YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN YOUTHS SCUFFLE WITH FRENCH PEACEKEEPERS/SERB VILLAGERS IN A STANDOFF WITH KFOR TROOPS

Record ID: 565795

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN YOUTHS SCUFFLE WITH FRENCH PEACEKEEPERS/SERB VILLAGERS IN A STANDOFF WITH KFOR TROOPS
  • Date: 3rd September 1999
  • Summary: MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (SEPTEMBER 2) (REUTERS) 1. LV OF BRIDGE IN TOWN 0.14 2. CU/SLV OF ETHNIC ALBANIAN YOUTHS WITH PETITION DEMANDING ACCESS TO THEIR SCHOOL IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE TOWN (4 SHOTS) 0.41 3. LV FRENCH PEACEKEEPER ON ROOF 0.44 4. SLV YOUTHS HOLDING PETITION AND MARCHING 0.52 5. SLV FRENCH PEACEKEEPERS BLOCKING THE ROAD WITH BARBED WIRE (2 SHOTS) 1.03 6. SLV SCUFFLES BETWEEN ETHNIC ALBANIAN YOUTHS AND FRENCH AND ITALIAN PEACEKEEPERS/YOUTHS TRY TO DAMAGE BARBED WIRE (6 SHOTS) 2.06 7. SLV WOMAN AND YOUTH WALKING ALONG STREET 2.15 8. SLV MORE PEACEKEEPERS GETTING OFF APC 2.23 9. PAN FROM MILITARY VEHICLES BLOCKING THE ROAD TO AMBULANCE 2.29 10. CU OF DAMAGE TO AMBULANCE 2.33 11. MCU (ALBANIAN) ETHNIC ALBANIAN DOCTOR SAYING "My ambulance was full of patients and as we drove past they (Serb) started throwing stones, injuring two of the people who were inside. 3.00 12. SLV/SV OF STANDOFF BETWEEN TROOPS AND ETHNIC ALBANIANS (5 SHOTS) 3.23 13. SV SOLDIERS DETAINING ONE YOUTH (2 SHOTS) 3.30 14. LV TROOPS BLOCKING THE ROAD (3 SHOTS) 3.44 GRACANICA, KOSOVO; YUGOSLAVIA SEPTEMBER 2, 1999 15. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS AT SERB BARRICADE/ LV/SLV/SV VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DENYING ACCESS TO U.N. POLICE (8 SHOTS) 4.49 16. MCU PEACEKEEPERS TALKING TO LOCAL PEOPLE 5.06 17. MCU (SERBO CROAT) SERB PROTESTER SAYING: We are here because we want (U.N. representative in Kosovo) Bernard Kouchner to come and assure us that we can live here safely and that the hostages, our people who were kidnapped by the Albanians, will be returned. 5.24 18. LV OF BLOCKADE, MILITARY VEHICLE DRIVING AWAY 5.30 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th September 1999 13:00
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  • Location: MITROVICA AND GRACANICA, KOSOVO; YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA1WIJSTSY4YLSO9HBN93A83Y60
  • Story Text: Ethnic Albanian youths have scuffled with French
    peacekeepers in Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, during a protest
    over access to an area of the city, which is home to the Serb
    minority.

    Several hundred Albanian and Serb youths stood on
    either side of the bridge that separates the town, hurling
    insults at each other.Stones were thrown, breaking the window
    of a French vehicle belonging to the peacekeeping force.

    Meanwhile in Gracanica, Serb villagers were in a tense
    standoff with KFOR troops as they maintained their blockade in
    support of demands that villagers allegedly kidnapped by
    ethnic Albanians be returned unharmed.

    The protest is also in retaliation for the ethnic Albanian
    blockade in Orahovac, where local people don't want Russian
    peacekeepers.


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