YUGOSLAVIA: TWO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES KFOR SOLDIERS INJURED IN 'REVENGE' ATTACK FOLLOWING KILLING OF TWO ETHNIC ALBANIANS

Record ID: 338016

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: TWO UNITED ARAB EMIRATES KFOR SOLDIERS INJURED IN 'REVENGE' ATTACK FOLLOWING KILLING OF TWO ETHNIC ALBANIANS
  • Date: 24th August 2000
  • Summary: SVINJARE, SOUTH OF PRISTINA (AUGUST 24, 2000) (REUTERS (A)) 1. VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION WALKING DOWN ROAD 0.05 2. CLOSE UP OF MOURNERS WITH PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE DEAD KOSOVAR ALBANIANS 0.13 4. VARIOUS OF FUNERAL PROCESSION WALKING THROUGH UNITED ARAB EMIRATES CHECKPOINT WHERE THE SHOOTINGS HAPPENED (2 SHOTS) 0.25 5. WIDE OF MEN CA
  • Embargoed: 8th September 2000 13:00
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  • Location: SVINJARE, PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA7SEK2K2HISBY9PIP1IA4MP29R
  • Story Text: Two United Arab Emirates soldiers serving with the
    NATO-led peace force were wounded when grenades hit their
    headquarters, in what is seen as a revenge attack for the
    fatal shooting of two ethnic Albanians earlier this week, a
    NATO spokesman said on
    Thursday (August 24).

    In Svinjare, grieving relatives of the two Kosovar
    Albanians buried their dead on Thursday.

    One soldier was injured in the right leg and
    another in the ear, when two grenades, fired from a passing
    car, slammed into the headquarters of the United Arab Emirates
    contingent in northern Kosovo, Major Scott Slaten, a spokesman
    for the NATO-led force, known as KFOR, told reporters in
    Pristina.

    "In what can only be seen as a retaliatory attack for
    the shooting of two Kosovar Albanians, two KFOR United Arab
    Emirates (UAE) soldiers were wounded last night by rifle
    grenades that were fired against the UAE Headquarters in the
    town of Vucitrn," he said.

    "Let there be no doubt, the safety and protection of my
    peacekeepers is a primary concern of mine. An attack on one
    KFOR nation is an attack on all of KFOR. This will not be
    tolerated," Slaten added.

    In Svinjare, grieving relatives of the two Kosovar
    Albanians buried their dead onThursday.

    The father, shot by a UAE soldier at a checkpoint near
    Mitrovica, had died instantly. His 21 year old son died later
    of his wounds.

    The man's wife and two daughters led the funeral
    procession.
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