Gracanica municipality requests KFOR protection for Serb population

GRACANICA - The Gracanica municipality in central Kosovo-Metohija requested that international security forces in the province - above all, KFOR - protect its Serb population after dozens of ethnic Albanians in cars with symbols of the so-called "Kosovo Liberation Army" and Albania blocked the streets of Gracanica on Thursday night, hurled insults at residents and attempted to take off the Serbian flag from a monument.

In a statement, the municipal authorities said residents feared for the safety of their families and that such orchestrated attacks on Serbian municipalities and their population were not sporadic incidents or isolated cases, but organised and well thought-out actions aimed at provoking violence and striking fear among Serbs in Gracanica.

Several cars carrying Serb families with underage children were trapped in the column of vehicles with "KLA" and...