Serbian Military Airplane Flight Over Presevo A Symbolic Anti-Albanian and Anti-American Message to the region

This act of terrorism on the part of the Serbian state towards the Albanian civilian population in eastern Kosovo, Presevo, Bujanoc and Medvedja through demonstration of force in response to political events occurring days ago in Mitrovica, is spreading open terror policy, fears and anxiety over this Albanian population.

Flights performed at such low altitudes -- nearly on the stamps of Albanian homes, followed and co-ordinated by the Serbian Land Army -- with the reasoning that allegedly for “military preparation” are an unstable excuse and an misuse of airspace. Did the Serbian state need the air lines of Presevo, Medvedja Bujanoc for demonstration of military force? Or was Belgrade's primitive revenge on the Eastern Kosovo Albanians in response to the arrest of ultranationalist Djuric in Mitrovica?

The same day in Mitrovica was published on the Association of Serb majority municipalities, which is anti-unconstitutional, coating with the laws of the Republic of Kosovo, for the fact that it contains four S. This distraction of attention from the North (through Association-Stema) in the Orient (the military aircraft maneuvers over eastern Kosovo) is a tactic with clear political background, which the Albanian population is actually undergoing in both cases.

This scenario of a real conflict for the situation in the region is very serious, given the Russian influence in the region recently. This tendency of the Serbian state is making an effort even in international politics to balance power-interest situations, actions similar to those that Russia was long ago testing NATO forces, violating airlines with Russian military planes of several EU states. This same method of pursuing international provocations like those of Russia shows that the Serbian state is caught and linked to common Slavic-Russian political interests.

The Serbian military aircraft flight over eastern Kosovo is considered a provocation even to the US base in Ferizaj, which is a few miles away from this area. Belgrade's shameful attempts are an attempt by the Serbian state by claiming as a key “factor in the region and by trying to promote EU states to “pag effect slide towards Russia” to also set the EU in motion as far as its membership criteria are concerned, wanting to favour the Serbian state, and to facilitate the road to EU accession even without the condition of Kosovo's recognition.

Using military aircraft in most of the world's different states and great powers, especially at times of crisis, is used to show military force. As a common practice for demonstrating force and slogans that are always used in front of opinion, that they are part of exercise, hide in themselves clear political goals and messages.

*historian, ex-vetan of UCMPB, and former head of “Freedom Movement”, Movement operating in Presevo, Bujanoc and Medvedja, as well as Albanian society's rights activist.