Kurti's Referendum, Osmani at the UN, and the Resolution - Moving in a Circle of Their Own Corruption

"What kind of state, that kind of politics, and with it, political representatives. Kosovo, in its current form, created by violence and nurtured on lies and crime, probably could not have had a better prime minister than Albin Kurti and a president than Vjosa Osmani. The farce of a referendum with 0.5% turnout and another scandalous performance at a UN Security Council meeting illustrate this perfectly. And it all fits perfectly into the general state of the international stage, where political force is used to slap labels of genocide."

Written by: Milos Garic

As Aleksandar Tijanic brilliantly defined, everyone moves in a circle of their own corruption.

It was clear from the very beginning that Albin Kurti had no intention of allowing Serbs to return to power in municipalities where they are the absolute majority. Procrastination, ministerial consultations, complicated government instructions, petitions, detailed checks, and finally a referendum under the watch of cameras and automatic rifles.

It was bound to fail. And there is no Serbian guilt in this. Excluding the "invisible hand" of powerful sponsors, the responsibility lies solely with Kurti, and he will ultimately bear the political damage. Although it may not seem so now.

Because the main message from the failed referendum to remove the self-proclaimed mayors in the north of Kosovo is – there is no political authority of the Albanian government in these municipalities. No matter how hard the prime minister tries to prove otherwise.

Moreover, Kurti's false democracy, along with batons and the long barrels of special police, has once again united Serbs against Kosovo's institutions. Today, even more than in last year's local elections, when Serbs also did not participate for similar reasons.

The farce of the referendum, where Kurti set a cheap trap, was rightly completely rejected by the Serbs. They listened to themselves and the logical proposal of the Serbian List, not the false calls from the authorities in Pristina and some very engaged ambassadors.

The appointment of Albanian mayors by force, without any legitimacy, among Serbs in the north of Kosovo, has been a bad idea of Kosovo's authorities from the start, although it provides Kurti with short-term political benefits. It is hard to believe that a man of German rationality, like Jorn Rode, does not understand how hypocritical it is when he accuses Serbs of not participating in something that was a foregone conclusion, and which, by Kurti's design, was only meant to provide him with legitimacy to continue terror and autocracy.

Kurti wanted at all costs to prove his somnambulist thesis, by which the majority of Serbs actually want Albanians at the head of the municipalities of Leposavic, Zubin Potok, Zvečan, and North Mitrovica. And, due to the unachievable conditions he set in the procedure (one key condition was 50+ percent turnout), in an environment of long-standing fear, pressures, impossibility of postal voting, newly displaced persons, and an unorganized voter list, he calculated that there was no chance for the referendum to pass. He probably hoped for 35 percent turnout, would have claimed that his democracy once again showed how “perfectly it functions,” and would have declared a triumph.

But, he got 0.5 percent and a complete defeat of his influence among the Serbs. Gamblers call this - "double zero."

And, how tragicomic Hetemi, Atic, Zeciri, and Peci are when convincing themselves and their relatives that they govern municipalities where Kurti has “installed” them, they know best themselves. The acting of these pointless political activists has no real effect except to serve as instruments in the hands of the big boss in Pristina. To satisfy him and his ambitions, these people humiliate themselves and cause misery to both Serbs and Albanians.

Kurti can keep mayors in the north, elected last spring with about 200 votes each, under arms until the deadline for regular local elections in mid-2025, but this only emphasizes the importance and necessity of forming the Community of Serbian Municipalities with all executive powers, while prolonging the isolation, stagnation, and despair of Albanians in the rest of Kosovo.

“To put an end to this stupidity,” Kurti’s former close associate Dardan Molliqaj rightly urged yesterday.

However, the West still aids Prime Minister Kurti in his anti-Western policy, which shows how much the situation with Kosovo has entered the realm of the surreal.

Parallel to the Kosovo referendum farce, on the East River in New York, albeit as a private individual, Vjosa Osmani performed. She again confused roles, events, and dates because she does not have an official status in UN halls, which makes her nervous. Especially when President Aleksandar Vučic sits across from her.

During the discussion of the already vague UNMIK report on the situation in Kosovo over the past six months and the systematic persecution of Serbs, Osmani cunningly attempted to shift the focus to the old issues of Serbian crimes and the rape of Albanian women during the conflict period, using figures that inexplicably differ dramatically from those established after the wartime events. Lacking an explanation for the current disastrous situation in Kosovo, Osmani decided to "jump" into a time machine, using a tactic that Germany and other Western powers are employing at the UN these days, sponsoring a resolution on the "genocide in Srebrenica".

In the described circumstances, the President of Serbia reacted very calmly, ready to respond even to such a maneuver by the Albanian delegation. With a striking reminder of the horrific fate of Marica Miric from Belo Polje near Pec, who was tortured and slaughtered by KLA terrorists in one of many frenzied attacks on Serbs in the summer of 1999, Vučic made it clear to the representatives of Pristina and others at the UN Security Council meeting that Serbs also have painful wounds, having been killed, raped, abused, and persecuted, no less than others and often much more, but despite everything, they want to talk without hatred, about the future, peace, and cooperation.

And of course, no one can and should seek to justify the suffering of the Muslim population in the area of Srebrenica in July 1995, whether there were five or eight thousand victims. Every rational person in Serbia feels bitterness and discomfort about this, as much as it has nothing to do with collective guilt. Two presidents have gone to pay their respects. The responsible ones have long been in prison, paying their price. However, the Serbs continue to go through a Golgotha. Some would again crucify them. Because on the graves in Srebrenica, some want to profit, others to settle their new bloody scores.

It is hard to speak without bitterness when faced with such an amount of hypocrisy and bad motives in one place, as is the case with the announced UN resolution on the “genocide in Srebrenica” and its authors.

Western sponsors of this “diplomatic” action want to attribute to Serbia and the Serbs what has not been attributed to anyone before, not even to them, the ideological creators and patent owners of genocide.

Without going back to the 20th century or earlier, to the heartless decimation of African tribes, colonial terror in India, fascist concentration camps, Ustasha pits and Serb-cutter, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the massacres of the Independent State of Croatia. It would be enough to focus only on the last 29 years, as long as Germany and other new interpreters of genocide have decided to look back, who do not allow the severe war crime of Srebrenica in the summer of 1995 to remain where it belongs, in the past, after all previous digging into that dreadful wound.

There is fierce competition even in this short history of dishonor, from 1995 onwards, and some questions arise by themselves.

What is it called when in the summer of 1995, Operation Storm in Croatia “blows away” 250,000 people from their homes in three days? Who answered for the beastly NATO attack on the FR Yugoslavia in 1999, for the thousands of bombs dropped, the killing of children and civilians? Who is to blame for the hell of Iraq, the destroyed hospital in Fallujah, and people melted by white phosphorus? Who lost a hair over the horrors committed against the peoples of Afghanistan, Libya, Syria? Where is the justice for all the crimes against Serbs in Kosovo after June 1999 in front of foreign soldiers' eyes?

Will Bosnia and Herzegovina be a happier and more long-lasting country if the resolution is passed? Can Bosniaks and Serbs live in peace if the victims on both sides are not equal, if it insists that tears of some mothers weigh more? Will the UN fulfill its mission, or will it, with a deep division on this issue, lead its member states into a new cycle of global hell?

We live in a time where it is possible for Albin Kurti, Annalena Baerbock, and Zlatko Lagumdžija to give lessons on what genocide is to Efraim Zuroff, Ehud Barak, and Gideon Greif. Any further comment is superfluous.

P.S.

Serbs have paid a huge price for their sins, but some still want to profit off Serbian backs. Perverse, ugly, and dangerous. The delegation of official Belgrade, led by the President, these days in New York is determined to check how much truth, the fight for principles, and the protection of universal human values, in this divided world, are capable of coping with arrogant force, lies, and manipulation. From a frail Serbia, quite enough as a contribution to the potential recovery of a fallen civilization.