But even as Kosovo's president, Fatmir Sejdiu, on Sunday praised the historic document before a low-key ceremony here in the capital, the introduction of the Constitution threatened to unleash tensions in a place where the international community is already struggling to maintain a fragile peace between the country's ethnic Albanian majority of two million and its more than 100,000 Serbs.
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After several weeks of relative calm, Saturday's violence unleashed fresh tensions.
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The violence unleashed bubbling religious tensions in the wake of the terrorist attack last month on a shopping mall in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, which left more than 60 people dead and investigators grasping for answers.
To begin with, Muhammad's death unleashed deep-seated tensions that had existed for years over issues as diverse as how to divide tax revenues equitably to what it even meant to be a Muslim.
The fear is that the Sunni-Shia tensions unleashed by the war in Syria and the rise of the Sunni jihadis of Islamic State (Isis) now pose a real security threat inside the conservative kingdom – just as the fighters returning from the Saudi-backed anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, later to make up al-Qaida, were seen as "blowback" against the ruling Al Saud dynasty.
