Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 26) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 407
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Doctor Bernard Kouchner, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Representative for Kosovo, visits the YU Project apartments in Ulpiana, Pristina, which had been hit by an Albanian rocket-propelled grenade. The complex, inhabited by the largest concentration of ethnic Serbians still in Pristina, was under 24-hour guard by the Royal Marines.
Description: Night scenes at the apartment complex. Marines and local police keep watch. Doctor Kouchner and his entourage arrive at the flats, accompanied by press and television. He visits the flats and gives a statement to the press; a female colleague also gives a statement (both in English). He leaves in his car. Lieutenant Colonel Garry Robison, CO of 45 Commando, also speaks to the press (noting that the Marines on guard had been on the opposite side of the building to where the missile had hit).
The following day. Royal Marines on patrol; Colour Sergeant Powell joins a group of officers, Including Lieutenant General Robison and the recently-appointed KFOR commander Lieutenant General Carlo Cabigiosu, and gives a situation report. The two generals and their observers tour the outside of the apartment block. Interior and exterior views of the damage inside the flats: shrapnel holes on the walls, glass damage, broken brickwork.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:32 Arrival on scene at YU flats
00:59 Marine with local police
01:38 MP with marine by flats
01:59 Crowd outside flats including marines
02:01 2 marines on patrol
02:06 Marine using radio
02:20 Dr Kushna with escorts arrives
03:24 Dr Kushna and escorts enters buildings
03:47 Dr Kushna leaves escort and marine on guard
04:24 view of light on in building
05:14 escort and marine on guard
06:40 Dr Kushna in doorway and escort
07:07 Dr Kushna speaks to press
07:22 Dr Kushna with the press
08:35 Dr Kushna with press
08:52 woman being interviewed
08:55 woman being interviewed
09:55 Dr Kushna speaking to press
10:52 crowd outside building (press)
11:05 Dr Kushna with press
12:05 Dr Kushna leaves in car
12:08 RM officer speaks to press
14:41 RM on sentry by doorway
14:57 RM's leaving building
15:05 RM's in picture during day
15:20 RM CSgt joins the scene
17:46 group and other military personnel in transit
18:22 group stops
21:28 Mil top bod gets interviewed
22:17 Bullet holes in wall
23:05 Bullet holes in outside glass and damage to brick work
23:41 Sofa bed in flat after rocket attack
23:48 Damage to brick work, zoom out to show most of building
24:12 END OF TAPE
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Kukor Morgan, Lee (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Kouchner, Bernard (person)
Robison, Garry Stuart (person)
Cabigiosu, Carlo (person)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando (regiment/service)
United Nations (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)
