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Kosovo police use pepper spray to disperse protesting war veterans

Hundreds of Kosovo War veterans protest as they ask for a pension rise in front of the parliament building, in Pristina, Kosovo June 6, 2022. REUTERS/Laura Hasani

Kosovo police used pepper spray on Monday to disperse about 2,000 war veterans who tried to enter parliament to protest against a draft law on a minimum public sector wages that excludes them.

The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions have warned that financially strapped Kosovo, riven by poverty and corruption, cannot afford to extend higher benefits to nearly 50,000 registered war veterans.

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