Radojevic: Protest due to Pristina's threats, we defend the rights of all Serbs in Kosovo

Milan Radojevic, a member of the Crisis Staff of Kosovska Mitrovica, says that the reason for the protest, which is scheduled for today at 12 o'clock, is the latest threats coming from Pristina and from the Minister of Internal Affairs, Xhelal Svecla, and Prime Minister Albin Kurti who said that the barricades could be removed along with the casualties, as reported by RTS.

"This is the latest threat that comes to us from Pristina, in addition to hundreds of others that we receive from them daily. Today we want to show the faces of our doctors, professors, nurses, technicians, mothers, and fathers whom Kurti wants to attack and liquidate. These are serious threats. Today we want to show our faces, how many of us are there, what we are fighting for, and what we are protecting. We are not only defending life in the north of Kosovo, but we are defending the right of the Serbs to return, the right of the Serbian Orthodox Church to retrieve the land of Visoki Decani Monastery, the Cyrillic alphabet, we defend the rights of all Serbs in Kosovo," Radojevic emphasizes.

He points out that they exhausted all the opportunities they had with political and institutional dialogue while they were in the institutions.

"We also appealed to the international community representatives that the actions taken by Pristina were unsustainable and would lead us to this if they continued. We emphasized this at the last meeting with Mr. Escobar on the premises of the North Mitrovica municipality. We clearly said that if Pristina's unilateral moves continued, it would be the last meeting in that building. These are forced moves, and the people can no longer tolerate them. New arrests of our fellow citizens, new bases in northern Kosovo and Metohija, and usurpation of private land cannot be ignored. Those were forced moves. The barricades are not just any action, but a reaction and they are not aimed at Pristina and the Albanians. They are exclusively a defense mechanism for the Serbs in northern Kosovo and Metohija," Radojevic notes.

The requirements, he adds, are clear.

"We demand the release of Pantic and Adzic, the abolition of the lists of Serbs for allegedly subverting the constitutional order of Kosovo, the withdrawal of units from northern Kosovo, and the shutdown of four newly formed bases on usurped land. There will be a large protest today as well, which will gather a large number of people from Kosovo and Metohija, not only from the north, who will support the people who stay at the barricades day and night," Radojevic points out.

He states that the Serbian community is not to blame for the deterioration of relations.

"Our hand of conversation and reconciliation is still in the air, and we must have an interlocutor. We did not have an interlocutor in Pristina. All the moves that Pristina made were aimed at undermining peace and stability, not only in the north but in the entire Kosovo and Metohija. As a result of that destructive Kurti's politics, today we have these barricades that are truly forced," Radojevic says.