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SERBIA: POZAREVAC: PRISON PROTESTS TURN UGLY

(7 Nov 2000) Serbo-Croat/Nat Prison protests turned ugly on Tuesday, with shots fired, buildings set ablaze, murder threats against jailed ethnic Albanians and an �orgy of rape� reported by a woman inmate, as Serbs went on the rampage to press amnesty demands. The spreading unrest presented the latest challenge to the government of the new president, Vojislav Kostunica. Even as it tries to consolidate its authority, it is faced by a decade of pent-up discontent accumulated under the past regime and now threatening to spill over into growing anarchy. Spectators gathered outside the prison in Pozarevac, east of Belgrade, saw flames shooting from at least four buildings inside the compound and heard gunfire immediately afterward. The fires appeared to have burned out or been doused several hours later and the situation appeared calm. The prison's warden, Stipe Marusic, said that guards shot in the air. But some of the inmates told reporters contacted by telephone that they were shot at and that several prisoners were injured at least two seriously. Police vans were seen driving overnight into the prison, one of the largest in Europe, in the city about 50 miles (80 kilometers) east of Belgrade. The riots at Pozarevac, Nis and Sremska Mitrovica appear linked by common demands. Focusing on an end to alleged ill treatment and inclusion of Serbs jailed for criminal activities into a proposed amnesty law that would free Kosovo Albanian political prisoners imprisoned under former President Slobodan Milosevic. The amnesty law, suggested by new President Vojislav Kostunica, is still at the discussion stage. It would affect Kosovo Albanians arrested for activity in or support of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army. At Pozarevac, witnesses saw inmates perched on the prison's rooftops, some brandishing signs: "We go out, J-U-L goes in." They were alluding to the neo-communist Yugoslav Left party that ruled Yugoslavia together with Milosevic's Socialists until the former president lost elections and was toppled in a revolt on October 5th, 2000. SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) "we demand improvement of health situation in the prison, food improvement and then change of prison governors and educational services." SUPER CAPTION: vox pop, inmate SOUNDBITE: (Serbian) "We believe that because of the changes in the country we should see some changes here as well, we believe that the new government will have an understanding for us. This stuff that we are doing, burning and breaking , we are forced by the management of the prison. If they accepted our demands earlier none of this would happened." SUPER CAPTION: vox pop, inmate Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...