Six months following the horrific bloodbath in North Kosovo's Banjska village, the incident that had an armed group launch a deadly assault on Kosovo police is viewed as a key reflection of the level of brutality between Serbians and Kosovars in the region. The attackers had relied on vehicles and heavy weapons smuggled across the border from Serbia, which since then has made the issue of surveillance all that more critical in the tensions between Pristina and Belgrade.