Thread: Kosovo Launches Border Offensive Against Serbia - Video

Video: Kosovo Launches Border Offensive Against Serbia



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Jul 28, 2011

The EU and the U.S. have led international condemnation of Kosovo's decision to send special forces to seize crossings on its shared border with Serbia.

NATO-led peacekeepers have been deployed to help control the situation which is stoking ethnic tensions. Hundreds of people blocked main roads in response to Kosovar police seizing two disputed border crossings. One police officer was killed in overnight clashes.

Kosovo says it's trying to enforce a ban on Serbian imports in response to a similar boycott of Kosovar goods. Around 60-thousand Serbs live in the north and don't recognise Kosovo's independence which it unilaterally declared in 2008.

Kosovo's move has been widely condemned by the UN and the EU, among others, and it is feared it will stoke ethnic anger.

On Tuesday Maja Kocijancic, an EU representative, criticized the Kosovo authorities for not consulting international mediators before launching the offensive. She expressed the hope that peace and order in the region will soon be reinstated.

Balkans political expert Marko Gasic told RT that the real puppet-masters are further afield, and Pristina's Albanian leaders could not have done anything without authorization from the US.

"We know that the US has got a massive investment in Kosovo. It's got the biggest military base in the world in Camp Bondsteel smack-bang in the heart of Kosovo," he said. "And so everything that the Pristina cabal gets up to is authorized by Washington in the first place. So we know who can stop it. And it is time that the US administration stopped its extremist puppets in Pristina from even further expanding into Serbian union recognized territorial area."

Originally aired on RT, July 26, 2011

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