YUGOSLAVIA: SERBS LEAVE KOSOVO AS ETHNIC ALBANIANS ARE LOOTING AND BURNING HOUSES/A TENSE STANOFF BETWEEN THE TWO ETHNIC GROUPS CONTINUES

Record ID: 565835

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: SERBS LEAVE KOSOVO AS ETHNIC ALBANIANS ARE LOOTING AND BURNING HOUSES/A TENSE STANOFF BETWEEN THE TWO ETHNIC GROUPS CONTINUES
  • Date: 24th June 1999
  • Summary: ZEGRA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 1. SLV U.S. MARINES TANK ON PATROL 0.03 2. SLV/SV U.S. CHECKPOINT, SANDBAGS (3 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SV US MARINE LETS CAR THROUGH BARBED WIRE CHECKPOINT 0.26 4. SV/SLV DAMAGED HOUSES (2 SHOTS) 0.34 5. SLV/SV EHNIC SERBS PACKING UP IN CONVOY/ BEING SEARCHED BY MARINES/ WAITING NEXT TO CONVOY (6 SHOTS) 0.59 6. SV/SLV OLD WOMAN ON TRACTOR-TRAILOR/SOLDIERS GUARDING CONVOY (2 SHOTS) 1.09 MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999) (REUTERS) 7. LV/SLV/SV BURNING HOUSES (10 SHOTS) 1.49 8. SLV/SV FRENCH TROOPS ON PATROL/ SEARCHING PEOPLE (2 SHOTS) 2.00 9. LV/SV PEOPLE CARRYING LOOTED GOODS (3 SHOTS) 2.16 10. MCU (Albanian) UNIDENTIFIED MAN SAYING "We are just taking what is ours by right". 2.32 PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 11. SLV PEOPLE STANDING AROUND AT UNIVERSITY 2.35 12. SV AREA INSIDE CORDONED OFF, NATO SOLDIERS ON GUARD 2.40 13. SV PEOPLE GATHERED 2.43 14. SV/SLV SOLDIERS ENTERING SCENE OF SHOOTING/SOLDIERS GUARDING UNIVERSITY (4 SHOTS) 3.16 ZEGRA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 15. SLV KFOR TROOPS IN VILLAGE 3.21 16. LV TRACTOR CROSSES RIVER 3.27 17. SSV/LV SOLDIERS ON GUARD AS ETHNIC-SERBS LEAVE (5 SHOTS) 3.58 18. LV CONVOY LEAVES 4.05 PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999)(REUTERS) 19. SV RELATIVES OF DEAD MEN CRYING 4.11 20. MCU PEOPLE GATHERED AT UNIVERISTY 4.16 21. SLV/SV OF THREE BODIES BEING TAKEN OUT TO ARMY TRUCK (3 SHOTS) 4.48 MITROVICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (JUNE 24, 1999) (REUTERS) 22. AERIAL VIEW OF TOWN 5.03 23. LV/SLV/SV BURNING SERB HOUSES (4 SHOTS0 5.20 24. SLV MAN TRYING TO PUT OUT FIRE WITH BUCKET 5.26 25. SLV HORSE AND CART PASSING 5.32 26. SSV/CU BURNING HOUSES (2 SHOTS) 5.39 27. SV HORSE AND CART WITH HOUSEHOLD GOODS 5.47 28. LV OF TOWN TOWN WITH SMOKE COMING OUT 5.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th July 1999 13:00
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  • Location: ZEGRA, MITROVICA AND PRISTINA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVA6ZMZ467TZE6F92KD0W1A4MN3R
  • Story Text: The bodies of three people killed at Pristina
    university have been taken away by NATO.

    And frightened Kosovar Serbs are leaving the tiny hamlet
    of Zegra, where U.S.marines have killed one attacker.

    Ethnic Albanians in the town of Mitrovica are looting and
    burning houses as a tense standoff between the two ethnic
    groups continued.Soldiers have arrested a number of
    ethnic-Albanians found looting.

    The three men were found dead on Thursday (June 24) in
    the economics department of Pristina University.Witnesses
    said all were Serbs who worked in the university.One was a
    night guard, the other a professor and the third was the
    manager of the student restaraunt.

    The three bodies were taken by NATO military police to the
    morgue for tests by forensic experts.NATO soldiers on the
    scene said it was believed the three had been shot.

    Tensions between Serbs and Albanians have been high in
    Pristina with a number of shooting incidents involving the two
    ethnic groups.

    In Zegra, local Serbs formed a convoy on Thursday (June
    24) and were leaving town after a tense night following the
    shooting incident.US marines were standing guard over the
    convoy as it left.

    Meanwhile tensions between the two ethnic groups remain
    high in Mitrovica where they are divided by a bridge that is
    being monitored by Nato troops.

    On Thursday ethnic-Albanians began burning and looting
    houses with one man saying they were reciprocating for what
    the Serbs had done to them.A number of incidents have
    occurred in the town where NATO is trying to keep the peace
    between the two groups.


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