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LONDON - Kosovo-Metohija's Albanians responded to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Pristina and urgings of peaceful coexistence for all in the province with renewed terrorist attacks, the British press writes on Monday.
Hours after Blair left that internationally administered province of the Yugoslav republic of Serbia, terrorists planted explosives in the Serbian Church of St. Saviour in the province's city of Pristina.
It has become usual for Kosovo-Metohija's Albanians to respond with increased violence to visits from ranking foreign officials.
Not surprisingly, Kosovo-Metohija's Serbs are not convinced that Blair's urgings of reconciliation and peace for all will produce any tangible results, British reporters say.
They note that Blair's speech in Pristina was translated into Albanian, but not into Serbian, which is a clear indication of how the British prime minister feels about the Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija.
The Times writes that 35 Serbian churches and monasteries in Kosovo-Metohija have been demolished or damaged since the deploment of the international KFor force.
British commentators again insist that the U.N. mission and its KFor peace force have failed to establish even the barest minimum of a civilised order, let alone life in peace in Kosovo-Metohija.
London's Independent newspaper says that Kosovo-Metohija is ruled by organised crime, led by the ethnic Albanian so-called Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA).
The crime fills the KLA's coffers, and the money is used to buy arms and pay KLA officials and their families.
KLA-sponsored criminals attack Serbs, as well as, and increasingly often, those ethnic Albanians who do not share the KLA's views, which have little to do with ideology and much to do with criminal logic, according to the Independent.