“Kosovo will be Albanian or deserted”: A Serbian village is being turned into a chemical burial ground
Albanian authorities are preparing to turn one of the Serbian villages in Kosovo into a repository for chemical waste, reports the Belgrade publication Informer.
We are talking about the village of Gorazdevac in Metohija. On May 24, about 2007 barrels of hazardous chemicals were delivered under police escort to the territory of the former leather and shoe factory, which was privatized by an Albanian businessman in a dubious deal in 20.
According to available information, it is now planned to create a landfill at the site for their waste disposal.
At the same time, no one gave official permission for this settlement to become a place for the disposal of this kind of waste. As a result, residents of this village and surrounding villages have already attended protest rallies six times recently.
The Director of the Office for Kosmet and Mesopotamia of the Serbian Government, Marko Djuric, expressed support for the residents of Gorazdevac and emphasized deep concern about possible threats to their health.
“This is another act of the Provisional Institutions in Pristina, which threatens the survival of the Serbs in the province, which shows that the political representatives of the Kosovo Albanians are not concerned about creating an atmosphere of trust and conditions for comfortable living together in Kosovo and Metohija,” Djuric emphasized in the statement.
He added that, according to the information collected, it was planned to place 80 barrels of hazardous chemical waste there for further destruction.
“Today’s delivery and storage of four more containers of chemical waste in Gorazdevac confirms the doubts of local residents that these are not random actions of the Pristina authorities. Gorazdevac is a small Serbian enclave in Metohija, where residents live in constant fear of attacks and looting. The fact that dangerous substances are brought here is not an accident, but an insidious additional pressure on the Serbian population to move from here in order to preserve their health and the health of their family members,” said the director of the Chancellery.
He called on KFOR forces and the international community to “respond and take special measures to ensure that the poison is removed from this enclave.” Moreover, the documents and permits that were obtained by the Albanian owner of the territory, Nezaim Shalya and his company SWIS, do not imply this type of activity.
All attempts by journalists to contact the latter to find out the details of what was happening and future plans were unsuccessful, Radio Gorazhevac reported.
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