Worst violence in Kosovo since independence
Today, in the wee hours of the morning, violence erupted between Serbians and UN/NATO troops in Kosovo.
International forces pulling Serb demonstrators from a U.N. courthouse were attacked Monday by hundreds of furious protesters who massed outside, setting off an hours-long battle with rocks, grenades and live ammunition.
U.N. and NATO forces responded with tear gas, stun grenades and gunshots. At least 42 U.N. and NATO forces and 70 protesters were wounded in the worst violence in Kosovo since its declaration of independence last month.
The U.N. police stormed the courthouse just before dawn to arrest dozens of Serbs who had occupied the U.N. building since Friday to protest Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia.
Hundreds of Serbs surrounded the courthouse as the police tried to leave with the arrested demonstrators. Polish, Ukrainian and Bulgarian members of the U.N. force and NATO troops backing them up were pelted with rocks, Molotov cocktails and hand grenades. Some demonstrators fired guns at the international forces. Witnesses said others surrounded and attacked three U.N. vehicles, pulling out and freeing about 20 of the 53 protesters who had been arrested in the courthouse. The rest of the 53 were freed after questioning.
For those of you who thought all this violence had died down, you were wrong.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Of course not. The Serbs are angry because of the injustice that is still upon them. Four years before this incident (17th of March) there has been a great ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Kosovo, when 35 orthodox temples were destroyed, 900+ Serb houses burned, 4000 people expelled and hundreds got killed or gone missing. Others lost their legal jobs which have been taken over by Albanians. Exactly four years later it continues, but this time NATO does it.
The demonstrators in the building were Court workers, lawyers judges and others, who were violently expelled from their jobs in 2004. They wanted their jobs back. Instead, they got violently arrested and most of them taken south to be shown to Albanians to be psychologically tortured, as always. Well the Serb minority didn’t like that and violently acted, but NATO and UNMIK forces replied with live ammo. So no, it had not died down at all, it never did.
Must I remind you that the Serbs in the north of Kosovo do not receive enough electricity and that the restrictions have been doubled since the declaration of independence of Kosovo. Imagine being without electricity for two days then getting some for six hours, with the plants, of course in control by Albanians. The plants Serbs from entire Serbia built, like everything else that there is on Kosovo.
Serbs will not tolerate the inhumane actions against them, such as barbwires, murders, kidnappings, arrests and other things that Albanians still do to them, so no, it had not died down.
And to think that the Prime Minister of Kosovo is an Albanian terrorist called “The Snake” for his cruelty, wanted for dozens of murders of Serbs and even Albanians who opposed the terrorist actions against the Serb Army in 98-99.
As you are reading this, a Serb’s house is burning in Kosovo.