In northern Kosovo, where the Serbs maintain roadblocks, tensions are growing over the raising of the Serbian Army’s alert and Pristina’s threats to forcibly remove the barricades.
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 growing due to the raising of the alert by the Serbian Army and Pristina’s threats to remove the barricades by force.
During the past night, the Serbs set up two more barricades, this time in the divided city of Mitrovicaone of the four towns where the Serb minority is concentrated in the north of Kosovo, bordering Serbia.
A fragile security situation reigns in the area, where shots were fired on Sunday night, although details are unknown so far.
Serbia has placed its army on the highest level of combat alert in the face of growing tensions, after blaming the Kosovar government for the escalation around the Kosovar Serb protests.
The Serbian President Alexander Vucichas assured that it is making efforts, also international, to reduce the tension, but defended the roadblocks as legitimate.
It has also accused the international community of tolerating what it considers to be an attempt by the Kosovar government to expel the Serb minority from the territory.
The tension between Pristina, on the one hand, and the Kosovar Serb population and Belgrade, on the other, has been growing for months, and broke out with the arrest of several Serb officers who left the Kosovar Police in November, together with other Serb representatives who withdrew from Kosovo institutions.
Pristina warns that if the NATO KFOR mission does not remove the roadblocks, its agents will do so in the coming days.
The Kosovar prime minister, the nationalist albin kurtiensures that the barricades have been installed with political and financial instructions from Belgrade.
Serbia does not recognize the independence of Kosovo, proclaimed by the Kosovar Albanian majority in 2008 after the 1998/99 war and the repression by Belgrade in the 1990s.
Source: Eitb
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