The twelfth anniversary of the March pogrom is a time when Serbs are reminded of painful scenes of cultural repression of Serbian existence in Kosovo, stated the Citizens Initiative SDP. In the statement SDP strongly condemns the fact that the organizers and perpetrators of the pogroms in 2004 have not been faced with justice over twelve years later.
For more than sixteen years, women's associations in central Kosovo have been fighting to allow the opening of safe houses for women victims of domestic violence. There has been no success so far.
Unlike areas where Albanians make up the majority and where there are eight shelters, in Serbian communities there are none. Although the initiative to build a shelter for women victims of violence was initiated a long time ago, nothing has been done.
Although Belgrade has not sent a request to the OSCE to organize parliamentary elections in Kosovo, some of the parties have begun preparations for the election campaign.
Officials of the Republic of Serbia claim that parliamentary elections will be held on the territory of Kosovo, but OSCE did not receive a formal request from the Republican Electoral Commission.
Minister of Government Administration in Kosovo, Ljubomir Maric urged Serbs in Kosovo to verify whether they were enrolled in the electoral register to exercise their right to vote in the upcoming elections for the Serbian Parliament on 24 April.
According to him, citizens will show by turning up at the polls that they want to be part of what was agreed, and that was the Community/Association of Serb municipalities.
Non-governmental organization "Women's Right" strongly condemns the incident that took place on Friday on the road Mitrovica - Pristina. Three female workers of the National Theatre Pristina were intimidated and provoked, while driving to Gracanica for work.
The political situation in Kosovo after the election of Hashim Thaci as President has been rather tense. The Kosovo opposition, unsatisfied with Thaci's election, but also with the agreement on the establishment of the Community/Association of Serb municipalities (ZSO), announced a new demonstration.
The EULEX panel of judges, which sentenced Oliver Ivanovic to nine years in prison, has not submitted a written judgment to his defense, stated his lawyer Nebojsa Vlajić. The deadline for submission of the judgment in the official form is 15 days, but according to the law, the court may request an extension of 60 days, which was done in this case. The deadline for delivery of the judgment expires on 4 April. “I hope that the judge will prepare and deliver a judgment within the statutory period,” said Vlajić.
The leader of the Serbian List Slavko Simić said that overturning of the truck with Serbian goods near Podujevo is a reason for the continuation of the chaos that caused by the Albanian opposition. "It is unacceptable that the dissatisfaction within the Albanian political scene is spilled over on Serbs that live or travel through Kosovo and Metohija. Although according to the information I have, the truck driver, a Serb, was not injured, the interception on the road and throwing merchandise from the truck was the trauma for him," he said.
Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo-Metohija (KiM) Dusan Kozarev and Deputy Head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo Paivi Nikander discussed on Thursday about the current security situation in Kosovo, particularly when it comes to the security of Serbs and other non-Albanians in the province.
"Based on expert opinion, the six Serbian youths in Pec/Peja were killed in 1998 with the same weapon as the EULEX customs officer Audrius Šenavičius in northern Kosovo in 2013," said the source for portal tesheshi.com