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YORK - March 26 - The Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), the most reliable domestic human
rights monitoring group in Yugoslavia, reported today that the bodies of
Bajram Kelmendi, an Albanian human rights lawyer, and his two sons, Kastriot and
Kushtrim, have been found shot dead at a gas station between Pristina and
Kosovo Polje, southwest of the capital. According to the HLC, a police investigation is under way.
Mr. Kelmendi and his sons were taken from their home early in the
morning of March 25 by the Serbian police, who beat Mr. Kelmendi in front of his family. The police refused to give Kelmendi's wife,
Nekibe, also a human rights lawyer, information on their whereabouts, telling her to "ask NATO."
Mr. Kelmendi was an active human rights lawyer who had
defended many political prisoners in Kosovo over the past decade. He had recently defended the Albanian-language newspaper Koha
Ditore, which was closed by the police two days ago.
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