Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Kosovo, protesting against the arrest of former Kosovo Liberation Army members by the European Union police and justice mission.
The members, which included Kosovo's ambassador to Albania, a sitting mayor of a town, and prime minister's bodyguard, were arrested last week for suspected war crimes.
Carrying portraits of the arrested men, protestors chanted slogans calling for their release. One protestor stated,
“We are in favour of living together (with the Serbs) in a multiethnic society”
“But, we also want justice. We love our freedom fighters and we want to show that we respect them because they brought us freedom. It is thanks to these people who are now being arrested that Serbs and everyone else can move freely in Kosovo, without fear.”
