20 minutes agoNineteen years of March riots
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)On March 17th 2004, protests began that will later be mentioned as the March “Truzira. They lasted two days, and long they killed 19 civilians, of whom 11 Albanians and 8 Serbs, while more than 900 people, mainly Albanians, were injured. The riots erupted after reports that two Albanian children [...] had drowned in the Iber River.
The riots erupted after reports that two Albanian children had drowned in the Iber River as a result of Serb violence, while the cause of this tragedy was never fully clarified.
Some children who survived in the late hours showed up that night to cameras that they were followed by Serbs and that they were leaving when some of their peers drowned in the river.
The next day, on 17 March, protests began in many Kosovo cities that quickly escalated into violence.
