The Serbs from Kosovo told President Vucic: Protect us, this cruelty can no longer be tolerated

The Serbs from Kosovo, both from the north and the south of the province, who are attending the meeting in Raska with the President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, asked the President and the State of Serbia to protect them and not allow the Pristina authorities to exterminate them from the southern Serbian province through terror.

Nikola Obradovic from the village of Dren, whose land was expropriated a few months ago, pointed out that they were afraid to let children play in the yards because in that case they were a target.

"If you could do something to help our people, let us stay and survive in these areas," he asked the president.

Srdjan Popovic, the head of the administrative district, stated that it was not great in central Kosovo and that the situation in the north was mirrored in the south.

"Children who see masked policemen on TV ask what they are doing there, and when they see such people in Gracanica, they are afraid, and from time to time they set up checkpoints, but they do not pay attention to the thefts that are becoming more frequent in Babin Most, Priluzje, Donja Brnjica... The perpetrators are not found, and this further encourages them to repeat these acts, and in this way, psychological warfare is being waged," Popovic said.

As he says, it represents war because often families who happen to be robbed think about leaving afterwards.

"When we hope that the perpetrators will be found, a new robbery takes place. Even KFOR does nothing about it," Popovic said and suggested that members of KFOR from "friendlier countries" to Serbia be deployed in Serbian areas.

He points out that, on the other hand, they do not trust the police and the security structures of Kosovo.

"The rhetoric of the authorities in Pristina is indoctrinating young Albanians. Continue to fight for our interests," Popovic told the President.

Dragan Pekovic, a displaced person from Djakovica where he lived for 45 years, stated that he had come to the meeting so that he too could participate and support the Serbs in the great tragedy that had befallen the Serbs.

He said that before he had to move out of his village near Djakovica, he had had 20 hectares of land below Kosare, Pastrik, where he had been the manager of the Post Office, he had had a house of 600 square meters, and when the Kumanovo Agreement had been signed, he had to run away and leave everything behind.

His brother was killed in 1998, he says, and his son was wounded in 1999.

"I'm sorry that the Sqiptars took my house, but I didn't lose my family and we live in Obrenovac. When I was coming, I met two friends, Milos and Lazar. We have to protect our people in Kosovo and Metohija," Pekovic emphasized.

Aleksandra Balopevic from Lepovic indicated that every day they survived arrests and shootings and that mothers and children were targeted by the "Sqiptar army".

"We know what we can expect and endure from the Sqiptar cruelty, anything can happen, but one thing is not at all clear to me as a Serbian woman and mother - how one man can sell the Serbs, Serbia for a handful of nothing," she said.

She asked the President that the Serbs and Serbia tried together to put an end to all this once and for all.

"Can it be resolved today, tomorrow, in the following period, to defend Serbia and the Serbs in Kosovo," Aleksandra asked.

Kovac: In Strpce, they harassed the coach and the director of the Handball Club, threatened them with arrest if they went out on the pitch

The President of the Sports Association of Kosovo and Metohija, Goran Kovac, told President Vucic today that sports clubs in Kosovo were also in a difficult situation because they were prohibited from competing if they did not join the Kosovo Sports Council.

"Now the situation is even more difficult. In Strpce, they harassed the coach and the director of the handball club, they told them in front of the children that they would be arrested if they went out on the pitch," Kovac said.

He said that he could proudly point out that in 24 years no club or association had joined the Kosovo associations and thanked for all the help of the state, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, the Ministry of Youth and Sports, and the Sports Association of Serbia.

"Sport is still alive in Kosovo, but now we really need another kind of help, for all federations and the Ministry to take a position, which would be conveyed to international organizations and the IOC, for all federations to inform their umbrella international organizations, for all to see what kind of repression there is in Kosovo when it comes to sports," Kovac said.

He also stated that certain federations in Serbia pretended to be silent and allowed Kosovo athletes to move and compete on the territory of Serbia, organized by those federations.

"Come, all presidents of associations and clubs, to support our people in Kosovo and Metohija, to be with them and give them support," Kovac asked.