Protester killed at pro-Serb rally in Kosovo

A grenade thrown at a pro-Serbian rally killed one protester and injured more than 10 others in Kosovo’s tense northern city of Mitrovica on the 2 July 2010.

Serbian leaders described the attack as 'terrorism' and a 'provocation' that confirmed their earlier warnings against independence for the territory, whose ethnic Albanian leaders declared independence in February 2008.

Subsequently, on the 6 July 2010, a Serb member of Kosovo’s parliament was shot and wounded in Mitovica. Petar Miletic, chief of the parliamentary group for the Independent Liberal party, was known for being co-operative with the ethnic Albanian-dominated institutions based in Pristina.

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Deutsche Welle, 2.7.10: Explosion kills one in flashpoint Kosovar city Mitrovica http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5756718,00.html

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European Union: Press Release, No.A 122/10: Statement by the Spokesperson of High Representative Catherine Ashton on the incident in Kosovo http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/115647.pdf

EurActiv, 6.7.10: Van Rompuy's Balkan visit focuses on Kosovo http://www.euractiv.com/en/enlargement/van-rompuy-s-balkan-visit-focuses-on-kosovo-news-496042

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