Balkans: August 4, 2003

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Sporadic, "low level" attacks continue in Kosovo. Usually the violence is directed at ethnic rivals (ie, Kosovar Albanian radicals attacking Kosovar Serbs, or vice versa). Not this week-- someone upped the ante. An unknown sniper shot and killed a UN policeman August 3. UN sources said it was the first murder of an officer on duty in Kosovo. The UNMIK officer was shot while riding in a marked UN police vehicle on the road between Leposavic and Mitrovica (north of Pristina)

 

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