Lumir Abdixhiku is surprised that no one from the European Union or form Kosovo leadership reacted nor did they send a note to Serbia, when senior state officials such as Serbia’s Minister of Justice, Serbian army’s chief general, Minister of Defense and Orthodox Church representative waited on Vladimir Lazarevic, with state ceremony and treated him as national hero despite the fact that he was sentenced with ten years of prison for the war crimes in Kosovo,. “Reaction? None. The European Union, which usually shows exaggerated sensitivity toward theft of a bicycle in some Serb village in Kosovo, did not even give an opinion, a note, not even a statement for an official act that is happening in one of its candidate states. EU showed once again the continuous disgusting imbalance when Kosovo-Serbian relations are concerned,” Abdixhiku writes.
He further criticizes Kosovo leadership for not sending a single note, for not alarming European mechanisms, for passing through the scandal which involved Kosovo’s victims, some of them still missing. According to him, Kosovo leadership was equally indifferent when Serbia’s Director for Kosovo, Marko Djuric, during his visit to Gorazhdec, treated an attack as terrorist, without any official confirmation on the case and held Kosovo politicians responsible. “In any other country, which is minimally normal, with a minimal national integrity, with a little pride and a lot of courage, such official would never be able to step in Kosovo again,” Abdixhiku says. He is certain that this case will be mentioned for years at the UN Security Council, just as any writing on the walls of a Serb monastery, even though there is no single fact that it was done by Albanians. “If nothing else, it is easier to write on your own wall,” he writes and notes that every case from the most ordinary to the set up ones will always be mentioned, but not the official ceremony for the war criminal sentenced by the Hague Tribunal.
“They come, provoke, insult and return without any consequence, without a single action, as if there is no state here. As if this state does not have a sensibility, as if we owe them this tolerance. I do not know and I cannot distinguish who is the victim and who is the criminal,” writes Abdixhiku adding that for these and many other cases, the relations between Kosovo and Serbia should never be the same as they were until now. “Only when we interrupt the current flow, we can consolidate ourselves, and send another voice abroad, that of self-respect and necessity for respectful treatment by them. Only then we can continue further, as a state,” concludes Abdixhiku.
