PRISTINA, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - An explosion destroyed a United Nations vehicle Tuesday in southeastern Kosovo, but caused no injuries, police said.
The blast occurred shortly after midnight when a bomb placed under the U.N. car exploded in Kacanik, a town about 60 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of province's capital, Pristina, police spokesman Refki Morina said.
Morina said the vehicle was parked in front of a building where an international police officer was living. The blast caused damage to other cars parked nearby and shattered shop windows. No other details were immediately available.
Police units and NATO-led peacekeepers were deployed at the scene, and have launched an investigation into the explosion.
Kosovo has seen a recent increase in attacks, some targeting the U.N. and other incidents appearing to be ethnically motivated.
A similar explosion last month in a nearby town destroyed a U.N. vehicle, but caused no injuries. And last week, Kosovo Serb police chief Col. Dejan Jankovic -- the highest ranking Serb member of the province's force -- was shot and wounded.
Two Serb youths were killed and two others wounded in shooting in late August. Following that attack, a memorial to former ethnic Albanian rebels was destroyed in a blast, and a day later assailants fired on a police patrol vehicle wounding one Serb officer.
Kosovo has been administered by the United Nations and patrolled by NATO-led peacekeepers since 1999, following the alliance's bombing of Serb forces to stop their assault on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.
Talks on the future of the troubled province are likely to start by the end of the year.
Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority demands full independence, while Serbs insist it remains part of Serbia-Montenegro, the union that replaced Yugoslavia.
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Do you really think, even in you wildest imagination, that Kosova will have independence talks with almost evry day the same shit there. Bombs, murder etc. Im 100% sure that there will be no independence to Kosova, not a chance.
There is no need for pure hatred. Hatred breeds even deeper misgivings and mistrust of Serb agenda. What is wrong about having independence from a government who not long ago committed horrible crimes sloughtering thousands of Albanians. It is this type of attitude that makes all Ballkan people look bad.
This is exactly why Belgrade is interesed in causing unrest in Kosova so naive people can ask the same question the first blogger asked. Every Kosovar Albanian knows that the only way they can achieve independence is if they maintain calm and peace in Kosova. Blegrade knows that the only way of ruining the chances for an independent Kosova is through conflict, unrest, a chaos. That is why you see Serb secret service men being infiltrated in Kosova. They are specialists in planting bombs and they got plenty of bombs in Serbia. They have the men power and the raw material; they also have the objective of causing unrest.
I suppose that March 2004 was the fault of belgrade, as the peace loving albanians sat and watched in horror as the Serbs burned down their own homes and churches.
More Albanians were killed by the Serbs in March then there were Serbs killed.
How many of the Albanian homes, Albanian churches, and mosques has the Serbian government rebuilt. None.
The Kosova government is rebuilding what the protesters ruined.
What were the Serbs fighting with they have no weapons UNMIK made sure of that. That albanians that were killed were probably killed as a "Kunan" or UNMIK soldiers shot them and put them down like you would with an out of control dog.
O there's plenty of guns coming from the Serbs in northen Mitrovica.
So let me get this straight, you are blaming the Serbs for what happened in March 2004.
Hey if those Serb racist pigs wouldn't have drowned the two children nothing would have happened.
Serb dude, now you answer this why did the Serbian mobs in Belgrade want to set fire to the Albanian embassy there.
We all know that albanians are not accountable for anything that occurs in Kosovo or albania...it is everyone else's fault.
You got it upside down last poster. What Albanians do, they stand by it and don't need to hide, even when that is done mostly by high school teenaagers like the unrest of March 2004. As you know Kosova taxpayers (i.e.: Albanians because Serbs don't pay taxes) have been paying for the rebuilding of the churches. How much has Belgrade contributed towards the rebuilding of some 200,000 houses and some 180 mosques ruined in Kosova during the war?
I would love to see the Serb State Church react to government money going towards the rebuilding of a mosque. The last one one burnt in March 2004 in Belgrade hasn't been built yet, your Muftija just recently complained. I doubt the last one in Nis was ever considered for rebuilding. Nis has to subsidise the families of the war criminals that "turn themselves" to Hague.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
19,000 Serbs participated in Srebrenica massacre, government report finds
Wanda Kudrycka at 7:23 AM ET
[JURIST] A Bosnian government [official website] panel said Tuesday that over 19,000 Bosnian Serbs, including policemen, army officials and civilians, participated in the July 1995 Srebrenica massacre [BBC backgrounder]. The report is based on information gained from the Serb Republic's Interior and Defense [official websites] Ministries, army headquarters and state security agency and says that participants in the massacre helped with tasks including logistics and military action. The list of participants, which the panel has been working on since 2003, identifies 17,000 by name, but does not cover their involvement or responsibility. The panel's findings will be sent to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] and to the state prosecutor's office [official website] for review. Last month, the ICTY announced that it will hold a joint trial for nine suspects [JURIST report] accused of participating in the Srebrenica massacre. Reuters has more.
The US administration is tired of dealing with the situation in Kosovo and wants to hand it over completely to the European Union, US Balkans analyst Nicholas Gvozdev has said.
The European Union should consider taking over law enforcement in Kosovo from the United Nations as part of a more active engagement in the Balkans, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Wednesday.
The US and UNMIK are slowly exiting Kosovo and Metohija and replaced by EU mostly the French, Germans, Greeks and Italians. Serbian soldiers starting to appear inside Kosovo and Metohija.
The ethnic albanians will soon be awakened from their slumber.
Read the last part of what the slav analyst said. Although a slav he states that the USA is is tired of Serbia
You are correct, since Kosovo and Metohija is part of Serbia and if the US is tired of Kosovo and Metohija, they must be tired of Serbia. Good analysis.
"Read the last part of what the slav analyst said. Although a slav he states that the USA is is tired of Serbia"
That sounds like a racist tone by an unhappy albanian. The true albanian just stepped forward.
What racism are you talking about, a slav will always have a touch of bias. Like anyone having Albanian origins will have a touch of bias. The human nature makes us help our on people even if we do it unconciously.
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