Nikolic: The attack near the Bistrica Bridge is not an incident, but an organized act of intimidation

The Chair of the Committee for Kosovo and Metohija of the Serbian Parliament, Danijela Nikolic, assessed that the attack near the Bistrica Bridge, when members of the Kosovo Police stopped Serbian youths on January 14 and beat 19-year-old Vukasin Blazic, was not an incident but an organized act of intimidation.

“This is a clear message from the regime in Pristina that Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are a target – even when they are children. When armed members of Kurti’s apparatus forcibly pull a boy out of a car and beat him because he has the Serbian coat of arms on his phone, that is not a ‘check’ nor a ‘security measure’. It is open political and ethnically motivated violence. Parapolice checkpoints in the north of Kosovo and Metohija represent illegal points of repression, created exclusively to exert pressure on and discipline the Serbian people. At those locations, Serbs have been shot at, people have been beaten, humiliated, and intimidated, and now that same brutality is being directed at Serbian children as well. This clearly shows that the regime in Pristina has neither limits nor restraint,” Nikolic said in a statement.

She added that it is particularly alarming that all of this is happening in front of international missions, which, by remaining silent, become direct accomplices.

“Their silence is not accidental, but political. Anyone who today turns a blind eye to the beating of Serbian children and the shooting at Serbian civilians will tomorrow bear full moral and political responsibility for the consequences. In Decani, it was not ‘individuals’ who fired shots, but terrorists who shot at Serbs – Dejan S. and Radovan M. – solely because they were speaking the Serbian language. This is terror against civilians, terror against identity, and terror against the right to exist. Calling it anything else means concealing the truth,” Nikolic stated.

She stressed that this is no longer a matter of political dialogue, but a matter of the physical survival of the Serbian people.

“Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija today live under constant threat, without protection and without justice, while the regime in Pristina systematically creates an atmosphere of hatred and encourages extremism. I demand an urgent, unambiguous, and concrete reaction from the international community, the immediate removal of all illegal parapolice checkpoints, and clear security guarantees for Serbian children and the Serbian people. Any further silence will be understood as approval for new violence. Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija are not asking for mercy. They are asking for the right to live. And they will not give up on that,” Nikolic concluded.