Adem Demaci announces new violence against Serbs
It will be worse than March 17th
The Serbs in Kosovo will be faced with violence of such dimensions that the
March 17th 2004 will be forgotten, says for "Blic" Adem Demaci, political
analyst and the Kosovo Novelists Union President.
- The Albanian majority has sensed that nobody cares for its demands. Kosovo
is ruled by unemployement, crime and all kinds of troubles, and everybody is
talking about decentralization and interests of six-seven percent of Serbs.
The crowd has been blinded, they blame the Serbs instead of Belgrade and
UNMIK - emphasizes Demaci and adds that such a violence might be directed
towards "corrupted Albanian leaders" as well, who "don't have guts" to
confront Serbian demands.
Calling upon the Serbian authorities to stop and think and ask themselves
where this project of their would lead to, our collocutor emphasizes that
the only way to prevent another bloodshed is for Kosovo to gain its
independence. Having been asked if this meant that "standards before status"
formula should be replaced with "status than standards" formula, Demaci
answers positively and further explains:
- At present, we don't have conditions to provide standards since the police
is not in our hands.
The retired General Ninoslav Krstic, President of the Forum for Security and
Democracy and former Commander of Joint Security Forces for the South Serbia
also deems that Demaci's announcement of violence has been realistic.
- There is a risk that the situation on the eve of beginning of the status
talks in Kosovo and Metohija may get out of control and repeat events from
March 17th, 2004 - says Krstic for our daily and emphasizes that tensions
are growing as the beginning of talks approaches. He adds that the
international community and KFOR have undertaken preparatory activities in
order to prevent new massive violence against Serbs. In support to that,
Krstic continues, goes the announcement of arrival for another 1,000 British
soldiers to Kosmet.
- According to my knowledge, redeployment of additional troops from other
parts of Europe has been envisaged as well. It means that KFOR has
information of the possible violence - Krstic warns.
Krstic does not exclude possible occurrence of new individual incidents,
such as recent blasts in the downtown Pristina, which in case of
inappropriate reaction of KFOR might grow over into mass violence.
- Albanians are sending similar warnings each time some new international
community representative comes to Kosovo. Since the Special Envoy Kai Eide
is to visit places where the Serbs have been most endangered, he will not be
able to say that standards have been fulfilled. The Albanians pressures
originate directly from the fear that the report will be unfavourable for
them - Krstic further explains.
- Everything is possible - says for "Blic" Oliver Ivanovic, Serbian List for
Kosmet official, answering the question whether new incidents in the
province were possible to occur. According to Ivanovic, such incidents
represent pressure of Albanian extremists who want to become participants in
the negotiating process on future Kosovo status. Still, unlike Demaci and
Krstic, he rejects the possibility that the violence from March 17th 2004
may repeat.
- After the March 17th Albanians have experienced the hardest possible
criticism and achieved nothing - explains Ivanovic.
He thinks that for sure there will be new pressures, and this most probably
in form of huge demonstrations, especially if the negotiations will be
unfavourable for the Albanians.
KFOR will not redeploy any reinforcements to Kosovo in the following months,
when it is expected for talks on final status of Kosovo to begin, stated the
KFOR Spokesman Collonel De Kersabier yesterday.
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