Serbs Protestors attack UN Police

by The Associated Press | February 22, 2008 at 10:23 am | 675 views | 3 comments

by 1974caca

by 1974caca

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) ― Serbians protesting Kosovo's independence attacked UN Police with stones, glass bottles, and firecrackers in the ethnically divided city of Kosovoska Mitrovica earlier today.

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Police fired the canisters Friday afternoon in an attempt to keep the protesters off the bridge separating the Serb and ethnic Albanian sides of the city - a flashpoint of tensions in Kosovo's restive north.
The demonstrators waved Serbian flags and chanted "Kosovo is ours!" on their fifth day of protests since Kosovo's ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence from Serbia on Sunday.
Meanwhile in Belgrade, police stood guard outside U.S and other Western embassies a day after rioters stormed and set fire to the American mission during massive rioting that left one person dead and 150 injured.
Pro-Western politicians accused hard-line nationalists in the government of Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica of inciting the violence in order to demonstrate Serbia's anger at Kosovo's declaration of independence on Sunday. The EU said Serbia's negotiations to join the bloc would be put on hold.

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at 10:28 on February 22nd, 2008

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empty_aerodrom

at 19:51 on February 22nd, 2008

KRAGUJEVAC - The Kragujevac's students are protesting about Kosovo's independence. Students from all Kragujevac's high schools joined the protest and showed to the world that Kosovo is Serbia.
This photo was made in the city of Kragujevac, central Serbia.

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1974caca

at 05:00 on February 28th, 2008

These demonstrations - Banja Luka against " Kosovo independence" took place in Banja Luka, capital of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina on 21.02.2008. This link http://youtube.com/watch?v=m3iUo4XcfuQ is a video i took the same day

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