Here is an example - but this article, like many others, does not raise the question why KFOR, the UN and all the police seem helpless in keeping law and order four months after they arrived. Increasing Crime in Kosovo Pristina has turned into an Eldorado for different criminal activities. Muscling people from their homes is a lucrative activity in a city where a huge influx of refugees has nearly doubled the original population of 280,000. And then there is the other crime - intimidation, occupation of flats, harassment of minorities, plus thefts, car thefts. And two to four people a week dead in Pristina.
Many hundreds more are unreported.
Some of the violence remains ethnically based. Much of it is committed by Albanians targeting the dwindling Serb minority in revenge. In a city where few people have jobs, crime is a way of survival - writes Associated Press from Pristina on October 18 . This site contains many links and articles on various aspects of this tremendously complex and resource-demanding task. Annan warns U.N. Mission in Kosovo risks being seen as 'occupation' The UN SG, Kofi Annan, said the United States and its European allies, while eager to finance the war against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, had been less generous with money for reconstruction.