Mitrovica
According to media reports, one person has died from the explosion, one
has recieved life-threatening injuries while nine others light injuries.
It is believed the grenade was thrown from within the crowd into a manhole. The explosion was followed by gunshots from armed Serb groups.
It is believed the grenade was thrown from within the crowd into a manhole. The explosion was followed by gunshots from armed Serb groups.
Ten years on the NATO and European peacekeeping forces have been unable to pacify the nothern Kosovo town and heavily armed Serb gangs and politicians connected to Serbian security apparatus run the underground economy. In 2008 a 25-years-old Ukranian special policeman fell victim to gunshots of a similar crowd and many French and Ukranian peacekeeprs were wounded after the declaration of Kosovo independence. No one has been indicted for the crimes.
While the level of violent crime in
the rest of Kosovo is at Scandinavian levels, northern Mitrovica remains
an eyesore for the security situation.
The latest incident comes after a crowd of 900 motorbikers from Serbia and members of a previously banned Serb terrorist organization marched to Kosovo to celebrate St. Vitius Day with Serb nationalists burning Kosovo flags.
The latest incident comes after a crowd of 900 motorbikers from Serbia and members of a previously banned Serb terrorist organization marched to Kosovo to celebrate St. Vitius Day with Serb nationalists burning Kosovo flags.
Comments (1)
ULLMAR QVICK
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... The situation in the northern part of Mitrovica is a shame for the world community, and especially for the peacekeeping international forces If measures had been taken immediately in 1999, after the NATO takeover, to indlude this part of land in Kosova as a whole, instead of permitting the formation of a lawless "enclave", the situation would be quite different today. But in the west there are forces who want "stability in the Balkans", "the integration of Serbia into democratic Europe" etc., and who doesn't want stability and integration, but the methods used were not much better than those when Milosevic was playing a game with all the world! Unfortunately, a large part of the Serbian population fail to understand realities because they are not trying to and have never been informed. |
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