Word: kosova
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Another key fund raiser is Bujar Bukoshi. One of the two would-be Prime Ministers of a still nonexistent Republic of Kosova, the Bonn-based Bukoshi claims that his government-in-exile has spent more than $4 million on arms and supplies for the K.L.A. in the weeks since NATO bombings began. At Bukoshi's request his "finance minister"--extremely nervous and clearly on edge--presents a computer printout that he says documents part of the Republic of Kosova Fund's holdings in a bank in Tirana, Albania: more than $33 million...
...second floor of the Islamic Society ofBoston (ISB), a Kosova Task Force poster urgesMuslims to allot five minutes each day for helpingthe Kosovar refugees. It lists activities,including calling one's congressperson and prayingfor those in Kosova, that anyone can do. Nearby,another poster from the Holy Land Foundationencourages Muslims to donate money to buynecessities for the ethnic Albanian refugees...
...have to support any nation that has adisaster, Muslim or Christian. This is our dutyand Islam ordered us to do that, but we have aspecial support for [those] in Kosova because theyare Muslim," says Imam Basyuny M. Aly, a religiousleader in the mosque...
...Kosova Task Force, the organizer of the event, called for the independence of Kosovo, the arming of the ethnic Albanians, and the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic as a war criminal...
Albanian students in Kosova have been denied access to universities and secondary schools for the past seven years. Although these protests have been non-violent, they have met extremely violent responses from the military and the police. Students have been assaulted by police with guns, tear gas and nightsticks. Some students and professors have been killed during police raids of their "classrooms"--rooms in houses where, without textbooks, chalk boards, or even pencils and paper, teachers and student gather in an attempt to learn...