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కౌంటింగ్ తీరుపై అభ్యర్థులకు అవగాహన
కౌంటింగ్ రోజున జిల్లాలో 144 సెక్షన్ విధిస్తున్నామని అభ్యర్థులందరూ... సహకరించాలని కృష్ణా జిల్లా రిటర్నింగ్ అధికారి స్పష్టం చేశారు. కౌంటింగ్ తీరుపై నందిగామ తహశీల్దార్ కార్యాలయంలో నియోజకవర్గ అభ్యర్థులకు అవగాహన కల్పించారు.
కౌంటింగ్ తీరుపై అభ్యర్థులకు అవగాహన
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Published : May 18, 2019, 7:02 PM IST
కౌంటింగ్ తీరుపై అభ్యర్థులకు అవగాహన ఎన్నికల కౌంటింగ్ హాల్లో తీసుకోవాల్సిన జాగ్రత్తలు, నియమ నిబంధనలపై కృష్ణా జిల్లా అవనిగడ్డ నియోజకవర్గంలోని అభ్యర్థులకు రిటర్నింగ్ అధికారి అవగాహన కల్పించారు. స్వతంత్రంగా పోటీ చేసిన అభ్యర్థులకు నలుగురిని మాత్రమే ఏజెంట్లుగా అనుమతిస్తామన్నారు. జిల్లాలో 144 సెక్షన్ విధిస్తున్నామని చెప్పారు. ఫలితాల తర్వాత ముందస్తు అనుమతి లేకుండా ఎలాంటి ఊరేగింపులూ చేయరాదన్నారు. అన్ని పార్టీల అభ్యర్థులు సహకరించాలని కోరారు.
కౌంటింగ్ తీరుపై అభ్యర్థులకు అవగాహన ఎన్నికల కౌంటింగ్ హాల్లో తీసుకోవాల్సిన జాగ్రత్తలు, నియమ నిబంధనలపై కృష్ణా జిల్లా అవనిగడ్డ నియోజకవర్గంలోని అభ్యర్థులకు రిటర్నింగ్ అధికారి అవగాహన కల్పించారు. స్వతంత్రంగా పోటీ చేసిన అభ్యర్థులకు నలుగురిని మాత్రమే ఏజెంట్లుగా అనుమతిస్తామన్నారు. జిల్లాలో 144 సెక్షన్ విధిస్తున్నామని చెప్పారు. ఫలితాల తర్వాత ముందస్తు అనుమతి లేకుండా ఎలాంటి ఊరేగింపులూ చేయరాదన్నారు. అన్ని పార్టీల అభ్యర్థులు సహకరించాలని కోరారు.
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KOSOVO TRAIN
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LENGTH: 6.55
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ARCHIVE: Pristina, Kosovo - 1 April 1999
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1. Various of people leaning out of train windows UPSOUND: (English) Voiceover:
"They're being herded out of the country like cattle. The dispossessed. The UN Refugee Agency said two and a half thousand people crammed onto these trains heading for Macedonia. On Wednesday another five thousand were forcibly expelled by train. Everyone interviewed told similar stories of masked men in uniforms knocking on doors and telling people to leave or be killed."
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Mitrovica, Kosovo - 10 April 2019
2. Train arriving in Mitrovica
3. Two men board the train, one takes a selfie
4. Passenger looking out from wagon's window
5. Trains starts to move
6. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Fatmir Krasniqi, train passenger:
"Do you remember? I had no bread for two days. And you gave me biscuits. You remember well."
7. Shaqir Shaqiri and friend sitting on train
8. Close of Krasniqi
9. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Shaqir Shaqiri, train passenger:
"I have been with my wife, children, three brothers, with two sisters. We have been 22 family members. We left homes empty at the hospital quarter."
10. Close of Shaqiri
11. SOUNDBITE (Albanian) Shaqir Shaqiri, train passenger:
"I have been, I have been ... My wife kept me close because as an education worker I was very stressed. I believed we would never be back to Kosovo. ... This is happiness. Don't you see the people? We are going to festivities today."
12. Various of passengers on train
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Xhelal Krasniqi, train passenger:
"When I travelled in this train, I was 15 years old. I was a teenager. I was just with my parents. For another person, for another member in your family, we don't know anything about them, because the police officers divided us from them. And we feel so angry and we feel so disappointed. We don't know about their fate, if they were alive or if they were killed. And we don't know for a long of time about them. We stayed in this train. When we were in Ferizaj, the police officers burnt down a school near the station...railway station. And we saw the police officers and we saw the house, a big house that was burnt..."
(Journalist, off-camera: "And twenty years after?)
" Twenty years after I feel in another way. We feel so happy. Emotions are different because we hope for our future, for a better future, we hope for a better future."
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ARCHIVE: Bllace, Macedonia-Kosovo border - 1 April 1999
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14. Train arriving carrying refugees arriving in Macedonia (now known as North Macedonia)
15. Various of people arriving
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Mitrovica, Kosovo - 10 April 2019
16. People disembark train at site of new museum
17. Various of locomotive with commemorative slogans, reading (English): "20 years of Serb genocide" and "Bllaca 99"
18. Various of train interior, people walking through
19. Close up of image taken 20 years ago
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Besnik Tahiri, National Coordinator for State Reform of Kosovo / consultant:
"20 years ago we were expelled from Pristina, my father, my mum and my brother. We went to the train station; unfortunately, it was full of people. My mum was sick. We had to push her through the window in the train. We left the road. We reached Hani i Elezit (Albanian - Elez Han in English). It was raining. Full of people. We were walking through this way. We were told that there are minefields. We reached at the Bllaca, mud. We stayed for 13 hours. Full of people."
21. Tahiri walking through the train rails as he did 20 years ago
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ARCHIVE: Bllace, Kosovo-Macedonia border - April 1 1999
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22. Various of people walking along the tracks
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Mitrovica, Kosovo - 10 April 2019
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Besnik Tahiri, National Coordinator for State Reform of Kosovo/ consultant:
"This is an extraordinary memory. I am so happy that today we are free. I hope this will never happen in Europe, all over the world. And I hope that the future will not repeat this history."
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ARCHIVE: Bllace, Kosovo-Macedonia border - April 1 1999
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24. People arriving in then Macedonia, following the rail tracks holding their belongings
hundreds of people on tracks
25. Various of people in valley
26. Various of Red Cross tent and red cross officials that set up makeshift tents
LEAD IN:
2019 marks 20 years since the end of the Kosovo War during which hundreds-of-thousands of Albanians were forced to leave Kosovo to seek refuge in neighbouring Macedonia .
Now a museum dedicated to the wartime expulsions has been set up in the border zone between Kosovo and what is now North Macedonia.
To commemorate, former refugees have been travelling back - some for the first time since the war - swapping memories of darker times and life in refugee camps.
STORYLINE:
For the thousands of refugees that fled Kosovo during the 1998-1999 war this locomotive was a lifeline.
The train comprising of three wagons will now stand at the Bllace border crossing to commemorate Kosovo's biggest exodus.
Hundreds of former victims are embarking on the same journey they did 20 years ago, in memory of the wartime expulsions - revisiting the Kosovo-Macedonia border - the place where tents were raised to shelter the refugees arriving in 1999.
Former passengers and old friends, Fatmir Krasniqi and Shaqir Shaqiri met on this train 20 years ago and are travelling back today.
"Do you remember? I had no bread for two days. And you gave me biscuits," recalls Krasniqi.
Shaqiri remembers it like it was yesterday.
"I had been with my wife, children, three brothers, with two sisters. We have been 22 family members. We left homes empty at the hospital quarter."
Some-440,000 ethnic Albanians were displaced and expelled by the Serb army to then Macedonia, mostly transported by train.
Beaming with excitement Shaqiri never thought he would be travelling back to Kosovo. "This is happiness," he says.
Staring out of the window, the journey is a chance for long-time friends to share new memories.
The train makes several stops, picking up people en route to southern Bllaca - where the new museum will be located.
Passenger, Xhelal Krasniqi, first travelled this route as a 15-year-old with his parents.
He recalls how he never found out what happened to fellow passengers as they were separated by the police.
"We don't know about their fate, if they were alive or if they were killed," he explains.
He remembers, "Police officers burnt down a school near the railway station."
"We saw the police officers and we saw the house, a big house that was burnt," he explains.
According to the UNHCR, thousands of ethnic Albanian villages in Kosovo were destroyed by burning or shelling during the February 1998- June 99 Kosovo War that saw Serb and Montenegro forces crackdown on Kosovo Albanian separatists.
There were many claims of Serb police burning homes, herding people into trains and shipping them off to neighbouring Macedonia.
Twenty years later, Krasniqi is filled with relief, "Emotions are different because we hope for our future, for a better future," he says.
In April 1999 refugees streamed across the border into what is now known as North Macedonia.
Along the railway between the Kosovan capital, Pristina, and the Macedonian capital, Skopje, a line of refugees stretched as far as the eye could see.
They carefully followed the tracks of the railway to the safety of a Macedonian camp.
Besnik Tahiri was travelling from Pristina with his family at the time.
"We went to the train station; unfortunately, it was full of people. My mum was sick. We had to push her through the window in the train. We left the road. We reached Hani i Elezit. It was raining. Full of people. We were walking through this way. We were told that there are minefields. We reached at the Bllaca, mud. We stayed for 13 hours. Full of people," he says.
Once refugees arrived at the camp set up by the authorities and the Macedonian Red Cross, they were provided with rudimentary first aid and relief.
Later people were moved from the camp to larger collective centres elsewhere in the country.
The Bllace border crossing is the planned site for the new museum dedicated to the wartime expulsions and conflict.
The main centrepiece will be an original diesel locomotive inscribed with the slogans, "20 years of Serb genocide" and "Bllaca 99".
Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj laid the first brick for the museum on April 10.
And ninety-nine seedlings were planted to remember the events of 1999.
"This is an extraordinary memory. I am so happy that today we are free. I hope this will never happen in Europe, all over the world. And I hope that the future will not repeat this history," says Tahiri.
More than 13,000 Albanians were killed in the war, and it is estimated between 350,000 - 400,000 managed to flee their homes and escape the Serbian forces.
A 78-day NATO air strike commenced on March 24, 1999 against the Serbian military position in Kosovo, eventually putting an end to the conflict that caused the deaths of more than 10,000 people.
The NATO bombardment ended June 10 1999, when a peace agreement was agreed, calling for the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo and in their place NATO peacekeeping troops.
Kosovo declared independence in 2008 and is recognised by most EU countries and the United States.
Belgrade says it doesn't recognise Kosovo as a country and still deems it to be a province. Continued tensions between the two have been an obstacle in the path to European Union membership.
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