MACEDONIA: MACEDONIAN ARMY CONTINUE SPORADIC SHELLING OF AREA NEAR KUMANOVO HELD BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN REBELS

Record ID: 647156

  • Title: MACEDONIA: MACEDONIAN ARMY CONTINUE SPORADIC SHELLING OF AREA NEAR KUMANOVO HELD BY ETHNIC ALBANIAN REBELS
  • Date: 23rd May 2001
  • Summary: (U5) MATEJCE, FYR MACEDONIA (MAY 23, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV: ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) 0.06 2. SV: FYR MACEDONIAN SOLDIERS WITH GUNS WALKING IN STREET 0.14 3. SV: SOLDIER IN APC 0.20 4. SLV: APC WITH FYR MACEDONIAN FLAG 0.27 5. SV: MASKED FYR MACEDONIAN SOLDIER 0.31 6. LV: VILLAGE MOSQUE 0.35 7. SV/CU: MASKED SOLDIER WITH GUN AT CHECKPOINT (2 SHOTS) 0.46 8. SV'S: SOLDIERS CHECKING CAR (2 SHOTS) 0.57 9. SV: SOUNDBITE (Serbian) PETAR ILIC FROM MATEJCE VILLAGE "These extremists, terrorists, I don't know what to call them, they are outside the village, in the mountain and in the monastery and the people are scared, that is the main reason why people are leaving. It is some kind of war psychosis going on here, I don't know how else to describe it." 1.15 10. SLV/MV: CAR WITH BAGS PACKED AND TV SET BESIDE IT (2 SHOTS) 1.23 11. SV: MASKED SOLDIER CHECKING TRAILER 1.30 12. MV: TRACTORS LEAVING VILLAGE 1.42 13. MV/SV: APC IN STREET (2 SHOTS) 1.54 (U5) NEAR KUMANOVO, MACEDONIA (MAY 23, 2001) (REUTERS) 14. SLV: MAN WORKING IN FIELD, APC FIRING IN BACKGROUND 2.05 15. LV: SOLDIERS MANNING TANK 2.16 16. GV: BUILDINGS IN DISTANCE 2.21 17. LV'S: SOLDIERS IN TRENCHES (2 SHOTS) 2.33 18. LV: ARMY VEHICLE MOVING THROUGH FIELD 2.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th June 2001 13:00
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  • Location: MATEJCE AND NEAR KUMANOVO, FYR MACEDONIA
  • Country: Macedonia
  • Reuters ID: LVAES6AUN6LY64H20D2U1EZPCFI8
  • Story Text: Sporadic shelling of an area held by ethnic Albanian
    rebels has continued while the Former Yugoslav republic of
    Macedonia's army reinforces its contingent around the area.


    After a day's calm, the Macedonian army on Wednesday
    (May 23) resumed firing with machine-guns, tanks and artillery
    in the direction of the villages of Slupcane and Vakcince,
    both rebel strongholds.

    Army reinforcements were moved to the area overnight but
    fired only sporadically.

    On Tuesday, a Macedonian army spokesman said Macedonian
    forces could clear out the rebels quickly but are not
    advancing for fear of casualties among civilians who, it says,
    are being used as human shields. The rebels say the villagers
    are staying of their own free will.

    Some 10,000 civilians are believed to still be in those
    villages under rebel control.


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