Orahovac

The 19th anniversary of ethnically-motivated violence against Serbs in Kosovo on March 17 and 18, 2004 was marked in the Serb-majority north of the divided city of Mitrovica and in the town of Gracanica.

Sebahate Berisha remembers the warm night of April 1, 1999 when she put all her five children to sleep wrapped up in blankets in the basement of an abandoned house in the village of Nagavc/Nogavac in Kosovo's Rahovec/Orahovac municipality.

Officials and local residents in Pastasel/Pusto Selo, a village in the Rahovec/Orahovac municipality, commemorated the 22nd anniversary on Wednesday of a massacre of 106 civilians during the Kosovo war in 1999.

Kosovo Police have said they will investigate an implied death threat made to a BIRN Kosovo team on Tuesday when they were trying to film in a southern town.

"The prosecutor has been informed while police units are investigating the case," the police report on Thursday said.

A memorial gathering to mark the 21st anniversary of the attack on Orahovac/Rahovec was held on Thursday at Orlovaca cemetery in Belgrade, where most of the victims of the violence were buried.

A massacre survivor told the trial of former Serb fighter Darko Tasic said he saw the defendant looting and burning the houses of ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo village of Krusha e Vogel/Mala Krusha in 1999.

This came after a Serbian boy was arrested for defending his brother.

As reported by RTV Kim, in a letter to the police and the representatives of the interim council of the municipality of Orahovac, the parents claim their children are subject of frequent verbal attacks that have now escalated to threats with brass knuckles.

A bus that was carrying Serbs from Orahovac to Velika Hoca in Kosovo was attacked with stones on Wednesday afternoon.

Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti said the incident happened as about 50 residents of these two Serb enclaves in Metohija were returning from Kosovska Mitrovica.

Several unidentified young men threw stones at the gate of the church of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God in Orahovac, KiM.

Several unidentified young men threw stones at the gate of the church of the Assumption of the Holy Mother of God in Orahovac, a town in southern Kosovo-Metohija, and the case was reported to the police.

Incidents in Serbia and abroad after stadium provocation

BELGRADE -- Unknown persons late last night used a Molotov cocktail to torch a bakery owned by Albanians in the town of Sombor, northern Serbia.

The same bakery previously came under attack in 2008, when ethnic Albanians in Kosovo unilaterally declared independence.