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Serbs have religious freedoms (to pray on ashes) in Kosovo according to Thaci . According to Thaci, Kosovo has built democratic and multiethnic institutions. According to Thaci, the Kosovo Serbs are satisfied with the security situation? [Tanjug]
Serbs have religious freedoms (to pray on ashes) in Kosovo
A call for ethnic cleansing in Kosovo at the gate of a destroyed church
On one of the holiest Serbian national and religious, orthodox Christian holidays, which marks anniversary of 28 June 1389 “Battle of Kosovo”, scores of young Serbian children and youth, attending this event, were injured in attacks by Albanian mob and police, using firearms, Molotov cocktails, stones and other weapons.
All Serbs had to pass very rigorous controls at Albanian police check points. The Albanian Police was supervised by the occupying NATO (KFOR) force and Eulex police. It was made sure that the Serbs were unarmed!
After violence broke out, one Serbian child and another young man are in critical condition. Seven others are in serious condition and hospitalized in medical Clinics in Gracanica, Prokuplje and Nis.
Since this post appears to have recieved a lot of attention these last couple of days and not all visitors look at the comment section bellow, the administration of this blog wishes to make it absolutely clear that the following article does not reflect Serbia SOS opinion on the isssues mentioned in it, such as the Jewish-Palestinian conflict or Muslims in general. So let me rephrase what I already answered to one of the comments bellow: We reposted this fromAmerican Defence League because those pictures of Serbian victims are important documents from that war and here at Serbia SOS we try to gather as much of documents regarding our people and that horible war, as we can. We are not against Islam or any other religion and we believe that there are moderate Muslims, just like there are moderate Christians, Jews etc. Just like that, there are extremists on all sides, misinterpreting religion for their selfish or missguided purposes. One could easily look at photographs of what the French colonialists did to Algerians back in 1945 and see photos very similar to those you will see in this post. Can we therefore label all Christians genocidal or extremists? What we see here, in these photographs were acts of extremists and they don't burden the entirety of Muslim people,just like the acts of violence committed by Serbian extremists in that war do not represent all the Serbs.Crimes were committed on all sides, but what we are trying to do here is to balance the media falsification of that war which painted only the Serbs and all of Serbs as Nazis and criminals, by showing our victims too and talking about the historical and political context of this violent dismemberment of Yugoslavia. No one wins in this kind of conflict even if one side seams to be the favored one in the media, because we are all connected and if we harm one person it will bounce back on us.
What is this monument inscribed in Arabic script doing in Srebrenica (Potocari village), Bosnia?
Introduction by Nathan Pearlstein
Why are the mainstream Western media, the US administrations under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton as well as the governments of NATO and the EU covering up this monumental crime against humanity?
After serving only six months of his two year sentence for brutally butchering three thousand five hundred Christian Serbs in villages in Srebrenica from 1992 to 1995 the President of Bosnia, Bakir Izetbegovic (son of Alija Izetbegovic) today gave amnesty to the Commander of the Mujahedeen terrorists Naser Oric whose brutality against the Serbs is legend in the Balkans.
The Hague sentenced this rogue to two years in prison and now he has gotten a pardon.
Two years for killing three thousand five hundred Christian Serbs and now he’s only served six months of this sentence!
[Flash twitter] - Slavkovic Bojan managed to save his 4 & 6 y/o children by hiding them behind one wall,when #KFOR started shooting at their house #Kosovo
- KFOR/NATO was shooting at unarmed Serbian civilian protesters today and wounded some & also dismantled Serb barricades
- The only thing keeping #Kosovo alive & existent is the expensive NATO/US/German occupation and Albanian #drug & organ trafficking money - #KFOR soldier aiming his riffle at a journalist from "Kurir" press today in #Kosovo after shooting Serb civilians [ Photo Source]
KFOR soldier aiming his riffle at a journalist from "Kurir" press today in #Kosovo after shooting Serb civilians
- President of #Kosovo Mitrovica Pantic:"Untill that is changed,we'll continue to set up barricades and protest"
- "Communication with central #Serbia is broken,citizens cant go further than Zvecan,we totally blocked" - 3 Serbs arrested today by #KFOR in #Kosovo were beaten by KFOR & handed over to @EULEXKosovo ,which placed them in KPS,they RELEASED them now - Released Srdjan Filimonovic says German #KFOR paper-sprayed & beaten & kicked him& passed him over 2 US KFOR. Only Portugese KFOR acted ok #Kosovo
Photo of one of the Serbs wounded today by NATO in Kosovo
In #Kosovo protesters are "armed" and in #Syria protesters are "unarmed", according to #NATO media spin..
‘West using Belgrade power vacuum to establish new reality’
Fresh clashes between Serb protesters and peacekeepers were somewhat expected to come amid the current “power vacuum” in Belgrade, political analyst Alexandar Pavic told RT.
RT: The barricades were set up last year, after Kosovan and EU authorities tried to enforce a trade embargo. Is anything being done to resolve this dispute?
AP: Unfortunately, what is being done is more of the same from last year. The NATO forces which are being called peacekeepers are actually trying to use force to force the Kosovo Serbs to accept living in an independent Kosovo, which they won’t accept. And that is the whole root of the problem. Negotiations really are only directed towards that end as far as the Western powers, the EU, the US, are concerned.
But I do want to say that this was something at the beginning of June which was to be expected because there is sort of a power vacuum in Belgrade right now. We’ve just had parliamentary and presidential elections. The new president has only taken office yesterday. But we don’t have a functioning government. We only have a technical government.
So actually what NATO and the EU and the US are doing, they are using the power vacuum in Belgrade to try to establish a new reality on the ground in Kosovo.
The NATO-led contingent had fired rubber bullets or live rounds and tear gas against inocent protesters on Kosovo
At least four Serbs and two NATO soldiers were injured in a gunfight in Northern Kosovo as NATO Kosovo Force attempted to dismantle Serb roadblocks.
Reports said soldiers from the NATO-led contingent had fired rubber bullets or live rounds and tear gas after rioters threw stones at a roadblock near the town of Zvecan in a Serb-dominated northern area of Kosovo.
Oliver Ivanovic, the official dealing with Kosovo in Serbia's outgoing government, said four Serbs had been injured.
KFOR said two soldiers were wounded in the incident and one of them had been evacuated in stable condition.
“KFOR will not allow the situation to escalate and will use a proportional level of force necessary to maintain a safe and secure environment,” said NATO spokesperson in Kosovo Uwe Nowitzki, as quoted by Reuters. He said that the operation to remove the roadblocks continued.
Several hundred Serbs have reportedly gathered in the village of Rudare to protect barricades, and fighting began when KFOR troops in armored personnel carriers moved in.
A Reuters witness said KFOR troops from Germany and the US received reinforcements after initial clashes and were deployed on hills overlooking Rudare. Several NATO helicopters were also flying over the area.
Dragisa Milovic, the mayor of Zvecan, said KFOR had refused to allow Serb medical personnel to help wounded Serbs.
"A [KFOR] commander told me they have the authority to use deadly force on anyone who throws a stone or uses a weapon," he told Reuters.
Health authorities in the Serb-controlled north of the city of Mitrovica said a number of people also received minor injuries.
Serbians began setting up road blocks in the area last year to prevent the ethnic Albanian government in Kosovo's capital from extending control over the Serb-dominated region.
KFOR said it had started removing roadblocks to "improve freedom of movement" for both its troops and the citizens.
This is not the first incident between Serbs and KFOR soldiers.
At least two Kosovan Serbs and two NATO peacekeepers were injured in a wave of violence in northern Kosovo in November 2011, casting doubts on whether the conflict could be resolved in the near future.
At least 10 people were injured earlier in September, 2011 in clashes at the Jarinje checkpoint in northern Kosovo.
Photo of another wounded Serb civilian, shot in the legtoday in #Kosovo by #NATO
In #Kosovo protesters are "armed" and in #Syria protesters are "unarmed", according to #NATO media spin.. what a lying scum[@NewsBalkan]
#KFOR moving away from Rudare bridge towards Zvečan #Kosovo after destroying all barricades & shooting some Serbs [photo]
Herr Harald Kampffmeyer: I would do the same again
[article from 2009]
My family thinks I am - nuts! Thus, on the niversary of the beginning of "merciful" bombing of Serbia, speaks the man who, before this criminal act of 19 most powerful countries in the world, has never even set foot in the Balkans and then, with the power of his own conscience - has become a part of Serbian history, of which, unfortunately, a little is known in Serbia.
” Yellow House”is a house of Albanian family Katuci in Ripe, near town Burell, North Albania, where UN prosecutors searched in 2004 for evidence that organs were illegally harvested from Serbs and other non-Albanian people kidnapped from Kosovo in 1999. Victims were kidnapped by Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA) and then from Kosovo transported in North Albanian concentration camps.
Yellow House in Abania were organs harvested from kidnapped Serbs
In 2008, Del Ponte published a book “The Hunt” in which she collected rather extensive evidence that the Kosovo Albanians were smuggling human organs of kidnapped Serbs after the Kosovo war ended in 1999.
Exposed: how Kosovo Serbs were butchered for organs
Former Chief Prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in the Hague has given details of suspected atrocities by ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in 1999. Carla Del Ponte's book'The Hunt: Me and War crimes' claims that before killing Serbs and members of other ethnic communities, Kosovo Albanians removed their organs to sell for transplants.
KOSOVSKA VITINA -- A local Serb's house burned in a fire that broke out late Sunday in the village of Klokot, near Kosovska Vitina.
The house belonged to Milan Nedeljković, who escaped unharmed.
Villager Trajan Trajković told KiM Radio that the fire broke out around 11 p.m, adding that the Nedeljković family moved to their old house because, located in "a better protected part of the village."
“This is the second attack in just one week and we feel very insecure and request the protection of KFOR, more frequent patrols in the village, and the setting up of checkpoints,” Trajković said.
A week ago, in the same village, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a store owned by local Serb Bora Spasić. Although a dozen people were inside the store at the time of the attack, no one was injured.
In 22th May 1992, twelve newborn babies in the Banja Luka hospital died due to the lack of oxygen caused by the blockade.
The death of 12 newborn babies in Banja Luka was a tragic crime during the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, when 12 infants died at the Banja Luka Hospital neonatal intensive care unit, because of the lack of oxygen needed for their treatment.
House on the Drina River / Kućica na steni / Stenčica / Serbia by Irene Becker
The Tara National Park in the mountainous region of western Serbia was designated a national park in 1981. The 19,200-hectare park, with administrative offices in Bajina Basta, is spread out over a group of mountain peaks in the Tara, Crni vrh, Stolac and Zvezda ranges, the Canyon of Drina with Perucac and outskirts of Bajina Basta.National park covers a large bend in the Drina River bordering Bosnia.
Zaovine Lake / Заовинско језеро / Tara National Park / Serbia by Irene Becker
The 13th anniversary of the NATO aggression on our country. This time, every year, some of us remember...Even if we wish to forget, it is almost impossible, since the history has a particularly annoying way of repeating itself and few people actually learn from the past and the mistakes of others. So, only if one is deaf, mute and blind these days, it is possible not to be reminded of our own sad past, or not to get angry that it is happening over and over again.
Kosovo, the occupied territory - Eight years ago in a wave of violence in the occupied territories, Albanian extremists killed 19 people and destroyed 34 Orthodox churches.
More than 4,000 Serbs and other non-Albanians were expelled from their homes then. After the pogrom against the Serbs, 270 Albanians were arrested, 143 people were sentenced, mostly with money fees, a total of 67 of them sent to prison.
About 900 houses and 35 Orthodox churches and monasteries were burned, including the medieval relics, such as Virgin Ljeviska in Prizren, dating to the 14th century.
- Such thing is unheard of elsewhere, to shoot at people carrying wounded man! We were carrying a man who was wounded in the leg towards the ambulance. I have never seen such an open fracture. His bone has raptured all the way through, and they were shooting at us. I never felt when the bullet hit me in the chin. All of a sudden I was in a semiconscious state- says for "Blic" 31-year-old Mladen Antonijevic, who was wounded at the administrative crossing Jarinje by the shots fired by KFOR soldiers.
Beside Antonijevic , in the trauma ward of the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica there are also Alexander Radunovic (35), Sasa Stanojevic Nebojsa Radojicic (38), Stevo Petronijević (44) and Milan Premović (44).
- I was shot first. Two bullets in the leg and one in the shoulder. However, most importantly, I am now well - Sasa Stanojevic said, adding that as soon as he recovers, he will again be at the barricades if nothing changes for the better.
The doctors have assessed as the most serious injuries those of Radunović Alexander. The bullet hit him in the left lung, and he was operated.
- I have two children, son and old daughter. I do not like to be on the barricades. None of us likes it. But I have to give my children a future in this our country - Radunovic speaks slowly as we see his face in spasm from pain.
And Nebojsa Radojicic has the same opinion.
- I have three sons, 6, 11 and 16 year-old. All three are athletes, I teach them such a life. I do not want my sons to be at the barricades, I need to provide them with the future - said Radojicic, who was wounded in the abdomen and right lower leg.
The bullet hit Radojicic while, as he says, he was in a shelter. It was him that Antonijevic was carrying to ambulance when he got shot in right side of his jaw.
All wounded Serbs say that as soon as they recover and leave the hospital once again they will be at the barricades to defend the survival of their people in Kosovo.
"Your wire, our barricades "
On the administrative crossing Jarinje yesterday morning was quiet. At the base of KFOR there were two carriers parked, and helicopters flew over from time to time from the Croatian unit . Wearing full war equipment ,German soldiers were observing some thirty gathered Serbs who were peacefully protesting about thirty meters from their position. The Serbs were standing on a three-meter high barricade and shouted: "Your wire, our barricades ."
This is a translation, You can find the original article here: http://www.blic.rs/Vesti/Tema-Dana/279899/Pucali-su-na-nas-dok-----smo-nosili-ranjene
Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over the next surge of tension in Kosovo , where the clashes continue for the second day between the population of Serbian enclaves and units of NATO forces in Kosovo.
Alexander Lukashevich official representative of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement: ""Another outburst of tension in Kosovo confirmed the warning, that we in Russia expressed repeatedly, of the dangerous consequences of claims of Pristina (Kosovo unofficial government - prim.RBK) for control of the administrative line between the province and the rest of Serbia.Indulging the Kosovo Albanian side contributes to its aggressiveness, unwillingness to seek compromise solutions, for the legitimate interests of all ethnic groups living in Kosovo ", - said A. Lukashevich.
"Let me remind You, 27 September 2011. Serbs living in Kosovo have opposed attempts of Pristina to establish control over a number of control checkpoints in the north. NATO troops, who represent the forces in Kosovo, tried to bring the situation under control. The result was a series of collisions during which there were injured from both sides. "
The Kosovo government has not established control at border crossings Brnjak and Jarinje in the northern areas of Kosovo. An attempt to do so in July 2011. did not succeed and has led to the mass protest of Serbs. The situation has stabilized after the intervention of KFOR, which currently holds control of the crossing September 7 this year Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci announced that in the second half of September 2011. at border crossings of Brnjak and Jarinje will be placed customs officers and border police forces.
Source: SPB
You can read the rest of the article in Russian here: http://spb.rbc.ru/topnews/29/09/2011/617954.shtml
Take some time to watch this documentary by Milovan Drecun on the events of the 16th September in northern Kosovo and Metohija, the translation in English is available by clicking on "cc" in the lower right corner of the video interface.
According to the mainstream media, the check-point was set on fire by the group of young men covering their heads with masks and hoods, who previously threw torches and Molotov at the K.F.O.R. members. The reports state that these are extremists who were deaf to the pleads of Kosmet Serbs not to provoke chaos.
Is it possible that these are the same "extremists" who,by the Intelligence Service's orders, for years now, interrupt rallies, rob stores, attack police and set buildings on fire, any time the citizens try to legitimately and peacefully express their discontent?
In the case of the riots in the north of Kosmet, the "extremists" serve the purpose of giving the reason to impose even more stringent control on the so called administrative crossings, but also for what the Minister Dacic called "the new Storm", which would result in the displacement of those few remaining Serbs who stayed in Kosovo and Metohia.
