"No one had imagined anything on that scale", said Grunnet who is OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) spokesman in Skopje. Grunnet added that "everyone was very surprised by the extent of the operations" carried out by Serb forces against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo after NATO airstrikes began on March 24.
In a report issued in Skopje after hearing some 250 Kosovo Albanians from Mitrovica, Pristina and Gnjilane areas, the KVM said reports indicated increased violence in eastern Kosovo, including alleged summary executions. "Reports indicate a pattern of intimidation and harassment, consisting of VJ (Yugoslav army), MUP (police units) or paramilitary units", the report said.
Also reported were "detailed accounts of maiming of the victims and mutilations of the dead", the KVM said. "Reports include throat-cutting, cutting out eyes, cutting off breasts, nose, fingers, heads, and/or feet, slicing body parts and carving of Serb nationalistic signs on chest, forehead or other parts of the body", the KVM report said.
