Kosovo riots
May 11, 2009Advertisement
Officials in eastern Kosovo say around 300 Serbs protesting electricity cuts hurled stones at police over the weekend, injuring 10 officers. Protestors "threw rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails," according to a police statement.
Some Serb-dominated villages have been without power for several days after they refused to pay Kosovo's ethnic Albanian-run power company. The villages say they want Serbia to provide their electricity instead.
News agencies reported that "more than a dozen" people were injured, among them 10 police officers. Police arrested several of the protestors.
Kosovo's residents did not pay electricity charges while the territory was under UN administration before it declared independence from Serbia last year.