Kosovo: Serb woman beaten, bomb scare

Three unknown assailants attacked a Serb woman in her Kosovo home this morning, reports said. Jelica Arsic, from Gornji Livoc, near Gjilane, was assaulted and severely beaten, Zoran Maksimovic, a fellow villager, told Beta news agency. Kosovo: Serb woman beaten, bomb scare Maksimovic is one of the leaders of Our Serbia organization, whose home was also targeted with explosive devices on several occasions. Arsic, who was identified as a senior citizen but whose age was not given in the report, was taken to Serbia proper for treatment. Brain injury was feared as the woman was disoriented and repeatedly vomited. A Vranje clinic said that she suffered head injuries, but that there was no brain damage. She was also treated for shock, and released from hospital. But Kosovo police, KPS, said that the woman "was not attacked, and not in shock". They said that a robbery took place in her home last night, and that, "while running away, the perpetrator pushed the woman, after which she fell and sustained her injuries". Also Tuesday in Kosovo, a Serb elementary school in Laplje Selo received an anonymous tip about a bomb allegedly planted at the building. The tip-off proved to be false, reports say, quoting KPS sources. KPS and KFOR special units determined that there were no planted explosive devices in the school building or in its compound, local KIM radio said. The students and teachers were evacuated this morning. The Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohija (SNV) reacted Tuesday and warned about the increasing pressure of ethnic Albanians on Serbs, urged UNMIK and KFOR to protect the Serb and other non-Albanian population, and called on the authorities in Belgrade to "undertake at once the measures that were required for the protection of the sovereignty and integrity on the whole of its territory." "The bomb hoax in the Miladin Mitric primary school in the village of Laplje Selo, the beating up of a Serb woman in the village of Livoc near Gnjilane, as well as the pressure of the ethnic Albanian institutions that border crossings be placed at the administrative crossings are aimed at destabilizing the Serb community and forcing the Serbs to leave their homes, which will cause a destabilization of the region as a whole," the SNV assessed in a statement. The Council requires from the representatives of UNMIK and KFOR to protect the Serbs and other non-Albanians in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and to fulfill the mandate they have been entrusted with. "Because of the newly-presented situation, the SNV demands from official Belgrade to undertake at once the measures that are required for the protection of the sovereignty and integrity on the whole of its territory, all in keeping with the strategy and the adopted acts regarding Kosovo and Metohija," the statement said. Police and KFOR in the school yard in Laplje Selo today (FoNet)

Kosovo: Serb woman beaten, bomb scare

Maksimović is one of the leaders of Our Serbia organization, whose home was also targeted with explosive devices on several occasions.

Arsić, who was identified as a senior citizen but whose age was not given in the report, was taken to Serbia proper for treatment. Brain injury was feared as the woman was disoriented and repeatedly vomited.

A Vranje clinic said that she suffered head injuries, but that there was no brain damage. She was also treated for shock, and released from hospital.

But Kosovo police, KPS, said that the woman "was not attacked, and not in shock".

They said that a robbery took place in her home last night, and that, "while running away, the perpetrator pushed the woman, after which she fell and sustained her injuries".

Also Tuesday in Kosovo, a Serb elementary school in Laplje Selo received an anonymous tip about a bomb allegedly planted at the building.

The tip-off proved to be false, reports say, quoting KPS sources.

KPS and KFOR special units determined that there were no planted explosive devices in the school building or in its compound, local KIM radio said.

The students and teachers were evacuated this morning.

The Serb National Council of Kosovo and Metohija (SNV) reacted Tuesday and warned about the increasing pressure of ethnic Albanians on Serbs, urged UNMIK and KFOR to protect the Serb and other non-Albanian population, and called on the authorities in Belgrade to "undertake at once the measures that were required for the protection of the sovereignty and integrity on the whole of its territory."

"The bomb hoax in the Miladin Mitrić primary school in the village of Laplje Selo, the beating up of a Serb woman in the village of Livoč near Gnjilane, as well as the pressure of the ethnic Albanian institutions that border crossings be placed at the administrative crossings are aimed at destabilizing the Serb community and forcing the Serbs to leave their homes, which will cause a destabilization of the region as a whole," the SNV assessed in a statement.

The Council requires from the representatives of UNMIK and KFOR to protect the Serbs and other non-Albanians in keeping with UN Security Council Resolution 1244 and to fulfill the mandate they have been entrusted with.

"Because of the newly-presented situation, the SNV demands from official Belgrade to undertake at once the measures that are required for the protection of the sovereignty and integrity on the whole of its territory, all in keeping with the strategy and the adopted acts regarding Kosovo and Metohija," the statement said.