SHOTLIST Pristina, 16 October 2007 1. Wide pan of Pristina city 2. Exterior of Kosovo Police headquarters 3. Close-up of sign reading: "Kosovo Police" 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Veton Elshani, Kosovo Police spokesperson: "Today in the morning, police had an operation in regards to a war crime investigation. One suspect, (a) Kosovo Albanian, was arrested in regards to war crimes and (the) operation is still ongoing. While the police operation is still ongoing we are not going to give any further details." Gracko - 16 October 2007 5. Wide pan of Gracko village 6. Wide of field where the 14 Serbian men were murdered 7. Various of mother Ljubica Zivic, who lost two of her sons (Jovica and Radovan) closing gate to her home 8. Daughter of one of the victims near clothes line 9. Mother carrying photos of two of her sons killed 10. Close-up of photos of the two murdered Serb men 11. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Ljubica Zivic, 69-year-old mother of killed brothers Jovica and Radovan: "Last night, I dreamed Jovica and Radovan, I was so so unhappy in my dreams I was crying all night. Today's day it's very sad for me. Eight years has gone, I miss them so much. I asked my youngest granddaughter how do you feel today, and she said , what can I feel. There is nothing that can bring my father back. She was only three months old when it happened" 12. Close-up of her hands 13. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) Ljubica Zivic, 69-year-old mother of killed brothers Jovica and Radovan: "We are still scared. I don't know who did this, who killed our sons, and why. I cannot blame anyone, I'm just waiting for any news from authorities. I want to know why they have killed my sons. Only thing that I know it's that I have seven grandchildren without their fathers. I have seven orphans to feed, and two sons to grieve". 14. Mid of one of the granddaughters walking into house 15. Mid of a grandson with a ball on his hand FILE: Gracko, southern Kosovo - 26 July 1999 16. Various of British peacekeepers involved in NATO operation in the village talking to Serb inhabitants 17. Various of Serb family members carrying the coffins from the morgue 18. Various coffins being loaded onto truck STORYLINE Police in Kosovo arrested an ethnic Albanian early Tuesday accused of murdering 14 Serb villagers in Kosovo, soon after the province came under United Nations and NATO control in 1999, officials said. The man, identified by the media as Mazllum Bytyqi, was arrested in his house in a village in eastern Kosovo, close to a town where 14 villagers were sprayed with bullets as they were working in a wheat field during the harvest season in July 1999. Police spokesman, Veton Elshani, confirmed UN special police units were sent to arrest a suspect charged with committing war crimes, but gave no further details as the operation is ongoing. The victims of the massacre were found by a British patrol July 23, 1999, after automatic weapons fire was heard near the town of Gracko, 10 miles (16 kilometres) south of the capital, Pristina. Thirteen people were found lying in a circle next to their harvester while another man was slumped over his tractor 150 yards (meters) away. Ljubica Zivic, who lost two of her sons, Jovica and Radovan, told AP Television the wounds and grief were still fresh, "We are still scared. I don't know who did this, who killed our sons, and why. I cannot blame anyone, I'm just waiting for any news from authorities. I want to know why they have killed my sons. Only thing that I know it's that I have seven grandchildren without their fathers. I have seven orphans to feed, and two sons to grieve". The attack in 1999 was among the bloodiest ethnic attacks after NATO had moved into Kosovo. You can license this story through AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/b8f97a85925078f314ad9b8b9f6cbbd5 Find out more about AP Archive: www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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