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Wed 12 Dec 2008Albanians in Kosovo say EU police mission will hasten partition
ABOUT 4,000 Kosovo Albanians protested yesterday against a new European Union police and justice mission, claiming that the terms of its deployment would lead to the division of the fledgling state along ethnic lines, writes DANIEL McLAUGHLIN
The Eulex mission will officially start work in Kosovo this week and gradually roll out across the new country. It is taking over from the United Nations mission which has run it since 1999, when Nato bombing halted a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanian rebels and ended Belgrade's control over the region.
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