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Kosovo Violence Continues Under UN Occupation

A newly elected Kosovo mayor was killed Sunday Oct 27, 2002, the day after he had been elected in a U.N. run municipal election, according to Reuters News Service.  A spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation  in Europe (OSCE) reported that the mayor and two bodyguards were shot dead in the town of Suva Reka when he tried to calm a dispute between the Democratic League of Kosovo (LKD) and a rival Albanian party.

U. S. President Clinton had earlier singularly blamed Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic for "all of the violence" as justification for going to war with Serbia.  Milosevic is presently on trial by the United Nations, primarily for failing to control violence directed against Albanian civilians by Serbian forces in the first few days of the NATO led war.

Most minority Serbs boycotted elections in the Kosovo province as a protest against rule by the Albanian majority of  whom many desire separation from the Serbian government and unification into a "greater Albania".   The LDK is an Albanian group led by moderate Albanian President Ibrahim Rugova, and is locked in a power struggle with other Albanian groups that emerged from the former rebel forces that had fought the Serbian government in an effort at independence.

The election was seen as a key step for U.N.-led efforts to return the region to normalcy and reconcile Kosovo's bitterly divided ethnic groups. Albanians demand independence, but Serbians insist that it  stay a part of Serbia.

Western officials and the Serbian Government had urged Serbs to vote, telling them it was the only way to improve their situation in the Kosovo province and pave the way for  displaced Serbians to return  home, but local Kosovo Serbians generally refused to partake in the local election.

Prior to the US and Britain led attack on Serbia and Kosovo, Albanians had chosen the same separatist route, refusing to take part in the Serbian led elections even though they had held an overwhelming majority in Kosovo and could have influenced the Belgrade government had they chosen to participate as did other provinces.

The current turmoil may be due not to Serbian dissatisfaction, but to disagreement among Albanians over whether to take a peaceful route toward gaining independence from Serbia, a position which even NATO, which had sided with the Albanians, is opposed to.
 

States' Liberty Party, October 27, 2002

 

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