Serbians Protest In Kosovo
Serbians protested in the streets of Kosovska Mitrovic, Kosovo on Friday. This continues the protesting (including attacking multiple embassys and U.N. Buildings) that has been done by Serbians that are upset that Kosovo has been recognized as an independent nation. There is a difference from protesting on your own country’s (Serbia) soil, and going over to another country and protesting that country and hassling people that live there. They attacked U.N. police officers in Kosovo. Serbians are inevitably trying to taunt the U.N., U.S., and E.U. into sending troops to Serbia or maybe the borders of Kosovo hoping that if that happens Russia (who asked governments not to acknowledge Kosovo’s Independence) will assist them and therefore start a war, hoping that they can then get control of Kosovo once again. If this is their plan or hope, if they keep rioting, it just might work though, would that be worth all of the devastation? Do these particular Serbians that are protesting, remember the good old days of Slobadon Milosevic and want to bring them back? The Serbian President Boris Tadic has scolded the protesters for their actions. Wonder if they will respond to his slap on the wrist?
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo – Serbs protesting Kosovo’s independence attacked U.N. police guarding a key bridge in northern Kosovo with stones and empty glass bottles Friday.
Some 5,000 Serbs rallied in the Kosovksa Mitrovica, waving Serbian flags and chanting “Kosovo is ours!” in a fifth day of protests since Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence last weekend. However, U.N. police did not fire tear gas as earlier reported. Blasts at the rally came from firecrackers launched by protesters.
Serbia’s prime minister appealed for calm as the European Union condemned rioting in the capital Belgrade overnight when demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy and other Western mission. The United States and EU heavyweights Britain, France and Germany have formally recognized Kosovo.
Serbian President Boris Tadic called an emergency meeting of the national security council, saying the riots that engulfed the capital overnight must “never happen again.”
In Serb-dominated northern Kosovo, demonstrators waved Serbian flags and chanted “Kosovo is ours!” Police tried to keep protesters off the Kosovska Mitrovica bridge over the Ibar River. The bridge, which divides Kosovo Serbs from ethnic Albanians, has long been a flashpoint of tensions in Kosovo’s restive north
Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia on Sunday. The province, which is 90 percent ethnic Albanian, has not been under Serbia’s control since 1999, when NATO launched airstrikes to halt a Serbian crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists. A U.N. mission has governed Kosovo since.
Prime Minister Hashim Thaci said Friday the violence was reminiscent of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic’s bloody crackdown on ethnic Albanian separatists in Kosovo.
Source: MSNBC
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