Kosovo Online: Police in self-proclaimed Kosovo beat up two Serb teenagers
Police in the self-proclaimed republic of Kosovo have beaten up two Serb teenagers in the north of the province, reports Kosovo Online.
They are a brother and sister, born in 2005 and 2007. On Saturday evening, they were riding an ATV in the village of Rudina, in the municipality of Zvecan, but were stopped and then thrown to the ground by security forces.
“The young man received multiple blows to the head and a kick to the side. His sister was roughly thrown off the ATV and dragged along the ground, she suffered a bruised left shoulder. Both are in a state of psychological shock,” Boban Mitrovic, a pediatric surgeon at the Kosovska Mitrovica Hospital Center in northern Mitrovica, told the portal.
Earlier, thousands of Kosovska Mitrovica residents had marched peacefully demanding the release of three Serbs, who had been detained during the May 29 clashes and later accused of organizing the disturbances. Subsequently, it became known about the detention of another Serb suspected of attacking journalists. Belgrade, for its part, arrested three Kosovo Albanian special forces this week.
Another round of tensions in Kosmet began in late May, after an attempt of the Kosovo Albanian authorities to introduce new mayors in several municipalities in the north of the province. The protests are still going on.
Kosovo Prime Minister Kurti demanded that the West pressured Belgrade to release the rioters. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, for his part, called on the ambassadors of the United States, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and the head of the EU permanent delegation to stop the Kosovo Albanian authorities and to prevent a new war in the Balkans.
As a result, the EU said it could limit funding for Kosovo and stop high-level visits because of Pristina’s refusal to assist in de-escalation, and the U.S. special representative to the Balkans threatened consequences for both Pristina and Belgrade.
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