Pristina used a sledgehammer to crack a nut, Serbs who took part in the Kosovo elections with Kosovo ID cards a few days earlier wanted to show that it was Serbia.

Op-Ed by Slobodan Georgiev

Why did Pristina decide to help strengthen Aleksandar Vucic’s announcement that retaliation against Serbs is being prepared on the same day that the Serbian Assembly discussed the situation in Kosovo at Vucic’s initiative?

Seven days after dramatic scenes on the roads of north Kosovo, when the Pristina special police units arrested corrupt police officers from the Kosovo Police and Serbs who found themselves on the road, trying to block the access to Zubin Potok and other places, it is still unclear why such an action took place at all.

Nevertheless, all participants came clean about it: Pristina said it was a legitimate police action that is part of a general fight against crime and corruption; Belgrade said that it was an expected retaliation against Serbs with the aim to intimidate them and send them a message that they do not belong in KiM; KFOR said that it was an announced police action and, therefore, there was no need to intervene in moments when conflict occurred between the special forces and the local residents.

In the end, the Serbs, Albanians and Bosniaks – members of the KP, were arrested, suspected of being part of some organized criminal group, some Serbs were badly and “unjustly” (according to Belgrade) beaten and the biggest „fuss“ of all was over some Russian member of the UNMIK administration.

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