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WORLD NEWS Saturday 24 November 2018

Kosovo police arrest 4 Serbs, sparking protests in the north

By SYLEJMAN KLLOKOQI der posts with Serbia. No avert attention from the
LLAZAR SEMINI violence was immediately taxes that Kosovo imposed
Associated Press reported. in violation of a regional
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo’s ethnic Albanians trade agreement.
Tensions in Kosovo rose fought a bloody war with “We must prepare our-
again Friday after police Serbia from 1998-1999 selves for long-term support
arrested three ethnic Serbs, which ended with a 78-day for our people (in Kosovo)
including two police offi- NATO air campaign in June that won’t be easy, simple
cers, early Friday on suspi- 1999. or cheap,” said Vucic. “Ser-
cion of involvement in the Kosovo declared indepen- bia will not agree to new
killing earlier this year of a dence from Serbia in 2008 rules and new blackmail
leading Serb politician in which Belgrade still refuses against our country and
the north of the country. to recognize. our people.”
The three men were arrest- Earlier this week, tensions Vucic spoke after a meet-
ed in the Serb-dominated soared after Kosovo failed ing with the members of
town of Mitrovica, 40 kilo- to become a member of the Serbian government.
meters (25 miles) north of Police officers stand by the graffiti that shows Serbian coat of the international police He held meetings earlier on
the capital, Pristina, as sus- arms and silhouettes of people, reading: “... because there’s organization, Interpol, fol- Friday with security officials
pects in the January slay- no turning back”, in northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically lowing intense lobbying by and the ambassadors or
ing of Oliver Ivanovic, po- divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Friday, Nov. 23, 2018. Serbia. Kosovo slapped a Russia and China, Serbia’s
lice said in a statement. A Associated Press 100 percent tax on goods allies in its refusal to rec-
fourth Serb was arrested for Police showed photos of a date in the case. Nobody imported from Serbia in ap- ognize Kosovo’s indepen-
resisting police. A fifth per- drone, automatic weapons has yet been charged in parent retaliation. dence.
son is still at large, police and ammunition and other the slaying. In Belgrade, Serbia Presi- Kosovo Prime Minister Ra-
said. equipment found in the Thousands of Serbs protest- dent Aleksandar Vucic said mush Haradinaj’s Cabinet
Police said they seized evi- raids. ed in Kosovo towns, some the arrests were a “dem- appealed for calm and
dence for the investigation Prosecutor Syle Hoxha blocking all main roads onstration of force” that he said the police operation
into Ivanovic’s killing dur- said they have questioned leading to Northern Mitro- said was designed to fright- was not linked to any politi-
ing raids in four locations. more than 40 witnesses to vica, as well as several bor- en the Serbs in Kosovo and cal development.q

95-year-old alleged SS camp guard

faces charges in Germany

By DAVID RISING from mid-1944 to early Jews, but also Soviet pris-
Associated Press 1945. oners of war, Spaniards
BERLIN (AP) — A 95-year- During that time, 36,223 who had fought against
old man has been people were killed at Gen. Francisco Franco,
charged with more than Mauthausen, primarily by and others.
36,000 counts of being an gassing, but also by lethal “With his service as a
accessory to murder on injection, shootings, star- guard he aided or at
allegations that he served vation or exposure, prose- least made easier the kill-
as a guard at the Nazis’ cutor Martin Steltner said. ing of many thousands
Mauthausen concentra- The suspect isn’t accused of inmates,” Steltner said,
tion camp, Berlin prosecu- of a specific killing, but adding that the suspect In this June 17, 2008 file photo, young people and participants
tors said Friday. prosecutors argue that as denies the charges. of a conference of the Task Force for International Cooperation
Hans Werner H., whose a guard he helped the Efraim Zuroff, the top Nazi on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research visit
last name wasn’t released camp function. Overall, hunter at the Simon Wi- the former Nazi concentration camp in Mauthausen, Austria.
because of privacy regu- about 95,000 people are esenthal Center, noted Associated Press
lations, is accused of serv- believed to have died in that Wiesenthal himself ated by Americans in May to tracking down Nazi war
ing as an SS guard in the the Mauthausen camp was an inmate at Mau- 1945. Wiesenthal died in criminals so they could be
camp in northern Austria system including 14,000 thausen when it was liber- 2005 after devoting his life brought to trial.q