UK troops patrol, voxpops, UNMIK comment
Outskirts of
Pristina
1.
Various of
KFOR patrolling on outskirts of Pristina
2. UN police on road with tanks on side of road
3. Various of KFOR soldiers
4.
Military vehicles on road
5.
Ambulance on road
6. Various of KFOR soldiers rolling out barbed wire
Pristina
7. Wide of food market
8. Various of man organising fruit at stall
9. Boy wheeling wheel barrow with fruit
10. Man in fruit stall
11. SOUNDBITE (
Albanian)
Vox Pop:
"We opened the market today.
Let's see what the day will bring. I couldn't believe what happened to us in the last two days. But we will work today and hopefully things will be calmer."
12. Various of market
13. Wide newspaper stand
14.
Headline saying: "
NATO is
Sending Reinforcements to
Kosovo."
15. Headline saying: "Another
Bloody Day in Kosovo" and "There are
Many Questions to be Asked"
16.
UN flag
17. SOUNDBITE (
English)
Derek Chapel,
UNMIK (
United Nations Interim Administration Mission in
Kosovo) Police Spokesman:
"The confirmed death count now is 28.
Bear in mind we have other stories of people that have been killed. We have reports of missing persons but we cannot confirm that they are dead yet. So that number might change through the day but we are now saying 28 confirmed dead."
18.
Cutaway UNMIK
sign
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Derek Chapel, UNMIK
Police Spokesman:
"We have had about 55 casualties amongst police including
KPS (
Kosovo Police Service) and internationals.
None of them are threatening. KFOR has sustained casualties, I'm not sure what they are. I think we have turned the corner and we have regained control. And yesterday, the
difference between yesterday and Wednesday was that we were in position, ready to defend and control the crowds that arrived. On the previous day we were responding.
Yesterday we were in a position of strength to defend the
Serb targets and we were able to control the crowds."
20. Pristina streets with
British troops patrolling
21.
UN headquarters with British troops
22. Various of British troops patrolling
STORYLINE:
NATO-led peacekeepers promised to take tougher measures against rioters on Friday to regain control of Kosovo after two days of clashes between ethnic
Albanians and
Serbs left 31 dead and renewed fears of
Balkan violence.
Following the arrival of a contingent of British troops, the main outdoor marketplace in Pristina reopened after being closed for two days.
Vendors expressed surprise at the events of the past few days and optimism that things will now calm down.
Kosovo's crisis erupted on Wednesday, when ethnic Albanians blamed Serbs
for the drownings of two children and began rampaging in revenge.
Clashes between the two sides left 31 dead, and hundreds wounded, including over 50 NATO-led peacekeepers.
The ensuing violence reignited long simmering tensions between Serbs and ethnic Albanians that have spilled beyond Kosovo's borders into the
Serbian heartland.
The province, which has an ethnic Albanian majority, is formally part of Serbia-Montenegro but has been under UN and NATO administration since the end of civil war in
1999.
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