Rakocevic after being harassed by the KPF: This is the humiliation we are living

President of UNS, Zivojin Rakocevic, said on the occasion of the incident, when he and the writer Zarko Milenkovic were stopped in the town of Preoce by a group of uniformed persons and harassed them, that it was a humiliation that, as he said, Serbs in Kosovo are faced with daily.

Rakocevic drove Milenkovic home when they were stopped by a group of uniformed persons in Preoce.

"I opened the window, a man in uniform immediately ran up and started shouting at me, at us. I politely asked him to call someone who knows Serbian because I don't understand, and that was the trigger, Serbian was the trigger and the request that someone speak in the official language," Rakocevic explains the details of the incident in Preoce.

As he further states, then the shouting and taking him out of the car started.

"That famous beating on the legs, to spread the legs, to lean on the car. But basically it is a kind of humiliation that we exprience every day, and this incident is nothing spectacular, because after the publication of this information, five or six people came forward who experienced the same last week," says Rakocevic.

The repression has been going on for more than twenty years, adds Rakocevic, who emphasizes that they are now ashamed of being mistreated.

"The sentence that Zarko addressed to me after the harassment was: 'I am more ashamed than ever in my life to say that I am being harassed'. And that is what is even more terrible. That young man spent his whole life in the ghetto, he did not feel the experience of the city but he has the experience of culture and shame that someone may mistreat you," says Rakocevic.

Although this is only part of the phenomenon of "normality" here, it is additionally injected with fear.

Rakocevic adds that he immediately contacted the police inspectorate and international institutions.

"The police didn't even dare to say they received the message. Michael Davenport and OEBS did it instead, and they said they were monitoring the case and that the police confirmed they had received our letter. But we didn't get that response," explains Rakocevic.

He concludes that the laws in Kosovo are copied from European laws, but their implementation is done partially or depending on ethnicity.

The Office for Kosovo and Metohija condemned the mistreatment of Rakocevic and Milenkovic, stating that "this case is another example of repression against the Serbian people, adding that it is an ethnic basis, and that it shows the image of the supposed democracy that rules Kosovo."