The day after the elections in Kosovo officials of Privatization Agency of Kosovo (PAK) entered the factory Lola in Strpce/Shterpce, took over documents, keys and seals, set their security, banned the workers and the management of Serbian nationality the access to factory premises, and the announcement came that a similar fate may befall and the hotel Junior in Brezovica where for 15 years are living internally displaced Serbs from Urosevac/Ferizaj, Prizren, Stimlje and Kačanik.
As announced, on Monday the 84 tenants will be homeless. More than a month ago, they have received the PAK notice to immediately vacate the building as it is on sale. Štrpce/Shterpce responded, but the Agency which is in the centre of the scandal due to fraud and the arrest of 12 persons (officials of the Privatization Agency, MPs and officials of Podujevo/Podujeve) have no sympathy for the Serbs who cannot return to their homes.
– On Wednesday, we were informed that the PAK will enter on Monday, to get us out and bring security. We asked all responsible for help . We are traumatized. One woman fainted when she heard this. We mostly have nowhere to go, except on the street – says Janjic to Vesti.
Kosovo Minister for Communities and Returns Dalibor Jevtic says that he has sent a written request to PAK to postpone the privatization of Junior.
– Property cannot be privatized until it contains internally displaced persons. I introduced an initiative to PAK on resolution of the status of these people, and that also the funds are provided to resolve the housing problem of internally displaced persons living in collective centres in Brezovica – says Jevtic.
Two more months?
Representatives of municipalities Strpce/Shtërpce spoke yesterday with representatives of UNMIK, UNHCR, KFOR and the EU, as well as with local representatives of PAK who did not want to let go. Negotiations of UNHCR and PAK in Pristina reportedly opened a space for discussion to postpone the eviction for two months provided that the money is found to pay the costs of the internally displaced. Whether this is true we will see on Monday.
