Gudzic: The agreement in Kumanovo marked the end of the war, but also the beginning of great suffering for the Serbs

Political analyst and historian from Gracanica, Aleksandar Gudzic, stated that the Military-Technical Agreement in Kumanovo marked the end of the war in 1999, but also the beginning of the greatest ethnic cleansing at the end of the 20th century.

"The citizens of Kosovo, whether Serbian or Albanian, welcomed the Kumanovo Agreement and the cessation of bombing with joy. In the days that followed, there was fear among the Serbs and they started leaving. It was the largest ethnic cleansing at the end of the 20th century, as 230,000 Serbs were expelled. They never returned," Gudzic said to Kosovo Online.

He said that the return of expelled Serbs to Kosovo in the past 25 years has been at the level of statistical error and that the return process has never taken off.

"Even those who returned, it's an unsustainable return. And those who decided to return to their birthplace quickly left it," Gudzic emphasized.

According to him, Kumanovo was not chosen by chance as the place to negotiate and reach an agreement to end the war.

"In the First Balkan War, the Serbs definitively liberated Kosovo from Ottoman rule and ideas in the Battle of Kumanovo. The symbolism of the Western democratic countries was to sign an agreement in Kumanovo that all signatories except Serbia would later betray and not respect. It was supposed to symbolically mark the loss of Kosovo," Gudzic concluded.