Vucic: “Todosijevic got two years for telling the truth”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic reacted to the two-year sentence of Kosovo Serb, ex-mayor of Zvecan Ivan Todosijevic, who publicly told the truth about the reasons for the NATO bombing of the Federal Yugoslavia.

Vucic recorded a video message on this matter on Instagram, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“A Serb from the north of Kosovo and Metohija, Ivan Todosijevic, was given a final sentence of two years in prison just for telling the truth. The truth about Rachaka, the truth about everything that happened to the Serbian people,” Vucic said. – Todosijevic was convicted by Albanian judges, although according to the Brussels Agreement he should have been tried by two Serbian and one Albanian judges. The right to both free opinion and a fair trial, which we signed with the Albanians and the EU in Brussels, was brutally and grossly violated. “I call on the Europeans, the European Union to reach out to the Albanians in Pristina and tell them they must respect what they signed and accepted.”

The Serbian President called on all Kosovo Serbs to show solidarity with Todosijevic.

“And we will be with him in central Serbia, his family and all the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija. Long live our people in Kosovo and Metohija, long live Serbia!” concluded Vučić.

We would like to remind you that the Court of Appeal of Kosovo rejected “as unfounded” the lawyer’s appeal against the verdict of the court of first instance in Pristina of 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 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, the head of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, American William 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 with him, 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. 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.