Prishtina Launches Violent Assault On Serbs In Northern Kosovo

Benefitting from pro and anti-government rallies in Belgrade, Albin Kurti, prime minister of the autonomous province of Kosovo used his paramilitary police forces to forcibly install Albanian mayors in the four Serb-majority cities in northern Kosovo – Zvecan, Zubin Potok, Leposavic and North Mitrovica. The mayors were chosen in sham elections boycotted by Serbs living in the region due to human rights abuses by Kurti’s government, as well as its failure to live up to previous agreements. Voter turnout was a mere 3.47%, with 1,566 Albanians and only 13 out of 45,095 eligible Serbs taking part.