NGO Human Centre Mitrovica condemns use of force in north of Kosovo, comments on KFOR (Radio kontakt plus)
Non-governmental organization Human Centre Mitrovica in the strongest terms condemned the excessive use of force against citizens in the northern municipalities by Kosovo police ROSU unit, Radio kontakt plus reported. “As a civil society organization it is our task to support the building of democratic society along with institutions that should carry out their duties […]
Read More →All 6 Serbs arrested in Zubin Potok released (Radio kontakt plus, B92)
All six Serbs detained by Kosovo police special forces on Tuesday in Zubin Potok have been were released Radio Kontakt Plus reported. According to this, they were set free after the judge of the Basic Court in Mitrovica North, the Zubin Potok department, Ljiljana Stevanovic, refused the request of the Kosovo Prosecutor’s Office to order […]
Read More →“How could Serbia react: To warn NATO?” (Sputnik, B92)
Pristina did not make the decision to move into action in the north of Kosovo on its own, Milovan Drecun and Nebojsa Covic opined, B92 writes referring to Sputnik portal report. Chairperson of the Serbian National Assembly Committee for Kosovo, Drecun and former head of the Coordination Centre for Kosovo and Metohija, Covic expect similar […]
Read More →Vucic on KFOR’s statement: Not accurate (Tanjug, B92)
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said the situation of the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija is more difficult today than yesterday, adding KFOR military mission is not neutral at all, Tanjug news agency reports. Asked to comment on KFOR’s spokesperson Vincenzo Grasso statement that the biggest threat to the peace in Kosovo are the rhetoric […]
Read More →Vecernje Novosti: “Pristina special forces lose confidential documents” (Vecernje Novosti, B92)
Kosovo police special forces made mistake during Tuesday’s raid in northern Kosovo, when they arrested 19 Serbs, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti writes. The daily said that during the operation, that resulted in the battering of about 100 persons, several commanders of the said units lost confidential documents listing the raid’s operative details, along with the […]
Read More →Bishop Teodosije: We strongly condemn the use of force in North Kosovo (Raska-Prizren Eparchy, media)
“As the Bishop of Raška-Prizren, with our clergy, monastics, and faithful people, with great concern we condemn yesterday’s excessive use of force by the Kosovo Police in the north of Kosovo and Metohija,” Eparchy said in statement issued yesterday. “Regardless of the real motives of this action, beatings, breaking of furniture, incursions into houses where […]
Read More →Northern Serb mayors on yesterday’s police action (TV Most, B92)
Serb representatives from the north and Office for Kosovo and Metohija, in a special TV Most broadcast last night, said the latest brutal Pristina’s action will not expel the Serbs from Kosovo, B92 reports. Mayor of Mitrovica North Goran Rakic said that “in addition to the terror conducted by the Albanians, shooting in the back […]
Read More →Rada Trajkovic: Experiment with Serbs in Kosovo (Danas)
President of Serb European Movement from Kosovo and Metohija Rada Trajkovic said the arrest of police officers in the north of Kosovo was not ethnically motivated, but it was a fight against the crime that President Aleksandar Vucic should support, adding she was worried over ‘the experiment’ being conducted with the Serbs in northern Kosovo, […]
Read More →Dodik: This is a fight against survival of Serbs in Kosovo (Danas, SRNA)
Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina Presidency Milorad Dodik said today’s operation of the Kosovo police special units in the north is a serious blow to the fragile peace in Kosovo and Metohija and an attempt to provoke a new exodus of the Serbs, Danas daily reports. He told SRNA news agency Serbia has the right […]
Read More →KFOR: Action against crime, we do not interfere (RTS)
KFOR has confirmed there is a Kosovo police operation ongoing, in line with the Pristina’s prosecution request and it takes place in an entire Kosovo, claiming same as the Kosovo government, that the action in the north of Kosovo is a fight against the crime, RTS reported. KFOR Spokesperson Grasso said the action is not […]
Read More →Serbian National Security Council meets in Belgrade (RTS)
Serbian public broadcaster RTS reports that the National Security Council is currently having a session on the situation in the northern Kosovo, following Kosovo police ROSU units intrusion. RTS added President Aleksandar Vucic warned the EU, Serbia shall react if ROSU does not withdraw from the north of Kosovo and Metohija. Movements of Serbian Army […]
Read More →Srpska Lista officials left Belgrade, heading back to Mitrovica North (Tanjug, B92, RTS, Prva TV, Vecernje Novosti)
Srpska Lista officials and representatives who were in Belgrade yesterday to attend the Serbian Assembly session on Kosovo and Metohija have left Belgrade and head back to Mitrovica North, Tanjug news agency reported. Meanwhile, RTS said citizens of Mitrovica North started to gather at city centre over intrusion of ROSU unites While TV Prva and […]
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