KFOR report details Kosovo violence

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The most recent report from KFOR to the United Nations on its Kosovo operation details the continuing violence.

"The situation in Kosovo remained tense over the reporting period, with a number of violent incidents related either to ethnic tension or to the forthcoming municipal elections," says the report for the period 23 August to 22 September. "Incidents of harassment and intimidation continued, the majority directed against Kosovo Serbs," it says.

The violence listed in the latest 'Monthly Report to the UN on the Operations of the Kosovo Force' includes:

*Arson attacks on unoccupied Kosovo Serb houses in Orahovac.

*Grenade attacks in Gnjilane resulting in the death of one Kosovo Serb.

*Grenade attacks on two Kosovo Serb properties in Gnjilane.

*A search operation in Gracanican which resulted in the detention of six people for questioning by UNMIK. During the operation, weapons, ammunition and a quantity of explosives and detonators were seized by KFOR troops.

*Violence and intimidation against members of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) party.

*A Molotov cocktail thrown at the house of the regional LDK spokesman in Prizren.

*Two KFOR soldiers were wounded when rifle grenades were fired from a passing car in the town of Vucitrn. The attack was thought to be linked to an earlier incident when two Kosovo Albanians were shot by KFOR soldiers. In response to the attack, KFOR increased local force protection.

* Attack on a KFOR checkpoint north of Djakovica by automatic weapons fire. KFOR troops returned fire, but the perpetrators escaped by car.

* 163 weapons seized and destroyed.

* Nine Kosovo Albanians arrested for attempting illegally to cross the border at the Morina South border crossing point .

*Continued reports of paramilitary activities being conducted by the "Liberation Army of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac" in and around Dobrosin in the ground safety zone.

The report also stated that 2,449 police officers of the Kosovo Police School were deployed throughout Kosovo in support of the UNMIK police force.

Since the beginning of January 2000, there have been a total of 66,039 organized returns, of mostly Kosovo Albanian refugees.

Approximately 200,000 Kosovo Serbs and 30,000 to 40,000 other ethnic minorities remain displaced within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, the report added.

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