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	Podujevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Podujevo (Serbian Подујево, Albanian Besiana), is the name of a town, the center of a municipality, situated in Malo Kosovo, a region in north-east Kosovo.
		Podujevo is situated in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad linking surrounding regions.
		On March 28 1999, 14 Kosovo Albanian women and children were murdered in a back garden in Podujevo by Serbian paramilitary from the notorious interior ministry unit the Scorpions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Podujevo (244 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Kosovo Towns Set to End Rule Of Ex-Guerrillas
		PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia, Oct. 27 –– The dusty, deeply cratered streets of this war-ravaged Kosovo city seem like fertile political ground for a party of ethnic Albanian ex-guerrilla fighters.
		Moreover, what happens in Podujevo seems likely to be repeated in many towns and cities in Kosovo, a province of Serbia under U.N. control, according to numerous polls, residents and foreign specialists.
		The unelected mayor of Podujevo, from Thaqi's party, concedes that voters are set to oust him in favor of the candidate aligned with Rugova.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29269-2000Oct27?language=printer (1093 words)

	Podujevo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Podujevo is situated in (Click link for more info and facts about Malo Kosovo) Malo Kosovo, in a strategic position due to a regional motorway and railroad linking surrounding regions.
		On March 28 1999, 14 Kosovo (The Indo-European language spoken by the people of Albania) Albanian women and children were murdered in a back garden in Podujevo by Serbian paramilitary from the notorious interior ministry unit the Scorpions.
		Five children were the sole survivors of the atrocity and four years later went to the (Capital and largest city of Yugoslavia) Belgrade district court to testify against Sasa Cvjetan, a Serbian paramilitary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/podujevo.htm (201 words)

	Chronology of UÇK's (KLA) terrorism and aggression (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Podujevo, police officers at the juncture of the road Pristina- Podujevo-Kursumlija were fired on.
		Two police officers were killed by automatic weapons near the village of Surkis in the Podujevo municipality -- Milos Nikolic, a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct, and Dragan Rakic from the village of Velika Reka, who was a police officer in the reserves and a manager of a company in Podujevo.
		against police officers in the Podujevo municipality: In the village of Zakut a police vehicle was fired on, and in the center of Podujevo explosives devices were hurled at the residential building where police officers live.
	emmaf.isuisse.com /base/chrkla.html (2868 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - Bombing of Kursumlija (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		During the bombing they were in their house in the village of Mirovac, several kilometers north of Podujevo.
		The road from Podujevo to Kursumlija, near the village Merdar, has been damaged to a great extent.
		In Podujevo and its surroundings the NATO aggressor targeted civilians facilities with over 10 missiles, the statement said.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /kosovo_crisis/destruction/Kursumlija (120 words)

	Press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Municipality of Podujevo celebrated today the re-opening of the “IMN 8 Nentori” brick factory after a long and difficult period of closure.
		The celebration, which took place on the second anniversary of the liberation of the city of Podujevo, was held at the factory itself.
		It was attended by representatives of the Municipality of Podujevo, the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR), UNMIK’s Department of Trade and Industry, as well as the factory’s managers and workers.
	www.ear.eu.int /publications/main/news-a1a2a3ze4.htm (474 words)

	December 26, 1998
		PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia -- A sustained assault by Serbian forces on this area in northern Kosovo province ripped apart a tenuous two-month cease-fire Thursday, as more than 40 armored vehicles and tanks fought through the day with separatist guerrillas.
		The government said the assault Thursday was part of the investigation into the assassination of a state security official in Podujevo on Monday, a claim dismissed by diplomats.
		OSCE spokesman Jorgen Grunnet said there was a lot less activity than Thursday, when Serb forces backed by artillery and dozens of tanks swept into the area in what they said was a response to the killing of a policeman earlier in the week.
	www.alb-net.com /kcc/26dhjetor.htm (4861 words)

	Kosova Crisis Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On the outskirts of Podujevo an estate wagon sped past us, carrying four men with shaved heads and bushy fl beards, their rifle barrels showing through the car windows: militiamen, a rabble.
		The men, most of whom were of fighting age, all are from Podujevo, a 20-mile walk north of Prishtina, one of them said.
		Thick gray smoke was rising from three houses on the edge of Podujevo, apparently from fires set the night before, when Serbian generals formally accepted NATO's terms for a pullout.
	www.alb-net.com /kcc/061199e.htm (3527 words)

	KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - HEART OF SERBIA - terrorism
		October 25: Two police officers were killed by automatic weapons near the village of Surkis in the Podujevo municipality Milos Nikolic (34), a police inspector of the Pristina Precinct, and Dragan Rakic from the village of Velika Reka, who was a police officer in the reserves and a manager of a company in Podujevo.
		January 9: In the center of Podujevo at 5:30 PM Malic Saholi (52), an ethnic Albanian who was the manager of the superamarket "Vocar" and a deputy in the municipal council of Podujevo as a member of the Socialist Party of Serbia, was shot and killed.
		December 25: Two terrorist attacks were carried out shortly after 3 PM against police officers in the Podujevo municipality: In the village of Zakut a police vehicle was fired on, and in the center of Podujevo explosives devices were hurled at the residential building where police officers live.
	www.eurinome.it /terrorism1.html (15747 words)

	Guardian \| In cold blood
		In March 1999, Serbian paramilitaries gunned down 19 women and children in the Kosovan town of Podujevo in a brutal act of ethnic cleansing.
		Their appearance before Judge Biljana Sinanovic in a closed Belgrade courtroom, besides being an act of great courage, is also a watershed: Serbian human rights campaigners hope the Bogujevci children will help Serbia to face the truth and cut through the fog of war, political manipulations, denials, lying and cover-ups.
		They were then ordered to Podujevo at dawn on the day of the massacre to "cleanse the territory".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4709157-103645,00.html (1537 words)

	BALKANS CHRONOLOGY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the nearby town of Podujevo, Serbian police were keeping a low profile and life was slowly returning to the streets.
		In a two-story, cream-colored house in Podujevo is the regional Kosovo Liberation Army headquarters.
		The latest violence in the podujevo region of northern Kosovo grew out of maneuvering by each side for superior military positions near a major highway linking Kosovo with the rest of Serbia, gambits that would hardly be important unless each side expects more fighting in the spring.
	www.nwc.navy.mil /balkans/bald28j3.htm (10706 words)

	Serbs Driven From Kosovo Live Bitterly in Exile [Free Republic]
		URSUMLIJA, Serbia -- Srbislav Bisercic, a competent, bluff and imposing figure who always wore a pistol when he ran the Podujevo municipal administration in Kosovo, is now a broken man, ashamed to be in a jobless exile and hunting for a cheap apartment.
		On the square, wearing shorts and flip-flops and a two-day beard, he said he and his mother and brother and their families -- 14 people -- had all moved here, where his wife was born.
		He, like the others, insists that the Albanians of Podujevo were his finest friends and that he protected them as best he could.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37ce609a2aeb.htm (1658 words)

	Kosovo's 156 lawless: Biographies of the men in the Albanian-dominated Serbian province of Kosovo \| Serbianna.com ...
		He was the chief of the KLA general staff in KandM and the chief of staff of the 2nd KPC RTG, as well as an official of the Ministry of Defense in the Interim Government of Hashim Thaqi.
		In June 1998, he was appointed, by Nuredin Ibishi, commander of the general staff for the Lab operational zone, commander of the Special KLA forces engaged in the diversionary terrorist actions, whose members had committed a large number of terrorist attacks on the Serb population.
		Born on June 6, 1974, in the village of Turuchica, Municipality of Podujevo.
	www.serbianna.com /features/lawless/index.shtml (19475 words)

	CNN - Fighting flares in Kosovo as West pushes peace plan - January 27, 1999
		PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Serb gunfire pounded rebel positions in the Serbian province of Kosovo on Wednesday, as Western officials continued to press the two sides to meet for peace talks.
		The KVM is made up of international representatives assigned by the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor the shaky truce in the province.
		A Serb official suggested the fighting began with Kosovo rebels attacking a police station in the village of Luzane, near Podujevo.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9901/27/kosovo.03 (580 words)

	Grenade blast near Kosovo police station (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Two other grenades were found unexploded outside the police station, in the town of Podujevo said Derek Chappell, a spokesman for the UN police in the province.
		On Wednesday several hundred ethnic Albanian in Podujevo protested a landmark ruling before a Kosovo court, which sentenced four former rebels to between five and 17 years in prison for war crimes.
		The crimes were committed in what was then Mustafa's zone of command in the region of Podujevo, some 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Pristina, the capital of the southern Serbian province.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/afp071703.htm (318 words)

	Bosnia Report - July - September 2000
		In March 1999, Serbian paramilitaries gunned down 19 women and children in the Kosova town of Podujevo in a brutal act of ethnic cleansing.
		Fatos's mother, Shefkate, was the first to die in front of her five children, within hours of the 120-strong Scorpions being ordered into Podujevo ‘to cleanse the territory’.
		He has told investigators how, when NATO started bombing the Serbs four days before the massacre, the Scorpions were mobilized, taken to Belgrade to pick up their uniforms, then on to southern Serbia by bus to pick up their automatic weapons and ammunition.
	www.bosnia.org.uk /bosrep/report_format.cfm?articleid=1007&reportid=160 (1542 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: NATO Unable to Prevent Destructive Withdrawal
		Driven out of Podujevo and nearby villages by army shelling, ethnic Albanian refugees retreated today over the hills north of Pristina via the village of Kolic.
		The road through Kolic that the refugees from Podujevo took today is a scene of utter devastation.
		Back on the main road between Pristina and Podujevo, British soldiers expressed eagerness to stop the house-burnings and shellings but said they were unable to act because of the terms of the military agreement.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/serbs061799.htm (1038 words)

	Bus blast kills 7 Serbs, injures 43 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		PODUJEVO, Yugoslavia (AP) Kosovo militants blew up a bus carrying Serb families on a pilgrimage to the graves of their ancestors on Friday, killing seven people, injuring 43 and leaving behind a tangle of charred metal, scraps of clothing and scattered notebook pages covered with children's doodles.
		The attack was the deadliest in more than a year and is likely to further undermine efforts by NATO and the United Nations to improve relations between Serbs and ethnic Albanians after last year's rise to power of a democratic government in Belgrade.
		The bus — near the city of Podujevo, 25 miles northeast of Pristina — was part of a five-vehicle convoy carrying about 250 people, accompanied by five Swedish armored personnel carriers and a medical detachment, peacekeepers said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-02-16-kosovo.htm (985 words)

	Kosovo Serbs Fear Revenge From KLA / `There's no one here now to defend us'
		Podujevo, Yugoslavia -- As the long army convoy roared out of Kosovo yesterday, beginning a defeated Serbia's painful retreat from its historical heartland, a military policeman in his fl beret snapped a salute to each passing vehicle, tears streaming down his face.
		Small knots of Serbs gathered quietly on Podujevo's street corners in the wearying sun as the long column moved past.
		Podujevo was more than 90 percent ethnic Albanian before this passionate and murderous war of expulsion, threat and panic began.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/11/MN88538.DTL&type=printable (1038 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » UN Inter-Agency Update on Kosovo Humanitarian Situation Report 76
		Fighting between Serbian security forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) erupted in Podujevo municipality on 24 December and continued for four days, ending in a truce negotiated by the OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) on 27 December.
		Podujevo town, which has a population of more than 20,000, remains tense and some residents (mostly women and children) have begun to leave, fearing the spread of fighting.
		In addition to the fighting in Podujevo, the most serious incident since the declaration of the ceasefire in October 1998, the period under review has witnessed an increase in the number of murders (allegedly perpetrated by the KLA), which have prompted vigorous retaliatory action by government security forces.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/15e7f2b2aea3e07fc12566f600527779 (1998 words)

	YDS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Milovan Radojevic, a Serb killed in an ethnic Albanian attack on the village of Obrandza on Saturday, was buried in Podujevo, in the north of Serbia's southern Province of Kosovo and Metohija, on Sunday.
		In an Albanian terrorist attack, early on Sunday in the vicinity of the village Velika Reka west of Podujevo, was wounded Dragoslav Zdravkovic (62), Podujevo municipal authorities said.
		The open announcement by the terrorists that they would continue with their attacks is another in a series of warnings to the OSCE Verification Mission in Kosovo and Metohija, but the international representatives are still trying to present as equal the actions by terrorists and the legal activities by police in finding perpetrators of crimes.
	www.suc.org /news/yds/b281298_e.html (4767 words)

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		As the Yugoslav forces began their grudging withdrawal from the blasted and burnt homes lining the roads, the people of Podujevo emerged to tell of their experience of war, of relations killed, injured or lost, of brutality and looting.
		Sitting on some steps off the main street of Podujevo, where she had arrived to meet her cousin, Mrs Bashi described the last time she saw Ibrahim and Sadil.
		Death never seems to have been very far away from Podujevo, and there are still bodies lying out in the hills, the locals say.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/99act/Kosovo_Special_Covg_from_INDEPENDENT,_London (2358 words)

	Business in podujevo - UNITED NATIONS MISSION IN KOSOVO * * UNMIK Police MHQ, PRISTINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A field hospital from Podujevo was also being evacuated.
		But events were worse in Pec and Podujevo than in Pristina, he said.
		children in Kosovan town of Podujevo in a brutal act of ethnic cleansing.
	www.netdatax.com /?q=business-in-podujevo (349 words)

	The Serbs: Torn by War, a Town Works to Recover
		Today, in his cafe across from the Podujevo municipal building, Savic says he's feeling better, even as NATO airplanes circle and bomb in the hills to the west.
		The regional headquarters of the armed rebels in the hills around Lapastica, where a commander called Remi used to hold court for foreign journalists, is also gone, leaving only small groups of Albanian guerrillas fighting partisan actions in the hills farther north and west, around Bajgora.
		The resentment of Podujevo's Serbs toward the Albanians was mounting three months ago, and it burst forth in a week of violence after the bombing began on March 24 and ethnic Albanian guerrillas attacked policemen in the town, killing 10 people, said the town's mayor, Milovan Tomcic.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/world/europe/051099kosovo-serbia.html (1120 words)

	UNHCR - Kosovo: humanitarian situation deteriorating rapidly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A government offensive against the Kosovo Liberation Army in the Podujevo region went into its second straight day on Thursday, prompting residents to flee villages engulfed in the conflict.
		A UNHCR team visiting the area yesterday was told that 1,600 people had fled at least half a dozen more small villages southwest of Podujevo.
		They are among 30,000 people who have been on the move since the government went on the offensive in late December in the municipalities of Podujevo, Mitrovica, Stimlje, Suva Reka and Decani.
	www.unhcr.ch /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3ae6b82078&page=news (244 words)

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