Appeal KFOR is very concerned about this development and about the children's safety. For this reason, KFOR has produced a flyer and a poster that will be printed in Serbian and Albanian and distributed throughout the province. The message goes out to all parents in the province. KFOR appeals to them to protect their children and tell them not to play soldier around KFOR personnel. Two radio scripts have also been produced, and they will be available for all local radio stations that are prepared to broadcast them.
Some soldiers say that they encourage the children to paint their toy guns in bright colours.
In Multinational Brigade South, a programme has recently been started to get children to exchange their toy guns for rucksacks or other toys, provided by NGOs. On one of their patrols, Spanish soldiers guarding a Serb monument in Vitomirica discovered a farm where three Albanian women were living together with their children. The women were the widows after three brothers. They say that their husbands were taken from the refugee convoy that they were on to Albania and killed. When the women and children came back to Vitomirica, their houses had been destroyed by fire.