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In 1989, Ibrahim Rugova, the leader of the ethnic Albanians in the Serbian province of Kosovo, launched a peaceful protest against the abrogation of the region's constitutional autonomy by Slobodan Miloevi, the president of the Serbian republic at the time. Miloevi and members of Kosovo's Serbian minority have long complained to the fact that Muslim Albanians had demographic dominance over a place revered by Serbs. (Kosovo was the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church, as well as the location of the Serb loss in 1389 and the Serbian victory over the Turks in 1912.)