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	Kosovo Rebels Make Own Law
		UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia, Nov. 23—Nasir Hajdari was summoned to the door of his third-floor apartment late last month here in the town where President Clinton today hailed the progress Kosovo has made toward a return to normal life.
		But documents recently seized in Urosevac show a businessman was ordered to pay taxes of $400 two weeks ago and that the government has established an elaborate sliding scale of illegal taxes for cigarettes, alcohol, juices, coffee and gasoline.
		NATO troops seized one eviction notice, for example, that ordered that a flat in Urosevac be given to someone wounded in the war; it was signed by Shukri Buja, a former KLA regional commander slated for a top job in the Kosovo Protection Corps.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/WPcap/1999-11/24/084r-112499-idx.html (1130 words)

	Shrines
		RACAK (Urosevac): remains of the foundations of a church (of the Holy Anargyroi?) from the 14C, with the fragments of frescoes and stone ornaments.
		SVRCIN (Urosevac): in the 14C the courts of Serbian rulers were located here, together with the church of St John in which King Dusan was coronated in 1331 (the palace stood on the Sarajiste estate and the church on the Glavica hill on the site called Crkvine - i.e.
		UROSEVAC: the church dating from 1901 formerly existed; it was abandoned after the construction of the new church of the Holy King Uros in 1933 (the new church treasures an interesting collection of 19th-century icons)
	www.mit.edu /~most/ser/kos/shrines1.html (11263 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: In Kosovo Town: Two Views of History
		UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia -- Less than a mile of road, but light years of opposing beliefs and memories, separate the homes of Radoslav Veljkovic, a retired Serbian schoolteacher, and Paljusi Ramadan, an ethnic Albanian bus driver.
		Urosevac bears the scars typical of Kosovo — a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic — after eight weeks of war.
		In 1921, his grandfather, on a trip to Urosevac to buy a house, was set upon by ethnic Albanian brigands.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/kosovo052099.htm (1079 words)

	Kosovo2006 - Making Of A Compromise
		BROD (Urosevac): remains of the church of St Peter, near the village, and of an old graveyard, in the village.
		GORNJA BITINA (Urosevac): new church constructed over the remains of the old church of St George (the apse with old frescoes) several stone slabs from the 14C have survived in the church and next to it (the Turkish census of 1455 makes mention of two village priests).
		GREBNO (Urosevac): at the end of the 19C and the beginning of the 20C, the ruins of two churches stood in the village, and above the village was the church called Manastir (Monastery).
	www.kosovocompromise.com /pages/kosovo_yesterday/sub_links/7_2/frame.html (19225 words)

	Shrines
		RACAK (Urosevac): remains of the foundations of a church (of the Holy Anargyroi?) from the 14C, with the fragments of frescoes and stone ornaments.
		SVRCIN (Urosevac): in the 14C the courts of Serbian rulers were located here, together with the church of St John in which King Dusan was coronated in 1331 (the palace stood on the Sarajiste estate and the church on the Glavica hill on the site called Crkvine - i.e.
		UROSEVAC: the church dating from 1901 formerly existed; it was abandoned after the construction of the new church of the Holy King Uros in 1933 (the new church treasures an interesting collection of 19th-century icons)
	web.mit.edu /~most/Public/kos/shrines1.html (11263 words)

	Balkan Repository Project - Civilians - victims of ethnic Albanian terrorism in 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Faruk Murselji (1978) was killed by ethnic Albanian terrorists on the Urosevac-Gnjilane road, in the village of Biba, municipality of Urosevac, on January 9, around 9 p.m.
		Saiti Sejdi (1949) from Urosevac, was wounded by ethnic Albanian terrorists with shots from automatic weapons, on January 12, at 8,45 p.m..
		Ethnic Albanian terrorists killed from firearms Avdi Dzavit (1945) from Urosevac and Salja Salji (1962) from the village of Jerli Talinovac, municipality of Urosevac.
	www.balkan-archive.org.yu /politics/kosovo/documents/civilians_1999.html (2589 words)

	Online NewsHour: Winning the Peace -- June 22, 1999
		And it's here in cities like this Urosevac where the peacekeepers must rebuild trust and confidence if Kosovo is ever to escape its history of ethnic hatred and religious violence.
		Urosevac is Kosovo's fourth largest city, a farming and light manufacturing center located in the American sector.
		Urosevac last week, there were still remnants of the retreating Serb army, as well as Serb paramilitary units responsible for most of the worst civilian atrocities.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/europe/jan-june99/peace_6-22.html (1675 words)

	Policy or Panic: Phase 2
		Mass killings, too, are concentrated in the north-eastern part of the country, particularly in the area from Mitrovica in the north, through Pristina to Lipljan.
		The heaviest flow of people out of any single municipality in Phase 2 originated in Mitrovica, which during this Phase is bombed only on 17 April; note that the NATO attack came after the peak number of departures on 14-15 April.
		Urosevac is presented to show the refugee pattern in an area of heavy NATO bombing.
	shr.aaas.org /kosovo/policyorpanic/phase2.html (1326 words)

	UNHCR - Kosovo Crisis Update
		Six trucks went to Urosevac, eight to Pec and six to Prizren.
		The refugees left Mjeda by bus Thursday morning for the border town of Kukes, 80 kilometers to the east, where they were expected to arrive later in the afternoon.
		Roads are rough and if there is not enough time to proceed to Kosovo on Thursday, they will overnight in Kukes and cross the border on Friday on their way to Prizren, Pristina and a few to Urosevac.
	www.unhcr.org /cgi-bin/texis/vtx/news/opendoc.htm?tbl=NEWS&id=3ae6b80a20 (953 words)

	Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy: Duke Policy News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		South of Urosevac (south of Pristina) I observe a strange confrontation between VJ (Yugoslav Army) and British troops.
		In Urosevac (south of Pristina) a Colonel of the 243 VJ-Army Brigade is shouting, "Let's go!" The Yugoslav Army is leaving town.
		Leningrad Street, the main road of Urosevac, is a symbol of this divide: All the Albanian buildings have been burnt down - the bakery, shops, houses.
	www.pubpol.duke.edu /dpn/fall99/seifertedit.html (2156 words)

	Urosevac, Kosovo - KLA terrorists bomb during peace talks in Rambouillet, France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Urosevac, Kosovo - KLA terrorists bomb during peace talks in Rambouillet, France
		Two people out of thirteen are seriously injured, and there is great material damage from a powerful bomb explosion in the centre of Urosevac, southern Kosovo.
		Seriously injured were Sulejmani Sefcet (1952, Albanian), from Rahovica village, and Behljulji Sefki (1944, Albanian), from Biba village, the municipality of Urosevac.
	www.compuserb.com /urosev01.htm (280 words)

	EMBASSY OF GREECE: PRESS OFFICE - News Flash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The prime minister, accompanied by National Defense Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos and Press Minister Dimitris Reppas, arrived in Urosevac aboard two helicopters which were escorted by two US Apache helicopters after entering the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
		Simitis said the decision on the reconstruction of Yugoslavia is a decision by the European Union and does not depend on political developments in Yugoslavia.
		Simitis said his impressions concerning the presence of the Greek force is that good cooperation exists with the authorities, the international peacekeeping force's command, as well as with the US brigade, part of which is composed of the Greek batt alion.
	www.greekembassy.org /press/newsflash/1999/July/nflash0728.html (767 words)

	Guardian \| Serbs flee as reprisals stoke fear
		The imam could only imagine that it was one of these lost souls who killed two Serb men on Tuesday night, dragging a father and son from their homes and shooting them in the head.
		The fear caused by the Urosevac killings was compounded by news that three Serbs had been killed in the economics faculty of Pristina university.
		But the US forces stationed in Urosevac believe the KLA assurances that it is not involved in the anti-Serb violence.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,3878146-103558,00.html (916 words)

	Worldandnation: In Kosovo, ballot will offer voters new choice: women
		UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia -- The walls are shedding their paint.
		That is why Behluli and other women candidates have met in the center of Urosevac, a bustling market town.
		They sit in a semicircle, bundled in sweaters and jackets, and listen with equal measures of curiosity and skepticism as two political activists from Canada expound on the art of getting elected.
	www.sptimes.com /News/100500/news_pf/Worldandnation/In_Kosovo__ballot_wil.shtml (816 words)

	Serbs and ethnic Albanians together (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		By PAUL WATSON, Times Staff Writer UROSEVAC, Yugoslavia--Wars aren't fought with guns and bombs alone, and in Kosovo, teams of Serbs and ethnic Albanians are defending the province against NATO with ratchet wrenches and lengths of cable.
		They are linemen working for the state electric utility, Elektrokosmet, and each day they wage their own battles against the damage that allied pilots, with their relentless bombing, are doing to this country's power grid, trying to make it collapse.
		Dalib Recica is among several thousand ethnic Albanians who stayed in Urosevac after most left to escape Serbian attacks, NATO bombardment and a renewed civil war between security forces and separatist guerrillas.
	members.tripod.com /sarant_2/ks25watson.html (950 words)

	Mr_Shaqiri_would_like_to_go_home_Skopje_Shutka_UN_Refugee_Camp_January_2002
		"Before the war I was Musli Shaqiri from Urosevac," the man says and points towards the mountains in the North West.
		Urosevac is not far, just 50 Kilometers, but for Mr.
		Shaqiri and the other "refudjis" there is no place any longer in Urosevac or elsewhere in Kosovo.
	www.angelfire.com /ak5/jboe/romaen.htm (610 words)

	Guardian \| Clinton is welcome, but not his message
		The crowd in the town of Urosevac, which Albanians call Ferizaj, welcomed the US president as a hero whose military intervention ended a decade of apartheid-style rule from Belgrade.
		But Suat Berisha, 30 and a native of Urosevac who fled to Albania during the war, spoke for most when he said: "There's no way we can live together [with the Serbs].
		They accept Nato reports of a decline in violence against minorities in the territory, but put it down to the fact that there are fewer and fewer people of the minorities in Kosovo to pick on.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3934053-103558,00.html (583 words)

	30 OUT OF THE 40 PEOPLE KILLED IN RACAK WERE KNOWN KLA MEMBERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The Urosevac SUP covered the area of Urosevac, Stimlje, Strpce, and Kacanik, as well as the village of Racak.
		It is interesting to note that Jasovic first came to the tribunal as a prosecution witness in the Limaj trial, not as a defense witness for Milosevic.
		Nice tracked down told the prosecution that he had seen blood on the floor of the basement of the Urosevac SUP building, and was so scared by the sight that he signed a statement without even reading it.
	www.slobodan-milosevic.org /news/smorg042605.htm (568 words)

	Ethnic clashes flare in Kosovo; 14 killed - The Boston Globe
		In a severe blow to international hopes of calm ahead of talks this year or next on Kosovo's future status, the explosion of ethnic hatred in a dozen locations offered evidence that reconciliation of the two communities was still distant.
		Clashes were reported from Mitrovica in the north to Urosevac in the south and Pec in the west, with UN police and troops injured in several places.
		The Serbian news agency Beta quoted local police as saying Albanian mobs in Lipljan were burning Serb houses as NATO soldiers worked to evacuate Serb civilians.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2004/03/18/ethnic_clashes_flare_in_kosovo_14_killed (615 words)

	Refugees Recount Weeks on the Move. Human Rights Watch, (26 April 1999)
		Refugees from the Urosevac (Ferizay in Albanian) and Gnjilane areas of southern Kosovo told Human Rights Watch strikingly similar stories of their ordeal: weeks spent fleeing or being forced to move from one village to another.
		Many refugees from Urosevac, for example, fled their homes soon after the NATO air strikes began on March 24, seeking shelter in the nearby village of Sojevo.
		Some were stopped outside Urosevac by the Serb special police and Yugoslav military and prevented for several days from taking the road to the Macedonian border.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /Kosovo/Kosovo-Current_News101.htm (536 words)

	October 28
		Once a home of 9.000 Orthodox Serbs Urosevac town, now known under the Albanian name of Ferizaj (according to Ottoman Feriz Pasha) is one of the most ethnically pure parts of Kosovo and Metohija Province.
		The municipality of Urosevac is now the most ethnically pure part of Kosovo and Metohija: with the exception of 12 Serbs living in the town of Urosevac itself, there are no other Serbs in the entire municipality.
		Prior to the deployment of KFOR in June 1999, there were approximately 60,000 Albanians and 20,000 Serbs in the municipality, 9,000 of the latter within the town of Urosevac.
	www.kosovo.net /erpkim05nov03.html (3121 words)

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		ARSON Urosevac Town - 04/12 - 2125 hrs.
		The K-Albanian male manager of Bankkos Bank reported that two handguns and four magazines were found in one of the bank's lockers.
		The corpse of a K-Albanian male was brought to the Urosevac Hospital.
	www.civpol.org /unmik/PressUpdateArchi/dec/daily051200.txt (805 words)

	ERPKIM Archive \| Roof on Holy Tsar Uros Church in Urosevac repaired, November 14, 2006
		With the support of the U.S. Office in Pristina and especially through the efforts of chief of mission Tina Kaidanow, Urosevac municipality agreed to compensate damages, thus enabling the purchase of copper sheeting used to cover the altar section of the church at the end of October.
		Members of Greek KFOR from Urosevac first removed the barricades placed around the church in order to more easily access the church and so that the new metal gate could be installed in the fence.
		It was yet another opportunity for the expelled Serbs to show that they have not forgotten their holy shrine and to demonstrate through the restoration of their church and through prayer their desire to return to their ancestral homes and live alongside the holy shrines built by their ancestors.
	www.kosovo.net /news/archive/2006/November_14/3.html (866 words)

	HELLENIC NATIONAL DEFENCE GENERAL STAFF PRESS OFFICE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		The KFOR zone of responsibility is Kosovo which has been divided into five sectors of Multinational Brigades (MNBs) for a better coordination and implementation of the KFOR mission.
		It is still stationed in UROSEVAC, where it has started improving and organising the security of the camp, where it is based.
		Thanks to immediate action taken by a HCK patrol, the church “Agios Uros”, in the centre of Urosevac was salvaged from an arson and the holy relics were delivered to the holy monastery of Gracanica.
	www.hri.org /mod/english/military/eldyko/eldykoen.htm (2193 words)

	CNN - Clinton urges Kosovo to make peace with past - November 23, 1999
		UROSEVAC, Kosovo (CNN) -- Five months after their province was wrested from Yugoslav control by NATO bombs, President Clinton urged the people of Kosovo on Tuesday to bury the history of ethnic strife that led to the conflict.
		But the wild applause that greeted the U.S. leader faded significantly as the told the crowd at a school in Urosevac to forgive their former adversaries.
		The troops are preparing for their first Balkan winter as NATO peacekeepers, trying to maintain order between ethnic Albanians and ethnic Serbs.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/europe/9911/23/clinton.kosovo.02/index.html (573 words)

	Milosevic
		Jasovic, a police inspector in the Urosevac police station, under whose jurisdiction Racak fell at the time, brought documents to the court in April to show that the local Albanians he and his colleagues interviewed and interrogated after the Racak event identified 30 out of 45 people killed in Racak as Albanian fighters.
		A statement of a person whose identity was revealed only in a private session went on to explain how they and a number of relatives were stopped at such a checkpoint on February 5, 1999 and “escorted” to the station, where they were interrogated by this week’s witness personally.
		Jasovic insisted that he knew no details of the Racak operation as he did not participate in it and the preparations for it were confined to the his superiors.
	www.iwpr.net /?p=tri&s=f&o=242995&apc_state=henitri2005 (1464 words)

	Situation Reports: Balkans, UNHCR Kosovo Crisis Update: 5 July 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-16)
		Fifty-four of the refugees went to Urosevac and the rest proceeded to Pristina, the Kosovo province capital.
		On Tuesday, Ogata will hold discussions with General Mike Jackson, the KFOR commander, and make a brief stop at Urosevac, a major returnee area 30 kilometers south of Pristina, on her way to Skopje en route back to Geneva.
		Seven teams from the German agency HELP are now working in Pristina, Urosevac and Gnjilane while HALO Trust specialists are conducting a rapid survey of potential land mine sites in the first phase of the UN mine action program in Kosovo.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/2bc18a210931c883c12567a50045fcda (1500 words)

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