Serbs Mob U.N. Official to Protest Missing Kin
Serbs demanding to know the whereabouts of missing relatives in Kosovo broke through a police line and charged at the Serbian province’s U.N. mission chief in Belgrade, the Yugoslav capital.
Hans Haekkerup was leaving a government building when about 100 people swarmed his motorcade, kicking and hitting cars with fists and sticks. No one was injured.
The Kosovo Serbs claim that ethnic Albanian extremists abducted or killed hundreds of their relatives in the province in 1999 after NATO airstrikes.
The protesters demanded to speak to Haekkerup about their claims that some of the missing may still be alive in alleged camps run by Kosovo Albanian extremists. International officials have rejected such claims.
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