Trajkovic: I feel safer in Pristina than north of Mitrovica

While suffering the consequences of old conflicts, all living in Kosovo are fearing new conflicts. Serbs, apart from fearing Albanians, fear Serbian criminal groups”, have declared journalist Tatjana Lazarevic from the northern part of Mitrovica, adding that before the masked persons arrived in Belgrade to destroy “The Savamala”, they had been on display in Kosovo since 2013, broadcast Telegrafi.

These masks destroyed the election boxes, and most of us believe we didn't destroy those choices, but those who forced us. During the three rounds of these elections began a series of criminal acts, which are continuing to this day”, Lazarevic added.

“began with the destruction of boxes in the first round of elections in late 2013, and ended with the murder of a candidate for chairman in the third round of elections on January 16th 2014. This is not the last political murder in Mitrovica. Just four years later, opposition politician Oliver Ivanovic has been killed. Since then, tensions have only increased”, stated Rada Trajkovovic, chairman of the NGO “The European Movement in Kosovo”, and a former delegation to the Kosovo Assembly.

“I feel safer in Pristina where there are not 40 Serbs, rather than in northern Mitrovica. We've been killed by a friend, a man who thought we could live together who wanted to separate politics from mafia”, has added Trajkovic.

By contrast, journalist Idro Seferi from Kosovo, who has said that co-existence between Serbs and Albanians is inevitable because of the position they live in.

During this stand, it has been found by speakers that the possibility of long-term peace in Kosovo and a better life for Serbs is normalisation of life, not correction and new ethnic divisions.