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Flora Brovina: doctor and president of Albanian Women's League of Pristina
According to our information, Flora Brovina, who was transferred from the Lipjani prison in that of Pozharevac, she is in the very bad health condition. Valbona Salihu from U.S. in her letter directed to our agency quoted the words of the sister of Flora Brovina " Flora was transferred in the Pozharevac prison in order not to be helped by the International Forces. She also says that She has informed the "Writers in Prison" community of the PEN-Club which is holding an assembly in Varsava and she hopes that they will began an initiative to release the Kosovar activist from Prishtina Flora Brovina.
From the other sources of Hans-Joachim Lankschit, is known that Serb advocate of Flora Brovina, Zhivoin Jokanoviq a day before said that he is not allowed anymore to be in the contact with his client.(KOHA DITORE).
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:02:54 -0600
"Kosova Task Force, USA"
Kosova Crisis Center (KCC)
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Kosova Task Force, USA
Action Alert 6.22.1999
Nick Brovina of Richardson, TX worries that his mother will not survive the torture and lack of medical attention she has suffered at the hands of the Serb army. The treatment of humanitarian activist Dr. Flori Brovina is being protested by the national office of Amnesty International, the Red Cross, and Pen International (an international writer's organization).
Dr. Flora Brovina was arrested in Kosova two months ago by Serb troops, was held in prison there and tortured for an extended period. When the peace talks began, she was transferred to a prison in the Serbian town of Pozharezc. Dr. Brovina is partially paralyzed and suffers from increasingly poor health as a result of her treatment. Without medical care it is feared that she will not survive. Dr. Brovina's case has received intensive coverage in the Serb and Albanian media, where rumors of a death sentence are circulated.
"My mother is being held because she is a witness to countless incidents of brutality who will not be afraid to speak the truth to the media and courts of justice," says her son Nick Brovina. "We are requesting fair treatment for her according to the rules of the Geneva convention. She needs medicine and access to a physician, and to be able to communicate with her family."
Dr. Flori Brovina from Pristina, an author of 4 books of poetry and a pediatrician, was president of the non-political National Women's Organization of League. She is deeply respected as one of the leading humanitarians in Kosova. Her group provided humanitarian assistance to women and children during the recent 15 year period when most Kosovars were removed from their jobs, and families lived on the charity of Albanians living abroad.
When thousands of women and children were internally displaced by the military actions that began in March of 1998, she set up a Rehabilitation Center that provided emergency assistance, blankets, and food to the destitute. She also established a humanitarian Nazmi Gaffuri, a medical service for internal refugees supported by Oxfam, International and Doctors of the World provided assistance to the latter organization.
During the recent invasion by Serbian troops and forced evacuation of much of the civilian population, each day Dr. Brovina led teams of women into the forests where people were living in hiding. They also canvassed the villages near Pristina, offering treatment to the wounded and traumatized. There is no doubt that her efforts saved countless lives and gave hope to others.
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Anne Marie Weiss-ArmushCall your policy makers to tell them that there is no peace without justice for the Kosovar Albanians
TALKING POINTSAmnesty international asks for the respect of human rights by the government of Serbia. The appeal by AI said that thousands of political prisonners have been transfered from Kosova to prisons in Serbia when the serbian army left the Kosova, and that we have very few informations about them. Among them is Flora Brovina, president of the Albanian Women's League in Pristina. Arrested on 22 april 1999, she was detained in the prison of Lipljan, then the hospital of Pristina. She is now (but is not quite sure) in the prison of Pozarevac in Serbia. She has not been legally condemned, and no reason is known for this emprisonment. More, she is ill and must receive medical treatment. Amnesty international asks for her liberation. F.Brovina is also a doctor and a member of the Center for the protection for women and children in Pristina. We support this appeal and ask everybody to try to do something for her.
For the women's center in Paris
President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Predsednik SRJ
Bulevar Mihaila Pupina 2
11070 Beograd, Yugoslavia
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e-mail: slobodan.milosevic@gov.yu
Form of address: Dear President
Prime Minister
Predsednik Savezne Vlade
Dr Momir Bulatovic
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11070 Beograd, Yugoslavia
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e-mail: momir.bulatovic@gov.yu
Minister of Internal Affairs
Vlajko Stojiljkovic
Ministar unutrasnjih poslova Republike Srbije
Kneza Milosa 101
11000 Beograd, FR Yugoslavia
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Fax: +381 11 683 041