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Thursday 6 december 2018

Serbian premier: Armed intervention in Kosovo an option

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC bian population but also
Associated Press for the security of the entire
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) Balkans," a Russian Foreign
— Serbia's prime minister Ministry statement said.
warned on Wednesday Brnabic said Kosovo's eth-
that the formation of a nic Albanian leadership
Kosovo army could trigger should "come to their sens-
Serbia's armed intervention es," warning: "We cannot
in the former province — stand aside and watch in
the bluntest warning so far silence while someone is
amid escalating tensions in conducting new ethnic
the Balkans. cleansing" of Serbs in the
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Balkans.Kosovo Prime Min-
Brnabic said that she hopes ister Ramush Hardinaj said
"we won't ever have to use Wednesday that it's "a pure
our army, but unfortunately lie" that the intentions of a
that is currently one of the new Kosovo army would
options on the table." be to occupy northern
Kosovo's parliament will Kosovo where a majority of
vote Dec. 14 on transform- Serbs live.
ing the country's security "The army is not for the
forces into a regular army. north. Our army is for Af-
Serbian officials allege the ghanistan and Iraq, to help
army would be used to those countries" in peace-
chase the Serb minority out In this photo taken Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic speaks during a keeping missions, he said,
of Kosovo — a claim re- press conference in Belgrade, Serbia. according to Kosovapress
peatedly denied by Kosovo Associated Press news agency.Kosovo de-
officials.NATO Secretary- clared independence in
General Jens Stoltenberg goes against the advice of Russia, which is close ally "The Kosovo authorities' 2008. Serbia and its allies
on Wednesday issued a many NATO allies and may of Serbia, called Kosovo's move to form their own Russia and China don't rec-
warning on Kosovo's inten- have serious repercussions planned move "another 'army' ... may lead to the ognize Kosovo as a coun-
tion to transition into army. for Kosovo's future Euro-At- destabilizing and provoca- most severe consequences try, while the United States
"Such a move is ill-timed. It lantic integration," he said. tive step." not only for the region's Ser- and most of the West do.q

Some Africans are studying their way out of prison

By DESMOND TIRO in May, we had a distinc-
JOSPHAT KASIRE tion from this prison. We
Associated Press had somebody who had a
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — 72 pass mark grade, which
Morris Kaberia was on Ke- is a distinction under the
nya's death row and feel- grading of the University of
ing suicidal when he came London," said Hamisi Mzari,
across a program that a legal aid officer with the
eventually set him free. project who works with in-
The former police officer mates at Kenya's Kamiti
had been imprisoned for Maximum Prison.
violent robbery, and his The experience can trans-
protests that he had been form inmates and change
framed went unanswered. how others treat them,
Then he heard about the Mzari said. "People are now
African Prisons Project, seeing that the people
which is turning even illiter- whom we took into prison,
ate prisoners into their own whom we had considered
legal advocates in coun- that they are the litter and
tries where such assistance the garbage of society,
is desperately rare. they are now coming out
In September, the 47-year- as polished gold."
old was released after rep- In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018, prisoner Gibson Makini, 40, center, who aids his The prisoner with the high
resenting himself in court. fellow inmates in writing legal documents, stands with them in Naivasha Prison in Kenya. score in May, 45-year-old
He is now pursuing a law Associated Press George Karaba, had been
degree from the Univer- charged with murder and
sity of London. "Joining the have been freed this year ander McLean, who was who need it are master- sentenced to death. He
program is actually the alone as of October, proj- volunteering in Uganda ing basic literacy and then says he had lost hope. Now
thing which gave me my ect spokeswoman Peggy when he witnessed the sor- encouraged to study law. he's applying for a presi-
life back," he said. "I saw Nyahera said. ry state of inmates. Many Project staffers and in- dential pardon and has
that there is a possibility The project in Kenya and are illiterate and poor, with mates role-play in mock become a trustee, with a
of thinking big ... that the neighboring Uganda was little resources to represent court situations while law leadership role among his
walls cannot limit me." founded in 2007 by then- themselves. students act as judges. peers.q
Eight hundred prisoners British law student Alex- Under the project, inmates "Last examination we did