Serbian Government’s Office: Kurti Wants Kosovo Ethnically Cleansed

Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija

The Serbian government’s Office for Kosovo and Metohija assessed on Aug. 8 that the arrest of two Serbs who stood up to the desecration of Serb symbols was “one more step in the agenda of creating an ethnically cleansed Kosovo that Premier Albin Kurti is striving for.”



In the announcement, the Office recounted that “Kurti first ordered the whitewashing of a Serb tricolor at a site dedicated to the suffering of the Milic brothers in Kosovska Mitrovica,” where the Serbs peacefully protested on Aug. 7 against the Kosovo authorities’ intention to open the bridge across the Ibar River, after which the Kosovo police “brutally arrested two Serbs who opposed the desecration of Serb symbols.”



The arrest of political activists Aleksandar Arsenijevic and Stefan Veljkovic “is evidence of the fact that the Serbs are right in being very concerned about their safety and existence in Kosovo and Metohija, especially in light of the intention to open the bridge across the Ibar, which was proven today (Aug. 8) with the brutal arrest and revenge acts, near that very bridge,” the Office declared in the statement.



The Office pointed out that displaying a symbol of a nation is a civilizational and democratic act everywhere in the world, “except in the fascist provisorium that Albin Kurti is creating right under the international community’s nose.”