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(30 Jul 1998) T/I: 11:01:27


Serb forces strengthened their grip over the separatist province of Kosovo on Wednesday (30/07) as diplomats scrambled to mediate amid fears over the fate of tens of thousands of refugees. Backed by Yugoslav army tanks, Serb police units had driven fighters of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) out of their stronghold in Malisevo and pushed them back from the main highway between Pristina and Pec. The insurgents had controlled the road since May. Meanwhile, hundreds of ethnic Albanians who fled the fighting for control of the village of Umjir are sheltering in a train tunnel.


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ROAD BETWEEN KOSOVSKA MITROVICA AND KLINA, KOSOVO. 30/07

(a)

WS soldiers as seen through barbwire;
WS policemen walking around sandbags shelter;
MS police walking towards APC;
MS police walking heavily armed;
Distance shot of the village (Gornja Klina);
WS APC driving away;
MS burned bus by side of road;
MS police by road;
WS ruined house;
MS damaged house;
WS Serbian police officer surrounded by journalists;
SOT Serbian police officer, in Serbo-Croat: "For the last two months, the village of Rudnik was under siege by KLA, they were shooting daily from these hills. The KLA was aiming at the police headquarters in the village, calling for the police to surrender";
MS deserted bunker;
MS another burned house;
MS troops in the APC;
MS policeman running over a hill;
MS police getting into back of truck;


(b)

NEAR UJMIR, KOSOVO. 29/07
WS refugees walking along train tracks;
MS refugees walking through tunnel;
MS refugees huddled in train tunnel;
MS mother and child;
TRACKING SHOT of refugees in tunnel;
MS mother and child PAN to another mother and child;
WS tractors and vehicles in field;
PAN people at entrance to tunnel;
PAN people in tunnel;
SOT aid worker (unnamed), in Albanian: "Around five thousand have fled the fighting in Uzmir.";
WS woman with one leg and others crossing field;
WS tractor with more refugees;
CU refugees in vehicle;
WS refugees under trees;

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