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09:02, February 25, 2008 |
Hundreds of Serbs continued on Sunday their daily protests against the Kosovar ethnic Albanian authority's declaration of independence a week ago.
Protesters rallied in the northern part of the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica.
The protesters first attended a concert and many of them then marched to the bridge that separates the Serb community with ethnic Albanians in the south.
The rally was peaceful and there were no clashes with the UN police that guarded the bridge.
A dozen Portuguese soldiers from the NATO-led international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, KFOR, were deployed to watch the protests. But they left after it became clear that the situation was less tense than Friday when protesters hurled stones, bottles and fire crackers to UN police.
Sunday's rally was the seventh in row after the unilateral declaration of independence by Kosovo authorities a week ago.
In Kosovo's capital of Pristina, the situation has been calm since last Sunday.
Source: Xinhua
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