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March 17, 2004,
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March 17,
2004===
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ROC presidential election, 2004: Nobel laureate
Lee Yuan-tseh endorses
Chen Shui-bian for the second time.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Taiwan%20Elections (Seattle PI)*
Unrest in Kosovo: After two
Albanian children are found drowned in the
Ibar river in
Kosovo and Metohia, with a third still missing, riots erupt in the town of
Kosovska Mitrovica and later spread to the entire province. Mitrovica
Serbs are blamed by Albanian media for forcing the children into the river, but this is later denied by
United Nations officials. At least 22 people are killed by the end of the day with hundreds injured in clashes between Serbs and Albanians;
enclaves of Kosovo Serbs elsewhere in the province experience attacks by Kosovo Albanians as well as offices of UN officials which were abandoned. In reaction to the violence in Kosovo, demonstrators in
Serbia march in
Belgrade and set ablaze
mosques in Belgrade and
Nish.
http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27520&order=priority&style=headlines (B92) http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27483&order=priority&style=headlines (B92) http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/Swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=4798093 (SwissInfo) http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/17/international/europe/17CND-KOSO.html?hp (NYT) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3521068.stm (BBC) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/03/17/kosovo.clash.ap/index.html (CNN) http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=&nav_id=27517&order=priority&style=headlines (B92) http://www.rts.co.yu/jedna_vest.asp?source=komentar&IDNews=71242 (RTS, in Serbian)*
Occupation of Iraq: A
car bomb flattens the Mount Lebanon Hotel in central
Baghdad at 20:10 (
UTC+3), killing at least 17 people and injuring 45 more.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3522424.stm (BBC) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/03/17/iraq.main/index.html (CNN) http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/18/157209 (Democracy Now!)*
Utah bans
execution by firing squad.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3519310.stm (BBC) *
Ohio highway sniper attacks: Suspect
Charles A. McCoy Jr. is arrested in
Las Vegas, Nevada.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4536074/ (MSNBC)
Category:Days in 2004