Opposition Party Requests Police Withdrawal from Kosovo’s North

Kosovo Police (BETAPHOTO/ARMENIJA ZAJMI BESEVIC/DS)

The Freedom and Justice Party requested on June 14 that Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti should withdraw police from the north of Kosovo and Metohija and release the Serbs arrested for having offered physical resistance to the Kosovo Force (KFOR).

In the same release the opposition party asked that negotiations should continue, insisting also on the establishment of the Community of Serb Municipalities and the return of Serbs to their posts in Kosovo institutions, which they had left last November. “It is unbelievable and completely unacceptable that the authorities in Pristina are creating a regime of armed occupation and violence in front of the entire democratic international community, treating the Serbs and subjugated people in an apartheid system,” the Freedom and Justice Party said in the release.

The party said it expected an urgent action by the international community to “calm Kurti down”, bringing him back to the realm of civilized behavior where the arrangements made before are fulfilled. “While the entire world is witnessing Albin Kurti’s violent and completely irrational side, someone must prevent pushing an entire nation into a black box, a life under sirens, arrests, long barrels and teargas,” the party said, condemning the violence and arrest conducted by Kosovo special police on June 1.