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bevegelser og Sverige, der ingen lenger tør vitne:
**He (den dreptes sønn) also lashed out the ethnic Albanians on the streets
that night. "There are about 100 witnesses, but no one witnessed it, and no
one helped them," he said.**
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A slaying in Kosovo Followed Serb's Error [ex-Berkeley prof murdered]
Foreign Affairs News Keywords: KOSOVO, MURDER, MEDIA BIAS AGAINST SERBS
Source: The New York Times
Published: December 3, 1999 Author: CARLOTTA GALL
Posted on 12/03/1999 08:51:58 PST by Fie~on~Feminism! December 3, 1999
A Slaying in Kosovo Followed Serb's Error By CARLOTTA GALL
IS, Serbia -- He was a 62-year-old university professor, a former
Fulbright scholar who had studied and taught at the University of
California at Berkeley. But Sunday night he made a fatal error and drove
his wife and mother-in-law across Kosovo's capital, Pristina, through
crowds of ethnic Albanians celebrating a nationalist holiday.
The Albanians spotted Dragoslav Basic and the two women as Serbs, blocked
the car and began to set it on fire. When the family climbed out of the
car, the crowd beat them. Then someone held a gun to Mr. Basic and shot him
dead.
By the time peacekeeping troops and United Nations police arrived, the two
women were severely injured. By the time they were hospitalized in Serbia
hours later, Mr. Basic's mother-in-law, Borka Jovanovic, 78, was in a coma.
It was just the latest in a series of attacks by ethnic Albanians against
Serbs that have plagued the peacekeeping effort since NATO troops arrived
in Kosovo in June. Albanians have been subjecting Serbs and other
minorities to a campaign of violence that echoes the terror they themselves
experienced at the hands of Serbian police and military forces earlier this
year.
Thursday, the two women lay in the central hospital here in Nis. Mrs.
Jovanovic remained in intensive care, barely conscious, said the chief
surgeon, Dr. Ratsko Djiordjevic.
All the ribs on her left side had been smashed, her lungs and spleen
ruptured, and she suffered abdominal bleeding.
Dragica Basic, 50, the mother of two, suffered a broken arm, dislocated
shoulder, five broken ribs, punctured lungs and a concussion, Dr.
Djiordjevic said. As she slept, her black hair framed a face battered with
multiple bruises and a plaster cast over her broken nose. Her 19-year-old
son, Tomislav Basic, who is studying to be a pharmacist at Belgrade
University, watched over her.
"When I arrived I could not recognize her," he said, his American-accented
English reflecting the year and a half he spent studying in California.
"She is so beaten up, it's terrible. I thought, this is not my mother."
Mrs. Basic has been able to tell him something of what happened.
Sunday evening, the Basics had driven over to Mrs. Jovanovic's home in
Pristina to bring her to back to their place. Mrs. Jovanovic had been
beaten last August when teenagers broke into her house. Despite this, she
continued living alone. But the celebrations on Sunday, as hundreds of
Albanians celebrated their Flag Day, setting off firecrackers and firing
pistols in the air, frightened her.
"There was a big crowd in the city," Tomislav Basic said. "They tried to
take another route to the house to avoid the crowd.
"It was late at night; he made a mistake obviously," he continued,
referring to his father. "On one corner they had to stop. People came to
the car, and surrounded it. They were asking for some ID. My Mum and Dad
tried to speak in English because Serbian is not allowed in Pristina, but
someone from the gang figured they were Serbs."
Albanian prejudice against Serbs is so strong now in Kosovo that few Serbs
dare venture into the street. Most try to conceal their identity, and in
particular avoid speaking Serbian. The risk they face was highlighted in
October when a United Nations employee from Bulgaria was shot dead in the
street after he replied to a question in Serbian.
When the crowd began setting the car on fire, the three had to get out and
that was when the crowd started to beat them, Tomislav Basic said.
"They had weapons, because someone shot my father," he said. "They executed
him like a dog in the street."
United Nations police investigators have yet to make any arrests, and have
not found anyone who will testify as a witness, a spokesman in Pristina
said on Wednesday. Moreover, Albanian trainee policemen working with the
United Nations police were called traitors when they escorted the two women
to the safety of the police station, a local newspaper reported.
Tomislav Basic accused the United Nations police who now patrol Pristina of
arriving "irresponsibly" late. He also lashed out the ethnic Albanians on
the streets that night. "There are about 100 witnesses, but no one
witnessed it, and no one helped them," he said.
The commander of the NATO-led peacekeeping force, Gen. Klaus Reinhardt,
said the attack revealed "a basic lack of humanity by the people in the
streets and a high degree of intolerance on the side of the attackers and
the bystanders."
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Knut Rognes
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