Road blockade ends in northern Kosovska Mitrovica
Traffic is back to normal in northern Kosovska Mitrovica's Brdjani neighborhood after ethnic Albanians ended a one-hour blockade of a local road on Wednesday.
Wednesday, 02.07.2014.
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Road blockade ends in northern Kosovska Mitrovica
In the morning, a small group of ethnic Albanians used a truck and cars to block the road - which leads to residential buildings and houses inhabited by Serbs - requesting that they be allowed to renovate homes damaged during the 1999 armed conflicts in Kosovo.Emir Azemi, deputy president of the North Mitrovica assembly, explained in a statement to Tanjug that the ethnic Albanians started construction works early Wednesday, only to be confronted by people who identified themselves as construction inspectors and demanded that the works be halted.
Members of the Kosovo police were on the scene, while KFOR and EULEX units arrived later on, and the blockade ended without incidents.
Over the past years, Brđani has been the scene of disturbances and Serb protests against the Kosovo authorities' plans to build 172 houses for ethnic Albanians.
Serbs in northern Kosovska Mitrovica oppose the idea, and argue that the plan implies construction, rather than reconstruction, of houses for ethnic Albanians who never previously resided in Brđani.
They say that the goal of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian authorities is to alter the ethnic composition of the population and ethnically cleanse the Serbs from that part of North Kosovska Mitrovica.
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