They took revenge for the banner: Albanians threw bottles at a Serb in Kosovo
A group of Albanian youth attacked 29-year-old Zoran Trajkovic near his home in Kisnica, near Gracanica, shouting “UCK!” (Kosovo Liberation Army).
This was reported by KosovoOnline, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I was returning from work, parked my car and heard several guys approaching my house shouting ‘UCK!’,” Trajkovic said. “I wanted to go out to them and ask them to return to their homes, but they started throwing bottles at me... These are young people from this village, there were six or seven of them. They are younger than me, I don’t know them personally. I called the police and told them what happened."
As in most similar cases of attacks on Serbs, the Kosovo “police” did not detain anyone. Trajkovic himself links the attack with the burning of the banner “Freedom has a name” near the Serbian enclave of Gracanica, posted in support of the leaders of the Kosovo Liberation Army, who are under Special Court in The Hague. Earlier, the mayor of the locality, Srdjan Popovic, said that “the shield with the UCK emblem is not intended for reconciliation, but for provocation,” and demanded its immediate removal.
“The burning of the “Freedom has a name” billboard in Gračanica is an event that should not have happened. We must treat these events as calmly as possible, because we are going through a difficult period of consolidation of our country,” Kosovo “Prime Minister” Avdullah Hoti commented on the situation on Suri TV.
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