Eleven persons were gravely wounded and doctors are trying to save their lives. The worst injuries were suffered by Divna Gligorijevic(f), Svetozar Arsic(m) and Slobodanka Nikolic(f) who were transferred to the Clinical Center in Nis (South Serbia). Among the wounded are Stojanka Nicic(f), Persa Kostic (f), Dragisa Smikic(m), Draginja Cirkovic(f), Todorka Mladenovic(f), Leposava Pavic(f), Vesna Stanojevic(f), Novica Maksimovic(f) and Zivorad Stanojevic(m).
Two rifle-fired rockets were launched from the houses in the vicinity of the crowded market place. Mr. Dusan Ristic, the member of the National and Political Council said that the ethnic Albanian extremists were responsible for the massacre and that they manifested the strength of the transformed KLA.
"Kosovo Polje and the neighboring Serb villages have been constantly under attack by the Albanian extremists in the last three days," Ristic said, adding that two days ago Albanians wounded in Ugljare (Ug-lyareh) village Zoran Galic(m) [died from his wounds in the meantime] and stabbed in Bresje village Vojislav Todic(m) and Branislav Jevtic (m).
Protesting against this attack Serbs from Kosovo Polje and the neighboring villages blocked the main road Pristina - Pec. During the blockade there occurred an incident with KFOR soldiers in which two Serbs (Sinisa Velickovic and Ratomir Maksimovic) were injured.
The Serb run Center for Peace and Tolerance in Kosovo Polje received yesterday an anonymous call saying that Albanians would make a bomb attack on the market place. Although this threat was immediately reported to KFOR officials and UN police nothing was undertaken to prevent this monstrous crime.
After the massacre the members of KFOR and UN police used force against the angry Serbs who gathered in front of the local medical clinic to protest against the Albanian terrorist attacks. Five Serbs were injured in this incident, so the number of wounded and injured has risen to 41. Ratomir Maksimovic, the Serb representative for the cooperation with KFOR and UNMIK was hit by a rifle butt in the head and had to be immediately transported to the hospital.
The KFOR authorities in Pristina confirmed the bomb attack on the Bresje market place and said that two persons died and 39, out of which four are in critical condition, were wounded.
The very important archive material is also targeted. It has been destroyed by the terrorists in full view of KFOR soldiers and nothing has been done to protect the books in libraries and other cultural Serb institutions in Kosovo. It is a shame that the works of Shakespeare, Goethe, Poe, and other famous writers are burned in front of soldiers who came from the countries of these writers.
In the worst position are the communal libraries in Prizren, Djakovica, Istok, Glogovac, Srbica, Podujevo and other cities which are under control of uniformed KLA members. This barbarism is not remembered since the time of Hitler and the Nazi burning of books in WWII.
"This is the only multiethnic radio station in Kosovo that will broadcast in all three languages," Editor-in-Chief Zvonko Tarle told Novi Sad Radio 021 on Tuesday, emphasizing that once the station was fully equipped technically its signal would be received in those parts of Kosovo where the remaining Serb population, currently deprived of timely information in its mother tongue, lives. Radio Kontakt was banned in 1998 by the [Serbian] Police. During the NATO bombardment, their equipment was looted. After the arrival of KFOR, their phones, computers, and even chairs were stolen, emphasizes Tarle.
"Kosovo will be multiethnic or it will not exist. Radio Kontakt, as a medium that connects people, does not want anything more than that," emphatically stressed Zvonko Tarle. He announced cooperation of this Pristina radio station with independent media from Novi Sad, Banjaluka, Skopje and Tirana.