Petersen on the Krusha disgrace:

"I am outraged and disappointed at this incident. It is important for the people of Kosovo to understand that their quest for justice can only be achieved through the course of justice, not by extra-judicial means. This requires, first and foremost, that there should be respect for the rule of law,” the SRSG said.

The fact that there have been seven years know and Krusha still has not buried its dead is beyond Petersen. We Albanians are bad tampered, we don't get how justice works. Pray Mr. Petersen, tell us how justice works.

Kosova Womens Network have responded to the violence in Krusha e Vogel by a letter sent to UNMIK PSSP and UNMIK Police Commissioner. According to KWN:

The incident of 25 May in Krusha e Vogel was not interethnic, declared citizens of Krusha e Vogel. Women of Krusha e Vogle declared that they did not throw stones on Serbs, but on the police of UNMIK by whom they were physically attacked.

According to Commissioner Vittrup, twelve armed car of UNMIK police arrived in Krusha e Vogel on 25 May at 9:15, to colloect information for the Hague Tribunal. The convoy arrived totally unannouced. Their arrival was not announced to the local elected officials, public institutions, Kosovo police or citizens of the village.

When the women of the village saw in one of the cars of UNMIK Police Bora Cvetkovic and Gordana Djordjevic (Serb inhabitants of Krusha before the war), women asked to talk to them. They wanted to ask Serbs where their sons and husbands were, disappered since the war. UNMIK Police refused women's request. After this women blocked the road stopping police cars to move further.

UNMIK Police then tried to physically remove women from the road pushing them aside by force. When women resisted, police started using rubber battons. Women of the village responded by throwing stones on the direction of the police and their cars. In the meantime men of the village had arrived to defend their women and when they arrived some of the UNMIK policemen got on cars whereas other continued to hit villagers with battons and gun buttocks. Then all policemen got into armed cars and threw tear gas while retreating. They threw gas in the vicinity of the school too, at the time when children were on break in the schoolyard.

According to the data from Prizren hospital, that day in the hospital were admitted 36 people, among them 3 men and 33 women. All the men had physical wounds. Twenty chidlren were treated for tear gas symptoms. On May 26 at the hospital were still 14 people, among them a student with a broken hand and 13 women with gas poisioning, light physical wounds, and psychological traumas.

One girl was treated for serious kidney damage as a result of being hit by rubber batton on the back. (sq.Oneworld)