ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF LEADING MEMBER OF SELF-STYLED KOSOVO GOVERNMENT AND COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES, AHMET KRASNIQI

Record ID: 566118

  • Title: ALBANIA: FUNERAL OF LEADING MEMBER OF SELF-STYLED KOSOVO GOVERNMENT AND COMMANDER OF ARMED FORCES, AHMET KRASNIQI
  • Date: 24th September 1998
  • Summary: (TIRANA, ALBANIA) (SEPTEMBER 24, 1998)(RTV) 1. SLV COFFIN BEING UNLOADED AT ALBANIAN ARMY CENTRAL HOUSE 0.13 2. SLV MOURNERS ARRIVING OUTSIDE BUILDING HOLDING HANDS 0.26 3. SCU COFFIN WITH AHMET KRASNIQI'S BODY LYING IN ROOM 0.30 4. MV FAMILY APPROACHING COFFIN TO PAY RESPECTS (2 SHOTS) 0.42 5. MV OTHER MOURNERS PAYING TRIBUTE AND KISSING COFFIN (3 SHOTS) 1.01 6. MV MOURNERS OUTSIDE BEGINNING JOURNEY TO CEMETERY 1.06 7. MV PALLBEARERS LOADING COFFIN INTO CAR / MV MOURNERS (2 SHOTS) 1.14 8. SLV CONVOY OF CARS ON JOURNEY 1.18 9. SLV GUARD OF HONOUR 1.22 10. MV PROCESSION IN CEMETERY 1.30 11. LV CROWD OF MOURNERS IN CEMETERY 1.33 12. SCU FAMILY PLACING BOUQUETS AND WREATHS BY COFFIN / SOLDIERS HOLDING BOUQUETS / SCU COFFIN (3 SHOTS) 1.48 13. GV GRAVESTONES IN CEMETERY 1.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 9th October 1998 13:00
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  • Location: TIRANA, ALBANIA
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  • Country: Albania
  • Reuters ID: LVAAN9JYIKGSZ4CXRR9IY21LX2YX
  • Story Text: A leading member of the self styled Kosovo government and commander of its armed forces, Ahmet Krasniqi has been buried in Tirana.Krasniqi, who was residing temporarily in Tirana was shot dead in Tirana by masked gunmen while entering his house earlier this week.

    Mourners paid tribute on Thursday (September 24) to Krasniqi at the national museum in the main Skanerberg square before they moved to the Albanian army central house where his body lay in state.

    He was buried at Tirana's main cemetery later in the afternoon.

    Krasniqi, 50, was the commander of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo (FARK), a rival of the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army, fighting Serbian forces in Yugoslavian province of Kosovo.

    On Wednesday the United Nations Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire and negotiations to end the Kosovo conflict.

    The resolution was aimed at Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and warns of further measures against the Serb leader unless he stops his offensive.


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