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http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/418479
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nato boost troops in Kosovo</b>
Ten dead after ethnic clashes
Mar 19, <b>2004</b>
Albanians set fire to Serb Orthodox churches in Kosovo as NATO scrambled to deploy up to 1,000 more troops to stifle an explosion of ethnic violence.
A church was torched in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica despite the efforts of French NATO peacekeepers, who fired teargas and rubber bullets to drive off the mob.
Gunshots were heard, but it was not clear where from.
A Serb church and Serb homes were also set ablaze in the central town of Obilic, near the provincial capital Pristina.
(This is ongoing.)
Reports from Obilic said NATO peacekeepers had evacuated about 100 Serbs because it could not guarantee their safety -- as happened on Thursday in the capital, Pristina.
NATO summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations took control of the province from Serbia in 1999. Some 500 have been injured, of whom 20 were in intensive care.
The new troops will reinforce 17,500 peacekeepers and 9,000 local and international police trying to keep a lid on the province of two million Muslim Albanians demanding independence and 100,000 Serbs, many in enclaves relying on NATO protection.
(In fact, position of Serbians in Kosovo is very much like that of Hindus of Kashmir. They are ethnically cleansed out of the region by regular j-hadi violence of the Albanian islamics. But the international community, thanks to the media and US policy on Serbia and Yugoslavia, only sympathise with the terrorist islamics.)
US soldiers parked eight Humvees across the main road from Pristina to Mitrovica and were checking all travellers as NATO sent 150 more US troops and 80 Italian carabinieri. Britain readied 750 soldiers for Kosovo duty.
In Serbia, the Interior Ministry ordered paramilitary police on the boundary with Kosovo to the highest level of combat readiness, saying "security measures have been strengthened together with other security forces to prevent any spillover".
Serbia <b>appeared</b> to be acting in consultation with NATO. Its chief of staff scheduled a meeting with alliance military attaches and invited the media for a photo call.
(Disingenuous reporting as usual: Serbia has always acted in consultation with NATO. Serbians actually trust them, don't know why, since NATO has let them down so often.)
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called on "all parties in Kosovo itself, but also in Belgrade of course, to show the utmost restraint" and prevent any further violence.
<b>Airport closed </b>
Flights in and out of Kosovo were suspended and internal boundaries with Serbia were closed. Troops of a dozen nations patrolled key areas, some next to gutted Serb buildings.
In a severe blow to international hopes of calm before talks this year or next on Kosovo's future status, the outburst of pent-up ethnic hatred in over a dozen locations suggested that reconciliation between the two communities was years away.
Clashes were reported from Mitrovica in the north to Urosevac in the south and Pec in the west, and UN police and troops were injured in several places, at least three gravely.
The violence <b>triggered</b> angry protests in Serbia's three main cities, where demonstrators stoned and burned mosques and other Islamic buildings. Serbs, whose forces were driven out of Kosovo by NATO in 1999, were furious at their own impotence and what they say is NATO's failure to check Albanian "terrorism".
(So Serbs retaliated for the never-ending terrorist attacks on Serbs and their homes and Orthodox Churches by the islamists.)
UN police and vehicles and NATO troops were attacked and one policeman guarding a building in Pristina was shot in the leg. "People were trapped inside the burning building," UN spokesman Derek Chappell told Reuters. "Police came under repeated gunfire when they tried to rescue them."
Kosovo has been under UN control since NATO bombing forced out Serbian forces in mid-1999, halting Serb repression of Muslim Albanian civilians.
('Serb repression'. The only ones being repressed are the Serbs in their historic homelands. They are oppressed by the islamic j-had that has crept over them steadily since the Serbs made a stand and won against the islamics in the Middle Ages.
Now, what the medieval j-had could not get for the islamics, they could soon be handed on a platter by US foreign policy (and by NATO which is going along): they are considering to make Kosovo independent of Serbia, an islamic pardees for the KLA terrorist islamics. Soon they will operate from there to further bring down the rest of Serbia with.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->KLA is like LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiyiba, the Kashmiri terrorists).
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/418479
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Nato boost troops in Kosovo</b>
Ten dead after ethnic clashes
Mar 19, <b>2004</b>
Albanians set fire to Serb Orthodox churches in Kosovo as NATO scrambled to deploy up to 1,000 more troops to stifle an explosion of ethnic violence.
A church was torched in the flashpoint town of Mitrovica despite the efforts of French NATO peacekeepers, who fired teargas and rubber bullets to drive off the mob.
Gunshots were heard, but it was not clear where from.
A Serb church and Serb homes were also set ablaze in the central town of Obilic, near the provincial capital Pristina.
(This is ongoing.)
Reports from Obilic said NATO peacekeepers had evacuated about 100 Serbs because it could not guarantee their safety -- as happened on Thursday in the capital, Pristina.
NATO summoned reinforcements after 22 people were killed in the worst ethnic clashes in Kosovo since the allies and the United Nations took control of the province from Serbia in 1999. Some 500 have been injured, of whom 20 were in intensive care.
The new troops will reinforce 17,500 peacekeepers and 9,000 local and international police trying to keep a lid on the province of two million Muslim Albanians demanding independence and 100,000 Serbs, many in enclaves relying on NATO protection.
(In fact, position of Serbians in Kosovo is very much like that of Hindus of Kashmir. They are ethnically cleansed out of the region by regular j-hadi violence of the Albanian islamics. But the international community, thanks to the media and US policy on Serbia and Yugoslavia, only sympathise with the terrorist islamics.)
US soldiers parked eight Humvees across the main road from Pristina to Mitrovica and were checking all travellers as NATO sent 150 more US troops and 80 Italian carabinieri. Britain readied 750 soldiers for Kosovo duty.
In Serbia, the Interior Ministry ordered paramilitary police on the boundary with Kosovo to the highest level of combat readiness, saying "security measures have been strengthened together with other security forces to prevent any spillover".
Serbia <b>appeared</b> to be acting in consultation with NATO. Its chief of staff scheduled a meeting with alliance military attaches and invited the media for a photo call.
(Disingenuous reporting as usual: Serbia has always acted in consultation with NATO. Serbians actually trust them, don't know why, since NATO has let them down so often.)
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called on "all parties in Kosovo itself, but also in Belgrade of course, to show the utmost restraint" and prevent any further violence.
<b>Airport closed </b>
Flights in and out of Kosovo were suspended and internal boundaries with Serbia were closed. Troops of a dozen nations patrolled key areas, some next to gutted Serb buildings.
In a severe blow to international hopes of calm before talks this year or next on Kosovo's future status, the outburst of pent-up ethnic hatred in over a dozen locations suggested that reconciliation between the two communities was years away.
Clashes were reported from Mitrovica in the north to Urosevac in the south and Pec in the west, and UN police and troops were injured in several places, at least three gravely.
The violence <b>triggered</b> angry protests in Serbia's three main cities, where demonstrators stoned and burned mosques and other Islamic buildings. Serbs, whose forces were driven out of Kosovo by NATO in 1999, were furious at their own impotence and what they say is NATO's failure to check Albanian "terrorism".
(So Serbs retaliated for the never-ending terrorist attacks on Serbs and their homes and Orthodox Churches by the islamists.)
UN police and vehicles and NATO troops were attacked and one policeman guarding a building in Pristina was shot in the leg. "People were trapped inside the burning building," UN spokesman Derek Chappell told Reuters. "Police came under repeated gunfire when they tried to rescue them."
Kosovo has been under UN control since NATO bombing forced out Serbian forces in mid-1999, halting Serb repression of Muslim Albanian civilians.
('Serb repression'. The only ones being repressed are the Serbs in their historic homelands. They are oppressed by the islamic j-had that has crept over them steadily since the Serbs made a stand and won against the islamics in the Middle Ages.
Now, what the medieval j-had could not get for the islamics, they could soon be handed on a platter by US foreign policy (and by NATO which is going along): they are considering to make Kosovo independent of Serbia, an islamic pardees for the KLA terrorist islamics. Soon they will operate from there to further bring down the rest of Serbia with.)<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->KLA is like LeT (Lashkar-e-Taiyiba, the Kashmiri terrorists).