The World - News from Sept. 18, 1988
About 20,000 Yugoslavs joined new protest rallies in support of Serbs in the southeast province of Kosovo as the government pledged a crackdown on ethnic unrest there. Yugoslav Television said 10,000 people joined a rally in Vojvodina province, shouting solidarity with Kosovo Serbs who say they are persecuted by ethnic Albanians. Another 10,000 gathered in three separate rallies. Tensions between Kosovo’s 1.7 million ethnic Albanians and 200,000 Serbs and other Slavs have been rising recently. The official Tanjug news agency quoted Premier Branko Mikulic as saying that the government will use all means to end “the evil” of racial discord in Kosovo.
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