Serb List: Kurti rapidly implements ethnic cleansing plan against Serbs – What is the role of EULEX and KFOR?

By expelling Serbian police officers, issuing arrest warrants, summoning dozens of Serbs for questioning, and announcing the construction of two bridges on the Ibar River, Albin Kurti is rapidly implementing a plan of ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people from Kosovo, the Serb List stated today, questioning the role of EULEX and KFOR.

"By expelling Serbian police officers who were born and have lived for decades in Kosovo and Metohija, by issuing arrest warrants and interrogating dozens of Serbs over peaceful protests held in 2022 – or what Pristina calls ‘barricades’ – and by announcing the construction of two bridges on the Ibar River, Albin Kurti is swiftly and openly carrying out a plan of ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people from Kosovo and Metohija," the Serb List warned.

The party stated that this represents institutional violence exerting unprecedented pressure on honorable Serbs who refuse to renounce their Serbian identity, who do not want to be “Kurti’s servants,” and who are now targeted solely because they are Serbs.

The Serb List emphasized that the lack of any reaction from international missions and institutions – the EU, the Quint, UNMIK, and KFOR – is both shameful and deeply concerning, pointing out that according to their mandate, these missions are supposed to prevent such actions and protect fundamental human rights.

They further noted that the passivity of the international community amounts to complicity in the ethnic cleansing of the Serbian people from their centuries-old homes, in the 21st century, on European soil.

They stressed that this is not part of an election campaign – although it has direct political implications – but rather an open plan to expel all Serbs and destroy everything Serbian, right before the eyes of the entire global public.

Hence, they asked: what is the purpose of EULEX and KFOR?

"The question arises – what is the purpose of EULEX and KFOR if Serbs do not have basic security in their homes, if they are subjected to institutional violence, if warrants are being issued against them, and if they are being persecuted without any legal basis or due legal process?" the Serb List asked.

This reaction came after a member of Serbia’s Ministry of the Interior, Jovica Arsic, was deported today by order of the Pristina Directorate for Migration, after being arrested earlier in the day at the Končulj administrative crossing.

Arsic is the fourth officer of Serbia’s Interior Ministry to be expelled from Kosovo in just a few days.

A few days earlier, the Kosovo Police arrested three Serbian police officers at administrative crossings – Mladen Milojevic from Leposavic, Aleksandar Mirkovic from Partes, and Nikola Vujovic from Zubin Potok – as well as a retired police officer, Milan Simic from Babin Most.

The following day, Milan Zlatanovic from Veliko Ropotovo was also arrested.

Milojevic, Vujovic, and then Zlatanovic were deported from Kosovo.