Kosovo and Serbia near accord to end ethnic partition | Reuters
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(Reuters) - It’s a dangerous job being a municipal clerk in the Kosovan town of Mitrovica, where the Ibar river forms a natural barrier between Serbs and Albanians.
Since Adrijana Hodzic began issuing the identification cards of mainly Albanian Kosovo to Serbs on the north side of the river, her deputy has been shot in the leg and hand grenades lobbed at the homes of her staff.
“Sometimes I feel like we’re fighting against everyone,” said mother-of-two Hodzic, a Mitrovica native.
Serbia does not recognize Kosovo’s 2008 secession, but is under pressure from the European Union to improve ties and help overcome a split between Kosovo’s Albanians and a Serb enclave in the north over which Belgrade retained de facto control.