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Old April 17th, 2008 #42
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Kosovo Albanian "police" target Serbs for arrest

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April 16, 2008 9:30 AM

PRISTINA, Kosovo-Twenty-one Serbs are suspected of involvement in riots targeting local and international authorities that occurred after Kosovo declared independence on Feb. 17, police said Wednesday.

Police also said some of the suspects are senior Kosovo Serb leaders.

Evidence has been given to an international prosecutor who could file charges, including terrorism and violation of Kosovo's constitutional order, said Veton Elshani, the spokesman for Kosovo's police.

He said none of the suspects will be identified unless official charges are filed against them, and that the ongoing investigation could turn up more suspects.

Since Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, many countries, including the U.S. and most EU states, have recognized the new nation, where 90 percent of the 2 million people are ethnic Albanians. But Serbia, which considers Kosovo the historic cradle of its nation, has rejected the move as illegal under international law.

Angered by the declaration, more than 1,000 Kosovo Serbs marched to the Jarinje checkpoint about 18 miles (29 kilometers) north of the ethnically tense town of Mitrovica, vandalizing and setting fire to passport control booths. Groups of Serbs also destroyed a border checkpoint in the nearby village of Brnja.

NATO peacekeepers are now in charge of guarding the outposts, but police and customs officials have not returned to them.

Kosovo's north, where most of the Serb minority lives, remains a tense area, and on March 17 clashes between Serbs and international forces left one Ukrainian policeman dead and more than 60 U.N. and NATO forces and 70 Kosovo Serb protesters injured.

Since then the U.N. mission in Kosovo has struggled to return its staff to Kosovo's north. About 40 U.N. police officers resumed their duties alongside 80 members of the local police force in Mitrovica after NATO peacekeepers took control of the town.

But European Union officials are yet to deploy in Kosovo's north. Serb leaders in Kosovo have said they plan to obstruct the work of the EU-led mission.

The EU plans to deploy a police and justice mission in Kosovo and will oversee the work of Kosovo authorities under an international deal that paved the way for Kosovo to declare independence.
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