YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN RESUMED A ROADBLOCK PROTEST IN THE TOWN OF POLJE AFTER LOCAL SERBS KEPT A SIMILAR DEMONSTRATION

Record ID: 566311

  • Title: YUGOSLAVIA: ETHNIC ALBANIAN RESUMED A ROADBLOCK PROTEST IN THE TOWN OF POLJE AFTER LOCAL SERBS KEPT A SIMILAR DEMONSTRATION
  • Date: 2nd October 1999
  • Summary: KOSOVO POLJE, KOSOVO, SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA, OCTOBER 2, 1999 (REUTERS(A)) 1. LV QSERB ROADBLOCK 0.06 2. SLV ITALIAN KFOR TROOPS NEAR ROADBLOCK 0.13 3. SLV/SV PEOPLE SITTING AT SERB ROADBLOCK (4 SHOTS) 0.34 4. LV/SLV ROADBLOCK WITH ALBANIAN FLAGS (2 SHOTS) 0.44 5. SV CHILDREN HOLDING ALBANIAN FLAG 0.50 6. MCU (English) ALBANIAN MAN "As long as Serbs are keeping this roadblock, we'll keep ours." 1.07 7. PAN FROM KFOR SOLDIERS TO ROADBLOCK 1.16 8. SV KFOR SOLDIERS WATCHING 1.22 9. LAS CHILDREN WITH ALBANIAN FLAG 1.29 10. SLV KFOR TROOPS WATCHING 1.38 11. LV/SLV/SV ALBANIAN BLOCKADE ON RAILWAY LINE (7 SHTOS) 2.11 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th October 1999 13:00
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  • Location: KOSOVO POLJE, KOSOVO, SERBIA, YUGOSLAVIA
  • City:
  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAB8I7Z0LJPB8QFMY4EWYHH2REN
  • Story Text: Hundreds of ethnic Albanians resumed a roadblock
    protest in the central Kosovo town of Kosovo Polje after local
    Serbs kept up a similar demonstration.

    International officials in Kosovo Polje had hoped the
    Serbs would end their blockade, set up on Tuesday after a
    grenade attack killed two members of their community, and had
    persuaded Albanians to end a counter-protest after a few hours
    on Thursday.

    But the Serbs said demands about their security and access
    to local facilities had still not been met and they decided
    not to move a truck blocking a main road on Friday afternoon
    as had been hoped.

    The Albanians promptly responded by resuming their own
    blockade little more than a kilometre along the road.

    Negotiations were continuing to end the standoff, officials
    said.

    'We are going to stay here non-stop,' said the leader of
    the group of Albanians.

    'If the Serb barricade remains in place we will go there
    ourselves to move it' he vowed.

    Serb community leaders immediately pointed the finger of
    suspicion at ethnic Albanians after Tuesday's grenade attack
    on a Kosovo Polje marketplace, which wounded more than 40
    people, but police say they have not yet found the attackers.


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