Earlier, sources from the OSCE Verification mission in Kosovo (KVM) said that "fighting started in four villages, Straza, where artillery shots were heard, Ivaja, Gajre and Globocica," in a region close to the border with Macedonia.
A U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) convoy which was due to evacuate some 200 displaced people from the region, towards the north, was cancelled, the source added. The refugees had fled fighting between Belgrade forces and the KLA last week.
Serb security forces mounted a massive attack on the Kosovo village of Ivaja Tuesday, razing most houses to the ground and forcing residents to flee, according to the Kosovo Verification Mission. Verifier Otto Bischof told media that the army and police troops had successfully cleared the area of the KLA. . . . According to Reuters the men were separated out and taken away to check if they were affiliated to the KLA. International verifiers described the incident as very worrying.
Verification mission representative said that Serb police had detained 35 Albanians. This figure was disputed by Serbian sources who claimed that only 23 Albanians were in custody after the clashes. Kosova Press, the news agency of the KLA, reported that three KLA fighters were killed and another seven wounded. Before being taken away, one of the men said his group came from the village of Ivaja where fighting between Serb forces and ethnic Albanian rebels began early on Monday.
Since it was a KLA village, it’s neither surprising nor improper that military age men were taken into custody after the terrorists were suppressed (and no, you don’t want to go there), and there’s no allegation that they were mistreated in any way.
I’m duly impressed that you didn’t address my critique. That’s what I call making a virtue of necessity. Don’t worry, there are places that can help . I’d suggest signing onto a correspondence course, but that would be cruel now, wouldn’t it.
"Razing" Gael, is part of ethnic cleansing.
Whatever - since you're happy to lump all Kosovar Albanians into the generic "KLA", then we'll just lump all Serbs into "Paramilitaries", fair enough?.
Ergo, you have no standing to complain about Serbian paramilitaries being ejected from Kosovo.
Or does your ability to discriminate between combatants and non-combatants only work when Serb civilians are involved?
This war is so over Gael. Nurse your lumps in private and get on with your lives - this constant whining and revising the past to support your victim complex is just sick.