Dusan Dragovic

The Trepca mining complex is split physically along ethnic lines, but Serb workers in the northern part of the former Yugoslav complex and the Kosovo Albanians in the southern part both have concerns about whether it can keep operating.

The fall of Yugoslavia and post-war ethnic divisions helped bring Trepca to the verge of bankruptcy.

ZVECAN - Trepca workers from northern Kosovo staged protests in the municipalities of Zvecan, Zubin Potok and Leposavic on Monday against a new bill the Kosovo government had adopted regarding a change of ownership in that company to turn it into a public enterprise.