The World - News from Sept. 25, 1988
An estimated 150,000 Yugoslavs rallied in the southern Serbian industrial town of Nis in the biggest anti-Albanian demonstration in two months of ethnic unrest. It was the latest in a wave of rallies organized by Serbs and Montenegrins to protest their alleged persecution by ethnic Albanians in autonomous Kosovo province. The protests support Serbian Communist Party leader Slobodan Milosevic’s plan to bring Kosovo under direct control of Serbia, Yugoslavia’s biggest republic. The demonstration marked one of the largest political protests in Yugoslavia since World War II, according to local officials.
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