In Kosovo, a Serbian MP received a prison term for his opinion on the bombing of Yugoslavia

The Court of Appeal of Kosovo upheld the verdict of the court of first instance in Pristina, a member of the Kosovo “parliament” from the Serbian List party, Ivan Todosijevic.

A Serbian politician received two years for speaking out about provocations in the village of Rachak and the actions of the Kosovo Liberation Army bandits.

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As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the Court of Appeal of Kosovo rejected “as unfounded” the lawyer’s appeal against the verdict of the court of first instance in Pristina on December 5, 2019, which sentenced Ivan Todosijevic, the current deputy of the “Serbian List” faction in the “parliament” of Kosovo, to two years in prison. The politician was condemned for a statement he made in March 2019 on the 20th anniversary of the start of NATO bombing of then Yugoslavia.

“The reason for the aggression against our country was the so-called humanitarian disaster in Kosovo and Metohija, falsified by Racak,” Todosijevic said then. “And it was precisely those Albanian terrorists who put all this together who subsequently committed the greatest crimes in Kosovo and Metohija, for which no one has yet been held accountable. They committed crimes before the NATO aggression, killing good Serbian citizens and police officers in their workplaces. They continued their bloody feast during the aggression and after the arrival of the so-called Peacekeeping Mission in Kosovo and Metohija.”

In response to the “shameful verdict of an illegal, mono-ethnic court against Ivan Todosijevic, who grossly violated the Brussels Agreement in the field of justice, which jeopardized the fundamental rights of the Serbian people,” the mayors of the largest northern Serbian enclaves - North Mitrovica, Leposavic, Zubin Potok and Zvecan issued a joint a statement against such lawlessness.

“Due to the new situation, after consultations that we will hold within our party, we will consider the possibility of organizing the upcoming local elections in our municipalities in the north, since the holding of these elections and the participation of citizens from the north, based on the Brussels Agreement, is being grossly violated,” said the mayors of the northern Serbian enclaves.

In January 1999, Serbian police, in response to the ambush killing of four officers, carried out a special operation in Racak against a group of Albanian separatist militants who had built numerous fortifications around the village. As the police attempted to enter the village, small arms and mortar fire were opened on them. The separatists took refuge in bunkers and trenches. During the assault, several dozen militants were killed, most of whom were dressed in UCK uniforms, the rest in civilian clothes.

After examining the bodies by an independent group of experts from Belarus and Serbia, it was proven that all the dead had traces of gunpowder on their hands and characteristic calluses on their index fingers. While there were bullet holes on their bodies, no similar holes were found on their clothing, leading experts to conclude that these men were dressed after death to be passed off as killed civilians.

However, the next day Walker and British General John Drevenkievich appeared at the scene. The latter convinced the Yugoslav special forces not to enter the village “to avoid new clashes,” while the head of the local OSCE mission invited journalists who recorded the picture of the “terrible crime.”

Subsequently, by agreement between Walker and the local UCK field commander, the bodies of those killed were transferred to the village mosque. After which Western “experts” arrived at the scene and refuted the conclusions of Belarusian experts, who, in their opinion, used “outdated methods”, concluding that all the dead were victims of mass execution.

Burial of militants killed in the village of Rachak.

At the same time, according to the Human Rights Watch report, among those killed were women and teenagers, whose bodies, however, the experts did not bother to provide.

The “Massacre in Racak” provided the basis for the United States and NATO to launch armed aggression against the Federal Yugoslavia. Tellingly, four months after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, the Hague Tribunal excluded this episode from the indictment against the Serbian generals.