Destruction and torching of non-Albanian property in Vitina

Serbian Press Agency SRNA, Bijeljina, 24-09-2005 15:35:33

Kosovska Vitina -On Friday evening unknown perpetrators in the municipality of Kosovska Vitina destroyed a Serbian house in the village of Zitinje and set fire to a farm building in the Croatian village of Letnica.

The house of Slobodan Stanovic in Zitinje was blown up and completely destroyed at approximately 10:00 p.m.

The Stankovic house was one of 29 houses intended for the return of displaced persons and built at the expense of the Kosovo provisional government.

Prior to 1999 there were approximately 1,000 Serbs living in Zitinje. According to the plan of the Kosovo government and its ministry for returns, some 300 Serbs were expected to return before the end of the year.

Sources in the Kosovo Police Service confirmed that a farm building on the farm of Toni Markovic in Letnica was torched.

Significant material damage has been done and members of the Kosovo police have launched an investigation.