Belosevic told Tanjug that no Serb was injured in the incident, but considerable material damage was inflicted to the bus.
After the incident, the displaced Serbs who wished to attend the Christmas Eve ceremony in their homeland were escorted back by the Kosovo police to the Visoki Decani Monastery.
The displaced Serbs arrived in front of the Djakovica church where Albanian protesters stood gathered, Belosevic said.
“Several windows on the bus were broken and Serbs had to return to the Visoki Decani Monastery,” Belosevic said.
Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin was supposed to visit Djakovica on Monday as well, but the Kosovo police did not approve his visit and stay in Djakovica on Christmas Day and Eve, and they only let him visit Kosovska Mitrovica, Pec and Gracanica.
The Kosovo Interior Ministry announced earlier today that Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Redzepi decided to ban Vulin's visit to Djakovica on January 3.
Photo Tanjug, Boki (illustration)
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/112195/albanians-stone-serb-bus-in-front-of-church-in-djakovica.htm
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Vulin: Last Europe's apartheid holds ground in Kosovo...
ReplyDeleteGRACANICA - Serbian Minister without Portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday that the ban on the visit of displaced Serbs to the Djakovica church for Christmas shows that Europe's last apartheid still holds ground in Kosovo.
Addressing reporters in Gracanica, Vulin said that his visit to Djakovica was first granted and then denied, adding that Serbs displaced and expelled from the city were prevented from visiting the Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary where they were supposed to attend the celebration on Christmas Eve.
“Serbs are the only nation in Europe who cannot visit their church and take part in the traditional ceremonies on Christmas Day,” Vulin said.
“This shows that apartheid against Serbs still holds ground in Kosovo-Metohija,” he said and added that this is “Europe's last apartheid.”
Vulin said that the two buses transporting Serbs displaced and expelled from Djakovica were targeted by stoning in the city and blamed representatives of the Kosovo interim institutions in Pristina for the incident.
He said that before the clashes in the southern Serbian province where ethnic Albanians constitute the majority population nowadays, Djakovica was a home to 12,000 Serbs while their number there now boils down to as few as four Serb elderly women.
“Nobody wants us to remember this,” Vulin said and added that Serbs displaced and expelled from Djakovica received a clear message today that they cannot return although they have every right to it.
“Is Djakovica a forbidden city for Serbs? If so, then apartheid holds ground in Djakovica,” Vulin underscored and called on Albanians to stop dividing people into 'us' and 'others' and let displaced Serbs return to their homes.
He said that the normalisation of the Belgrade-Pristina relations entails, among other matters, the return of internally displaced people to their homes.
Vulin reminded the Kosovo authorities and representatives of the international community in the province that they have the obligation to ensure the return for all expelled and displaced people, including the Serbs from Djakovica.
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/112214/vulin--last-europes-apartheid-holds-ground-in-kosovo.htm
6/1/14
Lynch of Serb believers in Djakovica – Vulin...
DeleteBELGRADE – Aleksandar Vulin, Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of Kosovo-Metohija, denied on Wednesday the allegations by Djakovica Mayor Mimoza Kusari-Lila that he is guilty of the fact that Serbs were not able to reach the church in Djakovica on Christmas, stressing that he expects from the international community to raise its voice regarding the lynch of Serb believers.
“It is only in apartheid that the guilt is always laid on the victim and never on the executioner, it is only in apartheid that the one who is stoned is held guilty, rather than the one who is throwing stones,” Vulin told Tanjug.
He expects the international community to raise its voice loudly and clearly regarding the lynch of Serb believers in Djakovica and thus show to everyone, including the mayor, that after the Brussels agreement no violence can be tolerated in Kosovo-Metohija, particularly violence against Serbs.
http://inserbia.info/news/2014/01/lynch-of-serb-believers-in-djakovica-vulin/
9/1/14
Serbian Deputy PM Visits Kosovo Serbs, Praises Negotiations...
ReplyDeleteSerbia's Deputy Prime Minister called for peaceful negotiations with Kosovo Albanians in order to resolve the issues between the two nations.
Aleksandar Vucic visited ethnic Serbs in Kosovo on Tuesday, for the Orthodox Christmas.
"I do not know what is better than talks and negotiations, no matter how difficult they may be, no matter how painful they may be for both of us", Vucic said after attending a Christmas day liturgy in the Serbian Orthodox monastery of Gracanica in Kosovo, reports Balkaninsight.
However, Vucic criticised a call by the Kosovo President, Atifete Jahjaga, for the EU law and order mission, EULEX, to withdraw from Kosovo.
He said EULEX needed to remain in Kosovo, to keep the peace and promote understanding between Serbs and Kosovo Albanians.
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8/1/14
Monument to Serbian poet torn down in Kosovo-Metohija....
ReplyDeletePRISTINA - A monument to Lazar Vuckovic, the most famous Serbian poet from Kosovo-Metohija, was torn down on Tuesday in Gornje Selo, a village in the south of the province, Radio KIM reported on Thursday.
The poet's bust is missing, writer and journalist Zivojin Rakocevic told the radio station.
"Members of the Vuckovic family who live in Strpce and Lazar's brother Slobodan Vuckovic, who is now a returnee to Gornje Selo, have called me to confirm that the monument is destroyed and that the bust is missing," Rakocevic said.
"On Christmas Day, this was a clear and horrifying message to the Vuckovic family and all of us," Rakocevic said.
Just kilometres away, in the village of Drajcici, the demolition of a 109-year-old Serbian school started ten days ago, Rakocevic said, adding that it is clear that someone is intent on keeping displaced Serbs from returning to the region of Sredacka zupa.
Hazir Berisa, the police spokesman for the province's southern Prizren region, said that the investigation is complete and that there are no suspects in the case, but that the motivation for the theft of the bust could be the material it was made of.
Lazar Vuckovic drowned in 1966 at the age of 30, when his boat capsized in Lake Ohrid, Macedonia.
The Lazar Vuckovic Literary Meetings - a notable literary event in the former Yugoslavia - are held in Kosovo-Metohija.
Gov't office: Another method of intimidating Kosovo Serbs
BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija condemned late Wednesday the tearing down of a monument to Serbian poet Lazar Vuckovic in Gornje Selo, a village in the south of the province, warning that the incident is yet another method of intimidating Kosovo Serbs to keep them from returning to their homes.
This is a more than clear message to Serbs that their return to the region of Sredacka zupa has not been met with approval, a statement from the Office said.
"Knowing from experience that the Pristina authorities will not do anything to find and punish the perpetrators of this act of vandalism, we demand that the international community react and protect Serbs in the province, their property, and the graves and monuments to their dearest ones," the statement said.
The monument to the most famous Serbian poet from Kosovo-Metohija was torn down on January 7, on Orthodox Christmas Day.
Not far from the site, in the village of Drajcici, the demolition of a more than century-old Serbian school started just days ago, the statement of the Office said.
http://www.tanjug.rs/news/112426/monument-to-serbian-poet-torn-down-in-kosovo-metohija.htm
9/1/14