Nick Hawton
The morning after Serbia lost Kosovo, the street cleaners in Belgrade were out picking up the glass from the pavements.
It followed hours of rioting when up to 1,000 people, mainly football hooligans, rampaged through the city centre smashing windows, pushing huge rubbish bins into the road and wrenching up traffic signs.
The violence was interspersed with chants of "Serbia" and "Kosovo is Serbia".
Earlier they had targeted the US embassy and the embassy of Slovenia, which currently holds the European Union Presidency.
A few rocks were thrown, a few windows were smashed. People were injured and there were a number of arrests.
Show of unity
The scale of the violence, and the numbers involved, were pretty small.
But, in a sense, the anger and frustration that spilled onto the streets did fairly represent the feelings of the vast majority of the Serb people.
The country's cultural and spiritual heartland was gone. It was now part of another country and that was hard to take.
In fact, the official attitude is that nothing has changed.
Independence will not be recognised, it will never be recognised, chorused the main political leaders in Belgrade.
Indeed, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said Serbia would broaden and strengthen its support for Kosovo's Serbs.
In a rare show of unity, the leaders of the three main political parties in Belgrade agreed to call for a mass demonstration in the capital on Thursday to show the widespread opposition to independence.
EU 'betrayal'
Serbia and the Serbs feel hurt and betrayed, especially by countries in the EU......Article conts (-)
The morning after Serbia lost Kosovo, the street cleaners in Belgrade were out picking up the glass from the pavements.
It followed hours of rioting when up to 1,000 people, mainly football hooligans, rampaged through the city centre smashing windows, pushing huge rubbish bins into the road and wrenching up traffic signs.
The violence was interspersed with chants of "Serbia" and "Kosovo is Serbia".
Earlier they had targeted the US embassy and the embassy of Slovenia, which currently holds the European Union Presidency.
A few rocks were thrown, a few windows were smashed. People were injured and there were a number of arrests.
Show of unity
The scale of the violence, and the numbers involved, were pretty small.
But, in a sense, the anger and frustration that spilled onto the streets did fairly represent the feelings of the vast majority of the Serb people.
The country's cultural and spiritual heartland was gone. It was now part of another country and that was hard to take.
In fact, the official attitude is that nothing has changed.
Independence will not be recognised, it will never be recognised, chorused the main political leaders in Belgrade.
Indeed, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica said Serbia would broaden and strengthen its support for Kosovo's Serbs.
In a rare show of unity, the leaders of the three main political parties in Belgrade agreed to call for a mass demonstration in the capital on Thursday to show the widespread opposition to independence.
EU 'betrayal'
Serbia and the Serbs feel hurt and betrayed, especially by countries in the EU......Article conts (-)
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