Wait, Albaninans bad, not Serbs?!?
Let’s just then ignore this news.
>One day after new Albanian mayors took their oaths of office in Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo, violence erupted between local Serbs and the police as locals attempted to stop the new mayors from entering their municipal buildings.
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>The US embassy harshly criticised the Kosovo authorities for using force to get the disputed mayors into their municipal buildings.
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>“The United States condemns the ongoing action by Kosovan authorities to access municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo. Today’s violent measures should be immediately halted,” ambassador Jeff Hovenier tweeted.
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>Local Serbs dispute the legitimacy of recent elections that they boycotted en masse and in which only 3.47 per cent of people voted.
The article mentions that local Serbs boycotted the elections. Can anyone shed light on why, and what the tactic was supposed to obtain?
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Wait, Albaninans bad, not Serbs?!?
Let’s just then ignore this news.
>One day after new Albanian mayors took their oaths of office in Serb-majority municipalities in the north of Kosovo, violence erupted between local Serbs and the police as locals attempted to stop the new mayors from entering their municipal buildings.
>
>The US embassy harshly criticised the Kosovo authorities for using force to get the disputed mayors into their municipal buildings.
>
>“The United States condemns the ongoing action by Kosovan authorities to access municipal buildings in the north of Kosovo. Today’s violent measures should be immediately halted,” ambassador Jeff Hovenier tweeted.
>
>Local Serbs dispute the legitimacy of recent elections that they boycotted en masse and in which only 3.47 per cent of people voted.
The article mentions that local Serbs boycotted the elections. Can anyone shed light on why, and what the tactic was supposed to obtain?
Edit: found part of the answer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_North_Kosovo_crisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Kosovan_local_elections
https://www.slobodnaevropa.org/a/kosovo-srpske-opstine-izbori-kandidati-partije-bojkot/32135274.html
Am I correct to think that the triple-damn license plate dispute still hasn’t got an agreeable solution, and tensions are high because of that?
Wait, how are the mayors Albanian in majority Serbian municipalities? This doesn’t sound right.