1 Security Force - Helping All from the snow and providing medical assistance; from digging out water channels and providing electricity to the Communities educating children on unexploded ordnance risks and blood donation.

Many CIMIC projects have been and are being carried The Ministry for Kosovo Security Force (MKSF) and the out in cooperation and with the assistance of international Kosovo Security Force (KSF) give a lot of importance to organizations, local municipalities and non-governmental Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) and CIMIC projects organizations. For KSF, it is an opportunity to establish since they bring both organizations closer to the people of good relations and enhance cooperation with all ethnic Kosovo and support them in their needs. communities, acquire new and needed experience, develop its professional capabilities and show that KSF is a reliable, The goal of MKSF is to make KSF trusted, beneficial and trustworthy, active and visible organization that serves visible throughout Kosovo and among all communities. One all people of Kosovo. By continuing to provide loyal and of the ways to achieve this is by carrying out CIMIC projects dedicated service to the country, KSF serves as a positive role that aim to improve the living conditions of Kosovo citizens, model for the whole society of Kosovo. regardless of their ethnic or religious affiliation. In order to ensure good governance and increase transparency on assessing submitted requests to implement CIMIC projects, MKSF has introduced a new process for considering and prioritizing requests submitted by municipalities. The CIMIC projects application form is posted on the MKSF web site in Albanian, Serbian and English.

This publication gives a short overview of all CIMIC projects carried out from 2010 to 2012 and highlights a few of them. Special attention is paid to humanitarian assistance provided to all ethnic communities living in Kosovo. The MKSF CIMIC Department coordinates activities This publication also between KSF and civilian authorities, including the highlights demining population, national and international governmental and activities carried out by non-governmental organizations and agencies. Its core the KSF EOD Company. task is to promote the mission of KSF among all ethnic communities and build confidence in KSF.

The increasing number of requests that MKSF receives from local municipalities gives evidence of the qualification and competence of KSF members involved in CIMIC projects. It is also an example of excellent cooperation between the KSF and local communities and reconfirms that KSF is fully dedicated to support the people of Kosovo with all available means, at any time.

Humanitarian assistance provided by the KSF can be divided in three main areas: infrastructure, safety and health, and education. The executed civil-military projects vary from building roads and houses for returnees to clearing roads 2 3 Insight into Civil-Military Projects

KSF Supports Exhumation Works in Zhilivodë/Žilivode

Thirteen years after the end of the war in Kosovo, 1.700 of the 6.019 people who were reported missing to the International Red Cross by their families are still unaccounted for.

In August 2010, EULEX started exhumation works in Zhilivodë in order to investigate a suspected mass grave. This was the largest exhumation site inspected to date; the site consisted of seven thousand square meters and twelve coalmines that were connected by underground tunnels.

Because of the size of the area, the EULEX Department of Forensic Medicine was logistically supported by the KSF, which used heavy machinery to dig 30 m into the ground KSF Reconstructs the Road Connecting Orllan/Orlane where the alleged mass grave was suspected of being located. and Turuçicë/Turučica The underground excavations took twenty-four weeks during 2011 and 2012 and the entire location was examined. In the spring of 2012, KSF repaired a 5.5 km road between After a thorough inspection, no evidence of human remains the villages of Orllan/Orlane and Turuçicë/Turučica in was found. KSF remains committed to assist EULEX in the municipality of Podujevë/, thus improving searching remains of missing individuals. the living conditions of villagers and facilitating their access to a local school. KSF Engineer Battalion specialists reconstructed the road. The gravel and other materials to fill and level the road were provided by the community and businessmen of Turuçicë village. During the opening ceremony for the repaired road, the Minister of Kosovo Security Force, Agim Çeku, stressed that CIMIC projects are very important because they bring KSF closer to the people of our country and support them in their needs.

4 5 KSF Removes Ruins in the Village of Nekovc/Nekovce

In August 2012, a KSF Engineer Unit removed the ruins of a former school that was destroyed during the last war in Kosovo in Nekovc/Nekovce village, municipality of / Glogovac. A total of 2.066 cubic meters of rubble (over 170 trucks) was removed.

KSF Opens a Road in /Junik Municipality

In June 2012, after finishing with the Turuçicë/Turučica project, KSF Engineer Battalion specialists started opening a road in Junik/Junik Municipality. KSF supports the KSF Assists Citizens during Heavy Snowfalls road opening with manpower and machinery (widening, leveling and graveling), while fuel and gravel are provided The winter of 2012 was one of the coldest and snowiest by the Municipality. The whole length of the road is 7 km winters in Kosovo in the last few decades. In January and and it is planned to be finalized in November 2012. Junik/ February, KSF was actively involved in clearing roads Junik Municipality is among the most recently established municipalities in Kosovo, and the government’s priority is to support its development.

KSF Renovates the Mother and Child Care Center

In the spring of 2012, KSF started renovation works at the Rehabilitation Center for Mother and Child in Prishtinë/ Priština/Priština. The Humanitarian Assistance Fund of the United States European Command (EUCOM) provided financial support for the project, whereas engineers of KSF carried out the renovation works, spending more than throughout Kosovo (Prishtinë/Priština/Priština, Kaçanik/ 700 hours there. This was the first project of this kind that Kačanik, Lipjan//Lipljan, Podujevë/Podujevo, Shtërpcë/Štrpce, Malishevë/Mališevo, Vushtrri/Vučitrn, Fushë Kosovë/, Novobërdë/, /Uroševac/Uroševac, Graçanicë/Gračanica and other municipalities) and supplying citizens with medicine, food and other essentials.

In February, KSF rescued 50 children of “Hasan Prishtina” EUCOM was doing in cooperation with KSF. A kindergarten elementary school who were entrapped in Brezovicë ski will be opened in the renovated facilities, and its fees will resort after an avalanche closed the roads. KSF members and be used to take care of 47 orphans who can enjoy various students of the University of Physical Education escorted the activities at the Center, such as singing, dancing, painting, pupils on foot and helped them to walk 3 km to safety. sports, computer classes, as well as English and German language classes. Alongside these activities, the Center February brought a big tragedy for Kosovo. On the morning provides the orphans with food, clothing and school supplies. of February 11, an avalanche in the village of Restelicë took the lives of ten people. Hundreds of KSF members, police, 6 7 firefighters and local villagers worked for several days, searching for citizens buried under the snow and rubble of collapsed houses. The search and rescue works resulted in saving the life of a five-year-old girl. KSF outstanding efforts and professionalism in searching and rescuing victims of the avalanche were also highly appreciated by KFOR.

The tragedy in Restelicë/Restalica village proved that KSF is capable of KSF Supports Environmental Awareness Activities coping with very difficult situations KSF shares the country’s goal of passing on to future and supporting the generations a safe and clean environment. Each citizen of citizens of Kosovo. Kosovo is obliged to preserve and protect the environment. Common efforts of Therefore, in the spring of 2012, KSF members participated all involved state agencies (government, KSF, police, Crisis in Earth Day activities by planting trees in Mitrovicë/ Management Agency, Government Situation Center, local Kosovska Mitrovica/Kosovska Mitrovica Municipality and municipalities) and their coordinated actions were essential the Land Force Command. for the successful search and rescue operation. On May 24, sharing this goal, KSF members joined the campaign “Clean up Kosovo.” During this campaign, seven barracks and their surrounding areas were cleaned. KSF Supports Blood Donation Activity Moreover, KSF also actively supported many municipalities all over Kosovo in their clean up activities, working together For several years, KSF with thousands of volunteers to make the country a place members have been active everyone enjoys and is proud of. supporters of the voluntary action for blood donation. In July 2012, during the blood drive, KSF donated KSF Supports People with Disabilities over 450 units of blood. KSF also provided several units In May 2012, a rally to raise awareness about people with of antidote serum to the disabilities was held in /Prizren. The rally started University Clinical Center of Kosovo (UCCK). It is very in the central square of the town and continued up the important at a time when the requirement for blood is high hill to Prizren/Prizren Fortress. KSF members supported and when over 150 doses of blood are needed within 24 hours participants of the rally by helping to push or carry to cover the UCCK needs. By supporting humanitarian wheelchairs and offering any other assistance. actions for blood donation organized by the National Center for Blood Transfusion, KSF sets a great example for other citizens of Kosovo.

8 9 CIMIC Projects for Ethnic At the request of the municipality, the KSF team expanded the riverbed and cleaned 230 m of the river, thus saving Communities territories that lay on the both sides of the river from floods.

CIMIC projects instill not only greater trust in KSF, but also In the winter 2011/2012, MKSF organized mine awareness in the government and its institutions. They are especially lectures in elementary schools of ethnic communities. important with regard to the Serbian community. Kosovo Lectures were delivered in 15 schools and were attended by Government wants to see all communities that live in the around 650 Bosnian, Serbian and Turkish schoolchildren. country fully integrated and to make them feel that Kosovo Since 2010, a KSF Medical Team provides medical assistance is a home to them and their children. to the Serbian community. Every second Friday, KSF medics visit Dragolec/Dragoljevac, Serbobran/Srbobran Since 2009, the MKSF Community Affairs Office actively and Zallç/Žalč villages and offer free medical check-up to cooperates with ethnic communities in Kosovo. The aim of the population there. The support is much appreciated this cooperation is to inform them about KSF mission and since most of the villagers do not have financial means to duties, thus building a bridge of greater trust in KSF. travel to Mitrovicë/Kosovska Mitrovica and receive medical assistance there. The inhabitants of these villages are willing The beginning of cooperation and implementation to continue cooperating with KSF due to its professional of humanitarian projects in ethnic communities was performance. challenging, but by providing practical and much needed support to communities, KSF is accruing increasing trust and confidence.

Dragolec/Dragoljevac was the first Serb-inhabited village that Humanitarian Demining in Kosovo KSF has supported within the framework of CIMIC projects. The construction of 17 houses for Serbian returnees started Although the Kosovo Demining Program has been an in the summer of 2010, supported by Istog Municipality unprecedented achievement, mines and unexploded and the Ministry for Communities and Returns. The KSF ordnances are still a great danger for the citizens of Engineer Battalion cleared up the ground to set up tents, dug Kosovo. As a consequence of the last war in Kosovo, from water channels, provided electricity, widened the road and 1999 through 2012, mines have caused the death of 115 helped in clearing the ground to build new houses. During people, and 454 citizens have been injured by unexploded the implementation of the project, the Italian and Slovenian ordnances. Currently, 57 areas are marked as dangerous and KFOR contingents provided valuable support. This village 44 as suspected. received more support on May 24, 2012 – during the Big Clean-up Day, KSF helped Dragolec/Dragoljevac to clean up the surrounding area. Dragolec/Dragoljevac is an excellent example of cooperation between the Serbian community and KSF, and excellent encouragement for other ethnic communities.

Zallç/Žalč is another Serb-inhabited village that is located in Istog municipality. Like in Dragolec/Dragoljevac back in 2010, 17 houses for Serbian returnees were built with the active involvement of KSF Engineer Battalion. Throughout 2012, KSF assisted this village with continuous free medical check-up and a road reconstruction project.

The municipality of Lipjan/Lipljan is located in central Kosovo and includes Lipjan/Lipljan town and 62 villages. Out of 54.200 inhabitants of the municipality, around 2.000 are Kosovo Serbs. For many years, Lipjan/Lipljan municipality faced serious problems caused by Sitnica River. 10 11 Humanitarian demining in Kosovo is carried out by the KSF Currently, the EOD EOD Company and organizations accredited by the Mine Company deals Action Center (MAC). The MKSF MAC coordinates and is with conventional a point of contact for all humanitarian demining activities in explosives, while Kosovo. In its EOD response activities, the EOD Company improvised explosive cooperates closely with Kosovo Police, KFOR and MAC. devices fall under KFOR authority.

In order to develop C o m p a n y ’ s capabilities, the U.S. plans to support them in acquiring the skills needed to deal with improvised explosive devices.

From 1999 through 2011, almost 48 million square meters of Kosovo territory have been cleared. In 2010-2012, KSF demining teams have cleared 660.635 square meters; they have found and neutralized 1.940 mines and unexploded devices.

The equipment used by KSF demining teams was mostly donated or inherited from Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC). New equipment is needed in order to minimize risks and protect demining specialists from injuries. Therefore, the The KSF EOD Company consists of three demining platoons, acquisition of new personal protective equipment for the and an EOD emergency response platoon. These teams are EOD Company is planned in the near future. trained by UK specialists, work according to International Mine Action Standards (IMAS) and are available 24 hours a Throughout 2012, KSF demining teams have been engaged day, 7 days a week. in Dobroçan/Dobročane/Dobročane, Ferizaj/Uroševac, Hajvali/Ajvalija, Harilaç/Arilak, Luzhnicë/Lužane, and Humanitarian demining activities are carried out according several battlefields, such as Koshare/Košare, Belenicë/ to an annual plan that is prepared according to mine and Belance and others. UXO (unexploded ordnance) clearance priorities. Each year, KSF EOD Company specialists deliver mine risks education at schools and public information on threats that remain in the country.

The Mine Action Center has assisted in checking for and clearing mines in Serbian cemeteries in Prishtinë/Priština and Lipjan/Lipljan. In 2011, a KSF EOD Team cleared the yard and St. Nicholas’ Church cemetery in Prishtinë/ Priština from an unexploded device. KSF EOD teams also supported the GSV (go and see visits) for displaced persons of the Serbian community at the request of humanitarian organizations like the Danish Refugee Council.

Remark: all the vehicles and equipment seen in the photos belong to KSF. 12 13 List of Humanitarian Projects and Other Community Activities Implemented in 2010 – 2012

No. Project Description of Works Location Date 1 Klinë Construction of a dam to collect Klinë 28.09.2010 - waters for orphanage needs 26.10.2010 2 Support to the Transporting of mattresses Prishtinë/Priština – 27.10.2010 Department of Health from Student Center Prishtinë/ Ferizaj/Uroševac -28.10.2010 and Social Welfare, Priština to Ferizaj/Uroševac Ferizaj/Uroševac

3 Support to the Mitrovicë/Kosovska Mitrovica Mitrovicë/Kosovska 14.01.2011 Municipality municipality was supported Mitrovica-Shkodër/ as per the request of RRB 2nd Skadar Battalion 4 Support to National Support to NTK with two trucks Prishtinë/Priština 21.01.2011 Theater of Kosovo (NTK)

5 Support to SOS Transportation of 50 children SOS-Kinderdorf- 16.02.2011 Kinderdorf in Kosovo of SOS Kinderdorf to Prekaz/ Prekaz/Prekaze and Prekaze back 6 Mine Awareness Education on mine and UXO Han i Elezit and 02.03.2011 risks Kaçanik -16.03.2011

7 Support to AUK Charity Support with a tent for AUK Prishtinë/Priština 18.03.2011 Club Charity Club on World Down -21.03.2011 Syndrome Day for Down 15.03.2012 Syndrome Kosova -16.03.2012 8 “Stanet 2011” Expanding and paving a road, in Burrnik/Burnik- 04.04.2011 support of KFOR Ferizaj/Uroševac -10.10.2011 9 Batllavë/Batlava Cleaning of Batllavë lake Batllavë/Batlava 22.04.2011

10 Organization of KSF support to OPFAKKOS Pejë-Peć-Rugovë/ 28.06.2011 Children with in Pejë for the summer camp Rugova Mountains -07.07.2011 Disabilities Kosova “Rugovë 2011” OPFAKKOS - Pejë 11 Sports activities Football competition between Prishtinë/Priština, big 09.06.2011 MKSF, Kosovo Police, KFOR stadium and EULEX 12 Action “Blood Blood donation KSF barracks 11.07.2011 Donation” -25.07.2011 13 Javor/Javor, Suharekë/ Construction of a house roof Javor/Javor 11.10.2011 municipality -24.10.2011

14 15 14 Special Institute in Leveling and earth removal Shtime/Štimlje 14.10.2011 Shtime/Štimlje -19.10.2011 15 Support to Orienteering Support to map and compass Prishtinë/Priština 15.10.2011 Club “Prishtinë/ orienteering competition Priština”

16 Project in Shtuticë/ Leveling and removal of earth Shtuticë/Štutica- 20.10.2011 Štutica village from the school yard Drenas/Glogovac -31.10.2011

17 Field Exercise in Participation in HAZMAT /Srbica 25.10.2011 Skenderaj/Srbica operations and logistic support

18 Project in the Fshati i Construction and expansion of a Fshati i Ri/Novo Selo 25.10.2011 Ri/Novo Selo 2 km road

18 Support to SOS Transportation of 60 children SOS-Kinderdorf- 25.11.2011 Kinderdorf in Kosovo of SOS Kinderdorf to Prekaz/ Prekaz/Prekaze and Prekaze back

19 Medical Assistance to Medical assistance Zallç/Žalč, Dragolec/ 2010 - ongoing Serbian community Dragoljevac, Serbobran/Srbobran

20 Leveling and filling of Leveling and filling of potholes Zallç/Žalč First two weeks potholes with gravel with gravel of January 2012

21 Clearing of roads Clearing of roads from the snow Prishtinë/Priština January – from the snow in in mountainous areas Podujevë, Kaçanik, February 2012 mountainous areas Ferizaj/Uroševac, Malishevë/Mališevo, Lipjan/Lipljan, Dragash/Dragaš, /Gnjilane, Viti/ , Novobërdë/ Novo Brdo, Vushtrri/ Vučitrn, Mitrovicë/ Kosovska Mitrovica, Fushë Kosovë/Kosovo Polje, Shtërpcë/ Štrpce, Istog/, Graçanicë/Gračanica, Ranillug/Raniluk, Junik/Junik, Obiliq/ Obilić

16 17 22 Mine awareness Mine awareness lectures Elementary schools 05 .12.2011 lectures, including -09.02.2012 schools for ethnic communities

23 Leveling of gravel Leveling of gravel Elementary school 27.03.2012 “Gjergj Fishta” in -29.05.2012 Jagodë/Jagoda, Klinë/

24 Road reconstruction Road reconstruction Orllan/Orlane – 09.04.2012 Turuçicë/Turučica, -25.05.2012 Podujevë/Podujevo 25 Removal of earth to Removal of earth to clear the Podujevë/Podujevo 17.04.2012 clear the cemetery cemetery -18.04.2012

24 “Mother and Child Reconstruction works at Prishtinë/Priština 17.04.2012 Center” “Mother and Child Center” -15.06.2012

25 Earth Day Tree planting KSF Land Force 22.04.2012 Command and -25.04.2012 Mitrovicë/Kosovska Mitrovica 26 Cleaning project “Let’s Cleaning works All over Kosovo 25.05.2012 do it Kosova”

27 Organization of Support with personnel and Prizren/Prizren 26.05.2012 Disabled People transport (muscular dystrophy)

28 Visit of students of an Visit of students of an KSF Land Force 02.06.2012 elementary school from elementary school from Command Preshevë/Preševo Valley Preshevë/Preševo Valley 29 Expansion of the road Expansion of the road in Junik/ Junik/Junik 06.06. 2012 – Junik Mountains ongoing

30 Organization Support with tents Prishtinë/Priština 16.06.2012 OPFAKKOS -17.06.2012 31 “VICTORY” College Support with personnel Prishtinë/Priština 23.06.2012 32 Kosovo Olympic Club Support with personnel Prishtinë/Priština 23.06.2012

18 19 33 Mitrovicë/Kosovska Support with personnel Vesekovc/Vesekovac, 30.06.2012 Mitrovica Municipality Mitrovicë/Kosovska Mitrovica 34 “Ethno Fest” Festival, Support with camp beds, tents Kukaj/Kukaj – 30.06.2012 Prishtinë/Priština and portable toilets Prishtinë/Priština -06.07.2012 35 National Blood Blood donation MKSF, KSF 02.07.2012 Transfusion Center -15.07.2012

36 Kosovo Police Training Support with tents Prishtinë/Priština 13.07.2012 Academy

37 Study Initiative Recycling of caps, support with Prishtinë/Priština 14.07.2012 ”Kosova CAP” a truck to transport wheelchairs -17.07.2012

38 Summer School Support with an ambulance, a Rugovë/Rugova 06.08.2012 “Knowledge Camp – medical team and lunch -14.08.2012 let’s learn about our country” 39 Demolition of an old Demolition of an old school Nekovc/Nekovac, 08.08.2012 school Nekovc/Nekovac Nekovc/Nekovac Drenas/Glogovac -23.08.2012 40 Cycling Federation, 12th Support with an ambulance and Kosovë/Kosovo 11.08.2012 Edition a medical team -14.08 .2012 41 Construction of the Support with personnel and Dragolec/Dragoljevac 27.08.2012 house of Haziraj family equipment

42 Road repair and Support with personnel and Leskoc/Leskovac, 03.09.2012 digging of a trench for equipment Klinë/Klina wastewater Municipality

43 First Youth Festival of Support with tents and camp Vushtrri/Vučitrn 14.09.2012 Kosovo Municipalities beds -16.09.2012

List of Humanitarian Projects for National Communities

No. Project Description of Works Location Date 1 Support with lectures G9 LFC lectured about KSF Prizren/Prizren 09.10.2010 for Youth Scouts structure, mission, tasks and League of Kosovo activities

Visit to the barracks 19.03.2011

20 21 2 Medical Assistance MEDCOY medical team, Chief Dragolevac/Dragolec, 29.10.2010 - G9 and Italian KFOR have Zallç/Žalč and ongoing provided medical assistance to Serbobran/Srbobran Istog/Istok municipality once a week 3 Support to Lipjan/ Cleaning of the river and the Lipjan/Lipljan 03.11.2010 Lipljan Municipality ditch

Earth removal 13.10.2011 4 Humanitarian project Support to Italian KFOR to lay Zallç/Žalč 14.02.2011 - in Zallç/Žalč gravel on the road in Zallç/Žalč 18.02.2011 5 Project in Klinë/ Gravel and earth transportation Jagodë/Jagoda, Klinë/ 14.11.2011 Klina Municipality to “At Gjergj Fishta” school Klina municipality -24.11.2011

Gravel leveling o in “At Gjergj 27.03.2012 Fishta” school

6 Project “Education Lectures by CPR members on Schools, all 10.12.2011- on the risks of using the risks of using pyrotechnics communities 22.12.2011 pyrotechnics” 7 Mine awareness Lectures by CPR members on Elementary schools, 05.12.2011 mine risks including schools for -09.02.2012 ethnic communities 8 Humanitarian project 04.01.2012 in Zallç/Žalč, Istog/ -05.01.2012 Istok Transportation and laying of Zallç/Žalč, Istog/ gravel Istok

List of Projects in Cooperation with the Government and EULEX

No. Project Description of Works Location Date 1 Project Setting up a perimeter around Zhilivodë/Žilivoda 01.09.2010 – “Excavation” the excavation area and excavation of the soil 02.08.2012 2 Project “Pejë/ Search for mortal remains in Pejë/Peć 05.05.2011 Peć” a well by KSF CPR divers, in cooperation with EULEX 3 Project “Livoç/ Search for mortal remains in Livoç/Livoč 10.05.2011 Livoč” Livoç/Livoč Lake, KSF in cooperation with EULEX

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