Violence In Kosovo Blamed On Serbia By UN

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According to the UN in Pristina, Kosovo, the violence that had caused the worst unrest that left many injured and one dead had been orchestrated. Of the unrest that had erupted on Monday, March 19, there had been one casualty. The person dead is a UN police officer from Ukraine.

Larry Rossin, who is the deputy UN administrator for Kosovo blames Serbia for failing to stop ethnic Serbs living in Kosovo from resorting to violence. Technically, Kosovo’s government is still administered by both the UN and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). About 130 people were severely injured.

60 of those injured came from the combined UN-led K-For and NATO troops. 70 injured were from the side of the Serbian protesters in Kosovo. In all the violence taking place in Kosovo, Serbia has been blamed.

“We’ve never had what we could consider a clear and unambiguous denunciation of this kind of violence from ministers or indeed any other Belgrade government official that I can think of,” Rossin explains.

On Monday, the forces moved to retake a UN courthouse that was occupied by Serbian protesters.

Still, Serbia’s President Boris Tadic said that the country will never agree to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.

Since Kosovo’s independence, chaos had erupted. In Belgrade, Serbian protesters raided the United States embassy and torched it. There was a charred body that was unidentified. That issue was brought up in one of the recent Democratic debates.

The United States and several major members of the European Union had moved to recognized Kosovo’s independence. As a result, Serbia had recalled all envoys from nations that made the move. Japan is the latest country in Asia to recognize Kosovo’s independence. Canada is the latest nation let alone the latest nation in North America to do so.

So far, Serbia’s ambassador to Japan has been recalled.

NATO had to seal off the northern border of Kosovo.

There was rioting throughout Bosnia in protest of Kosovo’s independence.

Russia will not recognize Kosovo’s independence. It is a strong ally to Serbia. Russia’s government gave concerns that this will spark a new conflict in the Balkans. It adds that it will send a message to all separatist groups.

Greece, Spain, and China refuse to recognize Kosovo’s independence. These countries are dealing with similar issues. Greece is dealing with Turkish separatists. Spain is dealing with Basque separatists. China deals with Tibet and possibly Taiwan.

In the case of China, Tibet has become a very large issue.

The majority of those living in Kosovo are ethnic-Albanian. NATO and the UN administered its government since 1999.