PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro, April 22, 2006 (AFP) -
Two ethnic Albanians were killed and eight were injured on Saturday in a shoot-out over a disputed house in a town in Kosovo, officials said.
"The conflict between two groups erupted over property rights of a house" in the town of Stimlje, some 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of Pristina, said Ibrahim Demiri, spokesman of a local council.
A buyer, accompanied by several people, was trying to enter his new property when illegal occupants of the house opened fire on them, Demiri explained.
One of the murdered was Vezir Bajrami, deputy mayor of Stimlje, whose brother had bought the house.
Bajrami was a member of the opposition Democratic party of Kosovo (DPK) but officials ruled out any political dimension to the incident.
Police said three of eight injured in the shoot-out had suffered serious wounds.
Demiri said several children who were on their way to school were slightly injured.
Kosovo, a southern Serbian province, has been run by the United Nations and NATO since June 1999, after NATO air attacks drove out forces loyal to the late Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic over a crackdown against separatist Albanian rebels.
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BELGRADE -- Mladic has been located in Macedonia, near the Greek border, according to daily Glas Javnosti.
The daily writes that according to Banja Luka daily Fokus, Mladic was located in Macedonia two weeks ago, in a vacationing community on the coast of the Dojranska Lake, near the border with Greece. Fokus’ sources say that Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has serious intentions of arresting Mladic and extraditing him to The Hague, but is trying in every way possible to make sure that the arrest does not take place on the territory of Serbia.
Fokus claims that this is because Kostunica would like to keep the Government in tact, and the Socialist Party of Serbia is threatening to collapse it if Mladic is arrested.
Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski denied the claims that Mladic is in Macedonia, according to Glas Javnosti.
Serbian Radical Party official Milorad Mrcic said that Mladic’s eventual arrest would show how little Kostunica takes into consideration the feelings of Serbia’s citizens and that arresting Mladic would be yet another betrayal of the Serbian people.
Liberal-Democratic Party President Cedomir Jovanovic that every day is a good day for Mladic to be arrested.
The International Crisis Group’s Balkans expert, James Lion, said that the media creates unnecessary hype before every deadline for the arrest of Mladic and that the international community will believe that Mladic is arrested only when they see him in The Hague. He said that Mladic will not be arrested because the Serbian Government is using the situation as a trump card for the Kosovo question.
Ai që është i gatshë apo që e vret Shqiptarin për pasuri (tokë apo shtëpi, etj) të shkaut duhët t'i Shqiptohet denimi më i rreptë. Burg të përjetshëm.
TË MOS BLIHEN "PASURIT" E SHKIJEVE! Sepse ato kan qenë dhe do të mbesin të Shqiptarëve. Të mos i paguajmë për së dyti dhe të mos hym në gjak me njëri-tjetrin.
Mushtishti është një shembull i mirë për neve (se si duhët vepruar lidhur me këtë çështje). Në Mushtisht ka pasur mjaftë shkije kolonialiste para luftës së fundit në Shqipëri/Kosovë, por fshati bashkarisht ka vendosur që as një pëllëmb toke të mos blehet prej shkiveve.
Bashkim Shqiptari
Typical albanian violence. Can't wait to see them try and get an eu bid in like 50 years.
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