ALBANIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN MEN RELEASED FROM PRISON IN SERBIA ARRIVE AT SPANISH RUN REFUGEE CAMP TO GIVE EVIDENCE TO A U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL

Record ID: 565839

  • Title: ALBANIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN MEN RELEASED FROM PRISON IN SERBIA ARRIVE AT SPANISH RUN REFUGEE CAMP TO GIVE EVIDENCE TO A U.N. WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
  • Date: 25th May 1999
  • Summary: HAMALLAJ CAMP, NEAR DURRES, ALBANIA (MAY 25, 1999)(REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS TRUCKS ON ROAD (3 SHOTS) 0.14 2. MV MEN GETTING OFF TRUCKS 0.20 3. MV ENTRANCE OF SPANISH-RUN CAMP 0.24 4. PAN/SV/MV MEN QUEUEING FOR REGISTRATION (3 SHOTS) 0.43 5. VARIOUS REGISTRATION PROCESS (3 SHOTS) 0.55 6. SV SOUNDBITE(Albanian) FORMER SERBIAN PRISONER SAYING:"We all come from the same prison, we were there for three weeks and we arrived in Albanian three days ago. We suffered dreadfully there, we were maltreated, beaten. After they came and took us from their houses they later, I heard, torched the houses. The worst thing now is we don't know anything about our families and they don't know where we are." 1.24 7. VARIOUS FORMER PRISONERS IN REGISTRATION TENT (5 SHOTS) 1.48 8. VARIOUS OF PRISONERS BEING REGISTERED (5 SHOTS) 2.13 9. SV SPANISH SOLDIER ON GUARD AT CAMP ENTRANCE 2.18 10. VARIOUS CHILDREN IN CAMP (3 SHOTS) 2.31 11. VARIOUS FORMER PRISONERS CARRYING BLANKETS (5 SHOTS) 2.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th June 1999 13:00
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  • Location: HAMALLAJ CAMP, NEAR DURRES, ALBANIA
  • Country: Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVA6PX5N5BQYV6N6X5M4LEL6WE3L
  • Story Text: Dozens of ethnic Albanian men released from prison in
    Kosovo have arrived at a Spanish-run camp near Durres to give
    evidence to a the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal.

    The men arrived at Hamallaj camp on Tuesday (May 25),
    some of hundreds of ethnic Albanian men who have crossed into
    Albania over the weekend, saying Yugoslav forces had freed
    them from a Kosovo prison where they were held as Kosovo
    Liberation Army (KLA) suspects.

    Hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled Kosovo since
    NATO began its bombing campaign against the forces of Yugoslav
    President Slobodan Milosevic on March 24, but most of them
    have been elderly people, women or children.

    Many have said their men had either been killed, seized by
    Serb forces or that they had fled to the hills for fear of capture.


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