By Tamara Skrozza
When I accidentally stumbled upon the list of items found near the dead bodies in a mass grave in Batajnica 16 years ago, I thought for a moment that it was the biggest thing that could happen to a journalist, that it was a „case“ that could change the minds of people, one which would cause an earthquake.
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''Political stakeholders from Serbia and Kosovo do not have the courage to implement the Brussels Agreement because they are rightfully scared of their own people. They have to look for a way to establish citizens’ equality and to offer solutions to facilitate their everyday life, rather than locking them up in national corrals. They have nothing to offer for a better future to their own people, but they are using the story of ethnic delimitation to obscure their political incompetence. Germany has had a clear position from the very beginning.
''The Alliance for Serbia supports the idea of creating an Alliance for Kosovo and Metohija – a sister organization, so that the voices of the Kosovo Serbs can be heard much more often and for them to be able to have a decisive influence on Serbia’s policy towards Kosovo, '' the Alliance for Serbia and a delegation of opposition political representatives of Kosovo Serbs announced during a joint conference yesterday, reports portal KoSSev.
The biggest security problem for the Serb community in the North of Kosovo is crime and for the Serbs South of Ibar freedom of movement - says the research within the project "Did the Brussels Agreement Forgotten Citizens" conducted by NGO "Crno Beli Svet" (Black and White World) and TV Mir based in Leposavic.
A panel discussion organized marking the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security for Kosovo’s Global Open Day was held in March in Prishtina, discussing the gender-responsive and inclusive political processes in Kosovo.
''The exchange of territories is being discussed because Federica Mogherini faked the process and progress in order to keep her job, while HashimThaci wants an amnesty from the Special Court,'' German political analyst and expert on the Balkans, Bodo Weber said during his guest appearance on the KTV Rubikon show.
After the British government sent a warning to its citizens not to travel to municipalities in the north of Kosovo due to risks of security incidents, thus causing intense reactions in the public, the UK government in Pristina issued a statement that the British embassy ''advised against all but essential travel to the northern municipalities for several years, due to a number of recent violent incidents linked to organised crime in northern Kosovo. ''
KoSSev portal reported that on Tuesday a Kosovo Albanian man reported to police that he was physically attacked by unknown individuals at Knjaza Milosa Street in North Mitrovica.
The portal reports that last night at 11.30 pm, an Albanian who was walking along the street was attacked by unknown persons and he suffered bodily injuries-Kosovo Police has published in their report. The victim was sent for treatment to the Mitrovica hospital.
Police launched an investigation into this case.
The Kosovo Police, in cooperation with the tax administration and the Kosovo Customs, conducted an operation yesterday in 33 cities in Kosovo during which 235 casinos and betting shops were searched and 35 of them were closed. Customs seized 118 gambling machines, while some betting shops and casinos which were closed did not have a work permit, which was also the reason behind this operation, the Kosovo Police announced in an urgent press conference held in Pristina.
The ninth “1 out of 5 million” protest organized in Kosovo was held on Saturday for the first time in the vicinity of the Jarinje integrated border crossing. As the organizers emphasized, the reason why the protest was held there was to remind the public that the government of Aleksandar Vucic established “the border between Serbs and Serbs” and not the previous government, as the Serbian Progressive Party had repeatedly claimed.