[CTRL] Fw: ] NYT/Reuters:French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash

[Mrs. Jela Jovanovic, Secretary General]

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>Note the wording here:  "Five Shiptars and "several" Serbs" wounded (never
>mind that the ratio of wounded Serbs to wounded Shiptars is about  5:1)
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>Also note: "It was not immediately known what sparked the confrontation"
>(read: our guys did a good job on the Serbs).
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>BDj
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>March 7, 2000
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>French, Serbs, Albanians Hurt in Kosovo Clash
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>By Reuters
>KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia (Reuters) - Fourteen French KFOR soldiers,
20
>Serbs and five Albanians were injured Tuesday when fighting broke out in
the
>predominantly Serb part of the divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica.
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>It was one of the most serious outbreaks of violence in the city, which saw
>two major clashes last month, where peacekeepers struggle daily to prevent
>fighting between Albanians and Serbs.
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>``Fourteen KFOR soldiers were slightly injured. All of them French. Five
>Albanians, four men and one female, and several Serbs were also hurt,''
>Lieutenant Francis Megerlin, French KFOR spokesman, told Reuters in the
town.
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>``Only three of the soldiers are still under medical treatment, the others
>left the hospital,'' he said.
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>A doctor at the Serb-run hospital in northern Mitrovica said 20 Serbs had
>been brought in.
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>``Twenty injured Serbs have been received in the hospital for treatment and
>two of them are seriously wounded,'' said Marko Jaksic, head of the
surgical
>ward of the Mitrovica hospital.
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>It was not immediately clear what had sparked the incident.
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>``I don't know how it started and what happened but we know it started at
>approximately 12:45 p.m. after pushing between two people and later on a
lot
>of people gathered around,'' Megerlin said.
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>ALBANIANS SHOOT, THROW GRENADES
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>Philippe Pacaud, a spokesman for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, said
>he had heard that there had been a quarrel between Albanian and Serb
youths.
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>``One Albanian fired a hunting rifle at a young man and wounded him and
>immediately after that Albanians from a courtyard threw two hand
grenades,''
>Pacaud said.
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>A Reuters reporter saw at least six French soldiers and a captain being
>evacuated with grenade injuries after they tried to intervene. Some of the
>soldiers were taken to a French military hospital.
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>The shooting later died down. French KFOR spokesman Colonel Patrick
Chanliau
>said French soldiers were still surrounding the house where it had started.
>He said two cars were burning and a child was among the injured.
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>Troops and U.N. police reinforced the bridges dividing the town where Serbs
>and Albanians had gathered on opposite sides of the river. The atmosphere
>remained extremely tense but quietened down after the shooting ended.
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>The northern Mitrovica district where the firing broke out was heavily
>fortified by KFOR last week when it managed to return some Albanians to
their
>homes there after a two-day standoff with angry Serbs.
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>KFOR and the United Nations, anxious to demonstrate backing for a
>multi-ethnic Kosovo, made a huge show of force to get the Albanians home
>through a gauntlet of Serbs, who said having Albanians in their part of
town
>was a threat to their safety.
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>The Albanians had fled last month to the Albanian southern part of the
town,
>which is divided by the River Ibar, after ethnic violence drove them from
>their homes.
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>Eight Albanians were killed and 20 people were wounded, most of them Serbs,
>in the most serious clashes on February 3.
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>Ten days later an Albanian died and two French peacekeepers and several
Serbs
>and Albanians were wounded in more violence.
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