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  Balkan Repository Project - 3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the Gnjilane village of Abdula Presevo, inhabited by the Romanies, 95 or 96 of 400 houses were set ablaze, said the board.
Dragan and Momcilo Stojanovic of the village of Gornji Makres, near Gnjilane, were abducted by their Albanian neighbours on July 30, and taken to the nearby woods.
Several thousand Albanians protested in Gnjilane on the eve of July 30, because a statue of Serbian Prince Lazar was returned to its pedestal.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Aug_02/3.html   (1833 words)

  
 TRIAL IN KOSOVO (U.S. Army accused of cover-up) [Free Republic]
GNJILANE, Kosovo —; A top legal expert in Kosovo said he is convinced senior Army officials tried to cover up a U.S. soldier’s involvement in the death of an ethnic Albanian who three Serbs are now on trial for killing.
GNJILANE, Yugoslavia, July 24 (AFP) - US snipers shot dead two ethnic Albanian militants during a three-way gunbattle in the aftermath of the Kosovo war but a family of Serbs was made to spend 12 months in jail awaiting trial for their murder, a court heard Monday.
The Momcilovics are Serbs from Gnjilane, in Kosovo's American-run sector.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39b2edbd68f7.htm   (13590 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNJILANE, Feb 13 (Tanjug) - Public Affairs officer of the UNMIK regional police in Gnjilane Jimmy Tegart has described the movement and regrouping of armed Albanians in the region of Gnjilane as "cases of people in this region and the entire Kosovo who belong to the national army of Shiptars (AKSS)".
He did not want to specify their number or to confirm that their uniforms had been discovered in Gnjilane, but expressed his concern over the illegal possession of arms and ammunition, underscoring that a large quantity of arms, explosives and ammunition had been discovered in a large-scale action by KFOR and police.
The operation of arms confiscation was carried out for specific reasons, underlined Tegart at a press conference, and asked for understanding for this operation, because people should understand that the war is over and appealed to them to go back to their regular activities.
www.mfa.gov.yu /Policy/CI/KIM/130203_5_e.html   (216 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Serbs of Gnjilane demanded that their children be given one of nine schools in the town, the "Musa Zajmi" primary school, providing that KFOR would guarantee their safety.
KFOR representatives in Gnjilane passed to the local Serbs a message by the director of Gnjilane water supply system, Ramadan Gaytani, that they should return to their workplaces in the company, said the Church and People's Board of Gnjilane.
KFOR officers underlined at a regular meeting with local Serb representatives that "Gnjilane is turning into a horrible town," without specifying which ethnic group was responsible for tensions and inter-ethnic animosities in the town.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Sep_06/10.html   (3330 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Serbs in the Gnjilane municipality now live largely in a ghetto - and they are leaving Kosovo.
In Gnjilane municipality, in the village of Zitinje (Zhitin), there were 136 Serb homes and 100 Albanian homes before the NATO air strikes.
Before the war, Pedrag had a job in the Gnjilane battery factory while his wife worked in the local textile plant.
www.iwpr.net /archive/bcr/bcr_20000125_4_eng.txt   (1401 words)

  
 As They Await U.S. Troops, Villagers Are Still Frightened
Gnjilane, 30 miles southeast of Pristina, will be the headquarters of the American contingent of the United Nations peacekeeping force that is about to move into Kosovo.
Gnjilane is an interesting case, because unlike the villagers, relatively few of the Albanians of the town were in fact ordered to leave.
And the Albanians of Gnjilane waited for the moment that their fear might end and they might finally stroll the streets of their town.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/061299kosovo-serbia.html   (1289 words)

  
 NATO Crime Chronicle: March 25-31
In the villages surrounding Gnjilane three civilians were injured, among them a woman with very serious injuries.
The NATO criminals fired eight missiles in Gnjilane region, aiming at five purely Serb villages in the vicinity of the town.
Gnjilane was hit with two very powerful missiles – air cluster bombs banned by international convention.
www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /kosovo/Kosovo-Serb_News13.html   (1687 words)

  
 Kosovo a model for U.S. in Iraq - The Washington Times: World - November 15, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNJILANE, Serbia-Montenegro — In a model operation reflecting what had once been hoped for in Iraq, U.S. troops in Kosovo are busy building roads, teaching English and making friends with residents who are still grateful for NATO's intervention in the Balkan province.
During a recent scout patrol by national guardsmen in the town of Gnjilane, Sgt. Scott Paulik picked up a small boy and held him aloft in a playful greeting while the boy's father, the town baker, looked on approvingly.
The guardsmen were accompanied on their patrol through Gnjilane by Albina Sylaj, an ethnic-Albanian translator who also wore fatigues and slouch cap.
www.washingtontimes.com /world/20041115-123723-8970r.htm   (829 words)

  
 Balkan Repository Project - 10   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Serb representatives in Gnjilane refused on August 24 to discuss with Albanian representatives the establishment of local self-rule in the town, said the Church and People's Board of Gnjilane.
One of the Serb representatives in Gnjilane, lawyer Goroljub Pavic, said that Serbs do not have the mandate to talk with Albanians as long as they are exposed to violence.
The Church and People's Board of Gnjilane said on August 26 that the bodies were moved from the Gnjilane morgue to Pristina by OSCE observers.
www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/Aug_30/10.html   (2862 words)

  
 OSCE report paints devastating picture of conditions in Kosovo
In one area of the city of Gnjilane “approximately 90 percent of Roma houses were burned within a three week period.
At the main hospital in Gnjilane, a hospital board was set up at the end of June composed of three Kosovo Albanians, two Kosovo Serbs and one KFOR representative.
Prior to the conflict, the Kosovo Serb community in Gnjilane town was estimated at 5,982.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/dec1999/osce-d31.shtml   (2360 words)

  
 Serbia Info News / New mass graves of Serbs near Gnjilane
Gnjilane, Aug 27 (Tanjug) - The discovery of another mass grave with bodies of 50 Serbs in the Gnjilane area demonstrates that atrocities continue to be perpetrated by rampaging ethnic Albanian terrorists against Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija since the arrival of international KFOR peacekeepers.
Systematic terror against Serbs in the area continues, as the "KLA" is trying to cut the corridor linking Serb enclaves in the province with Serbia.
On Thursday, Gradimir Stolic was abducted, the house of Lazar Mitic was torched, and bombs were thrown at the homes of Vladimir Denic in Gnjilane and of the Djurovic and Stojanovic families in Gracanica.
www.serbia-info.com /news/1999-08/28/14126.html   (259 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNJILANE, October 5 (Beta) - Sofijana Jovanovic, 72, was wounded in Gnjilane on Oct. 4 when an Albanian man, who had illegally moved into her house, shot at her, Serb sources from Kosovo told BETA.
With gunshot wounds to her stomach and her leg, Jovanovic was transferred to a Pristina hospital where she underwent surgery on Oct. 4.
On orders from a Gnjilane court, an Albanian from the village of Donji Livoc, who had usurped Jovanovic's house, was supposed to vacate it on Oct. 4.
www.mfa.gov.yu /Policy/CI/KIM/061003_e.html   (129 words)

  
 Milosevic blames U.S. for 'massacre'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNJILANE, Yugoslavia (AP) - President Slobodan Milosevic accused the United States on Thursday of conspiring with the ethnic Albanians targeting Kosovo's minority Serbs, charging that America was responsible for a mass grave in the U.S. sector of Kosovo.
At Gnjilane, Valentina Zdravkovic sobbed after identifying her husband and father-in-law as two of the Serb victims and expressed anger over the delay between finding the grave and informing the public, including relatives.
Northeast of Gnjilane, angry Serbs briefly blocked a road as they demanded that peacekeepers find two local men they said were kidnapped by ethnic Albanians two days ago.
www.usatoday.com /news/index/kosovo/koso1094.htm   (696 words)

  
 Serbian doctor dies in Albanian 'cleansing'
One of two remaining Serbian doctors in eastern Kosovo's main city of Gnjilane, Vasic, 37, who had spent most of his professional life treating Albanian women, was gunned down in the street at 9.30am just over a week ago.
Their two commanders in Gnjilane, an American and a Russian, have admitted that little can be done to halt such cold-blooded assassinations.
Valeri Korotenko, Gnjilane's deputy UN police commander and a member of the elite Russian Spetznaz special force, has done what he can for the Vasic family.
www.geocities.com /cpa_blacktown/20000306doctotimuk.htm   (1056 words)

  
 KosovoII
Outside the Regional Medical Hospital in Gnjilane, a ceremony and a moment of prayer on the anniversary date that these dedicated professionals came out of hiding and reclaimed their jobs, one year ago, on June 21, 1999.
This was the most profound moment of the trip as I saw the joy on the faces of people who were working long hours, often with little or no pay, at first, to rebuild their lives and help their neighbors to do the same.
With little in the way of continuing supplies and funding, they are struggling to provide good medical care to an area composed of the city of Gnjilane and surrounding rural townships, while attempting to raise the level of training for their staff and catch up with the rest of the medical community in services offered.
cnserver0.nkf.med.ualberta.ca /cn/KosovoII/Default4.htm   (470 words)

  
 Press Release 25 04 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The earthquake primarily affected the city of Gnjilane, where 1 K-Albanian male died and 63 people were reported injured (two seriously) from falling debris.
The water and sanitation system for Gnjilane was unaffected and electricity and telephone services are being restored.
However, no injuries have been reported outside of Gnjilane and no one is known to be missing.
www.unmikonline.org /civpol/archive/PR250402.htm   (244 words)

  
 In Macedonia: Fearing Attacks at Border Posts, Refugees Cross Elsewhere
About 3,000 refugees from the Gnjilane area walked into the tiny mountain village of Malina Mala just inside Macedonia on Tuesday, said officials for the U.N. high commissioner for refugees.
Refugees fleeing attacks around Gnjilane last Wednesday and Thursday were giving consistent accounts of young men being forced to join work details where they dug trenches or graves.
Gnjilane and other towns in southeastern Kosovo recently attacked by Yugoslav forces were not Kosovo Liberation Army strongholds, the diplomat said.
partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/042199kosovo-macedonia.html   (483 words)

  
 News about Serbs and Serbian lands | 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
GNJILANE, Yugoslavia - His wife pregnant and the Yugoslav Army pressing in toward his village, Selami Zylfice, an ethnic Albanian living in southern Serbia, fled his home with his family Saturday, arriving at a dormitory in Kosovo that has become a temporary shelter for new refugees.
Some 100 families took temporary shelter at the dormitory in Gnjilane, the largest city in the US-patrolled sector of Kosovo.
American soldiers are stationed at one of the main checkpoints in the region, just east of Gnjilane, and since Thursday have refused to let Albanians of fighting age return to their homes in Serbia for fear that they may join the rebels.
news.suc.org /bydate/2000/Dec_05/6.html   (639 words)

  
 CNNfyi.com - Death, disease belie spring in Kosovo - May 8, 2000
GNJILANE, Kosovo (CNN) -- The arrival of warm weather has made Kosovo a much more pleasant place to live.
But the veneer of spring does not disguise the death and disease that are still facts of daily life here.
After the war the well at the hospital here in Gnjilane was discovered filled with medical waste.
edition.cnn.com /2000/fyi/news/05/08/kosovo   (1313 words)

  
 July '00 News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In February, 2000, the court in Pristina transferred the case to the Gnjilane District Court.
The next session is scheduled to reconvene on July 20, 2000, in Gnjilane, Kosovo, before a panel of five judges, including the presiding judge for the panel, an international judge appointed by the Special Representative to the Secretary General, Mr.
Questions pertaining to the outcome of the Gnjilane District Court president’s actions should be directed to the court authorities.
www.hqusareur.army.mil /htmlinks/Press_Releases/2K/July/20000720-1.htm   (527 words)

  
 Blic: "KLA" Massing forces around Serb villages near Vitina and other Kosovo stories, October 8 1999
Gnjilane - The command of the American contingent of KFOR stationed in Gnjilane, reversed yesterday morning its decision to pull out all of its soldiers from the Serb villages in the Vitina municipality, report ham-radio operators [from Gnjilane].
Denkic was seriously wounded; however, he refused the offer by KFOR soldiers to be transported to the hospital in Gnjilane for treatment.
The People's Church Council from Gnjilane states that apartments of Slavica Petrovska and Zlata Kireva were robbed again and that ethnic Albanians have now moved in to these apartments by force.
www.ex-yupress.com /blic/blic12.html   (1250 words)

  
 ABDUCTIONS-3-010417.htm HLC - Humanitarian Law Center - Abductions and Disappearances of non-Albanians in Kosovo - copy ...
Metodijević, Miroslav (M, 24), Serb, from Gnjilane (Vojvode Stepe St.), police officer in Priština – abducted on 25 June 1999; last seen by S.D., a Serb who was abducted on the same day and imprisoned at the KLA headquarters in the school dormitory in Gnjilane.
A.S., Serb, from Gnjilane (22 Abaz Ajeti St.) – abducted by the KLA on 23 June 1999 in the presence of his mother, wife, sister and daughter, beaten and released the next day.
She believes that her abduction was organized out of revenge by her Albanian next-door neighbor in Gnjilane because her ex-husband and his friends had robbed and torched his house.
www.bndlg.de /~wplarre/ABDUCTIONS-3-010417.htm   (12339 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Paric Zivojin, from the village of Trnjicevce, Gnjilane, detained on the road to Gnjilane, July 17, 1999.
Paunovic Jovica (born in 1973),Gnjilane, detained with Arsic Dragan on the road from Pasjane to Gnjilane, July 23, 1999.
Paunovic Mirsa, F, 80, was kneecapped in Pones, Gnjilane in the middle of October 1999.
www.kosovoforum.net /site/sectionO-P.htm   (4810 words)

  
 [Islam-Online- Top News]
GNJILANE, Yugoslavia, July 21 (AFP) - A Kosovo murder trial heard new evidence Friday that US snipers shot dead two men on the night when three Serbs were said to have killed an ethnic Albanian war hero, in a dramatic twist that could see the accused men freed.
French judge Patrice de Charette told the hearing in Gnjilane, southwest Kosovo, that the US army had submitted a new 130-page witness statement on Tuesday, just two days before the trial began for the second time.
Summing up the submission, which includes testimony from 35 US servicemen on duty in Gnjilane on the night of the shooting, de Charette said it included evidence that US snipers on an observation tower shot and killed an ethnic Albanian man on the night of July 10th last year.
www.islamonline.net /IOL-english/dowalia/news-2000-July-23/topnews1.asp   (703 words)

  
 CNN In-Depth Specials - Kosovo: Prospects For Peace - Journal
An old man, who lives at the high school dormitory in Gnjilane used by the International Rescue Committee to house refugees, watched his cousin being slowly hacked to death by soldiers of the Serbian-led Yugoslav army.
Large families are housed together in single dorm rooms, sleeping in mattresses on the floor.
An electrical fire took out one whole floor of the dorm in late May. It took place during the afternoon and no one was killed.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/kosovo/stories/present/journal/06.06   (603 words)

  
 Camp Monteith
Camp Monteith, in Gnjilane, incorporates a former Serb Army post with a two-plus-mile perimeter fence housing one armored battalion and one infantry battalion.
Construction of Camp Monteith, named for an Army Medal of Honor winner, began immediately on the grounds of a former Yugoslav artillery base that was heavily damaged during the NATO bombing campaign.
Force-protection concerns caused by the closeness of Gnjilane forced us to abandon many of the original buildings on Camp Monteith and build most of the camp in an adjoining field.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/camp-monteith.htm   (550 words)

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