Albanians Clash With Serb Police
Serbian police used clubs and tear gas in this southern city in the province of Kosovo on Wednesday to break up the biggest show of dissent in years by Yugoslavia’s increasingly fractious ethnic Albanian minority. In Belgrade, a second day of protests also ended in violence.
The clashes were the second time in as many days that Serbian police have violently put down protests against President Slobodan Milosevic.
Dozens of people were injured in Pristina as riot police in full gear waded into a peaceful protest by 20,000 people demanding the right to an Albanian-language education at Pristina University.
The protesters were mostly young ethnic Albanians who attend an underground college that offers courses in Albanian.
It was the worst clash between Serbs and Albanians since Kosovo lost its autonomy in 1989.
In Belgrade, the capital, police used clubs against 10,000 demonstrators protesting the ouster of Zoran Djindjic, the city’s first non-Communist mayor in more than 50 years.
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