Some 300 Serbs from northern Kosovska Mitrovica visited today, on All Souls’ Day, the Orthodox cemetery in the southern, Albanian part of town, accompanied by members of the Kosovo Police Service.

There were no incidents at the cemetery, where the Albanian vandals desecrated and destroyed more than 80 percent of the gravestones.

In the southern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, more than 500 gravestones were destroyed and desecrated at the Serbian cemetery, while there is no damaged monuments at the Albanian cemetery in the northern part of the city.

Serbs claim that the All Souls’ Day is their only chance when, accompanied by police, they can visit the graves of deceased relatives and friends in the southern part of Mitrovica, and added that more and more tombstones are damaged each year.