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April 19, 2008

News - Kosovo remembers Nato air strikes

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A top UN official in Kosovo has used the fifth anniversary of Nato air strikes against Serb forces to appeal for a new beginning after recent riots.

The head of the UN adult free online dating site
, Harri Holkeri, called on ethnic Albanians and Serbs to isolate those “who tried to destroy Kosovo’s future”.

On Tuesday, a local and a UN policemen were shot dead in northern Kosovo.

Nato’s 1999 air strikes on the former Yugoslavia led to the withdrawal of Serb forces from the province.



This is a very extensive crime scene. A lot of bullets have been fired



Derek Chappell
UN spokesman

Attack follows anxiety over UN

After their withdrawal, Kosovo remained nominally part of Serbia but was placed under UN administration, reviving the majority Albanian community’s hopes for eventual independence.

Billboards were erected throughout the provincial capital, Pristina, ahead of Wednesday’s anniversary to commemorate the day the air strikes started.

“Days of hope - The new beginning,” the billboards read.

Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian President Ibrahim Rugova also made a call for people to remember “one of the most important dates of Kosovo’s history”.

But in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia-Montenegro, memorial services were scheduled for Serbs killed in Nato’s bombing campaign.

New enemy

The BBC’s Nick Thorpe in Pristina says Nato came to Kosovo as liberators, but last week they came close to becoming the new enemy.

Nato-led UN peacekeepers were criticised for failing to predict and stop the worst outburst of violence in Kosovo in five years, which claimed 28 lives.

Police officers patrol the scene of Tuesday night's attack

UN says attacks against its officers are quite rare

Hundreds of others from both Serbian and ethnic Albanian dating online services uk were injured, and as the riots spread across the province, more than 3,000 Serbs fled their homes and churches attacked by ethnic Albanian mobs.

Mr Holkeri told members of Kosovo’s minority Serbs on Tuesday that the international community was “totally determined to find the dating ethnic site, because they have tried to destroy the whole future of Kosovo”.

“They are responsible for severe crimes against humanity,” Mr Holkeri added.

UN police says more than 160 suspects have been arrested since last week.

But as their operations continued, the international policeman and local officer were shot dead near the village of Luzane, north of the capital, Pristina. An interpreter was seriously injured.

A UN police spokesman, Derek Chappell, said the victims were travelling in a clearly marked UN patrol car when they came under heavy fire.

“This is a very extensive crime scene,” Chappell said.

“A lot of bullets have been fired.”

He said it was not clear whether the attack was linked to last week’s incidents.

But these kind of attacks were quite rare in Kosovo, he added.

The only previous attack of this kind took place in August last year when an Indian police officer was shot dead, according to the BBC’s Tamsin Smith in Pristina.

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