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Sat 11 Nov 2009Serb boycott of Kosovo poll likely to overshadow country's first election
CAMPAIGN VIOLENCE and a likely Serb boycott are casting a shadow over tomorrow’s local elections in Kosovo, its first ballot since declaring independence.
Prime minister Hashim Thaci’s car was pelted with stones and eggs as he left a rally this week in a stronghold of rival Ramush Haradinaj. And a day later shots were fired at one of Mr Haradinaj’s allies as he travelled to a fundraising event in the town of Mitrovica.
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