Posted on 01/09/2016 3:51:37 PM PST by BenLurkin
The seat of government in the capital, Pristina, briefly caught fire after it came under a hail of petrol bombs. Firefighters quickly doused the flames and police used tear gas to drive back several thousand opposition demonstrators.
They were protesting against a European Union-brokered deal to give Kosovo's ethnic Serb minority greater local government powers and the possibility of financing from Belgrade. Opposition leaders say the government should resign over the accord and call an early election.
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Kosovo's government has accused opposition party leaders of organizing the violence and attempting to drag the country into "crime and anarchy."
"The aim of this protest was to overthrow the government with violence and leave the country in the hands of the incriminated people that today set on fire the (government) building and police," it said in a statement.
Opposition parties said they will organize more protests until the government resigns.
Kosovo, which is majority Albanian, declared independence from Serbia with Western support in 2008, almost a decade after NATO air strikes drove out Serbian security forces accused of killing and expelling civilians from the ethnic Albanian majority during a counter-insurgency war.
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Billhills wag the dog war
Reuters gets in all the false Soros talking points.
The Albanian-Muslim-Mafia needs to be cut out of Serbia like the cancer it is.
Serbia for Serbs, and Albania for Albanian Muslims.
The fact that all these useless POS UN/EU types keep these dangerous Albanians inside Serbian borders only drags this disaster out.
Balkans ping.
Which one is the moslem country again?
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