Stabbing in flashpoint Kosovo town; Serbs protest

Reuters ^ | March 28, 2006

[joan]

28 Mar 2006 17:33:36 GMT

Source: Reuters

MITROVICA, Serbia and Montenegro, March 28 (Reuters) - A Serb man was stabbed in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica in Kosovo on Tuesday and hundreds of Serbs gathered at the scene to demonstrate, hospital officials and witnesses said.

The 19-year-old Serbwas "seriously wounded" when he was stabbed in the stomach, hospital director Milan Ivanovic told Reuters. Witnesses said he was attacked on the main bridge by two men who had crossed from the mainly Albanian south.

Mitrovica, in the north of Serbia's United Nations-run province, has been divided at the river between Serbs and Albanians since the 1998-99 war and has seen some of the worst postwar violence in Kosovo.

Clashes at the bridge in March 2004 sparked two days of Kosovo-wide Albanian riots that killed 19 people and destroyed hundreds of Serb properties. NATO soldiers and U.N. police officers have relaxed security at the bridge over the past year.

Negotiations are under way to decide the province's fate, with the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority pushing for independence seven years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces accused of atrocities against Albanian civilians.

[joan]

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[2banana]

Negotiations are under way to decide the province's fate, with the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority pushing for independence seven years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces (and 250,000 Serb civilians) accused of atrocities against Albanian civilians.

There - fixed it.

[joan]

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[joan]

Serb youth stabbed in northern Kosovo, tensions soar

“Ilincic was rushed to a hospital where officials, who declined to be immediately identified, said he was admitted with three deep stab wounds and was undergoing surgery for a ruptured liver and two head injuries.”

[FormerLib]

Negotiations are under way to decide the province's fate, with the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority pushing for independence seven years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces (and 250,000 Serb civilians) accused of atrocities against Albanian civilians.

"There - fixed it."

Good fix, I must say.

[A. Pole]

Negotiations are under way to decide the province's fate, with the 90-percent ethnic Albanian majority pushing for independence seven years after NATO bombs drove out Serb forces (and 250,000 Serb civilians) accused of atrocities against Albanian civilians.

There - fixed it.

Takn you.

[FormerLib]

Here, spin this one into one of your infamous anti-Serb diatribes!