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	Kosovska Mitrovica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mitrovica or Mitrovicë (Albanian) or Kosovska Mitrovica/Косовска Митровица (Serbian) is a city located in the north of Kosovo, Serbia at 42.89° North, 20.87° East.
		Kosovo Albanians lived throughout the city, but most Serbs lived in the north side, divided from the predominantly Albanian south side by the Ibar River.
		Mitrovica became the focus for ethnic clashes between the two communities, exacerbated by the presence of nationalist extremists on both sides.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kosovska_Mitrovica (750 words)

	YUGOSLAVIA/KOSOVO: Was Mitrovica Church Fire Arson?
		It is situated in the part of Mitrovica now dominated by ethnic Albanians (Serbs live in the northern part of what they call Kosovska Mitrovica, divided by the river).
		In remarks reported by the Belgrade-based radio and TV station B92 and the news agency Beta, the UNMIK spokesman for Mitrovica region, Gyorgy Kakuk, stated on 17 February that the "fire was probably accidental, caused either by lit candles or by an old electrical installation".
		Among Kosovo's remaining Serbs, the fire in the "Prenos mostiju Svetog Save" Church is seen as another terrorist attack on their sanctuaries.
	www.starlightsite.co.uk /keston/kns/2002/020220YU.htm (728 words)

	USAID/Kosovo law practicants
		For ethnic Albanian Kosovars graduating from law school in the '90s in Kosovo, it was virtually impossible to complete the last step necessary to becoming a lawyer - the practical internship with a lawyer or "praktikant" prior to taking the bar exam.
		It was 2000, when he returned to his home in Mitrovica, northern Kosovo, that his dream of becoming a lawyer started to come true.
		Kosovo had only 252 lawyers at the start of the program, and their average age was 55, explains Osmani.
	www.usaid.gov /missions/kosovo/Success_stories/Law_practicants.htm (544 words)

	KOSOVO: Atrocities
		Kosovo Albanian website Radio 21 reports most of Srbica burned to the ground, male residents taken hostage in the ammunition factory and 15,000 people displaced from the central Drenica region.
		Swiss-based Kosovo Albanian daily newspaper 'Koha Ditore' reported claims by a driver from Vojvodina that since the beginning of February and on a regular basis he had personally transported the bodies of Kosovo civilians and VJ soldiers in a military refrigerated van to a foundry at an undisclosed location in Serbia.
		Kosovo Albanian website Radio 21 reported that on 9 June Serb police had gathered a large number of Kosovo Albanians in the village of Zhabar in the Mitrovica region (north Kosovo) and killed 7 men.
	www.kosovo.mod.uk /atrocities.htm (9837 words)

	CNN.com - Mitrovica: 'Kosovo in microcosm' - August 14, 2000
		Three years ago Mitrovica had an ethnically diverse population of Albanians (78.9 percent), Slavs (10.2 percent), and Turks, Muslim Slavs and Roma gypsies (10.9 percent), all living together in a single mixed community.
		The town became divided along strictly racial lines, with the Iber acting as a buffer between the Serbs and Roma in the northern half of the town and the Albanians in the south.
		Accurate statistics are hard to come by -- the last reliable census was in 1981 -- but figures from 1998 based on electrical records appear to show a well-mixed community, with 53 percent of the households in the northern half of the town registered as Albanian, and 47 percent as Serb.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/europe/08/14/kosovo.metrovica/index.html (992 words)

	In The News - Global
		Mitrovica, in Kosovo's French-controlled sector, became a byword for tension between ethnic Albanians and Serbs across the southern Yugoslav province after local Serbs established themselves in one part of the town last month and set up a checkpoint for anyone wishing to enter it.
		Despite the tensions in Kosovska Mitrovica, a NATO spokesman insisted that the ethnic violence which has plagued the peacekeeping mission in Kosovo since it began three weeks ago is on the wane.
		Kosovska Mitrovica has come to symbolize Kosovo's ethnic divide: The city is effectively partitioned between ethnic Albanians on one side of the Ilbar River, Serbs on the other, and a disputed bridge between them.
	members.aol.com /themilenia/News452.index.html (2624 words)

	Kosovo
		And in the last week, the city of Mitrovica in Kosovo has been the scene of the very violence and chaos that NATO has always sought to avoid.
		We predicted a crisis in Kosovo on January 4, 1999 precisely because of Russo-American tensions.
		The presence of Russian troops in Kosovo either under a joint UN command or as an independent force was the essential element of the G-8.
	www.tpwmi.com /kosovo.html (7830 words)

	Security Council Visits Kosovo
		Another strong message the Council had repeated throughout its visit was the importance of the participation of the Kosovo Serbs in the November 17 elections and in the interim institutions to be created.
		The Council members and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo, Hans Haekkerup, had full and frank discussions with President Putin on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1244, which established the United Nations presence in Kosovo in June 1999, on the upcoming elections and on security concerns.
		Earlier Sunday, the Council mission travelled to the divided city of Mitrovica by Kosovo Force (KFOR) helicopters and met with representatives of the Kosovo Albanian and Serb communities in back-to-back meetings.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/sc7076.html (588 words)

	RTE News - Agreement reportedly reached in Kosovo village of Mitrovica
		An agreement is reported to have been reached in the divided Kosovan town of Mitrovica, which would allow some of its ethnic Albanian inhabitants to return to their homes.
		The man the ethnic Albanian population refers to as the Mayor of Mitrovica said that a deal had been struck to enable ethnic Albanians to begin returning to their homes in the northern, Serb-controlled, sector of the divided Kosovo town.
		Bajram Rexhepi, who is regarded by Albanians as the mayor of Mitrovica, met groups of men gathering at the southern end and urged them to disperse.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0816/mitrovica.html (333 words)

	Torn Mitrovica Reflects West's Trials in Kosovo
		For Bernard Kouchner, the chief United Nations official here, Mitrovica's troubles are a chance to prove to Western governments that the "status quo" they have been supporting in Kosovo will not hold, he said, and that there needs to be a new dose of commitment: of money, soldiers and especially police officers.
		Senior United Nations officials and NATO officers say that General Reinhardt, understanding the dangers of the effective partitioning of Kosovo that the Mitrovica border represents, pushed in November for a policy that would bring troops of different nationalities to Mitrovica as part of a tougher stance.
		The concentration on Mitrovica now is pulling troops and the police, already overstretched, from areas of Kosovo where the crime rates are considerably higher -- western Kosovo in particular, but also the intermittently tense American sector in eastern Kosovo.
	www.glypx.com /BalkanWitness/nyt0225.htm (1543 words)

	AlterNet: Preserving Kosovo's Separate Peace
		Mitrovica is Kosovo's most bitterly divided city, the front line in a standoff between the Serb-dominated northern tip of the province and its Albanian-majority main portion.
		Kosovo is "Old Serbia," the birthplace of the Serbian nation and -- crucially -- historic seat of the 800-year-old Serbian Orthodox Church.
		Kosovo Albanians make it clear they have not forgotten their heroes or their suffering at the hands of Serb military forces during the 1998-99 guerrilla war.
	www.alternet.org /story/27085 (2860 words)

	Complete UN Kosovo Coverage
		Speaking during one of his series of town hall meetings, Dr. Bernard Kouchner said in Obilic, north-west of Pristina, that building a democratic Kosovo without fear and discrimination must be their main objective, in order to show the world that they are ready for self-governance.
		Talking to a crowd of more than 1,000 people in Skenderaj, in north central Kosovo, at his fifth town hall meeting, Dr. Bernard Kouchner stressed that free and fair elections as a result of political dialogue were the most important test for the future of a peaceful Kosovo without violence.
		While the two countries were not the focus of fighting during the conflict, UNEP said their environment was stressed by the hundreds of thousands of fleeing Kosovo civilians who crowded into refugee camps on their territory.
	www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/99/sep00_2.htm (1672 words)

	Guardian \| Bridge-building in city of hate
		The bridges of the former federal republic's divided cities - at Mitrovica in Kosovo and Mostar in Bosnia - stand as monumental reminders to the fault lines of the wars waged by the Yugoslav president, Slobodan Milosevic.
		Bosnia, and Mostar in particular, are the unhelpful template for Kosovo and the wider Balkans.
		The former commandant-general of the Royal Marines was the European Union's civilian administrator in Mostar; a city divided between the Croats settled on the west bank of the Neretva river, and their Muslim neighbours on the east bank, who were besieged by them during the Bosnian war.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3888500-103558,00.html (1076 words)

	Planet Ark
		MITROVICA, Yugoslavia - Kosovo Serbs hurled rocks and sticks at NATO troops yesterday after French, British and Danish peacekeepers had moved in at dawn to shut down a lead smelter pumping toxic fumes into the air.
		Local Serbs worried about their jobs and opposing the NATO presence in Kosovo clashed with the French after the plant seizure and parts of a crowd of 400 threw missiles at some 40 British soldiers, four of whom were slightly injured.
		At least one Serb man was injured before the British, deeply unpopular among the Serbs for their part in last year's bombing campaign, were replaced by French soldiers to ease the tension.
	www.planetark.com /avantgo/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=7802 (714 words)

	TIME Europe \| Kosovo: A Bridge Too Far in Kosovo \| 3/6/2000
		It was here that a few weeks ago Serb militants went door to door attacking Kosovo Albanians and driving more than 1,000 from their homes to the southern part of the city.
		"Mitrovica," says Washington's U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke, "is the most dangerous place in Europe today." The city is home to Kosovo's biggest remaining concentration of Serbs, all but a handful of whom live north of the river.
		The 2,500-strong French peacekeeping contingent that has been responsible for Mitrovica since the NATO deployment has come under heavy criticism over the past month from U.N. police and Kosovo Albanians for apparent acquiescence in the ethnic division of the city--and an allegedly pro-Serb bias.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/2000/36/mitrovica.html (982 words)

	Serbs Protest Mitrovica Plan - CBS News
		Protesters said extending the so-called "confidence zone," in which people of all ethnic groups should be able to move freely, to the Serb section of town would give ethnic Albanians a green light to force them from their homes.
		Mitrovica has been Kosovo's most volatile ethnic flashpoint, and the U.N. and NATO's effort to create peaceable coexistence between Serbs and ethnic Albanians there is seen as a test of whether a multi-ethnic Kosovo is possible.
		The Albanians complain the bridgewatchers are preventing members of Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority from returning to their homes in northern Mitrovica that they fled in fear of Serb terror during NATO's 1999 bombing campaign.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/02/09/world/main270811.shtml (651 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| UN pulls out of Kosovo flashpoint
		UN staff have been pulled out of the northern part of the flashpoint town of Mitrovica in Kosovo where two days of inter-ethnic clashes have left 31 dead.
		But his message was aimed primarily at the Kosovo Albanian leaders, who - as the largest ethnic group - had a responsibility "to protect and promote the rights of all people within Kosovo, particularly its minorities".
		Trouble first erupted in the divided city of Mitrovica after the drowning deaths of two Albanian children, blamed on members of the province's small ethnic Serbian community.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3525396.stm (709 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The protesters demanded the non-division of Mitrovica and Kosovo, and greater efforts by UNMIK Police and KFOR to secure peace and freedom for all Mitrovica citizens.
		The UN Civil Administrator in Kosovo, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, signed yesterday a law that forbids the spreading of the religious and racist hatred, which includes the fining and jailing of any person that spreads hatred, division or intolerance among the communities in Kosovo.
		The security situation in Mitrovica and Kosovo in general and the prisoners issue were discussed at yesterday’s KTC meeting.
	www.unmikonline.org /press/mon/lrm100200.html (510 words)

	BBC News \| Inside Kosovo \| Clickable Map
		Nato believes that one of the largest single expulsions of ethnic Albanians took place when the Yugoslav army turned its attention in the middle of April to Mitrovica.
		Refugees who fled Mitrovica have also provided testimony which supports allegations of atrocities in southern Kosovo.
		But even more chilling are the so-far unconfirmed reports that Serb units spent the days leading up to the start of their military withdrawal disposing of bodies in mines at Trepca, north of the city.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/inside_kosovo/mitrovica.stm (178 words)

	Mitrovica: The Serbian Side of the Story
		The Western Press focused yesterday on images of Serbian residents of northern Mitrovica (in Kosovo) pelting American soldiers with rocks and snowballs.
		Kosovska Mitrovica (TANJUG) - Early this morning, KFOR soldiers from the ranks of American and German units barged into the Tech College and the Technical High School in the downtown of northern Mitrovica, in the most arrogant and savage manner.
		Kosovska Mitrovica (TANJUG) - J. Jovanovic, member of the Government and Judiciary Subcommittee on the Yugoslav committee for cooperation with UNMIK told reporters that he was present during the attack on the Technical College in Mitrovica.
	emperors-clothes.com /news/mitrovic.htm (1636 words)

	'Several hundred' block bridge in divided Kosovo town of Mitrovica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Kosovska Mitrovica, 13 June: The opening of the bridge [across the River Ibar] in [the divided town of] Kosovska Mitrovica was prevented today owing to a protest gathering of Serbs and Albanians at the northern and southern access to the bridge.
		Two vehicles with Kosovo "KS" plates crossed from the north [populated by the Serbs] to the Albanian-populated southern part of town, after which several hundred people blocked the bridge.
		According to the UN civilian mission [UNMIK], the opening of the bridge for civilian traffic was envisaged for today until 19 June at two daily intervals - from 0900 to 1000, and from 1700 to 1800.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/printer_1011816.php (211 words)

	Kosovo photo feature
		Mitrovica is a run down industrial town in northern Kosovo.
		Years of conflict has divided the town in parts inhabited by Kosovo Albanians, Serbs and a small group of Roma (gypsies) now displaced to camps.
		ACT International has been working in Kosovo and in other parts of FRY and the Balkans since the beginning of the Kosovo conflict.
	www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2000/dtko_pho0100.html (250 words)

	RTE News - NATO Government Ministers visit Kosovo
		The British Foreign Secretary has told ethnic Albanians in Kosovo that NATO will pursue those responsible for the murders of their friends and relatives.
		Robin Cook, along with other NATO Government ministers, is in Kosovo on the first visit by senior western politicians since the military organisation halted its bombing of Yugoslavia.
		According to a Government spokesman, consideration is being given to the question of participation by an Irish contingent in KFOR under the terms of a United Nations resolution.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/0623/kosovo.html (465 words)

	Complete UN Kosovo Coverage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		15 SEPTEMBER -- The most important event facing the people of Kosovo in the near future was the local elections planned by the United Nations on 28 October, the UN envoy in Kosovo said yesterday.
		UN personnel in Kosovo battles deadly acid leak at Trepca complex
		Kosovo Transitional Council joins UN envoy in condemning murder of Rexhep Luci
	www.un.org /peace/kosovo/news/99/sep00_2a.htm (372 words)

	Serb MPs ready with counter-attack in Kosovo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		KOSOVSKA MITROVICA -- MPs of the Kosovo Serb coalition Return today labeled the recent declaration by Kosovo Albanian MPs on Kosovo’s independence as the gravest violation of temporary self-rule institutions to date.
		At a meeting in Kosovska Mitrovica the Kosovo Serb MPs underlined that the mere initiation of such a procedure in demand an immediate response from UNMIK and legitimate Serb representatives.
		The Kosovo Parliament sitting is due tomorrow, but the declaration of independence, proposed by Ramus Haradinai’s Alliance for the Future of Kosovo has not been place on the agenda.
	www.balkanpeace.org /hed/archive/feb03/hed5470.shtml (410 words)

	International Crisis Group - Bridging Kosovo's Mitrovica Divide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In short, if facts on the ground in Mitrovica and even new violence are not to destroy the prospect of a stable final status settlement for Kosovo, the international community needs to work harder and creatively to change Serb strategic thinking and get Albanians to recognise the need to participate in a constructive offer.
		Design the new Serb-majority municipality in north Mitrovica, the central inter-municipal district and the city coordinating board; establish automatic funding for administration and projects of the common board in the budgets of the north and south Mitrovica municipalities; and decide whether initially to appoint councillors or go straight to a municipal election in the north.
		Seek Serb partners in Mitrovica and north Kosovo with whom to agree on security management of the north, and consider such mechanisms and techniques as joint oversight bodies, regular rotation schedules, and sub-contracting some responsibilities to international personnel so that Kosovo's sovereignty can be exercised consistent with its Serbs' concerns about Albanian domination.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=3650&l=1 (1643 words)

	International Crisis Group - UNMIK’s Kosovo Albatross : Tac
		Apply the benchmarks for the rest of Kosovo equally in Mitrovica and seek to ensure that the rule of law, security for minority communities, and transparent and effective public institutions extend to north Mitrovica.
		Introduce the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) into north Mitrovica, rejecting Serb demands for a separate uniform but allowing some training in the North provided that any classes there are multiethnic and that most training remains at the Police School.
		Support UNMIK by overseeing dissolution of parallel structures, monitoring the boundary between Serbia and Kosovo, and ensuring security for UNMIK activities in the north of Kosovo and Mitrovica.
	www.crisisgroup.org /home/index.cfm?id=1603&l=1 (710 words)

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