Serbs mark 2004 Kosovo pogrom

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Serbs in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tuesday marked the fifth anniversary of riots that left 19 dead and 900 injured. Kosovo Serb leaders laid flowers on the bridge over the Ibar river, which splits the northern town, in honor of the victims of the worst violence since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization entered the disputed territory after its 1998-99 war. "Even five years later, there is no progress regarding our lives and our existence in this territory," Ljubisa Petrovic, deputy mayor of the ethnically divided town's Serb-populated north, told AFP.

On March 17, 2004, Kosovo Albanians started three days of anti-Serb rioting that also targeted dozens of Orthodox churches and monasteries that were destroyed or damaged. "We still live with the possibility of a similar riots. The situation hasn't improved, not even a little bit. The only thing that we can do is to appeal to the authorities to take this situation seriously. I'm asking them to do everything in their power so that people in Kosovo can live a decent life."

The 2004 riots forced many Serbs living in southern parts of Kosovo to flee to northern areas close to Serbia's border, including their stronghold in the northern half of Mitrovica.

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[mthalproduction]

nice to see that when i think what the serbians did in the last 100 years in kosovo

TERROR TERROR TERROR

BUT NOW kosovo je katolički i muslimanski nema mjesto za ortodoksan

srbija je prljavi narod

[ChoiceJJ]

@mthalproduction - What they did was feeding the Shiptars; they must be pretty hungry by now (as the film shows) . Just kidding, of course.

[serbin16m]

Odlazimo da se nevratimo

[LCF88BG]

I posle ne treba sve muslimane pobiti mamu im jebem