The Mayor of Drenas/Glogovac, Nexhat Demaku, today resigned from his post after the Court of Appeals in Pristina upheld original sentences for the members of the so-called “Drenica 2” group convicted of war crimes. The news was confirmed by Demaku who said he would give further details during a press conference later today.

The residents of the village of Llapushnik protested today in front of the Drenas/Glogovac municipal assembly building, opposing a decision to build a Catholic cemetery and a church in their village. One of the organizers of the protest said the church should not be built in the said area because that is the location of the Battle of Llapushnik between the former Kosovo Liberation Army and the Serbian forces in 1998. The protesters held placards saying “The House of God cannot be built by force”, “Stop the Catholic church” and “We don’t want any division, they want division”.