Germans accused of cowardice May 10, 2004 Berlin: German troops serving with an international peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo have been accused of hiding in barracks "like frightened rabbits" during the inter-ethnic rioting that erupted in the province in March. A German police report sent to the government last week criticises the troops for cowardice and for their failure to quell the rioting, in which 19 people died and about 900 others were injured. The charges, the most serious made against the German Army since World War II, have been levelled by police officers serving with Unmik, the United Nations civil...