The World - News from Nov. 18, 1988
About 10,000 protesters marched through Pristina, capital of the restive Yugoslav province of Kosovo, after Kacusa Jasari, the region’s Communist Party president, and Azem Vlasi, a member of the Presidium in Kosovo, announced their resignations. The two ethnic Albanian leaders have been the main target of resignation demands by Slobodan Milosevic, Communist Party chief of the Serbian republic, in his drive to bring Kosovo under tighter Serbian control. The Serbs, a minority in the province, claim they are being harassed by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian majority.
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