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2023-09-27 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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The West gave the Albanians carte blanche to terrorize the Kosovo Serbs
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Daria Rakic
[Regnum] The past week was marked not only by the tragedy of Nagorno-Karabakh, but also by the aggravation of the already difficult situation in the long-suffering region in the south of Serbia, on the territory of which sixteen years ago the Albanians proclaimed their republic.
On Sunday night, in the town of Banska, not far from Kosovska Mitrovica, a shootout between Pristina security forces and unknown people began, resulting in the death of a Kosovo “policeman.” This was followed by a “force operation” in Pristina, which resulted in the storming of a medieval monastery of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the killing of several Serbs.
According to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic , September 24 was the most difficult day for the Serbian people since the March 2004 pogrom and the declaration of independence of the “Republic of Kosovo” in February 2008.
WHO SHOT WHOM?
On Sunday morning, information appeared in the Kosovo media about the murder of a policeman at the entrance to the village of Banska near Leposavić. Another “law enforcement officer” was allegedly wounded, and a patrol of Kosovo security forces arriving at the scene was fired upon by unknown assailants.
Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti announced the presence of “heavily armed masked professionals” on the territory of the municipality and immediately accused them of belonging to “ Serbian armed groups.”
At the same time, the Chairman of the Serbian Parliament, Vladimir Orlic, emphasized that the main person interested in the escalation of the conflict is Kurti himself. And he urged to wait for the results of the investigation before drawing conclusions.
However, no one was going to wait for the results of the investigation.
Following the Kosovo authorities' accusations against Belgrade, there was an immediate reaction from Western partners.
The “organized brutal attack” on the Kosovo police was condemned by several European officials. The most revealing was the lightning-quick reaction from the American diplomatic mission - Washington called for bringing the guilty Serbs to justice as soon as possible.
The border crossings of Jarinje and Brnjak on the administrative border with central Serbia were closed. In the north of the region, a force operation was launched to search for intruders. Information has emerged that Serbian municipalities in the north of the region will be declared a “counter-terrorist operation zone.” Representatives of the EULEX mission arrived in the village of Banska, and began to bring equipment from the NATO peacekeeping contingent (KFOR) to the site of the incident.
In the middle of the day, reports appeared from the Rasko-Prizren diocese of the SOC that Kosovo security forces were storming the Banjska monastery.
It was built in 1313–1317 by the Serbian king Milutin and was considered the fourth most important monastery in Serbia. The thing is that for a long time Banska was the royal tomb - Milutin bequeathed to bury him in the monastery, and after his death his will was fulfilled. However, after the tragic defeat of the Serbs at the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, the king's ashes were transferred to Trepca and then to Sofia, Bulgaria.
The Prime Minister of the self-proclaimed Republic of Kosovo told reporters that thirty heavily armed Serbian “terrorists” had barricaded themselves on the territory of the monastery. According to him, people in uniform without identification marks represent “ an organized formation that arrived to fight in Kosovo.”
However, at the time of the assault, Abbot Daniel and the brethren of the monastery, as well as about thirty pilgrims from Novi Sad, including children, were in the shrine. All of them became hostages of the situation and were forced to take refuge in the monastery from shelling by Kosovo security forces.
A WAVE OF FAKES
Meanwhile, photos of the “liquidated Serbian terrorist” were already being widely distributed on the Internet.
True, he turned out to be an Azerbaijani soldier killed in the direction of Talish back in 2016.
There have been attempts to find the “long hand of the Kremlin” behind what is happening in northern Kosovo. The Albanian Post, citing its informed sources, reported that it was not even Serbian paramilitary forces that attacked the “Kosovo police,” but fighters from the Wagner PMC and special forces officers of the Russian army.
A large-scale information campaign has begun on social networks.
As evidence of the presence of Russians in the Serbian temple, an audio recording circulated on Twitter, according to which Russian speech was heard in the besieged monastery. It’s just that the only phrase that even slightly resembles the Russian language sounds like the question “Is there spice?” (which, you see, would hardly have bothered the “terrorists” at the time of the shootout with the Kosovo police).
But even such a poorly put together fake was enough for foreign media to begin seriously discussing the presence of the Wagner PMC and Russian special forces soldiers in Kosovo.
The zest to the madness of what was happening was added by the statement of the Austrian blogger and activist Günter Fehlinger, who heads a certain “European Committee for NATO Development”. Fehlinger called for an immediate strike against Serbia with the words “The Serbian war against Kosovo began in Banska. Bomb Belgrade right now!
CARTE BLANCHE FOR TERROR
At 20:00 on September 24, Aleksandar Vucic made an urgent address to the nation. The most emotional part was the part about recognition of the independence of the self-proclaimed republic, which Western partners are trying to achieve from Belgrade by hook or by crook.
“Serbia will never recognize the monstrous creation that you created through the bombing of Serbia and lies. We are always ready for dialogue, but forget about recognition of Kosovo,” the Serbian leader said harshly and added: “ Do what you want - even kill us all.”
The president said that the shootout began after Kosovo Serbs set up a barricade of two trucks near Banjska, and Kosovo police opened fire on them.
“I warned many times both in New York and in Brussels that this could happen... It happened,” Vucic concluded, in no way justifying the murder of the Albanian security officer.
We must pay tribute to the President of Serbia, he really warned the inhabitants of the cozy headquarters of international organizations that sooner or later the “powder keg” would explode and it was simply unsafe to ignore the situation further. This is exactly what the president spoke about the other day and during his speech at the UN General Assembly, but the international community is diligently pretending not to hear him.
The scale of terror by the Kurti authorities against the Kosovo Serbs is growing: this year alone, the Kosovo authorities tried 41 times to provoke a direct conflict in the north of the region. There were 15 cases of aggression against Serbian children and 56 attacks on objects of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Since “Prime Minister” Albin Kurti came to power, 401 incidents have already been recorded, including attacks on Serbian families, illegal arrests of Serbs, and destruction of Serbian houses by Albanians. If 54 attacks were recorded in 2020, then in 2021 there are already 133 incidents. Over the past year, Serbs and their property were attacked by Albanians 164 times.
This means that every two or three days there are provocations against the Serbian population in the region. Separately, it is worth noting that cases of destruction of Orthodox shrines and cemeteries have become more frequent in recent years. “Raids” by the Kosovo police, as well as arrests of the Serbian population for far-fetched reasons, have also become frequent.
“If we are talking about de-escalation, no one has done anything about it. Because the international community gave Kurti carte blanche for terror ,” Vučić emphasizes. During the address, the President confirmed that Albanian snipers killed three Serbs in Bansk. The body of the fourth victim will be found in the surrounding area a little later.
NO ONE HAS ILLUSIONS
Pilgrims from Novi Sad, after the “filtration” procedure in Kosovska Mitrovica, were sent to the administrative line. Six Serbs were detained in Kosovo for preparing an “attack”, and the head of the “Ministry of Internal Affairs” of the self-proclaimed republic demands from Belgrade the extradition of four more Albanian snipers injured by fire and hospitalized in a hospital in Novi Pazar.
According to Dzhelal Svechli , they must " stand trial for their terrorist actions." The vice-chairman of the Serbian List party, Milan Radojicic, was also declared one of the suspects in the “terrorist attack” - his documents were allegedly found in one of the seized cars.
In the next three days, mourning for the victims has been declared in the Serbian municipalities of Kosovo and Metohija.
They are all ordinary residents of Zvecan and Leposavić. There are no Serbian terrorists or Russian fighters among them: 50-year-old Igor Milenkovic, who worked as an ambulance driver at the Clinical Center of Kosovska Mitrovica, has two children left, 31-year-old athlete Stefan Nedeljkovic was very loved by his friends, and Bojan Mijailovich just recently became a father. On Wednesday, mourning events will also take place throughout Serbia.
A meeting of the National Security Council was held in Belgrade, following which “all necessary” decisions will be made. However, no one has any illusions: the current aggravation is far from the end, but only the beginning.
There are few ways to resolve the Kosovo conflict, and Western diplomats and European officials who have assumed the role of mediators are no longer able to provide them. However, how to curb your “child”, led by the odious Albin Kurti.
Each round of negotiations in Brussels ends with the smug grin of the Kosovo “prime minister” and the face of the Serbian president, full of tragedy. While the obligations guaranteed by the Brussels Agreements to create a Community of Serbian Municipalities in Kosovo are ignored, right before our eyes, the army of the self-proclaimed republic, prohibited by UN resolution, is being formed from the Kosovo “security forces”.
With all the flexibility of the Serbian leader, who is stretched out in a geopolitical twine, and the reluctance to transfer the frozen conflict into a hot stage (which, according to him, always ends in tragedy), unfortunately, the next clash is only a matter of time.
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