In northern Kosovo, where the Serbs maintain roadblocks, tensions are rising because of the warning from the Serbian army and threats from Pristina to remove the barricades by force.
Euskaraz irakurri: Tentsioak gora egin du Kosovon, indarkeria erabiltzeko mehatxuen artean
In northern Kosovo, where the Serbs have maintained roadblocks since the 10th, tensions are rising due to the alerting by the Serbian army and threats from Pristina to remove the barricades by force.
The Serbs erected two more barricades last night, this time in the divided city of Mitrovicaone of the four cities where the Serb minority is concentrated in the north of Kosovo, bordering Serbia.
There is a fragile security situation in the area, where shots were fired on Sunday night, although details are unknown so far.
Serbia has placed its military on the highest level of preparedness despite mounting tensions after blaming the Kosovo government for the escalation surrounding Kosovo Serb protests.
The Serbian President Alexander Vucichas assured it is making efforts, including internationally, to ease tensions, but defended the roadblocks as legitimate.
It has also accused the international community of tolerating what it considers an attempt by the Kosovo government to expel the Serb minority from the territory.
The tension between Pristina on the one hand and the Kosovo Serb population and Belgrade on the other hand has been growing for months and erupted with the arrest of some Serbian agents who left the Kosovo police in November along with other Serbian representatives who withdrew from Kosovo’s institutions.
Pristina warns that if the NATO-KFOR mission does not remove the roadblocks, its agents will in the coming days.
The Kosovo Prime Minister, the Nationalist albin kurtiensures that the barricades are placed with political and financial instructions from Belgrade.
Serbia does not recognize Kosovo’s independence, which was declared in 2008 by the Kosovar Albanian majority following the 1998/99 war and Belgrade’s repression in the 1990s.
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Source: EITB
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