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Department Seal KDOM Daily Report
Released by the Bureau of European and Canadian Affairs, Office of South Central European Affairs,
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC,
November 29, 1998

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Compiled by EUR/SCE (202-647-4850) from daily reports
of the U.S. element of the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission

November 29, 1998

Kosovo was quiet again today with no cease-fire violations reported. KDOM again accompanied Serbian police on routine patrols in the Pagarusha Valley. All patrols proved uneventful. Police reported that they did not return fire when, on three occasions November 27 and 28, their posts were fired upon by snipers.

KDOM made initial contact with KLA commanders east of Gornja Klina and northwest of Podujevo. KDOM also continued to visit villages in the area and assess the IDP and humanitarian relief situations.

Villagers in the Bajcina region of northern Kosovo told KDOM that Serb police in the area travel to Serbia to drink then drive back to Kosovo and fire their weapons on the route between Palatna and Krpimej (north of Podujevo). In the same area, the KLA claimed that VJ troops in Mirovci (on the Serb-Kosovo border) told local ethnic Albanians that they should depart the area. KDOM will raise these issues with the police.

Residents of Taradza (northeast of Srbica) told KDOM the number of IDPs there is decreasing. Electricity was restored to the village 10 days ago, they say, but remains out in other villages in the KLA-controlled territory. Villagers in Ludevic (southwest of Srbica) say all families have now returned to their village.

KDOM conducted 18 patrols today with 150 personnel and 26 operative vehicles.

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