172 Retired KSF members in the past three months

The Kosovo Security Force has retired no fewer than 172 members who had once served in the Kosovo Protection Corps, who have no more than 50 and 55 years of age.

The retirement of these members of the Force has confirmed the ministry of this force, which has shown the reasons for retirement of such high numbers.

Metro has learned that the age of these retirees is not the same, but MFSK's spokesman, Ibrahim Shala, estimates that retirement has taken place in line with the Pension Law of the former member of the KPC.

During this last three (3) months, from August until now, 172 members have retired from KSF. All these retirees have been former members of the Kosovo Protection Corps (TMK). The average age of these retirees is in line with the Law on Pensions at KSF”, Shala has said of Metro Gazette.

Asked whether these pensions concern the process of converting KSF into the military, Shala estimates that the <x0-year age of recruiting and retirement is money by law and service regulation at KSF”.

Shala, meanwhile, has acknowledged that some of the active members of this force are having problems. It's about KSF members coming from the Serb community, which in recent months are facing great pressure from Serbia.

Although this was fired on the first few months of pressure, Serbia has launched a new campaign on the eve of creating the Kosovo Army, threatening and blackmailing KSF Serbs from becoming part of the military.

There are various forms of pressure on KSF members of the Serb community and other communities. The latest case is to place the bomb in the courtyard of a member of the Turkish community's KSF in the Bosnjak Quarter in North Mitrovica”, Shala added to Metro, confirming a new wave of pressure.

And these pressures, as the KSF official says, have led many Serb members of this force to choose as a way of abandoning it, marking the decline in the involvement of minorities in the multi-ethnic army aimed at creating Kosovo. So far, there are 71 official requests for debilisation, meaning that so many members have been forced to seek out the KSF.

However, the Kosovo state has pledged to establish the military this year, while also stressing multiethnicity as the value of this army. President Thaci was also the supreme commander of the Force, who had promised involvement.

The conversion of KSF into the military this year also envisions increasing the number of people who would serve as Kosovo soldiers, who were said to be young in the majority, as the draft law envisions.

Otherwise, the KSF, which is facing departures under pressure and with many senior members, is expected to become an official military soon. The package of three government laws establishing the military is now on the parliamentary Commission, where voting that clears the way for parliamentary voting hearings is expected.