YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS MARCH IN PRISTINA TO HIGHLIGHT THE PLIGHT OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHO WENT MISSING DURING THE KOSOVO CONFLICT

Record ID: 565786

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS MARCH IN PRISTINA TO HIGHLIGHT THE PLIGHT OF FRIENDS AND RELATIVES WHO WENT MISSING DURING THE KOSOVO CONFLICT
  • Date: 6th August 1999
  • Summary: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (AUGUST 6, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SLV DEMONSTRATORS ON STEPS WITH ALBANIAN FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 0.08 2. SV/SLV PEOPLE WALKING THROUGH STREETS IN SILENCE CARRYING PICTURES OF MISSING PERSONS AND ALBANIAN FLAGS (4 SHOTS) 0.30 3. SLV PEOPLE WALKING ON MARCH 0.35 4. SV/CU DEMONSTARTOR WALKING WITH SYMBOLICALLY CHAINED HANDS AND ANKLES (2 SHOTS) 0.45 5. LAS/SV CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS WALKING THROUGH STREETS (3 SHOTS) 1.03 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st August 1999 13:00
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  • Location: PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA285X0MW7LK8TGZ79TQFFOTXDF
  • Story Text: Hundreds of ethnic Albanians have taken to the streets
    of Pristina to highlight to the plight of friends and
    relatives who went missing during the Kosovo conflict.

    The demonstrators marched silently through the Pristina
    streets on Friday (August 6), carrying Albanian flags and
    pictures of their missing loved ones.

    Some of them were symbolically bound around the wrist and
    ankles with chains.

    Up to a 1,000 people joined the march in an attempt to
    highlight the plight of friends and relatives who they claim
    are missing or being held in Serbian prisons.


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