YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY (KLA) STAGE RALLY TO MARK FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF START OF ETHNIC CONFLICT.

Record ID: 214952

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY (KLA) STAGE RALLY TO MARK FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF START OF ETHNIC CONFLICT.
  • Date: 28th November 1998
  • Summary: LAUSA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (NOVEMBER 28, 1998) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV: KLA SOLDIERS ARRIVING FOR CEREMONY (2 SHOTS) 0.06 2. GV/PAN/SV: SCHOOL CHILDREN ARRIVING (2 SHOTS) 0.13 3. SV: WOMAN KLA SOLDIER READING STATEMENT 0.17 4. MV: SPECIAL UNIT SOLDIERS ARRIVING (IN RED BERETS) 0.24 5. GV/MV: KLA COMMANDERS CLIMBING ONTO M
  • Embargoed: 13th December 1998 12:00
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  • Location: LAUSA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVADFBH72CQJAJ5YSIDBWHXF3F2E
  • Story Text: The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) has put on a show of
    defiance to mark the first anniversary of the start of the
    bloody conflict in the Yugoslav province.

    Dozens of soldiers, including members of the KLA
    special unit, along with children from the local school
    attended a rally on Saturday (November 29) in Lausa, once a
    KLA stronghold before the Serbs virtually destroyed the town.

    They laid wreaths at the grave of an ethnic Albanian
    schoolteacher - Halit Geci - who was killed there one year
    ago.

    At the teacher's funeral, the separatist guerrillas of the
    KLA appeared in public for the first time.

    The teacher's son said he felt obliged to join the KLA
    after his father died to fight for his country's independence.

    Saturday also marked national flag day, which celebrates
    Albanian independence.
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