PRISTINA, Serbia (AP) - Vandals have damaged tombstones in a Serb cemetery in central Kosovo, police and a Serb government center said Tuesday.
Sixteen graveside monuments were damaged in the Serb village of Staro Gracko, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of the province's capital, Pristina, said police spokesman Veton Elshani.
Police were at the scene investigating. Elshani said it was not clear when the damage was done.
But a Serb government-run center in Kosovo, quoting local Serb representatives, said a group got into the cemetery early Tuesday and vandalized the monuments, leaving behind broken crosses, benches and pots for flowers and candles.
Kosovo has been run by a United Nations mission since 1999, when a NATO air war halted Serb forces' crackdown on independence-seeking ethnic Albanians.
U.N.-brokered talks will determine whether Kosovo will become an independent state, as the ethnic Albanians demand, or remain attached to Serbia, as the province's minority Serbs insist.
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Albanians,
You must not fall to their level because they will beat you with experience.. Can't you see that their goal is to produce conflict out of the blue. They blow incidents out of proporition or make them happen and this always happens a couple of days before Secuirty Council meetings.
Stay cool and contain your temper. The only way that Serbs can win now is if they prove that Serbs and Albanians can't live together so UN should split Kosova. Stay away from offending, no matter what they do. Remember, you don't wanna fall to their level.
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