ALBANIA: LIKE MANY OTHER KOSOVO ALBANIAN, DOCTOR NARUSHI HULAJ, WAS ROUNDED UP BY SERB SECURITY FORCES AND DROVE TO ALBANIAN BORDER
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565819
ALBANIA: LIKE MANY OTHER KOSOVO ALBANIAN, DOCTOR NARUSHI HULAJ, WAS ROUNDED UP BY SERB SECURITY FORCES AND DROVE TO ALBANIAN BORDER
- Title: ALBANIA: LIKE MANY OTHER KOSOVO ALBANIAN, DOCTOR NARUSHI HULAJ, WAS ROUNDED UP BY SERB SECURITY FORCES AND DROVE TO ALBANIAN BORDER
- Date: 30th April 1999
- Summary: MORINA, ALBANIA (APRIL 29, 1999) (REUTERS) 1. SLV BORDER CROSSING/ VARIOUS CARS WITH REFUGEES WAITING TO CROSS 0.03 2. LV REFUGEES WALKING TOWARDS BORDER CROSSING INCLUDING DR NARUSHI HULAJ (LIGHT GREEN JACKET) 0.08 3. LAS CARS ARRIVING AT BORDER 0.20 4. LV DR HULAJ ARRIVING AT BORDER CHECKPOINT ON FOOT 0.25 5. MCU (ALBANIAN/ENGLISH TRANSLATION) DR HULAJ CRYING, SAYING "They came (Serb soldiers) at eight o'clock and said you can go to the Ministry of Interior and wait there and see what's going to happen to you. They took all our identity cards and we are here now. I have two children and they know nothing about me. (asked where her husband and children are, if they are back there (in Kosovo) she replies) "Yes". (asked if she knows why they were ordered out replies) "I do not know, probably if you are not Serb you must leave. "I do not have any money. I do not have nothing we were going to work, we didn't know anything about what was going to happen. There's nothing in the world I do not think is going to happen this tragedy". (asked where will she go now, replies) "I do not know". 2.07 6. SV REFUGEES CROSSING THE BORDER BEING HELPED BY UNHCR STAFF 2.12 7. SLV ELDERLY MAN WALKING TO BORDER WITH CHILD ON HIS BACK 2.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 15th May 1999 13:00
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- Location: MORINA, ALBANIA
- Country: Albania
- Reuters ID: LVA2PI3VUDBAD474Z02YUR3UKEJ3
- Story Text: Doctor Narushi Hulaj woke up in the morning at home in
Prizren, Kosovo.But by early afternoon she found herself in
northern Albania, hustled over the border by Serb security
forces, along with several of her fellow medical workers.
Until Thursday (April 29) Doctor Hulaj worked as a
medical hygiene specialist at a clinic in Prizren in
southwestern Kosovo.
Despite 36 days of NATO air strikes against Yugoslavia,
Thursday morning was much like any other.Doctor Hulaj said
goodbye to her husband and two children and left for work.
But she had only been working for an hour before Serb
security forces rounded her and her fellow Albanian workers
up, forced them into vehicles and drove them straight to the
Albanian border.
So Doctor Hulaj, with just the clothes she is wearing to
her name, now finds herself on the other side of a battle line
from her husband and family.
"They took all our identity cards and we are here now.I
have two children and they know nothing about me," she told
Reuters at the Morina border crossing in northern Albania..
Dr Hulaj said she had no money and did not know what was
going to happen to her.
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