Kosovo police unit members "abuse Serb farmers"

The members of the Kosovo police, KPS, unit Rosu today harassed two Serbs on the road from Vitina to Strpce, local media reported. According to Radio Klokot from Vitina, the incident occurred in the Doganovic village on Thursday morning, when the the unit members intercepted farmers Dusan Mirkovic and Zoran Svilanovic. Kosovo police unit members "abuse Serb farmers" They were on their way to the market in the Serb enclave in Strpce. Mirkovic said that Rosu members treated them brutally, hit them and made them take the old Serbian license plates off their vehicles. After the incident, the farmers returned to Vitina. A KPS spokesman said that the attack had been reported, but that the statement did not specify the ethnicity of the alleged attackers. The KPS is investigating the case, said the spokesman. Earlier today in Belgrade, Serbian government media office chief Milivoje Mihajlovic explained that Serbs in the isolated enclaves in the south would become target of ethnic Albanians in retaliation for the attack on the Jarinje administrative line checkpoint of Jarinje, which is located in the Serb-dominated north.

Kosovo police unit members "abuse Serb farmers"

They were on their way to the market in the Serb enclave in Štrpce.

Mirković said that Rosu members treated them brutally, hit them and made them take the old Serbian license plates off their vehicles.

After the incident, the farmers returned to Vitina.

A KPS spokesman said that the attack had been reported, but that the statement did not specify the ethnicity of the alleged attackers.

The KPS is investigating the case, said the spokesman.

Earlier today in Belgrade, Serbian government media office chief Milivoje Mihajlović explained that Serbs in the isolated enclaves in the south would become target of ethnic Albanians in retaliation for the attack on the Jarinje administrative line checkpoint of Jarinje, which is located in the Serb-dominated north.