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Detained Serbs start new hunger strike
June 08, 2000

New fight for justice

Kosovska Mitrovica, June 7 - Serbs and Romanies detained in Kosovska Mitrovica District court started a new hunger strike this evening because of unfulfilled promises made by Bernard Kouchner on May 21 when they interrupted their 41-day hunger strike.

Ten Serbs and three Romanies demand, as Kouchner promised, a revision of their cases, that detained Serbs and other non-Albanians detained in prisons at U.S. base Bondsteel in Urosevac, in prisons in Pristina and in Gnjilane be transferred to the district prison in Kosovska Mitrovica, and that dates be fixed for trials which would be fair and just.

The other detained, 26 Serbs and two Romanies, due to exhaustion from the previous hunger strike and to disease are not taking part in the new protest.