Srpska lista to Serbian gov't: Declare Kurti's formations in north as terrorist organisations

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - On behalf of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija, Srpska lista demanded on Monday that the Serbian government declare Pristina's parapolice, special and intelligence units in the north of the province as terrorist organisations as they were jeopardising peace in the region, with "unforeseeable consequences for the future of the Western Balkans and even entire Europe."

In a letter to the government, Srpska lista said that, for over two years, Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija had been subjected to "terror and repression by Albin Kurti's anti-Serb regime, aimed at persecuting everything that is Serb."

It said Pristina was violating all reached agreements guaranteeing the rights of Serbs and jeopardising peace in the region through institutional repression.

It said the institutional violence was being carried out through parapolice, special and intelligence structures whose actions jeopardised the peace and the safety and security of Serbs, as well as peace across the Western Balkans.

Srpska lista said the units had "attempted to kill our fellow citizens on several occasions" and had "brutally kidnapped" some of them at gunpoint in broad daylight without any grounds whatsoever, in front of children, women and other citizens.

The formations have beaten up dozens of Serbs, including two minors, Dara and Kristijan Radosavljevic and, armed to the teeth and threatening with long firearms, they have occupied parts of Serb neighbourhoods with armoured vehicles, prohibiting movement for even children, the sick and the elderly, the letter said.

They have taken away land from Serbs without legal grounds "with the aim of militarising the north of Kosovo-Metohija" and built illegal bases contrarily to the Brussels Agreement and even Pristina's own acts prohibiting deployment of purely ethnic Albanian special forces in purely Serb communities, the letter said.

Countless times, they have carried out repressive actions against innocent civilians, manhandling even health care workers and ambulance drivers transporting serious patients and medical supplies, and carried out actions characteristic of the parts of the world where military operations are underway, with the aim of causing fear and uncertainty among citizens and terrorising them in order to make them leave Kosovo-Metohija, it said.

"We propose that, in line with your authority, you urgently adopt an appropriate decision declaring as terrorist organisations all special units illegally kept by Kurti in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, intelligence structures that are carrying out hybrid operations aimed at destablisation and escalation of tensions and using feigned incidents and fabrications to create an alibi for violent incursions and groundless arrests, as well as all collaborators of those structures who are very well familiar to Serbian security services, because they are jeopardising peace in this region, with unforeseeable consequences for the future of the Western Balkans and even entire Europe," the letter said.

"We deeply believe the decision, in collaboration with international institutions and Western partners, would prevent further illegal activities by those formations and their collaborators that are aimed at jeopardising peace in the region and create the legal foundations for actions by all state authorities against those organisations and bring them to justice," Srpska lista said in the letter to the government.