The Serb List: The decision on the expropriation of land is in the interest of those who want to expel the Serbs from Kosovo

Representatives of the Serb List, Zoran Todic and Igor Simic, held a meeting today with the owners of the plots of land, their heirs, and representatives of the Lesak settlement, the Zaselje hamlet, the Mekinice village and the Dren village in the municipality of Leposavic regarding the decision of the Government of Kosovo on the expropriation of land in that municipality.

As stated in the announcement of the Serb List, "with the latest unilateral decision of the government from Pristina, more than 83 hectares of land in the cadastral municipalities of Lesak and Dren are confiscated, of which 57.5 hectares are in public and 25.8 hectares in private property".

"Kurti's regime is trying to seize land with a total area of more than 83 hectares by legal violence, in violation of its own legal regulations, without any prior notification and consultation with the owners of the plots, the local self-government and the legitimate representatives of the Serbs," the statement said.

As it is added, after a meeting had been held where the owners and heirs of the parcels in question had been first informed about that decision, it had been agreed that a legal team would be engaged to file an appeal against that illegal decision, which confiscated Serbian land by legal violence, and that they will inform the EU Office in Pristina, UNMIK, OSCE, KFOR, and representatives of Quint about everything.

"Having that in mind, we emphasize that the Serbs live in the municipality of Leposavic - hosts, who no one previously informed or consulted and asked if they agreed with this expropriation, as well as the owners of these plots, because they know that they would receive a negative answer, so it cannot be said that this decision was made in the public interest, but in the interest of those who would expel the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija," the Serb List stated.

They asked what kind of public interest it was to steal from the Serbs and the church even the plot of land on which the local village cemetery was located in the village of Dren.

It is added that the representatives of the Serb List, as legitimate representatives of the Serbs, would inform about today's meeting and the request of the owners of the plots of land and the locals, and would lodge a protest with all international representatives and demand that the institutional violence by Pristina against the Serbs be stopped and that the controversial decision be repealed. 

"The dictatorial regime of Albin Kurti must stop with unilateral moves that consciously work against the interests of the Serbs who have been living on their land for centuries," the statement of the Serb List concludes.