Kosovo Politician Complains of Threats and Pressures

Rada Trajkovic (BETAPHOTO/ARMENIJA ZAJMI BESEVIC)

Rada Trajkovic, the president of the European Movement of Kosovo and Metohija Serbs, has stated that she has been subject to threats and pressures ever since she spoke out about the fact that Oliver Ivanovic, the assassinated leader of the Social Democratic Party Civic Initiative, had been threatened by a criminal group from north Kosovo.

According to Trajkovic, her harassment began after a group of Serbs were arrested on suspicion of participating in Ivanovic’s assassination. The Special Prosecutor’s Office had been covertly interviewing numerous citizens and gathering evidence when Trajkovic openly spoke of this to the media.

“After [my] statement, then-chief of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric held a press conference and lambasted me. The following day Aleksandar Vucic read in front of a press conference parts of the statement I gave to the Special Prosecutor’s Office in Pristina as part of the investigation,” Trajkovic has said, adding that her statement was supposed to be kept confidential.

Trajkovic maintains that President Vucic practically blamed her for the arrest of Serbs in the Ivanovic case, after which she began receiving threats and her son lost his job.

So far, no one has been arrested over the harassment Trajkovic has reported, while her police escort “was canceled by [Aleksandar] Vulin as soon as he became minister,” she has said.