- Title: YUGOSLAVIA: MORE FUNERALS TAKE PLACE FOR SERBIAN VICTIMS OF BUS BOMB.
- Date: 22nd February 2001
- Summary: GRACANICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (FEBRUARY 21, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/MV: WIDE OF CEREMONY/ MOURNERS/ RELATIVES (12 SHOTS) 1.03 2. MV: VARIOUS OF K-FOR REPRESENTATIVES AT CEREMONY, INCLUDING HEAD OF U.N. MISSION IN KOSOVO (3 SHOTS) 1.18 3. CU/GV/MV: WOMAN MOURNING/ VARIOUS OF CEREMONY (8 SHOTS) 2.01 4. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Serbian) MOMCILO TRAJKOVIC, REPRESENTATIVE OF YUGOSLAV GOVERNMENT IN KOSOVO, SAYING: "The violence must stop. Even at this terrible moment we are ready to start talks to stop the violence so innocent people are not killed any more". 2.22 5. GV: K-FOR TRUCK LEAVING FOR BURIAL AREAS 2.27 NORTHERN MITROVICA KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA (FEBRUARY 21, 2001) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. GV: WIDE OF PROTESTERS GATHERED/ PROTESTERS JEERING AND CHANTING/ VARIOUS OF SERBIAN FLAGS AND BANNERS/ DEMONSTRATION/ SPEAKERS/ DEMONSTRATORS LISTENING AND APPLAUDING (6 SHOTS) 2.55 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NORTH MITROVICA AND GRACANICA, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA
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- Country: Yugoslavia
- Reuters ID: LVA5GG2DXSLV988QMFJZKRMV40EO
- Story Text: About two thousand Serbs demonstrated in Northern
Mitrovica on Wednesday continuing protests at last Friday's
bus blast in which at least 10 Serbs, including a two-year-old
child, were killed.
In Gracanica, another Serb enclave, funeral ceremonies
were held for eight of the victims. Relatives, other mourners
and representatives from the Yugoslav government and K-for
gathered to pay their respects. The coffins were then loaded
on to k-for vehicles for transport to burial sites. Six will
be buried in Serbia and two in Kosovo - Kosovo Polje and
Lipljan.
Nobody has claimed responsibility, but Yugoslav President
Vojislav Kostunica blamed "Albanian extremists" for the
attack, saying they threatened the stability of the Balkan
region.
"The violence must be stopped. Even at this terrible
moment we are ready to start talks to stop the violence so
innocent people are not killed any more", said Momcilo
Trajkovic, Yugoslavia's representative in Kosovo.
Wednesday's demonstrators listened as speakers protested
Albanian attacks and their lack of protection in the area.
They then held a minute of silence for the victims.
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