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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.
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 ...
31 July 2022 – 1 January 2024. Location. North Kosovo and Merdare border crossing; spillover into Serbia. Status. Kosovo Serbs withdraw from Kosovo government institutions. Kosovo Serbs barricade roads from 10–30 December 2022. Serbian boycott of local elections; ethnic Albanian mayors elected in all four North Kosovo municipalities in ...
Kosovo police on Friday raided several locations in a Serb-dominated area of the country's north, where weekend violence left four people dead and further strained relations between Serbia and its ...
According to the Kosovo government's Commission on Missing Persons, 560 non-Albanians are still missing from the war, including 360 Serbs. They are believed to have been kidnapped by KLA in Kosovo beginning in 1998 with the majority disappearing between June 1999 and December 2000 following the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from the region.
Ruins of a Kosovo Serb house in Prizren that was destroyed by rioters. On 17 and 18 March 2004, a wave of violent riots swept through Kosovo, triggered by two incidents perceived as ethnically motivated acts. Demonstrations, although seemingly spontaneous at the outset, quickly focused on Serbs throughout Kosovo.
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 ".
On Monday, Kosovo police closed the branches of the Postal Saving Bank in line with the decision to ban the use of the Serbian dinar currency in the country. Starting on Feb. 1, the government ...