A memorial raised to honor the Serbs kidnapped and murdered in the Orahovac municipality was desecrated. The cross installed on it was smashed.

Serbian public broadcaster RTS is reporting on Thursday that the incident happened in Velika Hoca.

As reported, a flagpole with the flag of the Republic of Serbia has also been removed from the site.

The case has been reported to the police, and the team was sent to the field.

Serbian media based in Kosovo reports that during the past several nights four Serbian houses were looted in the upper part of Orahovac and that the cases were reported to the Kosovo police.

The remaining Serbs in Orahovac are upset with these latest series of burglaries and ask what else should happen in order to take concrete preventive measures to protect Serbian property that is exposed to attacks on a daily basis and the perpetrators are never found, reports KIM radio.

A memorial plaque set in memory of the kidnappings of Radio Pristina's journalists Djuro Slavuj and Ranko Perenic was demolished and removed the sixth time, and around the place was found a large amount of bones, most likely of animal origin, report Serbian media.

In Velika Hoča, municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac yesterday was marked the suffering of Serbs of July 1998, when hundreds of Serbs and Roma were kidnapped in the municipality, Serbian media reported.

At the memorial service for the victims and abductees in the municipality of Rahovec/Orahovac, was said that no one still was responsible for the suffering of the Serbs, and that all the hopes for clarifying the crimes are directed at the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, reported Serbian media.

No representatives of the Serbs in Velika Hoča have met with President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi during his visit yesterday. Although they were informed about the visit, the representatives of the Association of Families of Kidnapped and Killed have not been present.

The arrival of the President of Kosovo Hashim Thaçi to Hoča was accompanied with the increased security and a group of journalists from the Albanian media. No one came from Serbs who live there.