Petkovic: Svecla is the last person who can lecture Serbia on the endangerment of national minorities

Serbia is one of the most functional multiethnic states in Europe, and Xhelal Svecla is the last person who can lecture Serbia about the endangerment of national minorities, said the Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Petar Petković, in response to accusations made by Kosovo’s acting Minister of Police, Xhelal Svecla, that “Serbia discriminates against Albanians and is conducting ethnic cleansing in the ‘Presevo Valley.’”

“Serbia has been and remains one of the most functional multiethnic states in Europe, which can be confirmed by numerous national minorities from Subotica to Bosilegrad. The last person who can lecture Serbia on the endangerment of national minorities is a representative of the ideology that led to one of the greatest instances of ethnic cleansing in modern history,” stated Petkovic in a press release. 

He pointed out that it is precisely Serbia’s multiethnic nature that bothers people like Svecla, who, he said, have a pathological fear of anything that does not fit into their Greater Albanian ideology. 

Petković reminded that to this day, 212,000 internally displaced Serbs have not returned to Kosovo, precisely because “the southern Serbian province is poisoned by a virus of chauvinism and hatred, one of whose propagators is Svecla himself.” 

“We saw in the brutal attack by one of Svecla’s fanatics on a Serbian high school graduate in Kosovska Mitrovica the principles under which his so-called ‘multiethnic police’ operates, and unfortunately, this is even more clearly demonstrated by the fact that 20 percent of Serbs were forced to leave Kosovo and Metohija, driven out by his idea of an open society,” said Petkovic. 

He added that “the self-proclaimed ‘Kosovo’ is just open enough for everyone who does not support Kurti’s and Svecla’s politics of hatred to freely leave it.”

“The ideology symbolized by Svecla was defeated in 1945, and the only place where it still shows signs of life is the one temporarily governed by the guardians and promoters of the Greater Albanian idea,” Petkovic concluded.