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July 16, 1999
To Whom It May Concern


We would like to inform of a tragedy that an elderly and sick lady
experienced at the end of June. Petrija Piljevic (age 57) was kidnaped on
Monday, June 28, 1999, from her appartement in Prishtina (Dardanija Street
SU 1/5, entrance II, appartement No. 37). She is old, had two medical
surrgeries as she suffers from cancer and has a hard form of hart disease.
At 4 p.m. three armed Albanian men forcefully broke into her appartement
along with three of her Albanian neighbours - Adeljina Ismailji, with her
mother Mona, who live in the same building, app. No. 8, as well as Ljuljeta
Djombaljaji, from app. No. 35. At the same time another one of their
neighbours, Zoran Djosic, was kidnaped while trying to help her.
Milunka Djosic, Zoran's wife, who lives at Dardanija Street SU 1/5
(entrance I, appartement 3) and Stana Joksimovic, (same address, nineth
floor) could witness of what happened and when. All other Serbs have by the
way been expeled from this building.
Petrija's son Dragan, who informed us of this case had fled from Kosovo and
is now living in Prokuplje. He addressed the KFOR and got a respons that his
mother's missing was not reported and that they had no information about it.
He is now hoping that you would take neccersary measures for finding his
mother, so that she could return to her home.
By informing you of this misfortunate event, we appeal for your
intervention.
Hoping for a righteous outcome,

Sincerely,
Women in Black
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British troops investigate death of 14 Serbs

British troops in Kosovo are investigating the worst act of retribution
against Serbs since Nato's peacekeeping force arrived in the province last
month.
The bodies of 14 men, believed to be Serbian farmers, have been found shot
dead in a field.

ITN's Colin Baker reports from Gracko in Kosovo.

Nato came to Kosovo to sop the slaughter, now they witness it firsthand.

The extraction of brutal retribution on a tiny village farming community.

The war may be over - it is the killing which has yet to stop.

On a hilltop outside the village of Gracko, British and Canadian soldiers
guarded the site where the farmers were lined up and cold bloodedly shot
with automatic weapons.

After a day's labour bringing in the harvest to earn desperately needed hard
currency for the winter, one body lay by the tractor, thirteen others were
by the combine harvester.

The youngest was twenty, the oldest sixty, they were all Serbs, and they had
hand grenades left by their bodies.

Control, co-ordination, good intelligence, and above all experience in
killing - the requirements, according to one Nato officer, for such an
atrocity as this to be carried out.

Nato won't say so officially, but past and present members of the KLA must
now be the likely suspects.

Canadian helicopters, equipped with body heat detectors, crisscrossed the
land in search of the gunmen but they were well away - local knowledge was
an important factor here.

One man came when he heard his brother was among the dead. A British army
officer sent him to the hospital mortuary in Pristina.

Medical and forensic scientists will tell more of the killings than the
people.

The attempted eradication from Kosovo of their race by Serbs is unlikely to
make ethnic Albanians queue up to give information.

"This particular village has given us no cause for concern. The locals here
in the village - Serbs, indeed, have Albanians living amongst them, and this
is not an incident that we would have expected. However, it took place about
a kilometre and a half outside the village in the field while they were
gathering up the harvest late last night," said Major Ian Seraph.

Nato has vowed to bring the gunmen to justice but in a land where it has
been denied for so long, the justice of the people is what so many people
here understand better.

Nato's commander, who was meeting KLA leaders on Saturday to discuss the
latest stages of decommissioning of weapons condemned the atrocity.

"We will leave no stone unturned to get hold of the murderers," said General
Sir Michael Jackson.

Nato Secretary-General Javier Solana has condemned the massacre and pledged
his full support to the hunt for the killers.