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Kosovo Local Councilor Wounded in Shooting

PRISTINA (Yugoslavia), Dec 16, 2000 -- (Agence France Presse) A member
of the moderate Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) was shot on Friday near
the province's central town of Malisevo, a spokesman for peacekeeping forces in
the area said.

Fetah Rudi was wounded when gunmen opened fire on the recently elected local
councillor who was driving on the road between Malisevo and Pristina, the
regional capital, KFOR spokesman Tim Pearce told journalists.

Rudi was taken to hospital in Pristina where he is said to be in a non-critical
state.
No-one has yet been arrested in connection with the attack.

The incident brings to five the number of people from the LDK attacked since
local elections were held in October this year.

On November 23, Xhemajl Mustafa, political adviser to the democratic league's
leader Ibrahim Rugova was shot dead in a building in Pristina. Two other elected
officials and a third person were also wounded in the attack.

The LDK won a landslide victory in municipal elections on October 28, taking
control of 21 of the province's 30 councils including Pristina and all its major
towns.

The outcome provoked fears of a backlash from hardline elements in rival parties
which sprung from the ethnic Albanian guerrilla movement, the Kosovo Liberation
Army.

In the October elections, Malisevo, which had previously been a stronghold of
separatist Albanian guerrillas -- politically closest to the Democratic Party of
Kosovo (PDK) -- fell to the moderate LDK.

Since the end of November, KFOR troops and UN peacekeepers have been
acting as bodyguards for several members of the LDK.