Vol.64/No.4 January 31, 2000
U.S. sergeant charged with murder in Kosova
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Hamdi Shabiu, in Vitina, Yugoslavia, holds a picture of his murdered daughter, an 11-year-old from Kosova. Staff Sgt. Frank Ronghi, squad leader assigned to Company A, Third Batallion of the U.S. military's 504th Parachute Infantry from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has been charged with sexually assaulting and killing the girl.
Local residents say they have filed numerous complaints with the U.S. command in Kosova about male soldiers searching young girls for weapons, sexually abusing them in the process. They had no response to their appeals.
"We don't want them here to give us security if they are going to do this," said Muharram Samakova, a neighbor of the slain girl's family. The name of the girl was not printed in the New York Times story of the atrocity.
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