Ethnic Serbs rally in Kosovo after leaving jobs in protest over number plates

Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo wave Serbian flags during a protest in Mitrovica, Kosovo (Bojan Slavkovic/AP)

Several thousand ethnic Serbs rallied in Kosovo as a dispute over vehicle number plates heightened tensions between Serbia and its former province.

The government’s decision to gradually ban Serbia-issued licence plates has angered Kosovo Serbs, most of whom do not recognise Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence.