كوسوفو: توتر وأحداث عنف بين المسلمين والنصارى الصرب

- خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أدى تجدد المصادمات بين المسلمين الألبان والنصارى الصرب في شمال "كوسوفو" إلى خوف تصاعد حالة التوتر بين الجانبين، على إثر سقوط قتلى وجرحى في مصادمات بمدينة "ميتروفيكا".

وقد أكدت شرطة كوسوفو التحقيق في الحادث رغمًا عن عدم معرفة الجناة، وخاصة في ظل الخوف من وقوع مزيد من التوتر بين الألبان والصرب على خلفية عدم اعتراف "صربيا" باستقلال "كوسوفو".

وزعم عمدة المدينة الصربي تجاهل المجتمع الدولي و"بلجراد" ممارسات الألبان تجاه الأقلية الصربية في "كوسوفو". المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

يرجى الإشارة إلى المصدر عند نقل الخبر - شبكة الألوكة.

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Kosovo: Shooting adds to ethnic tensions

One person has been killed and two wounded during a clash between ethic Serbs and Albanians in northern Kosovo. The incident can raise ethnic animosities that turned violent earlier this year.

A Serb died of gunshot wounds during fighting that broke out at around 8 pm Wednesday in the city of Mitrovica. Two Serbs were injured, one of them a policeman, are reported to be in serious condition.

Kosovo police spokesman Besim Hoti said police have opened an investigation into the shooting and they searched several homes in the area but still have no suspects. The incident is bound to increase existing tensions in the Serb populated north, where Serbs don’t recognize Kosovo independence declared by majority Albanians in 2008.

Northern Kosovo and the border area between Kosovo and Serbia have been tense since violence broke out in July, as authorities ethnic Serbs in Kosovo opposed the country's attempts to impose border controls.

Mitrovica mayor Krstimir Pantic, a Serb, described the attack as a “terrorist act” and accused the international community “of closing eyes” in front of Albanians’ attacks on minority Serbs.

He also criticized Belgrade, which opposes Kosovo independence, for failing to protect “its people in Kosovo”. Pantic said he warned NATO forces in Kosovo (KFOR) and European Union mission (EULEX) that the situation was dangerous and could get out of control.

“For what may happen in the coming days the international community, first of all KFOR and EULEX, are to blame, for tolerating all these years crimes of Albanians against Serbs,” Krstic said. Krstic proclaimed a day of mourning in Mitrovica on Thursday.

Kosovo government condemned the attack and called on population to remain calm. “The government calls on competent organs to take all measure to bring perpetrators of this act to justice and punish them,” the government said in a statement.