ALBANIAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT BEATEN UP IN PODUJEVA
Yesterday, on 14 November 1994, around 10 a.m., Baki Fehmi Hoxha (1979) was halted by the notorious police inspector in Podujeva, Milos Nikolic. Baki Hoxha, first year student at "Xhevdet Hoxha" high school in Prishtina was captured near the Podujeva market-place. He was on his way to Prishtina, back from a visit to his birth-place, the Obrance village.
The Albanian youth was taken to the Serbian police station in Podujeva and during the two-hour custody was beaten up. Baki said he was hit with truncheons about his palms.
The Serbian large-scale campaign of repression of Albanians, in place in Podujeva since autumn 1993, has not excluded children, women and eldrly. Taking children and family members hostage and their maltreatment by the Serbian police in cases kin members of the former were not readily available for the police has become a common practice.

THIRTY DAYS IN PRISON FOR INSULTING THE SERBIAN ARMY
The Serb-run Magistrate Court of Dragash (region bordering Kosova and Albania) sentenced Isudin Hoxha (19) to 30 days in prison in the so-called summary proceedings.
Mr.Hoxha on 10 November was stopped by the border units of the so-called Yugoslav army for identification and was insulted. Mr.Hoxha, who until July 1994 has been serving the army at the same camp, did not possess his I.D. on this occasion.
Mr.Hoxha was immediately taken to the Magistrate Court in Dragash and sentenced to 30 days in prison under the charges that he had insulted the Serbian army!

ALBANIAN SCHOOL CLOSES DOWN AS SERBIAN FORCES BUILD UP
Serbian military and police have been for several days involved in military trainings at the Nishor village of Suhareka.
LDK sources said today that yesterday local elementary school "Bajram Curri" had to close down as a result of the ongoing maneuvres of the Serbian forces.
It has been reported that Serbian forces have been setting off explosive around the houses, thus causing heavy quakes. Motor vehicles were reported to have been passing through Albanian courtyards.
The whole area has been reported sealed off, and citizens subjected to identity cheeks when moving in and out their village.
15 November 1994

A 43-YEAR OLD ETHNIC ALBANIAN CONSCRIPTED INTO SERBIAN ARMY
An ethnic Albanian Sami Berisha, 43 from Greme village of Ferizaj was forcefully conscripted into Serbian army, the Ferizaj-based Council for Defence of Human Rights and Freedoms reported.
Mr.Berisha, who has been working for over 24 years as a guest worker in Germany was arrested on October 29 at the Subotica border crossing (town in Vojvodina bordering Hungary) and reportedly sent to the military barracks in Nis (Serbia).
It has been reported that Sami Berisha's family has offered a considerable sum of money for his release but the Serbian army authorities have stipulated it with an additional larger amount of hard currency.
According to the laws of the self-styled Yugoslavia, only young men aged between 18-30 are to serve military service.

IRC AID DISTRIBUTED ONLY TO NON-ALBANIAN POPULATION IN GORA
Humanitarian relief of the International Red Cross has been distributed only to non-Albanian population in the municipality of Gora (a Kosova municipality bordering Albania) today's Bujku reports.
Albanian residents and even the refugees, find themselves discriminated even in the realm of humanitarian aid and have been furnished with reliefs delivered solely by the "Mother Teresa" Humanitarian Association, which can hardly cater the needs of all those in need in this indigent municipality.

'SERBIAN RESISTANCE MOVEMENT' BESTOWS MILITARY AND POLICE SUPPORT, ITS LEADER SAYS
One of the leaders of the so-called 'movement for Serbian resistance in Kosova' Miroslav Solovic, told today's Belgrade-based Borba that his movement and the petition it has circulated to be signed by the Serbian public, is being met with understanding and has 'bestows support amongst the leadership of the army and police'. Whereas, the schemes of the movement have found a broader custonance amongst the members of these institutions, Solovic emphasized.
Mr.Solovic is also quoted as saying that the leadership of the 'movement' anticipates to extend its number from 15 which it has now, to some 200 so they could 'exert a greater and more serious pressure upon the current regime or any other one'.
The so-called Serbian populist movement of the late eighties, which virtually brought Milosevic to power, has reemerged recently in Kosova and has recently circulated a petition to be signed by the serb public in order to exert pressure to the regime in taking firmer steps imporving the situation of Serbs in Kosova. The petition called on the regime to, amongst others, immediately draw a programe for population of Kosova and "break up the parallel state, the Republic of Kosova".
16 November 1994