The situation deteriorates daily. Crimes against Serbs are down only because most have fled. Fighting between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in the mixed city of Kosovska Mitrovica is worsening. Although leading Albanians formally disavow the violence, most do nothing to stop it. The Kosovo Liberation Army has disarmed in name only, formally transmuting into the Kosovo Protection Corps.
Armed thugs rule the night, and organized crime is spreading.
The police and courts don't function and no one, Albanian or Serb, is safe. Human rights abuses by the Serbs were bad enough. Now the same practices are being carried out under the West's authority. A U.N. bus was hit by an anti-tank rocket. Albanian snipers in Mitrovica have injured French peacekeepers, who in turn killed one of their attackers and arrested others.