Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 18) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 399
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of KFOR, including 3 Commando Brigade, take part in Operation Trojan 2, helping the Serbian minority in Kosovo to resettle.
Description: Members of NORBAT (the KFOR Norwegian Battalion) on guard outside a Serb school in Obilić.
Brigadier Robert Fry RM, Commander British Forces in Kosovo, explains the purpose of Operation Trojan 2. The original Operation Trojan aided in the resettlement of displaced Serb families back to their communities, and provided physical security to those communities. Trojan 2 follows on from this, in endeavouring to reintegrate the Serbs and to carry out a more sophisticated response to their needs, such as the provision of healthcare, education and freedom of movement.
Serbian clinic at Plemetina in Kosovo: sign outside says "Здравствена", ie zdravstvena (health). The clinic is an ambulanta - a small facility providing primary healthcare within the minority Serb community. A Land Rover brings supplies. Interview with Doctor Sacha Slivovic (?) who works at the clinic, about the importance of the ambulanti to the Serb communities. Interview on her doorstep with a Serbian mother and her new baby; she poses for photographs with a group of Royal Marines.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:30 Guard at playground / school? Entrance
03:49 Interview with Brigadier Fry RM
10:55 Derelict buildings
11:28 Land rover pulls up outside hospital and drops off supplies
13:24 Interview with locals who work at hospital
19:52 Interview with mum and baby surrounded by RN MA, RM Bandies and RM commando
22:52 END
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
