E-mail updates
Follow on Twitter
Subscribe to RSS
Zveki / AP
Kosovo Serbs clash with German army soldiers serving under the auspices of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo, as the NATO troops work to remove a roadblock near the village of Jagnjenica, Kosovo, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Two NATO soldiers were shot and wounded during clashes with Serbs on Monday after the peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and water canons and used heavy machinery to remove trucks and buses that were being used to block a main road in Kosovo's ethnically tense north. Kosovo's authorities decided to extend their authority into the areas under de-facto Serb rule, and NATO troops are trying to remove roadblocks after months of tension.
Bojan Slavkovic / Reuters
Kosovo Force (KFOR) soldiers from Germany and Austria fight with Kosovo Serbs during clashes in the village of Jagnjenica near the town of Zubin Potok November 28, 2011. Two NATO soldiers were wounded by gunfire on Monday in clashes with demonstrators in north Kosovo, NATO said, in the latest spasm of violence in a months-long standoff with Serbs who reject the country's 2008 secession from Serbia.
Zveki / AP
Kosovo Serbs clash with German army soldiers serving under the auspices of the NATO peacekeeping mission in Kosovo.
From the full story:
Two German NATO soldiers were shot and wounded and eight Austrian peacekeepers hurt on Monday in the latest clashes with Serbs in the north of Kosovo who reject the country's 2008 secession from Serbia.
Fighting broke out when NATO peacekeepers began removing roadblocks erected by Serbs in July after Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-dominated government tried to send border police to the mainly Serb north.
Western diplomats warn the turmoil could cost Serbia official candidate status for membership of the European Union when the bloc meets on December 9.
Related stories:
Leave a Comment:
There are about 50,000 Serbs left in the Kosovo, if that. They've never agreed to hand over their ancestral land to NATO occupiers. Yet, German soldiers are shooting at Serbs again - we've never thought a German boot will be stomping us again after Hitler and his Croat allies caused death of more than a million Serbs. (Angela Merkel is accomplishing by soft power what Hitler was unable to with brute force.) German soldiers injured close to 60 Serb civilians yesterday and it continues today. North Atlantic Imperial media only reports that the two NATO soldiers were injured.
There are other photos. There are photos of Serb residents, men and women, all of ages, sitting in front of armored NATO vehicles and bulldozer, stopping the ethnic cleansing with their bodies. Oh, yes, this is an act of ethnic cleansing because these Serbs will have to leave this land they've called home for centuries like most of their brethren from other parts of the province had to leave to escape Albanian terror. The process of amputating Kosovo and Metohija from the Serbs is almost over. Boris Tadic has given up on all the Serbian national interests to stay in power and to deliver Serbia to EU whose soldiers are shooting unarmed Serb civilians. EU has no plan to accept Serbia, ever, just to bait it into submission, dismember it and drop it. It's a clear historical pattern and North Kosovo is just a scene within an episode. Vojvodina is next if Serbs do not decide to wake up and stop it.