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Nachdem ein ukrainischer UN-Polizist, dem bewaffneten serbischen Terror, in Form von automatischen Waffen und einer Handgranate des Typs M75 in Nord-Kosovo, zum Opfer gefallen war und viele weitere verletzt wurden, hat der französische KFOR Sprecher Jean-Luc Cotard in Prishtina deutliche Worte an diese bewaffneten Terroristen gesendet.
"Wir sind keine Polizeikräfte, wir unterstehen keinen Polizeilichen gesetzen.Wenn ihr uns mit Waffen beschießt und mit Handgranaten beschmeißt, dann werden wir entsprechend und mit voller härte darauf antworten.Die NATO kann sehr wohl zwischen demonstrierenden Zivilisten und bewaffneten Gewalttätern unterscheiden.Erwartet keine Blumen wenn ihr uns beschießen wollt"
"Don't expect flowers," NATO warns Serb hardliners
PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo will respond with "all appropriate means" when faced with deadly weapons in Serb protests, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on Wednesday.
"We are not a police force. We don't have the same rules. Don't expect KFOR to send flowers when we are being shot at," KFOR spokesman Col. Jean-Luc Cotard told a news conference in Pristina, capital of newly independent Kosovo.
The NATO-led peacekeeping force of 16,000 bristled at Serb allegations of "brutality" during riots on March 17 in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica, a Serb stronghold and now a bastion against Albanian-dominated independent Kosovo.
Serbia's nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica accused the allied force of turning "snipers and banned weapons" on Serb protesters as they battled over a United Nations court building the Serbs had occupied.
NATO said Serbs hardliners fired automatic weapons and threw grenades and Molotov cocktails during the clash. A 25-year-old Ukrainian U.N. policeman was killed by a grenade and a Serb protester was shot in the head and gravely wounded.
"I make a strict distinction between citizens and murderers," Cotard said. KFOR, in such circumstances, was entitled "to use all appropriate means," he said.
Cotard, a Frenchman, said KFOR had examined an unexploded hand grenade -- one of dozens thrown at the peacekeepers. It was a Yugoslav-made M75, which contains 3,000 "marbles," or prefragmented steel balls.
"It is used to kill people during an assault," he said.
"Don't expect flowers," NATO warns Serb hardliners - Yahoo! News
"Wir sind keine Polizeikräfte, wir unterstehen keinen Polizeilichen gesetzen.Wenn ihr uns mit Waffen beschießt und mit Handgranaten beschmeißt, dann werden wir entsprechend und mit voller härte darauf antworten.Die NATO kann sehr wohl zwischen demonstrierenden Zivilisten und bewaffneten Gewalttätern unterscheiden.Erwartet keine Blumen wenn ihr uns beschießen wollt"
"Don't expect flowers," NATO warns Serb hardliners
PRISTINA (Reuters) - NATO peacekeepers in Kosovo will respond with "all appropriate means" when faced with deadly weapons in Serb protests, a spokesman for the KFOR peacekeeping force said on Wednesday.
"We are not a police force. We don't have the same rules. Don't expect KFOR to send flowers when we are being shot at," KFOR spokesman Col. Jean-Luc Cotard told a news conference in Pristina, capital of newly independent Kosovo.
The NATO-led peacekeeping force of 16,000 bristled at Serb allegations of "brutality" during riots on March 17 in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica, a Serb stronghold and now a bastion against Albanian-dominated independent Kosovo.
Serbia's nationalist Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica accused the allied force of turning "snipers and banned weapons" on Serb protesters as they battled over a United Nations court building the Serbs had occupied.
NATO said Serbs hardliners fired automatic weapons and threw grenades and Molotov cocktails during the clash. A 25-year-old Ukrainian U.N. policeman was killed by a grenade and a Serb protester was shot in the head and gravely wounded.
"I make a strict distinction between citizens and murderers," Cotard said. KFOR, in such circumstances, was entitled "to use all appropriate means," he said.
Cotard, a Frenchman, said KFOR had examined an unexploded hand grenade -- one of dozens thrown at the peacekeepers. It was a Yugoslav-made M75, which contains 3,000 "marbles," or prefragmented steel balls.
"It is used to kill people during an assault," he said.
"Don't expect flowers," NATO warns Serb hardliners - Yahoo! News
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