1.   Serbs around Kosovo were angry and hostile to questions but refrained from retaliatory violence on this Day of the Dead, an occasion when they visit their ancestral graves.

2.   Grazing fields and river foliage, such as palm nuts prized as food during droughts, would disappear, along with ancestral Himba graves.

3.   His father is buried there amid other ancestral graves, and he has had to get permission from a white farmer to pay his respects.

4.   Mr Fong said District Board members were mainly worried ancestral graves would be uprooted by the work.

5.   Their ancestral graves would be relocated, their children educated.

6.   Their three-day trip will include a tour of the island, banquets and a visit to ancestral graves.

7.   To visit, to breathe the Bikini air, to tend their ancestral graves.

8.   This is one reason why members of the Man clan are resisting efforts by the government to clear their renovated place of worship in front of the ancestral grave.