Prominent Kosovo Serb Politician Oliver Ivanovic Assassinated
Oliver Ivanovic
Oliver Ivanovic  a prominent Kosovo Serb politician  was killed in a brazen drive-by shooting on Tuesday that could reignite ethnic tensions in the region.
An EU-backed Kosovo court sentenced  Ivanovic  in 2015 to a nine-year jail term after it found him guilty of encouraging the killings of captured ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica in April 1999.
In February last year  a Pristina appeals court quashed the sentence and ordered a retrial for  Ivanovic   who had been in detention since his arrest in January 2014 until the acquittal.
"Serbs are more afraid of Serbs than Albanians "  Ivanovic  -- a rare Kosovo Serb in that  he  spoke Albanian -- said at the time. "Serb people are afraid to raise their voice" against Belgrade's policy.
A former Serbian state secretary for Kosovo   Ivanovic  was a key interlocutor with NATO  the United Nations and later the EU after the war and was seen as backing dialogue with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.
[TGT] was killed in a brazen drive-by shooting on Tuesday that could reignite ethnic tensions in the region.
An EU-backed Kosovo court sentenced  Ivanovic  in 2015 to a nine-year jail term after it found  [TGT]  guilty of encouraging the killings of captured ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovska Mitrovica in April 1999.
In February last year  a Pristina appeals court quashed the sentence and ordered a retrial for  Ivanovic   who had been in detention since  [TGT]  arrest in January 2014 until the acquittal.
"Serbs are more afraid of Serbs than Albanians "  Ivanovic  -- a rare Kosovo Serb in that  he  spoke Albanian -- said at the time. "Serb people are afraid to raise their voice" against Belgrade's policy.
A former Serbian state secretary for Kosovo   Ivanovic  was a key interlocutor with NATO  the United Nations and later the EU after the war and was seen as backing dialogue with Kosovo's ethnic Albanians.