9 journalists attacked in northern Kosovo
PRISTINA (AA): Nine Kosovar journalists were attacked Friday in Leposavic in northern Kosovo by masked assailants.
The slain journalists had been following the actions of Serbs around Town Hall.
The Kosovo Journalists Association (AGK) shared footage of media workers being stoned and physically attacked by masked assailants.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti shared footage of a journalist being attacked and tweeted: “Another journalist was brutally attacked while covering the developments in the north today by masked men.”
“The physical attacks on those reporting from the ground are absolutely unacceptable and must be condemned by all parties who are otherwise vocal on the situation,” he wrote.
The ethnic Serb minority of Kosovo continues to protest against the nomination of ethnic Albanian Muslim Kosovars as mayors in front of four town halls in northern Kosovo.
Tensions rose in Kosovo following the election of ethnic Albanian Muslim mayors in four northern districts in April. Albanian Muslim Kosovars are Kosovo’s main ethnic group. Greek Orthodox Serbs are an ethnic minority. The ethnic Serbs predominate in the north, near the border with Serbia, which has never accepted the independence of the Muslim Republic of Kosovo in the Balkans.
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