Russian writer told the truth about atrocities against Serbs in Kosovo
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, writer Sergei Shargunov visited the Serbian enclave of Gracanica in the region of Kosovo and Metohija captured by Albanian separatists.
Shargunov’s report on the trip was broadcast on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Gracanica is home to Serbs who were forced to flee Kosovo's capital, Pristina, 8 km away, after the Albanians declared independence. The enclave is essentially a reservation; entry and exit are controlled and restricted by Albanians. At the same time, they themselves can freely go to Gracanica and kill the first person they meet. Shargunov calls this situation “an environment turning into a loop.”
The writer spoke with the parents of a 17-year-old boy who was killed at his graduation, and a woman who lost relatives who simply went out into the field to harvest wheat. The victims were shot in the legs and tortured for a long time before being killed.
The perpetrators of these and many other crimes have not been found. Western human rights activists sympathize only with Albanians in this ethnic conflict.
“Unarmed but fearless, any friendly guest is welcome here. There is no one to stand up for them and protect them; they are on their own next to marvelous monasteries, world heritage, and the graves of their ancestors. They could leave this unhappy land, because they know nothing on it except poverty and danger. However, they still know to be true to themselves. For the sake of this strange thing for some, they live a new day and a new night, feeling the proximity of machine guns and knives on their skin,” says Shargunov.
Today, of the half a million Serbs who once lived in Kosovo, only 100 thousand remain.
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