> 1) Pogroms Continue: Seminary Burned, Priest Attacked,
> Eight Serbs Missing - Serbian Orthodox Church
> 2) Serbian Church In Prizren On Fire
> 3) Thirteen Buses Of Armed Albanians Head For Kosovo
> Mitrovica
> 4) Kosovo Coordinating Center Calls On World
> Community, Serbia For Protection Against 'General
> Terrorist Uprising'
> 5) Thirty Serbian Houses Burned Down In Kosovo Polje
> 6) Kosovo Polje: School, Outpatient Hospital, Cafe Set
> On Fire
> 7) UN Source: Albanians Expel Serbs From Belo Polje,
> Torch Homes, Attack UN Headquarters In Pec
> 8) Two Serbs Axed In Head In Vucitrnska Slatina
> 9) 'Shooting Everything In Their Way': Kosovo
> Albanians On Rampage In Lipljan
> 10) Caglavica: Women, Children Evacuated To
> Neighboring Villages As Thousands Of Albanians Attempt
> To Storm Town
> 11) Eight Serbs Assaulted In Obilic, Three Seriously
> Wounded
> 12) Journalists Evacuated From UN Building In Pristina
> After Report Of Advance By 2,000 Albanians
> 13) Belgrade: Several Hundred Serbs Protest Kosovo
> Attacks Outside Foreign Ministry Building, Block
> Traffic
> 14) Serbia-Montenegro Foreign Minister Summons Foreign
> Ambassadors Over Kosovo Crisis
> 15) Macedonia Closes Border Crossings Near Kosovo
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Pogrom of Kosovo Serbs continues, SPC eparchy
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> 00:05 GRACANICA , March 17 (Tanjug) - The Eparchy of
> Raska and Prizren of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC)
> said late on Wednesday that the Kirilo and Metodije
> Theological Faculty in Prizren had been set on fire,
> that the fate of eight Serbs, two of whom were
> children, was unknown, as well as that SPC priest
> Dragan Kojic had been wounded in Vitina.
> Ethnic Albanian extremists set the Prizren St. Kirilo
> and Metodije Theological Faculty on fire, in which
> eight Serb civilians, two of whom were under-aged
> children and a pregnant woman, had found temporary
> shelter.
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> 2)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Serbian Orthodox Church in Prizren on fire
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> 21:32 PRIZREN , March 17 (Tanjug) - The Serbian
> Orthodox Church in the centre of Prizren, which was
> guarded by German KFOR troops, was set on fire on
> Wednesday evening, Tanjug's correspondent reported.
> Ethnic Albanian protests and violence in this southern
> Kosovo-Metohija town have not stopped despite strong
> special Argentinian UNMIK police forces.
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> 3)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Armed ethnic Albanians start moving towards Kosovska
> Mitrovica
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> 21:13 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , March 17 (Tanjug) -
> Thirteen buses full of armed ethnic Albanians left the
> region of Drenica in northern Kosovo for the northern,
> Serb-populated part of Kosovska Mitrovica, reliable
> sources told Tanjug late on Wednesday.
> The sources said that ethnic Albanians planned to
> attack UNMIK and KFOR positions in northern Mitrovica
> during the night and to ensure that Serbs get the
> blame for the attack.
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> 4)
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> March 17, 2004
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> Appeal to international community and Belgrade to
> protect Serbs
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> 17:23 BELGRADE , March 17 (Tanjug) - Coordinating
> Center for Kosovo and Metohija judiciary department
> chief Vladimir Bozovic on Wednesday asked the
> international community and the Belgrade authorities
> to protect the Serb people from the "general terrorist
> uprising" by ethnic Albanians.
> "This is a premeditated and planned terrorist uprising
> and its targets are Kosovo Serbs," Bozovic said in a
> statement for Tanjug.
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> 5)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Thirty Serb houses set on fire in Kosovo Polje
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> 21:10 KOSOVO POLJE , March 17 (Tanjug) - Serbs in
> Kosovo Polje were also attacked by ethnic Albanians on
> Wednesday afternoon and the situation in this town
> near Pristina became critical during the evening since
> there is no electricity and Serbs are fleeing to
> neighbouring villages.
> The unrest started at about 3 p.m. (1300 GMT), when
> armed ethnic Albanians from Pristina and Kosovo Polje
> started to move towards the village of Bresje, and
> until the evening 30 Serb houses were set on fire,
> Tanjug's correspondent from the area reported.
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> 6)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> School, outpatient hospital, cafe in Kosovo Polje set
> on fire
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> 20:30 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , March 17 (Tanjug) -
> Somewhat before 6 p.m. (1600 GMT), a large group of
> ethnic Albanians who entered the Serb-populated part
> of Kosovo Polje set fire to a school, outpatient
> hospital and a Serb cafe.
> A large number of UNMIK police and KFOR are trying to
> prevent an escalation of violence in this town near
> Pristina.
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> 7)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Kosovo Albanians expell Serbs from Belo Polje,
> incidents in Pec, says UN source
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> 18:27 PEC , March 17 (Tanjug) - Kosovo Albanians have
> expelled resident Serbs from Belo Polje village, near
> Pec, and torched their houses, United Nations (UN)
> spokesperson for the press Angela Joseph said on
> Wednesday, and ethnic Albanians have also attacked the
> regional UN headquarters in Pec, southern Kosovo and
> Metohija, and damaged a number of vehicles.
> There is no information yet on whether there were any
> casualties in these conflicts, Associated Press said.
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> March 17, 2004
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> Two Serbs sustain axe injuries in Vucitrnska Slatina
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> 19:46 KOSOVSKA MITROVICA , March 17 (Tanjug) - Two
> Serbs whom ethnic Albanians had wounded in the head by
> axes were taken from Vucitrnska Slatina to the
> Kosovska Mitrovica hospital in a very bad state,
> hospital manager Dr Vladimir Adzic told Tanjug.
> He said that the wounded people's lives were in danger
> and that another 10 Serbs had been hospitalised after
> being injured by ethnic Albanians in clashes in the
> province on Wednesday.
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> 9)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Kosovo Albanians on rampage in Lipljan
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> 19:25 LIPLJAN , March 17 (Tanjug) - Several thousand
> ethnic Albanians have gone on a rampage in the streets
> of Lipljan, south of Pristina, shooting firearms and
> exploding at least two hand grenades, Lipljan City
> Hall Vice-President Borivoje Vignjevic confirmed for
> Tanjug on Wednesday evening.
> "More than a thousand ethnic Albanians have passed
> through Novo Naselje district, after they were
> evidently turned back from their progress toward
> Laplje Selo village, where they were headed this
> morning. Now, they are in the town center, shooting
> and toppling everything standing in their way,"
> Vignjevic said.
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> 10)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Hardest night for Caglavica, central Kosovo
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> 00:31 BELGRADE , March 18 (Tanjug) - The Serbs from
> Caglavica have withdrawn to their homes, while women
> and children have been evacuated to neighbouring
> villages in central Kosovo, and Kfor forces are trying
> to prevent several thousands of ethnic Albanians from
> forcing their way into the village.
> President of the Serb Resistance Movement Momcilo
> Trajkovic said late on Wednesday that "he did not
> remember that such a difficult situation had happened
> in the hardest of times " in Kosovo.
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Group of Serbs attacked in Obilic
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> 22:06 OBILIC , March 17 (Tanjug) - Eight Serbs were
> beaten up at the railway station in Obilic, northern
> Kosovo, on Wednesday, the regional Zvecan Most TV
> reported late on Wednesday.
> Two Serb women and a man were seriously wounded on the
> occasion, the Most TV said.
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Journalists evacuated from UNMIK building in Pristina
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> 00:38 BELGRADE , March 17 (Tanjug) - Journalists were
> evacuated from the UNMIK police building in Pristina,
> a Belgrade B 92 Radio reporter from Pristina said late
> on Wednesday.
> He said the journalists had been evacuated after
> United Nations officials had been informed that some
> 2,000 ethnic Albanians were marching in the direction
> of UNMIK headquarters.
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> 13)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> People protest outside Belgrade Foreign Ministry
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> 21:58 BELGRADE , March 17 (Tanjug) - Several hundreds
> of Belgrade citizens and about 30 cabs spontaneously
> blocked Kneza Milosa Street, near the
> Serbia-Montenegro (SCG) Foreign Minsitry building,
> late on Wednesday, in protest against the Wednesday
> ethnic Albanians' attacks on Serbs throughout
> Kosovo-Metohija.
> The traffic in that street is blocked, and police are
> directing vehicles towards neigbopuring streets, a
> Tanjug reporter said.
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> 14)
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> Tanjug
> March 17, 2004
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> Minister Svilanovic summons foreign ambassadors over
> Kosovo situation
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> 17:37 BELGRADE , March 17 (Tanjug) - As a result of
> today's tragic incidents in Kosovo, Serbia and
> Montenegro (SCG) Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic has
> called an emergency meeting of Belgrade-based
> ambassadors of member-states of the United Nations
> (UN) Security Council and of the Contact Group for
> 1830 hrs on Wednesday.
> The UN representative in Belgrade has also been
> invited to the meeting, the Foreign Ministry said.
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> March 17, 2004
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> Macedonia closes two border crossings towards Kosovo
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> 22:50 SKOPJE , March 17 (Tanjug) - Due to the
> escalation of ethnic Albanian violence in
> Kosovo-Metohija, the Border Brigade of the Republic of
> Macedonia Army (ARM) on Wednesday intensified the
> alertness and increased the number of its patrols
> along the northern border line, ARM Headquarters
> spokesman Major Zoran Sekulovski confirmed in Skopje.
> "Due to the new situation, the Border Brigade has
> intensified the alertness in securing the stae border
> line, the number of border patrols has also been
> increased, and the ARM members' coordination with
> (international forces) Kfor (Kosovo forces), as well
> as with the Interior Ministry, has been intensified,"
> Major Sekulovski said