Kosovo police use tear gas to disperse stone-throwing anti-government protesters
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police in Kosovo have fired volleys of tear gas at thousands of anti-government protesters demanding the resignation of a minister who had denied that war crimes were committed against ethnic Albanians during the 1998-99 war with Serbia.
The protesters pelted officers with rocks and other objects outside the government headquarters on Tuesday.
The clashes follow a week of demonstrations throughout Kosovo organized by opposition parties, who are demanding the dismissal Aleksandar Jablanovic, a Kosovo government minister who is a Serb, and whose comments minimizing Serbia's role in the war have especially angered the families of some 1,000 ethnic Albanians still missing.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Some 10,000 people died in the war when Serbian troops launched a brutal crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians. The violence was halted by NATO's 78-day bombing of Serbia.