report again on
>September 30.
>PEJA: Ramiz Zeka, economist and chairman of the financial council,
>was for two days in a row taken for "informative talks" at the
>security center of Peja, where he was interrogated about the work
>of the council. The eight-member family of Isuf Seferaj (60), a
>sick man, was expelled today from its flat at "Sheshi i
>Republik=EBs" no 47-IV/7, which in 1975 was given to Isuf, as a
>social case, by the district assembly. Isuf also possesses the
>contract for the flat.
>PRISHTINA: Two policemen stopped in the street nearby "Slovenia-
>les" brothers Avni and Astrit Sadiku, students from Dumnica e
>Poshtme village (Podujeva). Avni and Astrit, after a check of their iden=
tity,
were ordered to buy the policemen some lunch. When
>they refused to do so, as they did not have any money for it,
the policemen took them to the basement of one of the
>buildings and physically ill-treated them.
>As the Serbian medias informed, since yesterday, the Serbian
employees of the "Amortizeri" plant of Prishtina started a
>general strike and stated that they will not stop it,
>until their requests are fulfilled.
>PODUJEVA: Some policemen went into the house of Rexhep Jakupi on the
>pretext of a search for weapons and searched for his son Berat, former
>LDK activist, who is now on medical care in Germany.
>MALISHEVA: On September 20, the local police of Kijeva physically
>ill-treated Ibrahim Hoti (45) in Carraluka village (Malisheva) in
>front of his family members. Ibrahim suffered body injuries. In the
>meantime, without any reason his brother Rrahman Hoti (1962),
employee at the "Abdyl Frash=EBri" grammar-school of Malisheva, was arres=
ted
>and physically ill-treated. After being released, both of them
>seeked for medical care. A policeman from Klina, serving in
>the police station of Kijeva, went into the houses of Bajram and
>Hamz=EB Gashi in Kijeva, on the request of a Serbian villager from
>Mle=E7an village, who had complained that an Albanian juvenile from
>Gashi quarter had insulted him, while passing with his tractor in the
>village. After the policeman raided the house and the private store
>of Bajram Gashi, he wanted to know something more about the
>"incriminated case", and afterwards he arrested and physically ill-
>treated Bajram on the motivation that he did not give enough data
>to an "official person".
>FERIZAJ: Two civil policemen stopped in the street Ilaz Bylykbashi,
>photoreporter of "Rilindja", while he was taking a photo of the
>"Tefik =C7anga" primary school, in the garden of which a private
>house was built. The policemen took him to the police
>station, where he was kept for half an hour, interrogated, and
>his camera was seized. The policemen gave him a certificate for the
>seized camera.
>Kemajl J. Jakupi (1971) from Ferizaj, received a summons from the
>Serbian military authorities to report to them on
>October 1 and 4. Since November 1991, Kemajl is in Austria, as
>after the war in Croatia, he had deserted from the former Yugoslav
>army. Hajredin and Nexhat Sylejmani from Lloshkobarja village, also
>received this kind of summons from the Serbian military
>authorities, but they refused to accept them.
>
>September 24,
>
>FERIZAJ: In Ferizaj, Zaskok village, Pleshina e Poshtme village, and
>also in some other villages, the military authorities left summonses
>to the Albanian deserters from the former Yugoslav army, by which
they are required to report to these authorities and to
>bring with them all their documentation as evidence for their
>military service. Thus, this kind of summons was also sent to Afrim
>Re=E7ica (1966) from Ferizaj, who in 1990-1991, was in the military
>service in Strumica and after the war in Bosnia and Croatia, he had
>deserted from the army and found shelter in Germany. The
juveniles of the 1972 age-class, received summonses to report on October
>1 and 4 to the authorities of defense of the compulsory Serbian
>administration of Ferizaj.
>GJILAN: Yesterday, three Serbian policemen searched for weapons in the
>house of Sadri Behluli (1950), farmer in Malisheva (Gjilan),
>physically ill-treated him in the garden of his house and ordered
>him to report to the security center, where they physically ill-
>treated him again.
>MITROVICA: In Melenica village, four policemen searched for weapons in
>the house of Milazim N. Hyseni (54) and arrested him for a rifle of
>his brother Feriz, who is in Germany. Milazim was physically ill-
>treated at the local police station of Starit=EBrg village by the
>policeman Mihajlo Velovic, who released him after two hours in
>order to report again the next day.
>GJAKOVA: Two inspectors of the security center nearby the petrol
>station arrested Dr. Selajdin Boshnjaku, orthopedist. Dr. Selajdin was
>taken for "informative talks", as he had participated in the orthopedic
>World congress SICOT in Amsterdam. According to them, Dr.
>Boshnjaku had to report to them before leaving for
>Amsterdam. He was interrogated about the health activities in the
"Isa Grezda" hospital of Gjakova and also about the activities of the
>local LDK branch of Gjakova. He was released in order to report
>again to the security center on September 30.
>ISTOG: Dem=EB Loxhaj, chairman of the independent trade union of
>forests and of the wood and paper industry, was summoned to the police
station for
>"informative talks" about his trade unionist
>activities in Albania and Germany. He was released and then ordered
>to report again on October 1.
>The compulsory Serbian court of Istog refused the indictment of 103
>teachers of the "Haxhi Zeka" grammar-school about the compensation of
>their personal wages for three months in 1990, on the pretext that
>"they had refused to work according to the Serbian educational
>plan-programes".
>
>September 25th,
>
>VITI: Bajram Jahiri (1946), teacher and vice-chairman of the
>communal financial council, was summoned for "informative talks"
>and was interrogated about his political activities as a vice-
>chairman of the council.=20
>SUHAREKA: On September 23,24 and 25, was summoned for "informative
>talks" about weapons Jetullah Qarri (38), but he was interrogated and
>physically ill-treated only on September 25, by a policeman
>called Milos. He was released in order to report again the next
>day.=20
>PRISHTINA: Ejup Makolli (1969), merchant, and his travel-mate Muj=EB
>Gashi (1968), also merchant, were attacked by a civil person and
>two traffic policemen, in the center of the town, while driving by
>Ejup's car towards the bus-station. They took Muj=EB into their car and
>made Ejup follow them by his car, and they were taken to the local
>police station of "Dardani", where they were physically ill-treated
>for one and a half hour without any reason by eight policemen. Ejup
>and Muj=EB brought by some photos which clearly show the body injuries
>they suffered.
>In one of the meetings of the Serbian trade union of Prishtina
>Zhivota Koprivica, the representative of the trade union organization
>of the Serbian newspaper "Panorama" (which usurped the premises of
>"Rilindja" newspaper), stated that the employees of the so-called
>publishing and graphic house "Panorama", respectively of the
>newspaper "Jedinstvo", which is published by this enterprise, did
>not receive their wages, even though they are very symbolic, since
>June 1996.
>VUSHTRRI: Vucina Janicijevic, head of the local police station of
>Vushtrri, together with some other policemen, went into the house of
>Nazmi Hyseni in Vushtrri and ordered the members of his family to
>tell Nazmi to report the next day to the police station for
>"informative talks".
>BUJANOC: The regional court of Bujanoc left 17 summonses for the
witnesses in the III-rd judicial session, which will be held on
>October 1, against the writer Sevdail Hyseni, editor in chief of
>the Albanian magazine "Jehona", because of his book of poetries
>"Kur t=EB qesh fati". In the last judicial session, Hyseni asked to be
>defended in Albanian.
>FERIZAJ: Vehbi Salihu (55) and Jakup Sadiku (55) from Balaj
>village, were taken for weapons to the police station today and
>the day before. Today, also in Balaj village, some policemen
>under unknown pretext raided the house of brothers Bislim,
>Hajdin and Shefqet Ramusa.
>
>September 26th,
>
>MITROVICA: Nearby the bus station of Mitrovica, two civilians
>stopped in the street Idriz S. Malaj (23), living at "Tavnik"
>quarter, and without any reason physically ill-treated him.
>VUSHTRRI: For three days, a police squad searched for weapons in the
>house of Kajtaz Veseli in Sfaraqak village. The first day, the
>policemen raided his house and arrested Kajtaz. At the local police
>station of Starit=EBrg, he was interrogated and insulted on a national
>basis, while the other two days, the policemen only raided his
>house.
>
>September 27th,
>
>VUSHTRRI: In the evening at about 8.00 o'clock, in the garden of the
>former police school, now a military barrack, some
>shots were heard. It is supposed that is was a bomb explosion. In connec=
tion
>with this case, three security employees and four policemen raided
>the houses of Hamdi Xhema, Rrahim Maxhera and Shaban Sadiku, as
>they are all close to this building. The juvenile Sami Maxhera was
>ordered to report the next day to the police station for
>"informative talks".
>GLLOGOC: In the late evening, nearby "Kosovatrans" in Gllogoc, in
>the place where the Serbian colonists are settled,
>some shots were heard. After this act, the police searched many
>Albanian civilians in their houses.
>FERIZAJ: Fadil S. Rama (1971) from Manastruc village, received a
>summons by some policemen to report to the police station on October
>1, concerning his military service.
>SKENDERAJ: The commander Ilija of the local police station of
>Skenderaj, together with the policeman Marko and two other
>policemen, under unknown circumstances arrested Osman S. Rama
>(1944), farmer from Prekazi i Ep=EBrm village. According to the
>testimonies of some of the villagers, the policemen after
>arresting Osman, drove away with their "Niva" in direction
>of Mitrovica. Since then, nothing is known about him.=20
>MITROVICA: The policeman Sekula Jokanovic and another policeman
>raided the house of Ragip F. Dibrani (49) in Koshutova e Gashit
>village. During the raid, they found a rifle, and arrested Ragip and
>his wife Fevzije (45). During the raid in the house were also
>present his two little kids, who suffered traumas from fear.
>PODUJEVA: Last night, nearby the "Besiana" motel, where
large police forces are stationed, some shots were heard.
The reason is unknown yet. But after this act, the
>police raided the houses of the Visoka, Geci and Begolli families and
>took for "informative talks" to the security center Shefki, Shemsi,
>Eroll, Rabie and Fikrie Visoka, Blerim Hoxha and Hajdar Begolli.
>After being interrogated, they were released, but told that they
>will be taken again.
>
>
>
>DELAYED INFORMATION:
>
>PRISHTINA: On May 28, the regional court of Prishtina sentenced
to a term of two years' imprisonment Enver Graj=E7evci (1970) from Mazgit=
village,
>as in December 1995, the police found with him and confiscated 200
copies of the "=C7lirimi" magazine, the media of the National
>Movement for the Liberation of Kosova.
>ISTOG: On September 9, Malush Shatri from Tomoc village, was taken
>for "informative talks" and was interrogated about his visit to his
>brothers abroad, and also the policemen wanted to know whether he
>met Xhafer Shatri, minister for information of the Republic of
>Kosova. The policemen also asked for his adress. Malush was ordered
>to report again on September 16.
>SHTIMJE: On September 13, four inspectors of the security center of
>Ferizaj searched for weapons in the house of Halim Hyseni (1957) in
>Petrova village. As Halim was not at home, the policemen left a
>summons for him to report to the police station on September 16.
>KAMENICA: On September 15, some policemen arrested for weapons in
>his house Fatmir Demolli (1975) from Krileva village, put him in
>their car nearby Rahovica village and searched a weapon from him.
>When he said that he does not have any weapon, they physically ill-
>treated him and returned to his house where they interrogated his
>father Ramadan Demolli. Fatmir was ordered to report again on
>September 16. On the cross-roads called "Dheu i Bardh=EB", nearby the
>Kamenica - Bujanoc road, a police station is set up, which in
>the name of the veterinary station, is plundering 10-20 dinars from
>every car, truck and bus which passes there.
>KA=C7ANIK: On September 18, three Serbian policemen searched for weapons
>in the house of Bajram Fazliu in Duraj village.
>Bajram and his son Selim (1966) were ordered to report to the
>local security center of Ferizaj, where they were interrogated, and
>Selim was physically ill-treated.
>MITROVICA: On September 11 in Tunel i Par=EB quarter, the police
>usurped the flat of Rrahim Mehmeti, who is now in Germany. In his
>flat is living Fikreta Mehanovic. No one settled in this flat yet.
>On September 19 in "Tavnik" quarter, two policemen arrested in his
>house Naim R. Rrustemi (30), mr. of electronics, who 8 months ago
>came back from London, where he magistrated. Naim was kept for two
>hours at the police station, and he afterwards was sent to the
>military barracks of Mitrovica. At the barracks, he was ordered to
>write a statement about where he was, since he was 18. Naim did not
>serve the military service, and he had received many summonses.=20
>KLINA: On September 18, travelling to Austria where he works,
>was arrested Nezir Demir Doqi from Klina, and he was sent to the
>prison of Smrekovnica, as he was sentenced before to prison
>without condition. After five days, he was released and he came
>back home.
>VUSHTRRI: On September 20, Nazif Merovci from Samadraxha village, was ta=
ken
for weapons to the police
>station, and on the same day
>some policemen, headed by the commander of the local police station
>of Vushtrri, raided the house of Musa Gashi and confiscated 8 parcels
>of cigarettes in a value of 800 DM.
>PODUJEVA: According to some information, the investigation
>procedure against the prisoners Faik Ajeti, Salih Mustafa and Ismet
>Mahmuti, who are seving their term of imprisonment in Dubrava, was
reopened. These prisoners are continuously interrogated by the
>security employees. On September 14 and 20, the policeman Slavko
>Dimic at the local police station of Orllan, physically ill-treated
>Musa H. Sylejmani from Kushevicaq village. He brought by the photos
>which show his body injuries. On September 17, some policemen
>raided for weapons the house of Sheqir Selmani in Repa village,
>arrested Sheqir and kept him for the whole day at the police
>station. On September 19, the police searched for weapons in the house
>of Muj=EB Kosumi in Podujeva and left a summons for him to report to
>the police station the next day.
>RAHOVEC: On September 21, the policeman called Djura and two other
>policemen went into the house of Fadil Gashi (1965) in Drenoc
>village. Fadil is a journalist of the daily newspaper "Bujku" and
>the magazine "Koha". He was interrogated about his article "Dhun=EB
>policore e paramenduar" (The premeditated police violence) in
>"Bujku" newspaper and physically ill-treated him in front of his
>mother, insulting president Rugova, Spahiu and Surroi, and the
>chairman of CDHRF Mr. Adem Dema=E7i. In the end, Fadil was
>threatened not to write about this case.
>
>Prishtina, September 29, 1996 CDHRF Information Service

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