Emeute au Kosovo mai 2009
Kosovo Serbs, police clash, 22 hurt
May 11, 2009
KOSOVSKA KAMENICA, Kosovo, May 11 (UPI) — Twenty Kosovo police officers were injured when they clashed with Serbs angry at local authorities for a lengthy power outage.
Police arrested five Serb villagers of Kosovska Kamenica, in eastern Kosovo close to the border with Serbia, the Serbian news agency FoNet said.
It was calm Monday in the villages around Kosovska Kamenica following clashes Sunday evening, when Serbs tried to blockade a main road leading from the eastern Kosovo town of Gnjilane to Bujanovac, in southern Serbia.
Ismet Hashani, a spokesman for the Kosovo police said that out of the 20 hurt police officers, one was seriously hurt while 19 received light injuries.
Two Serb protesters were seriously injured, the Serbian B92 Web site said.
Serbs in 14 villages in the Kosovsko Pomoravlje region have been without electric power for days, since authorities in their villages decided not to sign contracts with or pay bills of the Kosovo-run power company.
Instead they want the Serbian government in Belgrade to work out a deal for electricity from another supplier, a Serbian power company.
Kosovo, whose 90 percent of a 2 million population are ethnic Albanians, unilaterally declared independence from Serbia in February 2008.
Una veintena de heridos en disturbios entre serbios y la policía de Kosovo
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12 mai 2009
Una veintena de policías kosovares y dos manifestantes serbios fueron heridos anoche en el sureste de Kosovo en enfrentamientos cuando los primeros trataron de impedir el bloqueo de la carretera entre las localidades de Gljilane y Bujanovac, informó hoy la agencia de noticias serbia « Tanjug ».
Cinco serbios fueron detenidos en los incidentes durante una protesta contra la falta de electricidad desde hace días en algunas aldeas serbias en la región en torno a Gnilane.
El portavoz de la policía kosovar, Ismet Hasani, dijo a « Tanjug » que en los disturbios un policía fue herido de gravedad y 19 levemente, y que la situación hoy está tensa, pero en calma.
La agencia afirma también que dos serbios fueron heridos de gravedad en los enfrentamientos.
La policía kosovar asegura que trató de impedir el bloqueo de la carretera, mientras que unos mil manifestantes serbios le tiraban piedras, botellas y otros objetos.
Según indicaron a « Tanjug » fuentes de la policía kosovar, los agentes no recurrieron a la fuerza, mientras que los manifestantes aseguran que uno de ellos fue herido con una bala de goma.
Los habitantes serbios de varias aldeas de la región no cuentan con electricidad desde hace un mes ya que rechazan pagar las cuentas a la compañía electro-energética de Kosovo, sino que insisten en hacerlo a la análoga compañía de Serbia, por lo que la primera les cortó los suministros.
Kosovo, que está poblada por una gran mayoría de albaneses étnicos, proclamó en febrero de 2008 su independencia, que no reconocen Serbia ni la minoría serbia de la región.
Clashes in Kosovo over power cuts
Monday, 11 May 2009
There have been calls for calm in eastern Kosovo after a protest by Serbs over power cuts turned violent.
More than 20 people were injured and five arrested on Sunday in clashes between police and protesters, who tried to block a road and threw stones.
The villages have had little or no electricity for months because Serb residents have refused to pay Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-run power company.
The Serbs want neighbouring Serbia to provide their electricity instead.
Kosovo unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia in February 2008, something which the Serbian government in Belgrade has refused to recognise.
‘Tense’
On Sunday evening, some 300 Serbs attempted to block the main road in the village of Donje Korminjane, police said. When police attempted to remove them, the protesters « threw rocks, bottles, and Molotov cocktails », they added.
The protests later spread to two other predominantly Serb villages, but ended when police reinforcements arrived from nearby towns.
On Monday, a local Serb leader said there would be no more demonstrations, although some are reportedly planned in Ranilug.
Boban Jeftic, who runs the local municipality, told the BBC the area was tense and he was concerned the situation might deteriorate.
A police spokesman said people had a right to demonstrate but that officers would act if another attempt was made to block the road.
Kosovo’s residents did not pay electricity charges while the territory was under UN administration before it declared independence.
Police, protesters injured in Kosovo clash over electricity cuts
Tue, May 12 2009
Twenty-six people, including 10 police officers, were injured when a protest by ethnic Serbs in Kosovo against the cutoff of electricity to their villages turned violent.
The incident happened on May 10 after about 300 protesters blocked the main road from eastern Kosovo to Serbia. Local and international news agencies quoted officials in eastern Kosovo as saying that the protesters threw stones, bottles and Molotov cocktails at police who were attempting to remove the blockade.
A number of protesters were arrested. By the end of May 11, the situation was reported to be calm.
The protests were centred around 14 villages in the Kosovsko Pomoravlje region, where villages do not want to sign individual contracts with or pay bills to the Kosovo-run power company, but instead want to deal only with Serbian power provider EPS.
Serbian news website B92 said that Serbian president Boris Tadic had been asked to meet Serb representatives to learn about the electricity supply problems.
Belgrade does not recognise Kosovo’s February 2008 unilateral declaration of independence and there are continuing tensions around the ethnic Serb communities in Kosovo.
Serbian minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic called on villagers in the area to resolve the situation peacefully. « We are in constant contact with the international community, but violence, regardless of where it comes from, will certainly not bring electricity to the Serbs, » he said.
Police injured in Kosovo electricity riots
http://www.dw-world.de
Kosovo | 11.05.2009
Ten police officers were injured in street clashes with Serbs living in eastern Kosovo. The protestors, who had refused to pay electricity bills, were reportedly angry that their power had been cut.
Officials in eastern Kosovo say around 300 Serbs protesting electricity cuts hurled stones at police over the weekend, injuring 10 officers. Protestors « threw rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails, » according to a police statement.
Some Serb-dominated villages have been without power for several days after they refused to pay Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-run power company. The villages say they want Serbia to provide their electricity instead.
News agencies reported that « more than a dozen » people were injured, among them 10 police officers. Police arrested several of the protestors.
Kosovo’s residents did not pay electricity charges while the territory was under UN administration before it declared independence from Serbia last year.
anthropologie du présent 
Bonjour,
Et tout d’abord merci de parler des manifestations qui ont lieu ces derniers jours au Kosovo. En effet, les médias (tout particulièrement les médias français) n’ont que peu abordé la question du Kosovo ces derniers temps, à l’exception de quelques articles concernant le 1er anniversaire de l’indépendance (l’autoproclamation par la majorité albanaise date du 17 février 2008, même si l’indépendance reste sujette à de très nombreuses contestations sur la scène de la communauté internationale) et quelques brèves concernant l’adhésion du Kosovo au Fonds monétaire international (FMI) le 8 mai 2009.
Ce « vide » laisse à penser que le Kosovo est sur la voie durable de la stabilité (politique, économique et sociale). Pourtant, les manifestations et les violences se sont multipliées ces derniers temps, tout particulièrement dans la ville de Mitrovica ou dans les villes ou villages à proximité. C’était le cas le 3 janvier 2009 où des émeutes ont opposé Serbes et Albanais à Mitrovica. C’est encore plus le cas ces derniers jours, surtout depuis le week-end du 24-25 avril 2009. Les incidents se sont multipliés à Mitrovica, ou à Brdjani (village près de Mitrovica). Des manifestations violentes se produisent chaque jour.
Pourtant, les médias n’en parlent que très rarement, en témoigne ce billet qui montre bien l’absence des médias francophones sur la question. A l’exception notable de Jean-Arnault Dérens (spécialiste des Balkans, auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur l’ex-Yougoslavie dont un sur le Kosovo, fondateur du « Courrier des Balkans »), correspondant pour RFI, aucun média français n’a pour l’heure parler de ces violences. Le Kosovo est pourtant situé au coeur du continent européen, et la stabilisation de ce territoire a de grandes conséquences pour l’ensemble des Balkans, et par là pour la construction européenne.