Serbs attack USA Slovenia Embassy after Kosovo Independence
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Serbs attack USA Slovenia Embassy after Kosovo Independence
Hundreds of protesters clashed with Serbian police on Sunday evening, hours after Kosovo's leaders unilaterally declared the province's independence from Serbia.
At least 12 protesters, mainly fans of local soccer clubs and skinheads, were injured and arrested in several skirmishes in the Serbian capital.
The crowd damaged the Slovenian embassy, a McDonald's restaurant and about a dozen shop windows.
"We hate the West, we hate Western values and civilization," said a club-wielding protestor who identified himself as Nikola.
They chanted «Kosovo is Serbia» and slogans against Kosovo Albanians, Serbian President Boris Tadic and pro-Western opposition leaders, but also against conservative Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica.
Masked thugs chanted the name of the Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic, accused of genocide in the Bosnian 1992-95 war, who is still at large.
Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets in a skirmish at the downtown Terazije square, forcing the crowd to disperse, leaving overturned garbage containers, broken glass, stone fragments and other debris behind.
Eyewitnesses said that protesters stoned the Belgrade headquarters of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, the only Serbian political party that has supported the possibility of Kosovo's independence, and a nearby café.
B92 television reported that at 9 pm several groups were still in the streets, regrouping and returning to places from which police had earlier chased them away. The station reported that at least 11 policemen had been injured in clashes.
The protesters also smashed windows at the embassies of France and Brazil, according to local media and eyewitnesses, where later re-reinforced police protected and restore order.
«Then police started fighting back at demonstrators,» said a journalist from a Belgrade daily «Alo» who himself got beaten by police but was not seriously hurt.
He said that protesters were smashing everything they came across before police stepped in
Although officials have publicly called for calm, B92 also reported that journalists had seen officials of Democratic Party of Serbia, the party of Vojislav Kostunica, the current prime minister, among protesters in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Also spotted, according to the report, were representatives from the Socialist Party of Serbia, the party previously led by Slobodan Milosevic, the late wartime president.
Protesters in Novi Sad threw stones at two bakeries and a local McDonald's restaurant.
A strong police presence was expected to remain in place in downtown Belgrade through Sunday night, guarding government buildings and embassies
Earlier in the evening, protesters had blocked the United States embassy in downtown Belgrade, pelting the embassy building and police with stones and signal torches. At least one policeman was carried away in an ambulance.
Serbian police in full riot gear had cordoned off the embassy and managed to push protestors away from the embassy.
"We want to show we hate Yanks and Shiptars," said a young protester who identified himself only as Dejan. "Shiptar" is a derogatory Serbian term for Kosovo Albanians.
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