37 minutes agoPreteni shows how action happened KLA not allow Mitrovica division
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)22 years after the war ended in Kosovo, Mitrovica continues to be divided between Serbs and Albanians. To prevent this situation, the third battalion of the KLA Brigade 141 after NATO forces' entry into Kosovo had taken action to enter the country's north. The commander of this [...]
The commander of this battalion, Hasan Preten, has confessed the details of this action.
KFORI's <x) soldiers for the first time on June 12th were seen in Shala, and my unit's share was close to Trepca and was a decision of the Trepca headquarters, where it wrote that after the withdrawal of enemy forces, the units moved to places where enemy forces were. The decision said there should be no confrontations with peacekeeping forces during the implementation of the duties. The agreement was that each unit is as NATO moves on how Serbian forces leave, we move forward. We have had the obligation to move without confronting NATO and move without confronting Occupants”, Preteni told Klan Kosova.
” The first and second units moved towards Vushtrri, while my unit of 141 down towards Trepca, June 18th, a French Colonel, Colonel Beni, and asked us and how you will act, we told him that whatever the general staff's decision is, we would respect”.
In the confession accompanied by photographs, Preten relates how he and the battalion he led had gone to the Trepca police station, where they had found only the uniforms of Serbian soldiers who had left as civilians.
And when we get to the station, we see that there are civilian people and they give the impression that they're waiting to get out, after half an hour a bus came and took them and we took them off to Trepca station. We settled at the station that afternoon four French planes came to Trepca and told us that with long weapons not to exit this facility, you entered but there should be no movement”.
The third battalion of the 141 Brigade on the night of June 19, 1999, had passed it to Trepca Police Station, while the following day they erected the flag on the building at this station to disarm later from the French gendarmerie.
On June 20th, we organized the flag up at the police station, we released the anthem, we raised the flag, and at 1: 00 p.m., French gendarmerie came and told us that we have a decision to disarm you, we contacted the commander of the brigade and explained it to him, but the commander of the Hysni Ahmeti Brigade told us that we are on their vehicles and you do as you wish. From the commander of the gendarmerie I asked for the record, we had to surrender because we did not want to confront the peacekeeping force”, Preten said.
