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Injuries As NATO Troops Clash With Serbian Crowd In Kosovo

An ethnic Serb gestures at NATO troops following clashes in northern Kosovo.

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By RFE/RL

June 01, 2012

NATO-led troops have clashed with ethnic Serb protesters who were trying to prevent NATO from removing a roadblock in Kosovo's Serb-dominated north.

The NATO-led force said two of its soldiers were wounded while Serbs have claimed that at least four protesters were injured.

Witnesses said NATO soldiers fired tear gas and rubber bullets at stone-throwing Serbs at a roadblock near the town of Zvecan.

The NATO-led Kosovo peacekeeping force has vowed that it will not permit the violence to escalate.

Many Kosovar Serbs and the government of Serbia reject the 2008 declaration of Kosovo's independence from Serbia by the Kosovar government.

Kosovar Serbs put up roadblocks on major roads last year to try to prevent the Kosovar government from extending its control over Serb-populated areas.

Many of those roadblocks have since been removed.

With reporting by AP

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by: Jean from: Belgium

June 01, 2012 12:54

Americans killing Serbs again, that do not want to live under foreign oppression, in the name of was it, liberty or freedom?

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by: b from: bratislava

June 01, 2012 17:44

Sorry Jean, we can't give you passing marks for reading comprehension. No one died.

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by: Nemanja from: Mitrovica

June 01, 2012 18:15

So they had to kill some of our unarmed folk, that is fighting against occupation and foreign oppression using stones and barricades, so that you will be at peace? I doubt you are from Bratislava, no sane Slovak would write such a crap.

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by: Regular Joe from: USA

June 01, 2012 19:41

There are very few American troops left in Kosovo and most of those are intel and support. The NATO soldiers in the photo are Germans.

And the story doesn't say anything about anyone being killed. It says "...Serbs have claimed that at least four protesters were injured." I have some sympathy for the Serbs in Kosovo, but soldiers firing rubber bullets and tear-gas at a stone-throwing mob is hardly killing "some of our unarmed folk," as Nemanja called it.

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by: Matt-NY from: Upstate NY

June 06, 2012 04:31

Oh You are full of it. What if Hungarians and Croats doesn't wanna live in Vojvodina under "foreign oppression"??? Or Muslims in Sandzak area. Or Albanians in Preseva,Bujanovac, and Medvedja???Americans (God bless them) should "neutralise" everyone in that area hidden (and shooting) in bushes with snipers.
P.S. 2 Nato soldiers were wounded with sniper shots.

by: Eugenio from: Vienna

June 02, 2012 10:09

Aha, just as I was saying a couple of days ago, the NATO-imposed system of US-German domination is crumbling just as intensively as the EU financial sector: the expulsion of the pro-NATO regime of Tadic and the election of Nicolic to the Serbian presidency is already encouraging the Serbs living on the NATO-occupied territories to intesify their resistance against the enemy.
The next steps of this implosion of the NATO-imposed system in the Balkans will be the following:
(a) the formation of an anti-NATO/German govt in Serbia (most probably composed by the party of Nicolic, the Socialists and that of Kostunica);
(b) the election of an anti-IMF/German-Diktat parliament in Greece on June 17th and the formation of an anti-IMF/German-Diktat govt in the country;
(c) closer cooperation between the new Serbian and Greek govts under the auspices of external anti-NATO/IMF powers.