19 Albanian Policemen were injured as a result of disorders in Kosovo, according to information revealed to the Tanjug news agency by Veton Elshani, press secretary of the Kosovo Police. According to his version of events, Serbian reservists left the Kosovo border only after the appearance of KFOR troops. The Serbian side reported that Kosovo police units used force to resist the attempts of Serbian reservists to enter Kosovo. This has been the first direct confrontation of Serbians from the central provinces and Kosovo Albanians in the last several years.
According to the Beta and B92 news agencies, Serbian border police did not stop the passage of the reservists into the neutral zone between the border posts because, as they put it, “they didn’t see anything and they weren’t looking at the other side (of the border)”.
At the same time, protests are continuing in the northern city of Mitrovica against Albanian rule. The demonstrators are demanding that all former Serbian officials in place in 1999 be restored to their positions. In addition, a rally by Serbian youth was held in Mitrovica in honour of the memory of Zoran Vujovic, a young Kosovo Serb refugee killed in the disorders in Belgrade last Thursday.
26 February 2008
IA Regnum
http://www.regnum.ru/news/fd-abroad/serbia/962223.html (in Russian)
