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	ARTA Special Edition - Massacre in Drenica
		But, the road linking this part of Drenica with villages of Likoshan and Qirez was full of local people, heading to express their condolences to the families which lost the loved ones.
		A delegation of Albanian intellectuals and dignitaries from the Drenica region, including Imer Halimi, Hajdar Rreci, Islam Krasniqi and Shaqir Berani, visited the USIS office in Prishtina today, in the aftermath of the massive police attack on this region, 40 km west of Kosova capital.
		Drenica is a region of around 1200 square kilometers, with a population of about 60,000, 95 percent of whom are Albanians.
	hb6.seikyou.ne.jp /home/iura/dren.htm (5916 words)

	Notizie Est - Balcani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		L'offensiva generale contro la regione di Drenica è stata avviata dopo i concentramenti molto evidenti intorno a questa regione, durati alcune settimane, nonché dopo gli scontri ininterrotti nel corso dell'intero mese passato sulla sua ala orientale lungo la strada a grande scorrimento Pristina-Vucitrn-Kosovska Mitrovica.
		Drenica è l'area più vasta sotto il controllo dell'UCK, la più forte concentrazione di resistenza armata al dominio serbo e il centro generale della resistenza armata albanese in Kosovo.
		Nei fatti, se si realizzassero gli obiettivi fissati per la Drenica i primi a trovarsi sotto i colpi della nuova operazione offensiva sarebbero Lap e Shala e Bajgores, che vengono terrorizzati con un fuoco di granate e mitragliatrici ininterrotto.
	www.notizie-est.com /printer.php?art_id=269 (1632 words)

	Bloodshed and bargaining in Kosovo, by Jean-Arnault Dérens et Sébastien Nouvel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		For in early March 1998 it was the small region of Drenica that suffered massacres at the hands of the Serbian police and paramilitary.
		"Drenica’s at the heart of Kosovo; it’s a region that has continually resisted Serbian oppression and suffered many massacres, particularly during the second Balkans war from 1912 to the end of the second world war.
		The argument that Drenica was an "unfortunate mistake" is unconvincing: the police operations had clearly been well-prepared.
	www.mondediplo.com /1998/04/10kosovo (3531 words)

	Bloodshed and bargaining in Kosovo, by Jean-Arnault Dérens and Sébastien Nouvel
		For in early March 1998 it was the small region of Drenica that suffered massacres at the hands of the Serbian police and paramilitary.
		"Drenica’s at the heart of Kosovo; it’s a region that has continually resisted Serbian oppression and suffered many massacres, particularly during the second Balkans war from 1912 to the end of the second world war.
		The argument that Drenica was an "unfortunate mistake" is unconvincing: the police operations had clearly been well-prepared.
	mondediplo.com /1998/04/10kosovo.htm (3531 words)

	Notizie Est - Balcani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Si tratta dunque di un'operazione militare pianificata in anticipo, che si vorrebbe presentare come una caccia a gruppi di albanesi armati che, secondo le fonti serbe, hanno attaccato stazioni o pattuglie della polizia a Srbica, Glogovac o in altri luoghi.
		E' in gioco in primo luogo la conquista fisica, se non dell'intero territorio, almeno di tutte le sue parti e i suoi punti più importanti.
		Questi dati continuano a cambiare perché l'intera Drenica è in movimento.
	www.notizie-est.com /article.php?art_id=269 (1632 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: Balkans Special Report
		After three days of gunfire and bombardment by government forces in the Drenica Valley west of here, its central towns and villages were eerily quiet today.
		The residents of the Drenica region have a long history of opposition to Serbian rule, and several other extended Albanian families recently were targeted by police.
		A week ago, for example, 10 male members of the Ahmeti family died in a fierce attack in the village of Likoshani; when their bodies were presented later for burial, they had no eyes, and their skulls had been smashed, according to witnesses.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/drenica030998.htm (1150 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the KLA came out in public at a funeral in the Drenica town of Llaushe, in November 1997, Kosovo was under occupation by the Milosevic regime and the KLA had a clearly identifiable enemy.
		The word in the villages of Drenica today is that masked people presenting themselves as the ANA are stopping vehicles in the middle of the night, demanding to check villagers' IDs and checking whether the travellers they encounter are on certain "lists".
		Drenica must not be allowed to become a battleground in which anyone can walk in, play on people’s nerves and scratch at old wounds.
	www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr3/bcr3_200405_498_2_eng.txt (789 words)

	n° 21 - traductions anglaises Convergences Bosnie-Herzégovine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Drenica is small region comprised of the three communes of Srbica,Klina and Glogovac (Skenderaj, Kline and Glogovc in Albanian).
		Among those sentenced was Adem Jashari,who the authorities claimed was the head of the organization.All of the accused belonged to a powerful group of clans.The Serbian investigators seemed to have used the family and clan structure of Albanian Kosovar society to try to chart the organizational structure of the KLA.
		We were told by young Albanians who claim to be members that," the KLA was founded in Germany".Young economic emigrés from Drenica were among its founders.Its seems probable that the organisation was actually quite small and that it therefore decided to use the traditional clan structure to start a gueveriste foco in Drenica.
	aec.nantes.free.fr /converge/conv0298/c0298A1.html (3875 words)

	Kosovo violence, WT, 3-31-98
		The main effect of these movements over the last seven decades, combined with an extraordinarily high Albanian natality rate, was to reduce the percentage of Serbs in the Kosovo population to its current 10 percent - down from 61 percent in 1929.
		One recurring theme in the Kosovo drama is the farmland around the western town of Drenica, which had been given in the 13th century to the Serb monastery of Hilandar, yet 500 years later became a center of Albanian nationalism.
		In 1839 Drenica was listed as refusing to pay taxes or supply recruits to the Turkish sultan.
	www.srpska-mreza.com /kosovo/kosovo-violence-wt-3-31-98.html (798 words)

	A WEEK OF TERROR IN DRENICA
		This report documents serious violations of international humanitarian law committed by Serbian and Yugoslav government forces in Kosovo’s Drenica region during the last week of September 1998.
		The most common crime throughout Kosovo, and in Drenica specifically, has been the government’s systematic destruction of civilian property, which presents further evidence of a military campaign against civilians in clear violation of the laws of war.
		The experience of the village of Plocica in Drenica, visited by Human Rights Watch on September 26 while the offensive was continuing, is typical.
	hrw.org /reports/1999/kosovo/Obrinje6.htm (1389 words)

	Refugees Tell of 100 Civilians Massacred by Serbian Forces in Rebel Strongholds
		The refugees, describing attacks in the Drenica region, said that in one instance, soldiers herded as many as 60 women and children into a house and then threw hand grenades and fired assault rifles through its windows and doors, killing those huddled inside.
		The refugees say that the killings occurred in April and that the Yugoslav forces systematically emptied villages around the town of Glogovac as part of an effort to eradicate the rebels from the area, Ward said.
		In September 1998, Yugoslav forces ended a summer offensive in the Drenica region by killing 21 members of the Delijaj family, including eight women and five children, in the village of Gornje Obrinje, according to Human Rights Watch.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/051799kosovo-macedonia.html (888 words)

	Surviving Kosovo's War was Hard, So is the Peace
		February 22, 2004 – (Washington Post) The tiny house in the Drenica region of Kosovo was colder and darker than the gray midwinter street outside.
		Then as now, my colleagues and I were teaching health and mental health professionals, teachers and mothers to use mind-body medicine (meditation, guided imagery, breathing), self-expression (through words, drawings and movement) and group support to deal with their own psychological trauma and in turn to help others.
		During the war in Kosovo, a teenage boy in a Drenica village watched playmates die and was beaten by Serbian soldiers.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Kosovo/Feb04/suicide.html (1772 words)

	Campaign Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In February 1998, Serbian forces attacked several villages in the region of Drenica, to the west of Prishtina.
		By 1998 it was struggling to cope with the influx of refugees from Drenica.
		She worked with displaced villagers, and along with other women activists helped to organize a solidarity march by thousands of women from Prishtina who tried to take food to refugees hiding in the woods.
	www.advocacynet.org /cpage_view/kosovo_serbian_3_43.html (582 words)

	The Militant - 3/30/98 -- Battle For Independence Deepens In Kosovo -- Washington probes deploying NATO forces
		While attempting to portray themselves as defenders of the national rights of Albanians, Washington, Bonn and other imperialist powers are working overtime to take advantage of the turmoil to deepen the NATO military intervention into the Yugoslav workers state and tighten their encirclement of Russia.
		On the way to the Drenica region March 14, Militant reporters passed through five checkpoints guarded by heavily armed police, with armored personnel carriers in some cases.
		On March 15, relatives of those killed in Drenica organized a memorial service at a small Catholic church in Pristina in honor of the victims.
	www.themilitant.com /1998/6212/6212_1.html (4694 words)

	BALKAN MEDIA & POLICY MONITOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The logical question arises whether the main aim of Belgrade is actually to create a new territorial and ethnic configuration and not, as claimed, to liquidate Albanian "terrorists." Drenica is an important Albanian "wedge" which separates the eastern and western parts of Kosovo.
		The regime's pursuit of "OVK terrorists" might end up provoking a new "Drenica rebellion" similar to the one at the end of the Second World War when Yugoslav partisans put an end to the powerful units of the local commander, Shaban Polluzha.
		If it recalls the punitive expedition in time and the Drenica Albanians are able to return to their homes, tensions in the region will still be great, but at least the earlier balance of fear and status quo would be reestablished.
	mediafilter.org /Monitor/Mon.59-60/Mon.59-60.AIM.html (867 words)

	Federal Republic of Yugoslavia : humanitarian law violations in Kosovo (Le Monde diplomatique)
		The police attack in Drenica was a watershed in the Kosovo conflict; thousands of outraged Albanians who had been committed to the nonviolent politics of Ibrahim Rugova decided to join the KLA.
		By 1997, Albanians had begun to refer to Drenica as "liberated territory" because of the local KLA presence, which forced Serbian policemen to abandon their checkpoints at night.
		The government considered Drenica the hotbed of "Albanian terrorism." A focal point of police attention in Drenica was the village of Donji Prekaz, and especially the family compound of Adem Jashari, who was gaining repute in 1997 as a local KLA leader.
	www.monde-diplomatique.fr /cahier/kosovo/hrw101998-en (15710 words)

	UNDER ORDERS: War Crimes in Kosovo - 5. Drenica Region
		The region, flanked by the Drenica mountains on the west, consists of the municipalities of Glogovac (Gllogofc) and Srbica (Skenderaj).
		Although Drenica, as a stronghold of the KLA, was a focal point of conflict throughout 1998 and the beginning of 1999, Glogovac itself, like most towns and cities in Kosovo, was spared any fighting or destruction.
		The Serbian police always held the town, and the police station was frequently used as a detention center for ethnic Albanians arrested from the surrounding villages, especially during the major government offensive in September 1998.88 Police harassment, arrests, and beatings were commonplace in the period before NATO began bombing on March 25, 1999.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2001/kosovo/undword-04.htm (17688 words)

	Report
		Investigating reports on the killing of a large number of people in Liko{ane and ]irez villages in the Drenica area (Kosovo), the Humanitarian Law Center arrived at findings which contradict Serbian police reports on the number of dead and the locations and circumstances in which they were killed.
		The Ahmeti family encountered major problems in getting to Pri{tina to pick up the bodies of their relatives, and were detained for several hours when transporting their dead back to the village.
		The HLC is unable to report developments in Drenica after 1 March as the area is under police siege.
	www.greekhelsinki.gr /english/reports/hlc8-3-98.html (896 words)

	ARTA Special Edition - Massacre in Drenica AGAIN
		This is why we will be forced not to receive any representative of the foreign media, as a sign of revolt towards their acceptance to become part of a filthy game and become part of the propaganda of the Belgrade regime", concludes the letter.
		It is composed of military experts, that are in close cooperation with the division of Kukës, holding all military troops of this zone in alert.
		Many women, holding white paper in their hands, stood in front of their doorsteps, to express the indignation with the massacre suffered by people of Drenica region (40 km west of Prishtina), perpetrated by the Serb police forces last week.
	hb6.seikyou.ne.jp /home/iura/dren2a.htm (3768 words)

	A WEEK OF TERROR IN DRENICA
		Three kilometers to the north is the hilltop village of Likovac, which served as a regional KLA headquarters prior to the Yugoslav offensive and was recaptured by Yugoslav forces around September 13.
		Hundreds of other men were arrested during the offensive in the Drenica region and the Cicavica mountains, and some were held at Glogovac police station simultaneously with and prior to the arrival of the men from the Hysenaj compound.
		The large group of men from many areas of the Drenica region was kept at the Glogovac police station in a large concrete room until they gradually began to be released on Saturday, September 27.
	www.edualter.org /material/kosovo/hrdrenica.htm (11126 words)

	Serbia Info News / The terrorists dispersed in Drenica
		Vast quantities of arms were found in villages in the central region of Drenica, where there are no more terrorist bands.
		The biggest quantities of arms were found in central villages of the Drenica area - Gornji Prekaz, Donji Prekaz, Brocna, Izbica, Lausa, Likovac, Ljubac, Ovcarevo, Poljanac, Cirez, Dubovac, and some other villages that served as strong terrorist strongholds.
		The actions of the Yugoslav security foresees put an end to the existence of the Drenica terrorist bands, that have committed numerous crimes since the beginning of last year - murders, wounding, and abductions of civilians, policemen and soldiers.
	www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-04/02/10407.html (243 words)

	A WEEK OF TERROR IN DRENICA
		Mounds of spent bullet casings and the remains of consumed food tins, as well as a used first aid package to dress abdominal injuries with instructions in Serbian, were scattered within one hundred meters of the place where Ramadan’s body was found.
		There was no evidence in or around the village of any KLA presence, and no part of the village appeared to have been prepared for combat through the digging of trenches or sandbagging of homes (a practice observed by Human Rights Watch in other villages with a KLA presence).
		While the KLA did control the Drenica area prior to the offensive, and it is possible that KLA soldiers may have moved through the village, the evidence found by Human Rights Watch strongly indicates that the village had offered no resistance, and had been burned after being abandoned by the local population.
	www.edualter.org /material/kosovo/hrdrenica2.htm (5144 words)

	ARTA Special Edition - Massacre in Drenica AGAIN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Serb police forces buried the victims of the massacre in Drenica (40 km west of Prishtina).
		This is why we will be forced not to receive any representative of the foreign media, as a sign of revolt towards their acceptance to become part of a filthy game and become part of the propaganda of the Belgrade regime", concludes the letter.
		Over 3,000 women and children from the villages od Drenica (40 km west of Prishtina), under siege during the past week, settled in the villages of the Vushtrri municipality, claim Democratic League of Kosova (LDK) sources from this municipality.
	www.kohaditore.com /ARTA/drenica2.htm (3776 words)

	[No title]
		Les manifestants affirmaient leur solidarité avec les habitants de la région de Drenica où se sont produits les meurtriers incidents du week-end précédents, qui ont fait au moins 16 morts dans la population albanaise et 4 dans les rangs de la police.
		Un,millier de personnes fuyant la région de Drenica sont arribées le 6 mars à Mitrovica, et plusieurs centaines d'autres é Kosovo Polje, dans la périphiphérie de Prishtina.
		A Prishtina, les manifestants, faisant le "V" de la victoire et scandant "Drenica", ont tenté de se diriger vers le siège des institutions serbes mais en ont été empêchés par les forces de l'ordre.
	membres.lycos.fr /troubles/kosove.htm (17353 words)

	DPI
		In a lengthy article about Ibrahim Rugova's proposed first post-war visit to Drenica, Bota Sot commented that although it is known for its courage and bravery, during the November elections legendary Drenica did not vote for a democratic Drenica, one without violence, murder or threats.
		Maybe Drenica is beginning to forget or it is aware of everything but does not dare talk about it.
		Drenica knows that the most devoted soldiers are forgotten while others who appointed themselves officers and officials have built luxurious castles, own comfortable apartments and drive the most expensive cars.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/2001/mon/lmm251101.html (905 words)

	Report on the Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Kosovo
		At the beginning of April, the Drenica region was reopened to the ECMM, who reported that the police (MUP) did not appear to be in control of much of the area, although they were continuing to increase their presence and create heavily fortified bunkers and checkpoints on the major roads.
		On patrol on 4 April, the ECMM noted that the village of Donje Obilic, to the south west of Srbica, in Drenica, bore the evidence of fighting and appeared deserted, local police complaining of attacks by the UCK.
		In addition to the operations in Drenica and on the border around Decane, towards the end of April offensive operations by the Serbian/FRY forces had spread to the area of Dukagjin, around Jablanica.
	www.radicalparty.org /milosevic/27.htm (569 words)

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