YUGOSLAVIA: REBEL ALBANIAN SEPARATISTS IN SERBIA

Описание: (28 Nov 2000) Albanian/Nat

Rebel Albanian separatists raised the Albanian flag over southern Serbia on Tuesday, in a show of defiance against Yugoslav authorities.

Despite a declared ceasefire between Serb forces and rebels of the 'Liberation Army
of Presevo, Medvedja and Bujanovac', known as the U-C-P-M-B, the rebel army is determined to realise it's goal of 'reclaiming' the Presevo Valley.

In a ceremony at Dobrosin, in southern Serbia, hundreds of U-C-P-M-B soldiers stood proudly as their commander raised the national flag.

Speaking to the Associated Press, Commander Sami Azemi, explained that the fight for would go on:

The rebels want to split both the Presevo Valley and Kosovo from Serbia, and unite them.

SOUNDBITE: (Albanian)
"I want that everyone knows, and for us to feel proud, that our war is right... we want to tell the Security Council, and all the international mechanisms, that this Albanian land wants a resolution. A right one and a permanent one. And without a resolving this problem, there will not be peace and stability in the Balkans."
SUPER CAPTION: Commander Sami Azemi, deputy head of U-C-P-M-B General Staff

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