This positive trend changed dramatically when a series of severe security incidents starting on 15 March 2004 led to violent protests and inter-ethnic strife culminating in the displacement of 4,100 mainly Kosovo Serbs in the Mitrovicë/a and Prishtine/Pristina regions with UNMIK and KFOR being unable to protect minority communities attacked by Kosovo Albanian mobs.
This positive trend changed dramatically when a series of severe security incidents starting on 15 March 2004 led to violent protests and inter-ethnic strife culminating in the displacement of 4,100 mainly Kosovo Serbs in the Mitrovicë/a and Prishtine/Pristina regions with UNMIK and KFOR being unable to protect minority communities attacked by Kosovo Albanian mobs.