Voters in Kosovo’s volatile north are heading to the polls again on Sunday, as NATO-led peacekeepers boost their presence in the region. <br /><br />Authorities ordered a re-run of a local election at three polling centres in the Serb part of Mitrovica.<br /><br />Masked men attacked several polling stations during the original ballot earlier this month.<br /><br />Mitrovica is split between a majority of ethnic Serbs in the north of the city, and ethnic Albanians in the south. <br /><br />Suspected hardline ethnic Serbs are thought to be responsible for smashing ballot boxes in the original vote.<br /><br />The election had been organised by ethnic Albanians.<br /><br />The Serb-run part of the city has defied ethnic Albanian rule since the end of the 1998-99 Kosovo war.<br /><br />Serb participation in Sunday’s vote is a key part of an EU-brokered deal to normalise relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
