An international security force will deploy to protect all the people there, Serbs as well as Albanians.

Ali Ahmeti, the leader of the Albanian fighters, has argued for a longer deployment, saying that is needed to protect Albanians from reprisals by the police.

NATO forces must move more aggressively to protect Serbs and Gypsies as well as ethnic Albanians.

If KFOR came to protect innocent Albanians, who will now help the Serbs?

The troops' major function would be to protect ethnic Albanians from Serbian and Yugoslav forces that have been harshly suppressing a separatist militia.

United Nations police described it as an unprovoked attack on the soldiers, who were part of a static guard deployed to protect Albanians in the quarter.

But at the same time, the peacekeepers have been at pains to stress that they are a neutral force, trying to protect Serbs as well as Albanians.

Instead of emphasizing measures to protect ethnic Albanians, Russia has been talking about containing Albanian partisans.

Albanian mobs took vengeance on suddenly defenseless Serbs, while KFOR troops, who had come to protect Albanians from Serbs, usually just stood by.

At the rallies here, Mr. Berisha is referred to as a "cheater" and is blamed for not protecting Albanians against the schemes, which sucked in $1.5 billion.