MACEDONIA/YUGOSLAVIA: MACEDONIAN FORCES CONTINUE TO SHELL REBEL-HELD HILLS OVERLOOKING TETOVO / FUNERAL HELD FOR TWO ETHNIC ALBANIANS KILLED BY MACEDONIAN POLICE

Record ID: 647685

  • Title: MACEDONIA/YUGOSLAVIA: MACEDONIAN FORCES CONTINUE TO SHELL REBEL-HELD HILLS OVERLOOKING TETOVO / FUNERAL HELD FOR TWO ETHNIC ALBANIANS KILLED BY MACEDONIAN POLICE
  • Date: 23rd March 2001
  • Summary: TETOVO, MACEDONIA (MARCH 23, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV'S: GUN FIRE OVER THE HILLS OF TETOVO (3 SHOTS) 0.20 2. SLV'S/SV: MACEDONIAN SOLDIERS AT SANDBAGGED POSITIONS (3 SHOTS) 0.35 3. PAN: MACEDONIAN POLICE CROUCHING BEHIND ARMOURED PERSONNEL CARRIER (APC) FIRING AT SUSPECTED GUERRILLA POSITIONS IN THE HILLS 0.53 GRACANI, MACEDONIA (MARCH 23, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 4. GV: KFOR CHINOOK HELICOPTER FLIES PAST MOUNTAIN SCENERY 1.01 5. GV: MOUNTAINS IN FRONT OF GRACANI, NEW LOCATION OF FIGHTING BETWEEN MACEDONIAN TROOPS AND ETHNIC ALBANIAN REBELS 1.06 6. LV: SMOKE RISING FROM VILLAGE BEHIND HILLS 1.09 7. LV: MACEDONIAN SOLDIER COMING DOWN HILL FROM VILLAGE 1.15 TETOVO, MACEDONIA (MARCH 23, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. VARIOUS OF FUNERAL OF TWO ETHNIC ALBANIAN MEN KILLED BY MACEDONIAN POLICE ON THURSDAY MARCH 22 (5 SHOTS) 2.00 9. VARIOUS OF MOURNERS (2 SHOTS) 2.11 10. SV: COFFINS BEING LOWERED INTO GRAVES 2.19 11. HAS'S: BODY IS ROLLED OUT OF COFFIN AND INTO GRAVE (2 SHOTS) 2.40 12. WS: GRAVESITE WITH CROWD GATHERED 2.46 BUFFER ZONE, YUGOSLAVIA (RECENT) (REUTERS ACCESS ALL) 13. GV: BUFFER ZONE 2.54 14. TRAVELLING SHOT: YUGOSLAV ARMY SOLDIERS IN THE BUFFER ZONE 2.59 15. SCU: YUGOSLAV ARMY SOLDIERS PATROLLING 3.05 16. MV: YUGOSLAV ARMY SOLDIERS SITTING ON THE GROUND 3.09 17. MV/SV: YUGOSLAV ARMY SOLDIERS AIMING (2 SHOTS) 3.19 18. LV: HILLS 3.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th April 2001 13:00
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  • Location: TETOVO AND GRACANI, MACEDONIA/BUFFER ZONE, YUGOSLAVIA
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  • Country: Yugoslavia
  • Reuters ID: LVAB3HNAHYIHM4NWP5MI0TBJOR7D
  • Story Text: Once again shelling has erupted in the town of Tetovo
    as two ethnic Albanians killed by Macedonian police were
    buried in the mainly ethnic Albanian town in northwestern
    Macedonia.


    Macedonian guns fired on rebel-held hills overlooking
    Tetovo on Friday (March 23), ignoring a unilateral ceasefire
    declared by the guerrillas on Wednesday in an apparent effort
    to delay a threatened government assault.

    Fighting broke out in another region between Macedonian
    forces and Albanian rebels in an area some 15 kilometres from
    the Macedonian capital Skopje in the village of Gracani.

    Rebels occupied the village and wounded a policeman.

    A funeral was held for two ethnic Albanians shot dead on
    Thursday.

    The Albanians died in a hail of bullets as they tried to
    throw a grenade into a machine-gun post.

    In a bid to starve the guerrillas of supplies, Serbian
    troops were last week allowed into a 25-square-kilometre area
    in southern Serbia at the junction of its border with
    Macedonia and the boundary of Kosovo.

    A NATO official said the alliance had given permission to
    General Carlo Cabigiosu, the Italian general in charge of KFOR
    peacekeepers in Kosovo, to hand parts of the five-km
    (three-mile) wide zone over to Serbian forces from this
    weekend.

    The move is part of NATO's phased plan to allow Serbian
    forces back into the buffer zone from which they have been
    excluded since 1999 under a NATO-Belgrade agreement ending an
    alliance bombing campaign that drove Serbian forces from
    Kosovo.

    Serbian soldiers will face tight regulations on the type
    of equipment they could take into the areas.

    In the past year, ethnic Albanian guerillas have used
    parts of the buffer zone, or Ground Safety Zone, as a safe
    haven from which to base their attacks on forces in Serbia and
    northern Macedonia.



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