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Healthcare facility in Staro Gracko broken into for the fourth time (TV Most)

Unknown perpetrators have broken into healthcare facility in the village of Staro Gracko and caused material damage, TV Most reports.

Only a few days ago, medical personnel found a broken window and demolished glass on the front part of the building. Given that facility is closed on weekends, it is uncertain if the latest incident occurred on Sunday or Saturday.

The case has been reported to the Kosovo police. This is the fourth incident targeting this healthcare facility.

Office for KiM strongly condemns burglary of Staro Gracko healthcare facility (Radio KIM)

Serbian Government Office for Kosovo and Metohija in the strongest terms condemned the fourth burglary of a healthcare facility located in the village of Staro Gracko, Radio KIM reports.

The Office said in a statement that “Serbia would repair consequences of this and every other similar attack”.

Popovic: Aim of attack against healthcare facility in Staro Gracko is to intimidate Serbs (Tanjug)

Mayor of Gracanica municipality Srdjan Popovic in the strongest terms condemned the latest attack against the healthcare facility in the village of Staro Gracko saying that such acts cause disturbance and concern about the safety of the Serbian community in this area, Tanjug news agency reports.

Popovic underlined it is incomprehensible that someone breaks into the healthcare facility that serves all communities living in that area and provides help to all of them.

Health facility in Staro Gracko village burglarized for third time (RTV Gracanica, Radio kontakt plus)

Health facility in the village of Staro Gracko was broken into for the third time by unknown persons, causing material damages, RTV Gracanica reported. A nurse, Dragana Maksimovic found burglarized health facility this morning when she came to work.

Posing with ‘double-headed eagle' sign in front of monument of murdered harvesters (RTS, TV Most)

A group of underage persons lead by an adult entered the fenced area where a memorial plaque with the names of murdered Serb harvesters in Staro Gracko village was placed, RTS reports. They took photos showing the sign symbolizing the double-headed eagle of Albanian flag, RTS added.

Vucic on Haradinaj: I only expect farce and performance in The Hague (RTS, TV Pink)

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, commenting on Ramush Haradinaj’s departure to The Hague yesterday, said he expects nothing but a farce and performance that “KLA protected the people from ‘Serbian aggressor’ and they were very successful”, RTS reports.

Asked if a date for Haradinaj’s departure to The Hague, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the unpunished crime against the Serbs in Staro Gracko was intentionally chosen, Vucic responded he thinks Haradinaj is not only connected to that crime but with many other crimes as well.

Bishop Teodosije served memorial to murdered Serb harvesters (Srna, TV N1)

Raska-Prizren Eparchy Bishop Teodosije served today a memorial service to 14 Serb harvesters, killed two decades ago, in the village of Staro Gracko, Lipljan municipality, SRNA news agency reported.

Following the service, Bishop Teodosije said that “for twenty years we gather in Staro Gracko and recall this heinous crime for which no one was held responsible”.

Bishop Teodosije also said unpunished criminals did not stop after killing the 14 harvesters, but mined the cemetery in 2000 and later demolished and desecrated a memorial plaque placed in the center of the village.

“There is no compromise and normalization without truth and justice” (Radio KIM)

Coordination of Serb Associations of Missing, Murdered and Killed Persons Families in a statement delivered to the media said tomorrow would be 20 years since the killing of 14 Serb harvesters in the village of Staro Gracko, near Lipljan, Radio KIM reports. They added “the compromise and normalization of relations cannot be established with the truth and the justice.”

The Coordination warned that “no one was held responsible for this and many other crimes committed against the Serbs in an organized and systematic manner by the members of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army.”

Incident in Klina municipality: A local Serb priest intercepted while returning with family from religious service (Kossev)

Аn incident occurred on Wednesday near the village of Zac, in the Klina municipality, when a group of local Albanians intercepted the vehicle of a local Serbian Orthodox priest Fr. Stevan Marković who was returning with his family from a service at the Pec Patriarchate Monastery – the Diocese of Raska-Prizren stated in a press release. This incident is the latest reported in a series of attacks on local Serbs and their property this week.

Staro Gracko: Life with swearing and insults (KIM Radio)

Serbs who have remained in Staro Gracko after the conflict, on a daily basis are facing provocations by young Albanians living in that part of the village, Gorica Matovic, whose family members were injured in an incident on Wednesday, told RTV KIM.

The situation, following the incident, that left three Matovic family members injured, including a 6-month old baby, is calm but tense, RTV KIM further said.