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Oak, rakia and Gjakova (Tribuna)

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Belgrade-based columnist Idro Seferi writes in his opinion piece about the recent protest by Gjakova citizens against the visit by Serbian Minister Aleksandar Vulin. “People in Serbia still don’t know why someone in Gjakova needs to protest when Serbian politicians come to church. Without confronting the past, we will always go back to zero because families of victims have yet to feel an ounce of justice for their suffering”. Seferi further notes that Gjakova is a city where thousands of Albanian youths were killed during the war and the city saw tremendous suffering. “This is not the first time that media in Serbia report that Serbs cannot travel to Gjakova and it is bad that they cannot do so. But Serbs in Serbia don’t know why Serbs cannot visit the church in Gjakova. This is the problem of reconciliation and the pride of every human being. Believers can visit the church in Gjakova at all times. But the problem lies in hiding the story about Gjakova. Serbian media did not even mention the reasons why Albanians were protesting. Not a single word will be said until Kosovo and Serbia confront the past … Ordinary Serbs need to be told that Albanians were killed in Gjakova, that Gjakova was isolated and that it faced difficult times in surviving the war in Kosovo. People should know about Meja and every other story similar to Gjakova in Kosovo. Families need to know that the killing of their loved ones will not be forgotten. Unfortunately, this was not heard in Serbian media.”

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