Dozens of NATO peacekeepers were injured after they were attacked by ethnic Serbs in northern Kosovo during protests over the installation of ethnically Albanian mayors
Violence broke out after Serbian demonstrators tried to block the newly elected mayors from taking office in the northern town of Zvecan on Monday, following a disputed election in April. While this sort of violence against peacekeepers is rare, tensions have spiked in the region in recent months, fueled by deep historical rifts. Here’s what you need to know.
peacekeepers. Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said there had been a “threatening campaign orchestrated by Belgrade and executed through intimidation, pressure and blackmail by criminal groups.” After polls closed, election officials said only around 1,567 had voted across the four municipalities – a turnout of 3.5%, according to local media. The diminished turnout was a mark of the boycott’s success in these majority Serb regions. The Zvecan municipality has a population of around 16,800.
said 30 of its peacekeepers – mostly from its Italian and Hungarian contingents – were wounded. The soldiers suffered from “fractures and burns from improvised explosive incendiary devices,” while three soldiers were “wounded by the use of firearms,” according to
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