Serbs Storm UN Court in Kosovo
Posted on March 15, 2008 - Filed Under Kosovo |
The independence of Kosovo from Serbia is clearly far from behind a resolved issue. Today, hundreds of Serbs stormed the United Nations courthouse in Kosovo and after taking control of the site, raised the Serbian flag.
A few hours ago the UN flag was restored but many Serbians remained in the compound.
According to the Associated Press: “Some of the Serbs who stormed the building worked in Serbia’s justice system before Kosovo came under U.N. and NATO control in 1999, and have refused to work under the U.N. administration. Following Kosovo’s declaration of independence, minority Serbs have threatened to set up parallel offices that report directly to Belgrade. The attack on the courthouse was condemned by the European Union and by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who made a previously planned visit to Kosovo on Friday.”
Reuters is reporting: “The protesters had been outside the building for several weeks, preventing Albanian court workers from crossing the bridge over the Ibar River that divides Mitrovica into a Serb north and an Albanian south. The takeover of the court took place a few hours before NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is due to visit Mitrovica for meetings with local leaders and NATO commanders. The crowd, mostly former court employees in the Mitrovica region who were left jobless after NATO expelled Serb forces in 1999, broke through the court’s outer gate and entered the building.
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Why the image of the kosovan albanian protesters (the man with the red scarf wears a hat - head cover, weared only by albanians)is used to illustrate article regarding Serbian protests?