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He is playing for more time to prolong political life -Kosovars .special report by Ben Carlish
is :i cold n n d \vi;t 11' liXII.l'-S Mr HiisliUim Islami and his «M'c, Liiiniiijc, picl iircd al)o\c S
(()'10()i)!)/l-'(/12a), wliili', top rii;lit, roporlor I5en Carlisli talks to tluoii about llu- peace deal, lielped hy interpreter Miss Yilka Alidenia Uadpi (t) IOt)!)!i/.i/oa)
Meanwhile, workshop i; turned into a ch e e r fu l playroom for cMMren
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A 1<'0RM E l i woodwork room a t
Calder.stone.s lias lioen transformed into a bright and cheerful playroom ' for refugee children a t the Kosovar
Village. In jiisL five days, meinber.s of Oan-
aushire County Couneil’s Marly Yeans
‘ 'team, the Rural Childeare Project, Iiave .spruced the room up to give it a new le;use of life for tlie Kosovar eliildren. '^rho conversion was achieved thiongh;'
the hard work of Lancasliire County . Council staff and volunteers, as well asf the generosity of Lancashire .schools
and businesses. The playgroup i.s registered wit ii I ,an-
ca.sliireSocial Services Inspection Unit and will l)cco-ordintded by .kmet Ihivis. riirtil eliildctire (ktvelopnient worker, tind
, staffed by workers from ('IUIhtoc's Uriglil .Stn^et Day Nursery. togelluT with staff from the private ;uid voluntiiry .sector. I’ictnred .setting up etiuiptneul :d (lie
nursery an;, from the left, Ann Mticlean, of L;ineasbin;'s PtireuUd lnvoKa>m('iif 'I'eam, Stinib Cli;iruli;.v anil Ctiynor Ash ton, from Bright Street Nursery, ;iud .lanet Ptivis, I’
re-.scliool (thildeari; Devel-
oimieut Worker. f i x 1 . '"-Ht r it\ 1 W-
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morning ;it the Koso- vtif V i l lag e news h:ts filtered th ro u g h t h a t finally, ttfter 11 w eeks of b om b in g and prolonged ethnic cletinsing, .Slobodan M ilosevic say.s he is
ready to talk iteace. ray of hope cuLLinj^
ihroiich llu* yiooni for I 111;
Ko.sovar rcfuyci'S at ( ’aldcrstoiu'sV If i1 is, Mr liashhini Islami 00 / and his wift*. liiimnijr Islami ' •!iS 1, an- nol cxaci 1 y jiimpiniJ lip and down for
"1 don't hi'licvi* ii. ihinii Milosevic .vays is always a li('. always lu- ncvi'i' keeps his promise," sa.N’s Mrs Islami bitterly.
joy.
'(loll decided for us," says Mrs Islami, looking Lo I lie ceiling willi tlianks.
filled in application foriii.s, N.A'l'O officials (old Uiem Lliey liad been chosen lo go to England III join their two daiigh- lers, Aria i28), liana ! 25), living in London and
a.son, .Shpend (22). I ask llieiii liow it was I liey were cliosen.
M r fsiami i.s more i)hilo- soi)hieal. Ilesa>’s: 'lie is plavinij; a jianu?, loueilier’ wit h t he Russian y,oveni- lie is pla\-iiif; l‘oi-
more t iine to prolone his Ifoiilieal lil'e."
'Fhey were I'oi'ced al point \)y t he Sto-bian paramilitaries lo I lee their home in the Koso- \'ai' eaiiilal oi 1‘risht ine t popiilal ion 000,000 ineludin.y t he snbiirhs ,■ with .Asllaii, t heir 1 0- year-old son. .Mrs Islami iH'calis. asheii-hieed, how soriH* of t he soldii'rs held J.U111S 1 () t he lu*ads ol Albanian children and told ihem: 'Aon have live mi nu t es t o lenve or we will puli the ‘.niiiier.^."
” We w(‘n*n't able t o i aki* anythin}' from our homes. We were lold we could kei'i) 1 0 h.oso'.’ar marks 11 hive jjounds i in oiir poeki'ts and t hat was it. Anyone
eaue.ht wit h any more than that, would be killed, they told us. liut all we could t hink about was how we ef/uld savt* (,'ui’ children." recalls Mr.'. Isiami.
'I'dr the first time in many moni hs, we finally feel l hat we are lieiiig treated like human beings. We, would like to thank the Mrilisli government and people for all they have done. Kosovars now think very much of the Uritisli because they have done so much for us," adds Mr Islami.
"Milosevic has been build ing up io Ibis lor tiu* last 10 years, taking Alliani- ans out of hos|)itals, out of the mililary and out of scliooks.” lie explains.
He I ells me his older cliil- lireii came lo England in 111112 and 11)1)5 to escajie Hie
per.secui ion of
Ko.so- N'ars which, he says, lias been going on for years.
could think about di.s- armiiig. But at the end of the day, we do not want any oLlier people to die for ns, because wo must be preiiared to die for our own country," says Mr Islami defiantly.
I tell I hem that I hope that they can return to their homes as soon as possi ble. Mr Islami says with a hitler smile;"! hope you can come and visit us in our home liack in Kosovo one day . . . if it is still
there." OM
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Our interpreter, i\
li.ss Yilka .Midema Dailiii, was also forced lo flee Kosovo, after her fatlier, a politi cal act ivist , died after being jailed for seven years b.v tlie .Serlis. She came to London two years ago, wliere she says there are about 20,000 ol her Kosovars. She is now exiiecting lier first cliild. She says tearfully; "Every nighl. 1 pray that my child is going to be aiile 1.0 grow u|) in
Ko.so- VII like i did - that lie will be ill ills own land, his own country and not In; a refugee like us."
Mr Islaiiii. a sports litne.Ns consult ant and iiniv(*i-si- ty leel.iir(.‘r, says t he area was "ck’ansisi" of aroiuul 00.
"We are not n*fu)i,ees we are exiles. \V\* have been forct'd from our homes and we just want to ret.urn." he says emphal i- (•ally.
way in lhe si>aee of just 1. wo hours.
000 Albanians in this
Mr and .Mrs Islami can emiiatliisc as parents; when Hieir children came u|i lo visit tliem from 1 .ondiiii it w:is :i joyous occ;ision.
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"Now, whenever I .see oilier mol liers being reunited wil h Hieir children who are living liere, 1 cry, liecaiise I know how imich it mojin.s," says Mrs Iskuni.
1 lavinp been, in their words, "lucky", to make it
aero.ss the hordei'. t hey st ayed wit h h'llow Allianians for ( wo months. ,\11 ci* I hey
Coundl gives go-ahead for alteratiorn ■ Gisburn’s liked Mill Bridge complex
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' L IS T E D building co n sen t has been g ran ted for a l te ra t io n s to p ro p er tie s a t Mill Bridge, Gi.s-
tions were buijwi-.—
' Park Estate.s' plan to provide lour ■ liedrooms a t Mill Bridge Cottages,
'alley Borougb Council Planning Committee said Uiat the iiropei'tie.s vere
almo.sL 250 years old, with some ast century additions. Planning per-
ni.ssion had already beiin granted for
' As previously reported, ol)jec- die ebange of
u.so and the alterations Sidirnitted to Gisburne woOd hiive a minima e f
................. .............. ..... iffeet on the buildings. Indeed, said the rcimrt.
.......... - ........... would help llieir integrity. i A report’to members of the Kibble are provided to enable them to eatei j..
do.scribed as a
la.st stop i i;|i>n t.
to till' reported.
' -ind in in Mill Bridge Buildings,, for patients before eojnpletion of their mended i Mill T one
Gi.sburn.
treatment," it went on. "The facilities
v.iled Hi db s
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And what of Hie future; do they think they will ever be ;ible to live wiHi Sertis ;igaiii’.' . Ishimi shakes her liead
Miv
aikiiininHy, but Mr Iski- mi is not so eiiuivocal. :i liiiiiKiiiist, 1 do nol
and look affer I liemselvcs in a coni- iiiiiiiity ciivironmeiit and use t lie iacil- ities as a base lo alteiid college and other studies liel weeii reliiniing lioini' for week-ends, etc. .All Hiis is lo accll-
mati.se I liem more readily lo everyday
life." AlUioiigh (here had been olijeclioiis
use, no proldems had lieeii said the re|iort. It. recom-
.............. apiiroval and councillors viiled file application through with out
di.scii.ssion.
w:iiil to s;iy two nations isin never live together, but on the other h:uid the .Serbs wlio lived near to us knew what w:is liap- peiiiiig and didn't do ;inytliing to liel|i at all. We c;tn live with tliem, blit 1 don't tliiiik they can live with us,
becail.se t.hey don't see us as being normal peo])le. l''or Hiom, Albanians are either stu pid people, who cannot read or write, or they are terrorists."
.•\nd should tlie lx LA be di.s- ;irmed'; "If N/Vl'O comes wlHi ground Iroop.s, they
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