Serbs resume protests in northern Kosovo

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Kosovo - Up to 2,000 Serb protesters chanting "Kosovo is Serbia!" marched Saturday through the ethnically divided town of Kosovska Mitrovica in a sixth day of demonstrations against Kosovo's independence.

U.N. police in riot gear formed a cordon across the main bridge separating the tense northern Kosovo town's Serb and ethnic Albanian sides as some of the protesters hurled firecrackers. The protesters waved Serbian and Russian flags and chanted "Russia, Vladimir Putin" in support of Russia's refusal to recognize Kosovo's independence.

A NATO helicopter hovered above the bridge to monitor the protest.

Kosovo's minority Serbs have staged protests daily since the territory's ethnic Albanian leadership proclaimed independence from Serbia last Sunday. On Thursday they set fire to the U.S. embassy in the Serbian capital Belgrade.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080223/ap_on_re_eu/serbia_kosovo

[ohio2007]

1. 21.02 - Serbia: journalists attacked during protests outside US embassy

Several TV crews and photographers were physically attacked during demonstrations outside the US embassy in Belgrade on 17 February in reaction to Kosovo’s proclamation of its independence.

Protesters attacked photographer Milutin Labudovich of the newspaper Veccernje Novosti, breaking his nose and inflicting multiple contusions to the head and body. Foney news agency cameraman Ognjen Stevanovic was beaten with metal containers and was hit on the head by thrown stones.

A TV Studio B crew was attacked and threatened in front of the embassy, while TV B92 said its crew was targeted several times as it moved about the city but did not sustain any injuries or damage to equipment. A crew from the public broadcaster RTS, consisting of reporter Vesna Damjanic, cameraman Vojislav Djurovic and soundman Darko Glisic, were threatened as they were about to do a live report.

Reporters Without Borders calls on the Serb authorities to investigate these incidents in order to identify and punish those responsible.



http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=25843

The "protesters" really didn't want to be identified.
How will the MSM street coverage go this time?



MAybe they will adopt some AQ cloaking devices ?
LOL

how easy it would be to put the label of terrirrist to any activity these days