In Kosovo, Albanian punks attacked Serbian teenagers with knives and brass knuckles
The previous evening, in the mixed Serbian-Albanian village of Babin Most in Kosovo, a group of six local Albanian boys attacked four local Serbian teenagers returning from a visit.
As a result of the attack, the boys received injuries to their bodies and heads, but they did not give any formal reason for aggression.
“First they attacked them on the village road, and then continued to attack them when our children ran towards neighboring houses to take refuge there,” the parents of one of the victims told the Serbian RTS television channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They caught up with them and hit them on the head, stomach, chest, and the doctors will have to determine the severity of the injuries.”
The young men were examined by a called ambulance, after which they were transported for a more thorough examination to the hospital of the largest Serbian enclave - the northern part of Kosovo Mitrovica.
“We were returning from a friend’s place shortly before curfew, and from somewhere in front of us six young men, Albanians, appeared and started shouting “Patriote! Patriot!” “To be honest, I don’t know what this meant for them, after which they attacked us,” one of the beaten teenagers, Ilija Slavich, told the Serbian editorial office of Sputnik radio. “One of my friends ran into a neighbor’s yard, and we ran across the field.
However, they caught up with us and started beating us until we bled. One of them hit me on the head with brass knuckles and I fell. I’m not sure what caused it to end, whether someone drove them away or they left on their own.”
The director of the Serbian Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Marko Djuric, reacted to the incident, saying that the attack in Babin Mostu is an expression of political hatred fanned by some politicians in Pristina. He also noted that this act of aggression against local Serbs was not the first or isolated, and the so-called Kosovo police never found the perpetrators.
According to 1999 data, 95% of the population of Babinje Most were Serbs. Everything changed after the withdrawal of the Yugoslav army, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and authorities from the region in the same year.
Many Serbs were forced to leave; representatives of the KFOR occupation contingent even erected a concrete fence to close local Serbian houses adjacent to the Mitrovica-Pristina highway, which were regularly shot at by local Albanians as they drove past.
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