80-year-old Serb beaten up near Gnjilane
Eighty-year-old Stojan Zdravkovic was brutally attacked and beaten up in the village of Novi Draganac, near Gnjilane, in eastern Kosovo.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Thursday, July 10, 2008
Zdravkovic was attacked on his land by his neighbour Bajazit Kadrija, who hit him in the head.
It is the second interethnic incident in the last several days, after a clash betweeen Serbs and Albanians in Suvi Do, near Kosovska Mitrovica(north), which left one Serb injured.
The Serb mayor of Kosovska Mitrovica North Nenad Toplicevic on Wednesday requested representatives of the international community, primarily UNMIK and KFOR, to defend the population of Suvi Do and to secure peaceful and safe life for them.
Meanwhile, in Prague, the names of several hundred Kosovo Serbs listed as missing were read out.
The campaign in the Czech capital came in a bid to warn about the position that Serbs in Kosovo find themselves in, organizers said.
562 names were heard - belonging to people about whose fate their families have not been able to learn anything since 1999.
The event's sponsor was the Czech parliament's Foreign Policy Council vice-president, Katerina Konecna.
The campaign, dubbed, "Say Where Those People Are", and the reading, were organized by the Czech civil association Res Publica.
"Some of the missing could have been the victims of the human organ trade that former Chief Hague Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte wrote about in her book, 'The Hunt'," association's president Stanislav Kliment told reporters.
In Belgrade, the daily Vecernje Novosti said it obtained evidence that the investigation into human organ trafficking in northern Albania, which the public learned about from Del Ponte's book, was doomed to failure as long as it was conducted by UNMIK.
Such a conclusion is backed by the latest evidence which daily has been informed about and which cause serious doubt that officials of this organisation, above all former ranking official Jose Pablo Baraybar who worked as head of the Office on Missing Persons and Forensics, took part in this crime.
Namely, there are a number of facts that show that Baraybar was acquainted with the events in Albania and that he stopped the investigation.
According to unofficial information, Baraybar is currently on the run.
