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Demographics. North Kosovo consists of four municipalities, Leposavić, Zvečan, Zubin Potok and North Mitrovica. It covers 1,007 km 2 (389 sq. mi.), or 9.97% of Kosovo's land area. [35] Owing to its border with Serbia proper, North Kosovo is not, strictly speaking, a "Serb enclave " or "Serb exclave ".
Crime in Kosovo. Kosovo within communist Yugoslavia had the lowest rate of crime in the whole country. [1] Following the Kosovo War (1999), the region had become a significant center of organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking and organ theft. There is also an ongoing ethnic conflict between Kosovar Albanians and Kosovan Serbs.
In 1983, Louis D. Hastings carried out an attack in McCarthy, Alaska, killing 6 people and wounding 2 more. His aim was to sabotage the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System. Michael Silka is known for the murder of as many as nine individuals in the areas surrounding Fairbanks and Manley Hot Springs in 1984. James Dale Ritchie was responsible for the ...
The Kosovo Police is the national policing law enforcement agency of Kosovo.It was established in 1999 and took its current form with the 2008 police law. It consists of five departments and eight regional directorates and is represented at the political level by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Public Administration of the Republic of Kosovo.
War crimes in the Kosovo War. US Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on 1 July 1999. Numerous war crimes were committed by all sides during the Kosovo War, which lasted from 28 February 1998 until 11 June 1999.
Pristina is the capital city of Kosovo. North Kosovo is highlighted in red. Triggered by the Government of Kosovo 's decision to reciprocally ban Serbian license plates, a series of protests by Serbs in North Kosovo —consisting mostly of blocking traffic near border crossings— began on 20 September 2021. The ban meant that individuals who ...
Date. 25 July 2011 – 19 April 2013. Location. North Kosovo. Caused by. Republic of Kosovo 's imposition of sovereignty on the whole territory of Kosovo according to Constitution of Kosovo; acquiring administrative stations located in North Kosovo. Local Serbs ' prevention of the imposition of Republic of Kosovo-enacted decrees within North ...
Banjska attack. The Banjska attack ( Albanian: Sulmi në Banjskë; Serbian: Напад у Бањској, romanized : Napad u Banjskoj) was an armed attack carried out by Serb militants against the Kosovo Police which took place in the village of Banjska located in North Kosovo on 24 September 2023. Between 23 and 24 September 2023, Serb ...