Subject: Kosovo's latest bloody Sunday leaves two dead, three injured
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 9:10:21 PDT
From: C-afp@... (AFP)
Organization: Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse (via ClariNet)
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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia, Sept 18 (AFP) - A Serb and a Roma gypsy
have been killed in two separate incidents in Kosovo, peacekeepers
said Monday, in the acts of violence against minorities in the
UN-run province.
The gypsy was shot dead Sunday during an argument in a bar in
the village of Firaja in the south of Kosovo, according to Major
Scott Slaten, chief spokesman for the NATO-led KFOR peacekeeping
force.
Two other Roma and an ethnic Albanian were injured in the
incident, he said.
The gunman, armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle, was also
injured but managed to flee into a nearby base of the Kosovo
Protection Corps (KPC), the unarmed civilian successor to the
Albanian guerrilla group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
He was later arrested. It was not clear Monday whether the
gunman was a KPC member.
In the ethnically mixed town of Gnjilane, 18 miles (30
kilometres) southeast of Pristina, a Serb was killed Sunday when a
grenade was thrown at him as he repaired a car in front of his
house, Slaten said.
The killing appeared to be linked to a second grenade attack in
Gnjilane the same day in which a Serb owned home was damaged but no
one injured.
In another incident in the same town, a 14-year-old ethnic
Albanian boy was arrested after he threw a Molotov cocktail into the
garden of a Serb home.
Since the end of Kosovo's 1998-1999 civil war in June last year
and the arrival of the KFOR peacekeepers, the province has been
wracked by political and ethnic violence.

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