Serbs protest against Kosovo’s independence on the Kosovo-Serbian border

epa01262612 Kosovo police officers stand guard as Serbs protest against Kosovo’s independence on the Kosovo-Serbian border, Merdare, Kosovo, 21 February 2008. Violence flared on the Kosovo-Serbia border when several hundred former Serbian army reservists angered by Kosovo’s independence attacked police with stones and burning tyres. The violence was the latest in a series of incidents that followed Sunday’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia by Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-dominated parliament. Kosovo has been run by the United Nations since mid-1999, after a NATO air assault drove out Serbian forces waging a brutal crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanian guerillas and their civilian supporters. EPA/VALDRIN XHEMAJ