Tens of thousands of people are in one of the village, in Ponorc. The village of Ponorc is a dozen km north-west of Malisheva, in the direction of Klina. Serb forces are said to have been advancing towards Ponorc, and got half a dozen km near, according to Bajraj. The rest are in flames, Xhevdet Bajraj said. The population in the area has been on the move since the last weekend, when Serb police and army forces mounted a huge offensive against Albanian settlements and positions in central Kosova and on the Prishtina-Peja highway.
People live in panic and constant fear of new Serb onslaughts.
LDK activists in Malisheva described the situation in the municipality as highly explosive today. Dozens of thousands of uprooted people from other parts of central and south-west Kosova, who have sought refuge in Malisheva outnumber the local population, several times. However, the most vulnerable are the villages in the fringes of the municipality surrounded by Serb forces' checkpoints, local LDK activists said. Early in the evening on Monday, the Serbian police took seven human bodies to the town morgue in Gjakova, local LDK sources said. It was impossible to obtain further details, as the hospital area, where the morgue is, was sealed off, they added.