U.N. Police Arrest 4 in Kosovo Killings
U.N. police said Monday that they had arrested four Kosovo Albanians on charges of murdering Serbs and Gypsies, in an apparent coup for international authorities criticized for failing to restore law and order in Kosovo.
The police said a man, age 32, was arrested in Pristina, the provincial capital, early Monday with the help of NATO-led peacekeeping troops after his three alleged accomplices were taken into custody last week.
The three alleged accomplices, ages 20 to 25, are suspected of abducting five victims and bringing them to the 32-year-old, who reportedly carried out the killings.
The slayings took place just outside Pristina during the last two months, police said.
Postwar Kosovo has seen more than 400 killings, many of them revenge attacks against its minority Serbian population and Gypsies.
Gypsies are considered by many ethnic Albanians to have cooperated with Serbian authorities in the persecution and expulsion of Albanians before and during NATO’s bombing of Yugoslavia last spring.
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