While the Albin Kurti Comedy Tour continues with it’s eighth postponement (or is the ninth? I’m quickly losing track!) and complaints that the Kosovo judiciary is weak, EULEX now is scrambling to maintain it’s reputation and integrity after 16 Romanian police officers and their bus driver were caught smuggling alcohol and tobacco out of Kosovo. Macedonian Customs officials found 314 cartons of cigarettes and 133 liters of alcohol hidden in the officer’s bags and the trunk of their bus. EULEX has launched an internal investigation into the officers who were fined by the Macedonian authorities and released.
A group of Serb returnees the Zac village near Istog have been facing protests by Albanian villagers and reportedly were stoned upon their return to the village. The Albanian villagers have alleged that the returned families participated in the 1999 war. Fearful for their safety, the Serb families reportedly are considering returning back to Central Serbia which does not bode well for Kosovo’s establishment of tolerance and a multi-ethnic society or the soon-to-be forced repatriations from Western European countries of asylum seekers from the 1999 war.
MTCowgirl’s Kosovo News
A group of Serb returnees the Zac village near Istog have been facing protests by Albanian villagers and reportedly were stoned upon their return to the village. The Albanian villagers have alleged that the returned families participated in the 1999 war. Fearful for their safety, the Serb families reportedly are considering returning back to Central Serbia which does not bode well for Kosovo’s establishment of tolerance and a multi-ethnic society or the soon-to-be forced repatriations from Western European countries of asylum seekers from the 1999 war.
MTCowgirl’s Kosovo News
- SRSG says relations between UNMIK and Pristina have improved
- UN Secretary General calls for global support for UNMIK
- Kosovo & Albania to link via railway
- Report: Kosovo minorities have limited access to justice system
- Corruption is Kosovo’s biggest problem
- Global Economic Crisis: Kosovars face trouble returning to work in Western Europe
- Kosovo police smash human trafficking ring
