Director of Kosovo Jail Is Suspended

Chief U.N. administrator of Kosovo Bernard Kouchner announced that he had suspended the director of a detention center after 15 Kosovo Serbs escaped from the facility, and warned that other U.N. personnel could also be disciplined. The 15, most of them facing charges of genocide or crimes against humanity, fled from the U.N. jail in the primarily Serbian part of the divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica. Two were caught quickly, but the other 13 were still at large. An attempt to transfer the remaining Serbs from the jail in Kosovska Mitrovica stalled after angry Serbs blocked the road.