YUGOSLAVIA: NATO PEACEKEEPING FORCES IMPOSE NIGHTTIME CURFEW ON TROUBLED NORTHERN KOSOVO TOWN OF MITROVICA

Record ID: 350175

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: NATO PEACEKEEPING FORCES IMPOSE NIGHTTIME CURFEW ON TROUBLED NORTHERN KOSOVO TOWN OF MITROVICA
  • Date: 4th February 2000
  • Summary: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA, FEBRUARY 4, 2000 (REUTERS) 1. WIDE: FRENCH AND ITALIAN KFOR UNITS BLOCKING BRIDGES LINKING SERB AND ALBANIAN QUARTERS 0.08 2. SV: CROWD OF ALBANIANS GATHERED AT KFOR BLOCKADE 0.14 3. SCU: MITROVICA MAYOR BAJRAM REXHEPI SPEAKING TO FRENCH KFOR OFFICERS (5 SHOTS) 0.41 4. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (Albanian) MITROVICA
  • Embargoed: 19th February 2000 12:00
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  • Location: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA96409GEUW10JDQO2KAP7M1NFG
  • Story Text: Nato peacekeeping forces have imposed a nighttime
    curfew on the troubled northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica,
    after Thursday's (February 3) violence in the town which led
    to the deaths of two Albanians and one Serb civilian.

    Mitrovica's Albanian mayor, Bajram Rexhepi told
    Reuters Television on Friday (February 4) that after a meeting
    the commander of Kosovo's northern military sector, French
    General Pierre de Saqui de Sannes, it was decided to impose
    the curfew in an attempt to prevent further violence.

    Tensions remained high in Mitrovica on Friday as French
    and Italian KFOR units sealed off two key bridges across the
    town, linking Albanian and Serb quarters.

    Three people were shot dead and 21 wounded in overnight
    violence between ethnic Serbs and Albanians in Mitrovica on
    Thursday night.

    A spokesman for French peacekeepers who control the city
    said trouble flared on Thursday evening when an attacker threw
    a grenade at a Serb cafe.Around the same time, two ethnic
    Albanians were found shot dead.

    The violence came the day after a rocket attack on a
    United Nations bus in the Mitrovica region which killed two
    Serbs and wounded three more, heightening tensions between
    Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority and the Serb minority.

    Several properties were also set on fire in the course of
    the evening, the spokesman said.Troops blocked the city's two
    main bridges to prevent the Serbs from entering
    Albanian-dominated southern Mitrovica.


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