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...dark-clad crowd at a cemetery in the Serbian town of Novi Sad listened respectfully to the tributes at the Feb. 26 funeral of Zoran Vujovic. The rector of his university said the 20-year-old Serb had died expressing "justified anger" at the West. His uncle called him "one of the many martyrs of Kosovo." And the tabloid Pravda declared: FAREWELL TO THE SERBIAN KNIGHT! Amid the eulogies, the circumstances of the engineering student's death bear recalling: having broken into the U.S. embassy in Belgrade on Feb. 21, he was incinerated when a fellow protester tossed...
...northern Kosovo, destroyed two customs posts, and clashed with ethnic Albanian police. Student demonstrators have rallied daily along the Ibar River that divides Serb from Albanian areas in the northern Kosovo town of Mitrovica, chanting, "Kosovo is Serbia!" and "Kosovo is ours!" For Marko Jaksic, head of the Serbian National Council in Mitrovica, such action is not optional; a failure to rebel against "the formation of another Albanian state," he told a Serbian crowd in northern Kosovo, is "tantamount to treason...
...struggling for what is legitimately ours. We will not tolerate this illegal act of secession," Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told European lawmakers in the French city of Strasbourg...
...Thursday's rally, Prime Minister Kostunica asked the crowd: "Is there anyone here who is not from Kosovo? Is there anyone here who's ready to give Kosovo away?" The crowd cheered. No one volunteered. "They want us to give away our Serbian identity, our origins, our Kosovo, our ancestors, and our history. They say we'd be better off without these things, as a nation without memory and history. They say we will live better if we just forget we're Serbs and agree to be humiliated...
...Without Kosovo, there is no Serbia," Tomislav Nikolic, a leader of the Serbian Radical Party said later. "Today we're all the same. Today...