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Article: Arrests Provoke Unrest in Kosovo; Albanians Fear War Crimes Charges After Ex-Rebels Seized
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- The Washington Post
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- July 15, 2002
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Nearly 1,000 demonstrators gathered here last week to protest the
arrest by U.N. police of former ethnic Albanian guerrillas accused of
abducting and torturing fellow Albanians at the end of the 1999 NATO
bombing campaign in Yugoslavia.
The demonstrators waved banners as they walked down the city's
central boulevard and chanted "Down with UNMIK," the acronym for the
U.N. mission that has run Kosovo since 1999. The march ended outside
a theater, where speakers accused the United Nations of attempting to
denigrate the Albanian struggle for liberation.
The demonstration was triggered by the arrest of about a dozen
former members of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the guerrilla
group that ...