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Serbian/FRY infantry forces which then entered, engaged
in further, deliberate destruction of property39. Subsequently, when KDOM gained access,
it assessed that Junik was around 40% destroyed, although
this damage then increased over time. The nearby village
of Prilep was also estimated to be around 90% destroyed. KDOM reported that, early in the morning of 15 August, the village of Lodja, just to the south of Pec, was attacked with a combined Serbian/FRY force of 3 helicopters, 4 fixed-wing propeller driven aircraft, artillery and tanks. At 9:00 a.m. the same day, aircraft also attacked an area 6 kilometres to the north-east of Decane and UCK units in the vicinity communicated that 20,000 IDPs were located here, living unprotected. Indeed, the UCK reported that, after this attack, 60 civilians were seriously injured and it requested an immediate cease-fire in order to evacuate these IDPs. In the evening of the same day, KDOM noted that both Lodja and Brezanik were burning intensely. At 04:30 a.m. on 16 August, artillery fire began once again and continued intermittently in the Lodja and Brolic area. Vast columns of smoke were observed over Lodja and Brezanik and the occasional report of artillery and mortar fire was heard throughout the day, while freedom of access was denied to KDOM towards Istinic. Despite this restriction, KDOM noted that the Serbian/FRY forces in the area incorporated many MUP and JSO units. Additionally, to the north of Rausic a KDOM team found 200 shell containers of 60 and 82mm mortars along with remnants of mortar fire grenades and hundreds of 12.7 mm cartridges. Also on the road from Pec to Decane, KDOM was able to observe, on 18 August, a convoy of 14 trucks (holding 25 men each), 2 APCs with mounted 12.7 mm HMG and two black Suzuki jeeps, all driven by members of the security forces and heading back towards Pec. By September, the border villages in the Junik area had been shelled and attacked a number of times. Junik, Prilep and Rznic were considered by KDOM to be totally destroyed, rendering the latter two uninhabitable. Even the mosques were badly damaged. KDOM noted the evidence of looting in Rznic and Krusevac as well as the intentional contamination of water supplies in the latter of these villages. On 8 September, KDOM observed a significant number of "specialized" paramilitary troops in and around the burning village of Rznic. KDOM also observed several houses and haystacks burning in the nearby village of Glodjane, which appeared to be 85% destroyed. IDPs further reported that, when they had tried to return to Glodjane from Istinic, on 10 September, they were refused access by the Serbian police and were beaten and threatened, clearly to prevent them from returning to Glodjane. KDOM also noted that many homes around the village of Istinic were burned over a couple of days in early September during operations by Serbian/FRY forces. A KDOM team was also informed of the forced movement of many hundreds of IDPs in and around Istinic by a very large and armed concentration of Serbian police. In mid-September, an assessment of the level of damage in villages in this border area led to the conclusion that: in Ljumbarda, 25 out of 100 houses were destroyed; in Pozar, 40 out of 61 houses had been destroyed and all had been looted; in Barnic, 20 of the 60 houses had
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