cc: Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Ministar unutrasnjih poslova Republike Srbije
Kneza Milosa 101, 11000 Beograd, Yugoslavia
Dear Mr.President
Dear Minister of Internal Affairs
WE are concerned that police in Kosovo province have beaten ethnic
Albanian demonstrators during peaceful demonstrations;
WE have noted reports that police killed up to 25 ethnic Albanians
in the province in the weekend 28 February to 1 March;
WE are concerned that some were allegedly unlawfully killed;
WE do remind YOU that national law and international standards
such as the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and
Firearms prohibit the intentional lethal use of firearms except when
strictly unavoidable in order to protect life;
WE call upon YOU for immediate, thorough, impartial and
independent investigations into the beatings and shootings;
WE demand that any police officers found to be responsible for
beating demonstrators or unlawfully killing or wounding others be held to
account for their actions;
WE demand the University of Pristina be opened again for our
colleauges, which was closed for what WE consider "ethnical reasons";
WE condemn terror, murder and genocide;
WE call upon YOU to reconsider YOUR point of view.
WE shall not watch in silence.
sincerely,
Altref Boku
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