"KLA" sign put up on hill overlooking Kosovska Mitrovica

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A sign reading "KLA" - short for "Kosovo Liberation Army" - has been erected on a hill overlooking Kosovska Mitrovica.

The large red sign can be seen on the Crnusa hill, designated by local authorities in the southern, ethnic Albanian-populated part of Kosovoska Mitrovica as the site of a new Kosovo Security Force base, the RTS reported.

The same sign has been put up on other elevated spots in Kosovo-Metohija in the past, including near Malisevo and on a fortress near Prizren.

In 1998 and 1999, the so-called "KLA" committed many crimes, murders and kidnappings, targeting police and Yugoslav Army personnel, local Serbs and other non-Albanians, as well as ethnic Albanians who refused to be its members or helpers.