Bosnia Serbs try to attack U.S. consulate

Nakita Knight/2-26-08/4:08pm/global crime

People who were once members of a peace rally on Tuesday broke away and headed for the U.S. Embassy's office. This took place in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The demonstrators ended up running into the police about halfway to heading to the office, one police reporter said. The demonstrators from the rally began to throw rocks and stones at the police, while the police responded with tear gas. There were about 600 to 700 of these violent demonstrators who broke away from a 100, 000 strong rally protesting Kosovo's recent declaration of independence. U.S. members have been a target for these violent attacks because they are for Kosovo's independence. These violent tactics weren't a surprise. Warning were posted on the U.S. Embassy's web site, saying that demonstrations may occur in other parts of Bosnia on February 26th and the days proceeding. Last Thursday, protesters smashed windows and set parts of the U.S. Embassy on fire in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. No one was injured and all members were evacuated. Because of all that is going on in Bosnia right now, Americans are advised to delay travel time over there.

Once again, people are unhappy with decisions that are made that they really have no control over. What do they do? Raise hell! I just don't understand. Is all of this really necessary? All they're doing is killing each other slowly. It makes no sense at all to cause ruckus every time something doesn't go your way. All that leads to is your people getting arrested and killed because they can't just sit back and do nothing about this chaos. So who's going to fight and throw a fight when all of you are dead, so there's no one to do it? I apologize if I sound blunt or insensitive, but damn! It seems like all that most of these Middle-Eastern and some European countries care about doing is fighting. Then, all they're waiting for is something else to happen so that they can go fight again. What ever happened to petitions? What ever happened to writing letters of concern and things of that nature? I just really feel like all of this fighting is unnecessary.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/02/26/serbia.kosovo/index.html