Serb ultranationalists scuffle with police throughout a protest over Kosovo Albanian subculture pageant in Belgrade, Serbia, can also 29, 2019. REUTERS/Marko Djurica
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Dozens of Serb ultranationalists protested on Wednesday against a pageant advertising Kosovan Albanian subculture in Belgrade, a day after Serbia ordered its troops on full alert following an incident involving Kosovo's police and ethnic Serbs.
rebellion police cordoned off the lifestyle centre in downtown Belgrade the place pageant turned into held, while protesters waved Serbian flags and chanted "Kosovo is Serbia" and "we are able to no longer surrender Kosovo". They also in short scuffled with the police.
The pageant, which all started in 2014, is dubbed "Miredita, dobar dan," or "decent day" in the Albanian and Serbian languages. It gifts movies, exhibitions and debates aiming to bring closer Serb and Albanian communities that drifted a ways aside after a bloody Kosovo battle in 1998 and 1999.
Kosovo, Serbia's former southern province, declared independence in 2008. Many Serbs accept as true with Kosovo because the cradle of their nation and Orthodox Christian faith. Belgrade, backed via Russia, China, and 5 European Union nations, is still adversarial to its independence.
The pageant, set to final until Saturday, is organised via Belgrade's adolescence Initiative for Human Rights, Civic Initiative for Human Rights and Integra, a rights employer from Kosovo's capital Pristina.
"The competition is sending a clear message to ... public, however also to political elites that barriers and limitations have to be eliminated instead of creating new ones," the organisers of the pageant pointed out in an announcement.
the outlet got here amid tensions after Serbia on Tuesday ordered its troops on full alert, following the arrests of at least 19 americans in an anti-crime operation in restive northern Kosovo, principally populated by using ethnic Serbs.
Serbia is searching for european membership however have to first normalise relations with Pristina if it wants to be part of the bloc. On Monday, Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic told parliament that the nation needs to accept that it has lost control over Kosovo.
Reporting through Marko Djurica; Writing through Aleksandar Vasovic; editing with the aid of Frances Kerry
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