World IN BRIEF / YUGOSLAVIA : Gypsy Woman Slain in Kosovo Town - Los Angeles Times
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World IN BRIEF / YUGOSLAVIA : Gypsy Woman Slain in Kosovo Town

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A Gypsy woman was shot and killed by men in Kosovo Liberation Army uniforms in the southern Kosovo town of Suva Reka, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said. Ethnic Albanians accuse Gypsies of siding with Serbs in Kosovo, the Yugoslav province where Serbian forces carried out an “ethnic cleansing†campaign that sparked NATO’s 11-week air war. The shooting of the 65-year-old woman occurred late Wednesday, NATO officials said in Pristina, the provincial capital. Two Serbian houses were burned late Tuesday in the city of Prizren, a NATO official said. The latest violence comes after shelling in Kosovo’s U.S.-controlled eastern sector that killed two Serbs and wounded four others.

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