Shots from an automatic weapon were fired in close proximity of a cemetery in the village of Mušutište while Serbs were visiting their loved ones’ graves.
The displaced people who were at the village cemetery are scared and are preparing to leave.
Authorities are exhuming remains of people assumed to be missing persons from Croatia at a cemetery in the town of Ruma, at Croatia’s request.
President of the Serbian Government’s Missing Persons Commission Veljko Odalović says that remains of ten persons have been exhumed so far at three different locations.
Officials at star-studded Hollywood cemetery Forest Lawn says it welcomes Michael Jackson fans for the one-year anniversary of his death this Friday, but there will be some restrictions in place to preserve the sanctity of the grounds. After all, this is an eternal resting place.MJ fans will be allowed to leave flowers near the singer’s burial [...]
Three people were killed in an explosion at a village cemetery in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday, a police spokesman said. “Three people were killed when a homemade explosive device went off at a cemetery in the village of Gubden,” the spokesman said.
Three people were killed in an explosion at a village cemetery in Russia’s North Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Friday, a police spokesman said. “Three people were killed when a homemade explosive device went off at a cemetery in the village of Gubden,” the spokesman said.
An AP mine was removed from a village cemetery, after local Serbs from Staro Gracko in Kosovo reported finding in on Saturday. Kosovo police, KPS, told Tanjug news agency that KFOR’s teams disarmed the device found at the Orthodox cemetery.
Several hundred Serbs from VuÄitrn in Kosovo yesterday visited the graves of their loved ones for the first time in ten years. The Serbs were forced to leave their homes in great numbers during the war in 1999, and left the graveyard intact.
Three Iranians describe police attempts to break up demonstrations at a cemetery in Tehran, 40 days after the death of Neda Agha-Soltan – the young woman who has become a symbol of the opposition cause in Iran.
Ahmed, Tehran, via telephone
I was at the memorial event for Neda at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.
Mir-Hossein Mousavi [defeated presidential candidate and opposition figurehead] arrived at the start, at about 1615, but I only stayed for 10 minutes because the police were dispersing the crowds and made me leave.
"Cameramen were filming the crowds directly, spying on who was there"
Ahmed, Tehran
The police were attacking people with batons and they arrested lots of people and took them away in their cars.
I think there were about 3,000 people there and more were arriving on the Metro as I was leaving. They thought Mousavi would be there, but he had already left.
One important thing I must mention: I saw about seven or eight cameramen in certain vantage points and bridges around the cemetery. They were filming the crowds directly with professional cameras.
I am sure they were official cameramen, spying on who was there.
People were chanting "Death to the dictators", "Ya Hossein, Mir Hossein", [one of the Mousavi supporters' key chants] and reciting Fatehe loudly [two verses from the Koran which are traditionally recited above the grave of the deceased].
The graves of Sohrab Arabi [a teenager killed during the protests] and Neda were quite close by. People surrounded both of their graves.
I didn’t see Mr [Mehdi] Karroubi [another opposition figure] there, but I saw several other clerics who were talking to people, ordinary people there.
Daryaa, Tehran, via email
I got to the cemetery at about 1615 and went to Neda’s tomb to see her family and to pray, but the police were trying to scatter us.
The crowds were bigger than I expected. The weather was so hot and the cemetery is not easy to get to. I would say there were about two or three hundred police there.
Neda’s relatives asked us to be silent and to leave immediately, so I went to the tombs of Sohrab Arabi and Ashkan Sohrab [two teenagers killed during protests]. People were standing by their graves praying loudly.
"We should keep protesting if we really believe this government is illegal"
Daryaa, Tehran
I didn’t see Mr Mousavi. I heard that he was coming but that the police hadn’t let him out of his car.
I saw his wife, Ms Rahnavard, and I asked her about the demonstration at Mosala afterwards in the north of the city, but she didn’t know about it.
When Ms Rahnavard arrived, police tried to keep us away from her. Two men were protecting her from police, who were trying to scare us and disperse the crowds, but we stayed put.
Finally they started attacking us and we escaped to a different part of the cemetery, where we started chanting.
It is becoming dangerous to protest, but I think we should keep doing it if we really believe this government is illegal and if we value the blood of Neda and our other martyrs.
Email sent to BBC Persian
The riot police arrived at the Behesht-e Zahra cemetery at about 1615, but they didn’t act against the crowds at first.
At about 1650, the forces charged towards the crowds and tried to push them back, but the crowds started chanting slogans. They were inviting the forces to help and work with the people – and they were giving flowers to the policemen.
Then a cleric, Hadi Ghaffouri, arrived and the crowds followed him towards the northern end of the road.
I went towards the war martyrs’ part of the cemetery, where the Basijis and Hezbollah guards were standing.
I saw them hitting an old cleric with a baton, and then one of the Basijis ordered some other Basijis on motorbikes to head towards section 257 of the cemetery [where Neda Agha-Soltan is buried].
Then I had to go back to Tehran as I had work to do.</p
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