Đorđe Martinović incident

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Đorđe Martinović (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Мартиновић; IPA: [d͡ʑôːrd͡ʑe martǐːnoʋit͡ɕ]; 1929 – 6 September 2000) was a Serb farmer from Kosovo who was at the center of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the insertion of a glass bottle into his anus. The "Martinović affair", as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in Yugoslav politics. Although the facts of the incident remained in dispute for years afterwards, it played a role in worsening ethnic tensions between Kosovo's Serb and Albanian populations.

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