>REPORT No 319

>ON THE WIDESPREAD REPRESSION AND HARASSMENT PERPETRATED BY THE
>SERBIAN POLICE AND OTHER AUTHORITIES IN KOSOVA FROM SEPTEMBER 15
>UNTIL SEPTEMBER 22, 1996

>September 15th,

>ISTOG: An assistant employee of the "Bajram Curri" primary school in
>the village of Dubrava, ordered by the Serbian principal, changed
>the locks and closed the school premises before the
>lessons in Albanian started there, so that the pupils were left in the
school-yard.
>PRISHTINA: A group of the Serbian employees of "Amortizator=EBt"
>factory, on the order of their compulsory director, broke into the flat
>of Dr. Rifat Halili, a former commercial director, who used to live in t=
his
>flat since 1975 and now bought it within the expiry. In his flat
>was settled Branko Vujic, a driver of the actual compulsory
>director.

>September 16th,

>PEJA: The policeman Igor Milic from Peja shot with a fire-arm on his
>colleague Robert Berisha, as well from Peja, who from his wounds
>died on the way to the hospital. The reason for the incident is unknown.
>ISTOG: The principal of the "Martin Camaj" primary school in the
>village of Gjurakoc Naser Osmanaj and the teacher Sanije Ferataj
>were both summoned to the court for petty offences, accused
>that on the occasion of school-day, they had invited 400 citizens
>without informing the police authorities about the meeting.
>SUHAREKA: Fatmir J.
>Muqa and his cousin Hysen H. Muqa from the village of Mushtisht, were

>HANI I ELEZIT: The Serbian authorities are distributing summonses to
>former Albanian functionaries who deserted from the former Yugoslav
>army.
>GJILAN: The former deputy of the Assembly of Kosova Isuf Konjufca
>(1953) from the village of Ponesh, was summoned for "informative
>talks" to the police.
>PRISHTINA: At the bus-station, two policemen checked the identity of and
>controlled the students Riza and Majlinda Koci from Sk=EBnderaj, and
>Sefedin Kabashi from the village of Polac (Sk=EBnderaj). As they found
>their graduation certificates with the stamp of the Republic of
>Kosova, they put Riza and Sefedin in a room and physically ill-
>treated them, while from Majlinda they took 20 DM from the 30 DM she

>Berisha (1939), unemployed, living at "Kodra e Diellit", 3rd
>object, H-4/4, confiscated from him some cigarettes for sale and
>left.
>MITROVICA: Fahredin Emini (55), Ragni Ahmeti (30), Mefail Shahini
>(40), Adem Veseli (26), Qenan Hyseni (30), Shaban Haziri (55),
>Qemajl Emni (50) and Rexhep Hyseni (36), all of them from the
>villages of Bujanoc, Presheva and Gjilan, declared to the CDHRF
>sub-council that the authorities of the "Svetlost" enterprise of
>Bujanoc, forced them to go and work at the "Trep=E7a" factory of batteri=
es
>in Mitrovica. According to them, there are supposed to
>come forcibly another ten employees of this enterprise.
>VUSHTRRI: On 12, 13 and 16 September,
>Nazif Muharrem Merovci from the village of Samadrexha, was taken to the
police. The police
>squad was lead by the policeman Nikola Zivic from Samadrexha.
>LIPJAN: The Serbian policeman in civil Stole Arsic from the
>village of Bablak, unexpectedly attacked and beat without any reason
>the Albanian citizen Hamit Zaskoku (40) from the village of Rubovc,
>who suffered physical injuries, two broken teeth and a wounded

>was "excused" that he had "attacked" Hamit by mistake.

>September 17th,

>MALISHEVA: Osman Begaj (1942), born in the village of Banja
>(Malisheva), together with his two sons Nexhmedin (20) and Sefedin
>(17), who returned recently from Australia, in order to settle in their
>home-land, were ordered to leave immediately "as they
>are foreigners".
>FERIZAJ: The police searched for weapons at the house of Shukri
>Ratkoceri and left an order to report to the police for his
>brother Bedri Ratkoceri.
>PRIZREN: In the village of Krusha e Madhe, the following persons were
summoned for
>"informative talks" to the police: Miftar
>Shehu, Anrush Batusha, Halil Avdyli and the father of Prof. Sokol
>Hazeri, a political prisoner serving his condemnation.
>PODUJEVA: The Serbian periodical Belgrade newspaper "Blic" reports,
>that the employees of the "Trep=E7a" Combine of Mitrovica are paid
>by the money of the "Fagar" factory of Podujeva, as its account-
>number is blocked since one year.

>September 18th,

>PEJA: Qerim Demaj, a former police commander of Istog, who
>returned from abroad a while ago, was summoned to the magistrate
>court of Peja. As it seems, he is accused of "forming the
>paralell service of interior affairs of the district assembly".
>GJILAN: Nesat Mehmeti
>(1934), "R. Sadiku" street, no. 5/20, Gjilan, was summoned for weapons t=

>return from Germany, where he is temporarily employed. Nesat came
>to see his daughter who is ill, and was supposed to return to
>Germany on 23 September, but the police confiscated his passport.
>VUSHTRRI: Hamit Xhaferi, chairman of the local authorities, while
>returning home, was stopped by Serbian security inspectors
>and ordered to report again the following day.
>PRISHTINA: Two policemen entered the house of Rexhep Rexhepi in
>the village of Koliq, arrested him for weapons, and beat his son
>Halil Rexhepi on the pretext that several days before, he had attacked a=

>KLINA: Milazim Tahiri from Klina, was taken by the police and sent
>to suffer a term of two months' imprisonment for
>possession of weapons without permit.
>SK=B7NDERAJ: Besim and
>Osman Rama from Sk=EBnderaj, Sami Isufi from the village of Tushila,
>and Kadri Gashi from the village of Krushefc, with his son
>Fatos Gashi (14), were taken for weapons to the police.

>September 19th,

>VUSHTRRI: The police stopped in the street Nazim Jakup Shala, a
>pupil of the first year of the "Marin
>Be=E7ikemi" technical secondary school, and when they found out that he =

>him brutally and caused physical injuries to him, for which he brought b=
y a
>doctor's certificate.
>MITROVICA: The 7-member
>family of Rexhep Ali Shala (48), "V. Qetkoviq" no. 6 in the
>village of Zveqan, former bus-driver of "Trep=E7a", was expelled by forc=

>settled there. Rizah Veli Azemi (41), a teacher from the
>village of Broboniq, was sentenced to a term of 60 days' imprisonment fo=
r
>possession of weapons without permit.
>SK=B7NDERAJ: Shukri Qorraj (1972), a student from the village of
>Padalishta, was stopped by the police at the airport of Sur=E7in,
>while returning from Germany, as they said "until they will get
>information from the home-land".
>SHTIMJE: The police confiscated the car of Dalip Re=E7aku from
>Shtimja, as he had not paid the taxes for the car.
>ISTOG: Velko Simic from the village of Lubizhda, attacked and
>beat at the yard-door of his house Mustafa Haxhi Januzaj
>(67) for the reason that a day before, he had overloaded a carry with
>stones on the common land-space of the village nearby his house.

>September 20th,

>MALISHEVA: Since the beginning of the school year,
>the police raided several times the premises of the "Arb=EBria" book-sho=

>brothers Jahir, Zenun and Selajdin Mazreku stated that the police
>had raided their book-shop on 5, 12 and 19 September, and
>plundered 540 DM. On this occasion, also some

>VUSHTRRI: Nazif Merovci, member of the local LDK branch's
>presidency in the village of Samadraxha, was summoned for weapons to
>the police during all the week. The commander Simic controlled the
>family of Musa Gashi in Vushtrri, and confiscated 80 cigarette
>boxes in the value of 800 DM.
>KLINA: The police stopped the football match between the teams
>"Drini i Bardh=EB" from the village of Novosella of Radafc, and "Shtat=EB
>Shtatori" of Klina, in the yard of the "Motrat
>Qiriazi" primary school of Klina. On this occasion, the police interroga=
ted the
>leader of the guest-club Mehmet Pelaj and the
>trainer Shefqet Pelaj, to whom they left an order to report to the polic=
e
>and threatened not to come again to Klina.
>ISTOG: The chairman of the CDHRF sub-
>council of Istog Gani Rugovaj from the village of C=EBrca, was taken to =

>interrogated about the work of the council and of the LDK commissions.
>PODUJEVA: The former political prisoner Hetem Ajeti from the
>village of Sfe=E7la, and his son Shp=EBtim Ajeti were several times
>searched for by the police.

>September 21st,

>TETOVA: The chairman of the senate of the University of Tetova
>Milaim Fejziu, who some days ago, was released from prison, received
>a summons from the central court of Tetova, to show up there on 27
>September. The same summonses were given also to the principal of the UT=
,
>Prof.Dr. Fadil Sylejmani and Prof.Dr. Murteza Ismaili.

>DELAYED INFORMATION:

>KLINA: Two armed inspectors and two policemen intervened in the
>village of Llukavc, in order to open an irrigation ditch for the field o=
f Milan
>Dasic through the land of the Albanians Mustaf=EB Haxha, Avdi
>Ahmetxhekaj and Bajram Ahmetxhekaj. The ditch never had passed through
>their fields, so that there were damaged their possession as walls,
>yards etc. The workers and the police harrased the
>children and villagers by their brutality.
>Gazmend Milazim Tahiri (1977) from the village of A=E7areva
>(Sk=EBnderaj), on 3 August was arrested at the market-place of Klina,
>and kept one night in prison as he did not possess his ID card. On
>this occasion at the police station, he was physically ill-treated.
>PRISHTINA: Xhafer Xhaferi (1947), professor of the technical
>faculty of Prishtina, "Dragodan" quarter, "N. Hikmet" str.
>127, gave a statement and the documents of the customs police of
>Qafa e Prushit near Gjakova that on 2 June, 1996 at the border,
>the police confiscated a report on the work of the University of
>Prishtina, written in Albanian and English, and his passport.
>On 13 September, an employee of the secretariat for interior
>affairs in civil searched at his house for Nazmi Gashi (1961),
>employee, "Prizreni" str. 12. As he was not at home, the police
>searched for his wife, but she also was not at home. As a
>pretext served his refusal to go to the military service. On the
>same motive and the same day, two civilians who presented themselves as
>employees of the security, searched at his house for Selim Osmani (1962)=
,
>"Zve=E7ani" 5. As Selim was not there, the police asked to discuss
>with his wife.
>The employees of "Hortikultura" without any document
>confiscated 7 cubics of cut wood in the private forest of Latif
>Sopi (1943), an employee in the village of Butovc.
>PRIZREN: On 4 June, 1996, Shyzri Vorfaj (1949) from the village of
>Planeja, was attacked by three masked persons, wounded and
>plundered 300 DM in his private bakery in Kragujevc. For his
>injures he got medical care at the hospital of Kragujevc.
>PEJA: On 4 September, the police raided for weapons the family of
>Fazli Kastrati from Peja, although he had delivered his weapon owned wit=
h
>permit.
>VITI: On 6 September in the village of Smira, the police searched
>from Fahrije Azemi (1952) the automatic gun of her husband Ramush
>Azemi who is temporarily employed in Switzerland. On 11 September,
>Nijazi Jakupi (1959), an economist from the village of Radivojci,
>was summoned for "informative talks" to the security center of
>Gjilan. He was questioned about his election as a member of the
>district financial council, and about the development of the schooling
>process at the Albanian school of this district.
>SUHAREKA: On 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 September, Shaqir Jahir Krasniqi from t=
he
>village of Matiqeva, was taken for
>weapons and physically ill-treated. Flurim Hoxha (1972) from the village=
 of
>Bellanica, a rejected asylum seeker in Germany, on 14 September, 1996,
>was taken by the German police in Stuttgart, and was put handcuffed
>into the airplane for Belgrade. He and seven other Albanians
>forced to leave Germany, were stopped at Prishtina airport, ill-treated =

>at the police.
>KA=C7ANIK: On 13 September, a number of Serbian inhabitants of this
>district handed over to the police weapons that they had taken some year=
s
>ago. Four policemen searched at his house in the village of Doganaj for
>Mustaf=EB Elmaz Berisha (1960) who is temporarily employed abroad.
>The Serbian compulsory local authorities distributed 40 summonses concer=
ning
>"military questions" to Albanian juveniles of the district.
>MITROVICA: On 13 September, the policeman Sekula Jokanovic and
>another policeman searched for the principal of the
>"Fazli Graj=E7evci" primary school of Shipol village, ordered him to rep=
ort to
>the police station and to bring with him the register of the enrolled
>pupils.
>SKENDERAJ: On September 6, Ajet Rrahmani from Klina e Ul=EBt, while
>coming back from Germany, where he is temporarily employed, was
>stopped for 24 hours by the police at Belgrade airport,
>provoked and ill-treated. On September 12 and 13, Agim Zejnullahu from L=
lausha
>village, member of the local branch of the Parliamentarian Party of
>Kosova - Skenderaj branch, was taken for
>"informative talks" about weapons . The next day, his father Sahit
>Zejnullahu was also taken to the police station.

>Prishtina, September 22, 1996           CDHRF Information Service