KPS uses tear gas against Serbs
7 March 2009 | 10:59 -> 15:00 | Source: Tanjug
ŠILOVO -- Two Serbs were injured when Kosovo police, KPS, used tear gas
to prevent several hundred residents of Šilovo from blocking the
Gnjilane-Bujanovac road.
The Serbs were protesting another power cut in their villages, which
this time has been lasting for the past six days.
On Saturday, several hundred people once again staged the protest, with
numerous police blocking their attempts to block the road.
Yesterday, the two injured Serbs were treated at the Šilovo medical
centre, doctor Jelica Krčmarević said, while KPS regional spokesman
Ismet Hashani said that the incident occurred because they had not been
informed about the protest.
"I have the information that hand-held spray was used. The villagers had
the permit to hold the protest in the village and not to block the main
road," Hashani said.
The protest was secured by a large number of KPS and KFOR members, who
did not allow the villagers to block the Gnjilane-Bujanovac main road.
Due to a grid failure, which the Kosovo company in managing electricity,
known as KEK, does not want to fix, and does not allow the Serbian power
company EPS to do so, about 1,500 people in the area have been left
without electricity for five days.
The Šilovo villagers said that they wanted the same rights as others in
Kosovo, regardless of their ethnicity. They also said they were told the
grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read.
Kosovo and Pomoravlje District head Dragan Nikolić told Tanjug that this
was another attempt to impose Kosovo Albanian institutions on the local
Serbs.
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