The only concentration camp in the world - Orahovac

Belgrade, May 12th (Mininf) - At the entrance to Orahovac, on Thursday, May 11th, around noon, German soldiers, members of KFOR, stopped Serbian Broadcasting Corporation crew, which had proper press cards, given by the same KFOR.

On that occasion, credentials and three videocassettes were taken away from the team of cameramen and from the journalist of Serbian Broadcasting Corporation, Bora Uskokovic. They were ordered to "immediately leave German responsibility sector and never come back again". German officer and soldiers refused to identify themselves or to give any explanation for their action. Italian soldiers, who escorted the convoy, acted correctly. Representatives of the Yugoslav Committee for Cooperation with the UN Mission in Kosovo-Metohija and the chief of Prizren district, Branka Furjanovic, were present during this event.

This is not the first case of irresponsible behaviour of German soldiers, members of KFOR, of breaking the Resolution 1244, or of limiting the freedom of movement and reporting of journalists from Serbian media. This action of German officers and a group of soldiers can only be explained by the striving to stop the public from finally seeing the picture of a concentration camp - ghetto Orahovac, which has existed for nine months in a zone of German responsibility sector. There has been no water in Orahovac for five days, and for every exit from it one must submit a request and wait for the answer to that request for six days. In Orahovac, almost daily a Serb is executed or a Serb house is set on fire by the terrorists of the so-called KLA, while German soldiers calmly observe all these events.

We express strong protest to the chiefs of KFOR Mission and UNMIK and we appeal to and ask the world public whether it can remain silent to the happenings in Orahovac now, 55 years after the victory over fascism.