Did a search for this and didn't find anything. The event itself happened in July of this year, and has been unfolding ever since.
First something resembling the truth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17a3VfB5Doc&feature=youtu.be
Then here's what the US state department has to say about it:
The United States regrets that last night’s action by the Kosovo Government to take control of customs border crossings in northern Kosovo was not coordinated with the international community.
Since when does the US and NATO coordinate anything with the international community that does not involve bloodshed.
We call upon the governments of Kosovo and Serbia to continue to work urgently toward a de-escalation of the current situation.
OH, the hypocrisy. Then why is there a shoot to kill order at the border.
The United States greatly appreciates the prompt actions of NATO’s peacekeeping force in Kosovo (KFOR) to de-escalate the situation and work to establish a safe and secure environment, and we will continue to support KFOR and other international actors in this task.
We urge all parties to refrain from the use of violence.
More hypocrisy.
The free movement of goods between Serbia and Kosovo should be addressed within the European Union-facilitated dialogue. Unilateral acts by both sides – the imposition by Serbia of a unilateral embargo on Kosovo goods in 2008, and the recent decision by Kosovo to reciprocate after the failure of both parties to reach agreement on customs normalization – have resulted in this current impasse. We have confidence in the EU’s management of the dialogue and urge both parties to return to the negotiating table immediately. We expect Kosovo and Serbia, through the Dialogue, to establish the positive, reciprocal conditions that permit both people and goods to move freely between Kosovo and Serbia.
Source: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/07/169107.htm
Some more:
SERBIA’S government has lost control of the Serbian-majority north of Kosovo. The roads are barricaded and locals are rowing with NATO peacekeepers and European Union police. Serbia’s president, Boris Tadic, has been pleading with Kosovo Serb mayors to open the roads. In Belgrade, Serbia’s opposition scents his blood.
Kosovo’s Serbs have blocked the roads because they want to prevent Kosovo police and customs officers being stationed at two border crossings with Serbia. For them, this would be the first step to accepting Kosovo’s independence, declared in 2008. There are some 120,000 Serbs in Kosovo, about a third of whom live in the north. The rest of Kosovo is dominated by Albanians.
To a foreigner a pile of logs on the road is just a barricade. To former Yugoslavs it evokes complex emotions. In 1990 Serbs in the Krajina region of Croatia began their “log revolution”. Blocking roads, they began to carve out a breakaway Serbian statelet. Five years and a war later, they were driven out of Krajina by a victorious Croatian army.
It seems unlikely that the logs on Kosovo’s roads will lead to a similar catastrophe. But some analysts are worried that the row could turn nasty. The NATO peacekeeping force, KFOR, wants to clear the barricades. Dozens of protesters have been injured in scuffles, although KFOR has so far refrained from using serious force.
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Source:http://www.economist.com/node/21534834
Guess the shoot to kill order is "refraining from using serious force."
And more, seems the best of friends NATO & EU are at it again:
Nato and EU police (Eulex) on Thursday (13 October) stepped up their patrols in northern Kosovo and said they will dismantle barricades set up by Serbs, advising them to stay away from "illegal" protests.
The joint forces dismantled a parallel road created by the local Serbs around the Jarinje crossing point in northern Kosovo "to help prevent illegal use of a side road around the official gate and stop smuggling," a Nato press release reads.
Nato forces also have the right "to remove barricades when the circumstances are appropriate and will not tolerate them indefinitely. Citizens should stay away from the road blockades and barricades, and should not take part in illegal protest activities," the statement added.
Last month, Nato had to step in when violence erupted at the Jarinje crossing point, with Serbs setting the border post on fire and bulldozing it. Ethnic tensions have flared in the majority-Serb part of Kosovo after Pristina decided to regain control of its border crossings in July and enforce a trade ban on Serbian goods. A Kosovo policeman was shot dead in the ensuing clashes.
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Despite accusations from Pristina, the Serbian government maintains that it has nothing to do with the manning of barricades in northern Kosovo. Speaking to B92 radio last week, Serbian minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic said that protesters were "ordinary people protesting peacefully", including members of his own family, and that nobody had links with criminal gangs.
We see real criminals labeling others as "criminals"
Source: http://euobserver.com/13/113935
Still more, the situation seems at a stale mate, but we know that where ever NATO goes death and destruction are sure to follow:
Serbian politicians in northern Kosovo have rejected a demand by Nato peacekeepers to remove barricades.
Roads in the area have been blocked for more than a month.
They said they were willing to allow supplies for Nato forces to pass through.
But they have insisted that the roadblocks would remain until ethnic Albanian staff were withdrawn from two border crossings used to travel to Serbia.
But hundreds of extra Nato troops sent to the area have still not moved to take them down, in an apparent bid to give the Serbs more time.
However, local Serbs have now asked Belgrade to send police and troops to the area.
"Serbia and the UN Security Council should facilitate the return of parts of the (Serbian) army and police, and their deployment in Kosovo's north," said a declaration issued after a meeting of local Serb leaders.
The barriers were erected in July when the mainly ethnic Albanian government sought to take control of crossing points at Jarinje and Brnjak to enforce a trade blockade against Serbia.
The ban was imposed in response to Belgrade's effective bar on imports from Kosovo since its declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008
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About 40,000 Serbs live in northern Kosovo, making up the majority in a number of towns. They refuse to recognise the authority of the predominantly ethnic Albanian government in Pristina.
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15378104
More:
ZUPCE, Kosovo, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Serbs living in northern Kosovo blocked roads Monday along the border with Serbia to protest the government's plans to patrol the border, officials said
NATO troops were scheduled to remove the roadblocks Tuesday, Beta news agency, Belgrade, reported.
Serbs, who are a majority in northern Kosovo, reject the authority of the Kosovo Albanian government and have barricaded roads to protest the government's plans to install customs and police on the border between Serbia and Kosovo.
Zubin Potok Mayor Slavisa Ristic asked protesters to remain calm if the NATO-led Kosovo Force breaks through the barricades, Beta reported
"We ask nothing from them, except to be left alone, to stay and live in the state of Serbia. If there is no Serbia here, there will be none in Belgrade either," Ristic said.
Too bad psychopaths do not understand words.
Source:http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/17/Serbs-block-roads-in-northern-Kosovo/UPI-67461318870579/
Still more:
MITROVICA, Kosovo (AP) — NATO-led peacekeepers tried to remove roadblocks in northern Kosovo on Saturday, but were prevented by Serbs guarding the blockade that has paralyzed travel in the tense region.
The troops in full riot gear tried overnight to push through three of the 16 roadblocks formed from vehicles, rocks, mud and logs. But they were met by hundreds of Serbs who sat on the roads to stop the advance.
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Kosovo Serbs have been blocking roads to stop the country's ethnic Albanian leadership from extending its control over the part of the country populated mostly by ethnic Serbs.
Serbs reject Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence and consider the region a part of neighboring Serbia. They say the peacekeepers are biased against them.
The NATO-led troops say they want to establish freedom of movement for all citizens and ensure supply of their troops stationed in Kosovo.
In July, ethnic Albanian authorities deployed their security forces to two border posts in northern Kosovo to enforce a trade ban with Serbia. Serbs reacted by blocking roads and triggering clashes with Kosovo police that left one police officer dead.
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The Serb officials later met Kosovo's NATO commander and the head of the 3,000-strong European Union rule of law mission — known as EULEX — but failed to resolve the deadlock.
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On Friday, the commander of NATO-led peacekeepers in Kosovo Maj. Gen. Erhard Drews again told Serbs to remove their roadblocks, warning that otherwise force would have to be used.
Source: http://www.chron.com/news/article/NATO-tries-to-remove-Kosovo-Serb-roadblocks-2231023.php
So what we have is the predators being more overt in their predation than they have been in a while. Just have to wait and see how this all turns out.
