Good morning! Terrorist attack on Kosovo’s police officers was punished by a speedy and concrete police action. After almost 20 years, paramilitary formations have been created and peace in the Balkans has been threatened.
What’s going on in Kosovo?
Imagine the year 1999 and that the police were shot from the courtyard of a mosque in a village around Drenica or Suva Reka, and that a Serbian policeman was killed. It’s easy to imagine it because such things were happening in Kosovo back in 1999 and 1998. And it’s easy to imagine the reactions to those events. In Drenica, 56 members of the Jasari family were killed in one such “police” action by the Serbian police and army. The victims were between 7 and 74 years of age. In Suva Rijeka, 48 members of one family were killed because they rented houses to the OSCE. They were thrown into the premises of a pizzeria. From an unborn child to a man in his ninth decade of life. The police shot them and threw bombs through the windows. Afterwards they finished them off with shots. Their corpses were found in Batajnica because they were transported in refrigerators and buried in the suburbs of Belgrade to hide traces. That’s how Serbia “struggled with terrorism”.
Compare that with how Kurti’s administration dealt with terrorists in Banjska and how they avoided civilian casualties in the monastery. A Kosovo policeman was killed, and according to the media, three more attackers.
The reaction of the family of the murdered policeman, the reaction of PM Kurti and the appearance of Minister Rasic in a moment of crisis – lowered passions at a crucial moment, in which the spiral of violence could have been easily activated and cost the Serbs in the south the most.
The reaction of the Serbian prime minister who defended the terrorists and the narrative the Serbian media have been spreading – telling that Kurti was to blame for everything and that the “people protested” against his repression – is a complete lie.
Vucic immediately visited the Russian ambassador to inform him about the event. Today he will meet Quinta.
The reaction of PM Abazovic is shameful. He told that both Serbs and Albanians should have calmed down. He blamed the “Balkans” for everything.
A good part of the Serbian civil society and the opposition media “don’t know what’s going on”. They’re confused. Like parrots they’ve been repeating for years the state propaganda that Kurti is a criminal. The N1 reporter Zaklina Tatalovic was reporting from Kosovo in the military clothing, waving the Serbian flag. A professor at the Kovic university, a friend of Dejean Jovic, was telling the young that they should die in Kosovo.
Yesterday Vijesti reported that a “crime gang” stirred violence. It wasn’t a crime gang but a terrorist gang. The state-sponsored terrorism.
I hope that the people of Serbia and our NATO allies will finally wake up and understand what has been happening in Serbia for the past few years, and how the national homogenization and uncontrolled regional ethno-nationalist enterprise of Serbia can only end with violence.
That’s all for today. Enjoy the rest of your day
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipović, CdM observer and columnist
(The opinions and views of our columnists aren’t necessarily those of the editorial staff of CdM)
