Ethnic Serb protesters in a Kosovo village of Silovo were attacked by a Kosovo Albanian separatist police.

Kosovo Albanian police moved in to attack the protesters after they blocked off the road in the village of Silovo.

The police injured 17 protesters and 3 of them are seriously hurt doctor Zoran Gnevki confirmed.

During their defense, the protesters injured 8 attacking policemen.

The so-called police, dominated by ethnic Albanians some of who took part in atrocities against the Serbs, moved in on 300 protesters.

Silovo is located 24 miles south of Pristina.

The police that attacked the protesters managed to arrest 2 people that were later released.

The Kosovo separatist government dominated by ethnic Albanians, some of whom have ties to organized mob and organ trade, cut off electricity to scores of Serb villages claiming that hey did not pay their bills.

State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry for Kosovo-Metohija Oliver Ivanovic condemned in the strongest terms the use of force against Serbs in the village of Silovo near Gnjilane on Sunday, who had been without electricity for a week.

"This will threaten the school and local health care institutions. Conflicts of this kind can escalate," Ivanovic said.

Ivanovic warned that those behind this type of political pressure should be aware of possible consequences.

Serbian Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Goran Bogdanovic said that by cutting off the electricity supply to some Serb populated villages in Kosovo, a humanitarian disaster was caused by the separatists in Kosovo.

Bogdanovic said that denial of electricity was used as a means to force Serbs to accept the unilateral declaration of independence ethnic Albanian separatists declared last year that is not recognized by most of the world.

"Nobody among Kosovo-Metohija Serbs wants not to pay electricity bills, but this problem should be solved systematically in all of Kosovo and not partially from village to village and this in the areas where Serbs are a compact population. This is evidently a form of pressure on Serbs in the areas where they, despite all the hardship they went through in the past ten years, showed their determination to stay and live in Kosovo and that they do not want to sell and leave their property," Bogdanovic said.

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