Serbian politician in Kosovo: Vucinac lost everything overnight and is transferring responsibility to us

The head of the Serbian National Forum, Serbian politician from Gracanica, Momcilo Trajkovic in an interview for Nova.rs, says calling Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq to Serbs in northern Kosovo to present the initiative for early elections is, in fact, an admission of defeat and a broken “ ” effort to correct his mistakes.

He also speaks of Serbs killed in Banjska, former Serbian List Vice President Milan Radojac, who claimed responsibility for the attack and argues that he is Vuciki's man.

Nova: Serbia's president, Aleksandar Vuciq, has called on northern Kosovo Serbs to step up with initiative for early elections to get the main leverages of power in this part of Kosovo. The Serbian list immediately confirmed its participation in those elections. How do you comment?

Trajkovic: I think he is trying very corruptly to correct the catastrophic mistakes he made last year in northern Kosovo. We need to remember why the northern Kosovo Serbs left the institutions and what conditions were set to return to them. None of these conditions have been met. Not only have they not been fulfilled, but the situation Serbs are in today is catastrophic, tragic. In such an atmosphere, the president, who promises to protect the Serbs, proposes to present initiative for elections. It's an admission to the loss of his policy.

Nova: Do you play with the people left in northern Kosovo?

Traykovic: A safe game, but a broken game. Playing luckys, heads. However, he does so because he has an international order. He must meet their conditions to get out of the problem he created. And they will still transfer it to us, to Serbs from Kosovo. This time Serbs from the north. I'm not sure there is an environment where Serbs will accept such an initiative. And then if the situation gets complicated, he'll have reason to say they're responsible for the situation in which they're found.

Nova: That is what Vuciq did in his first speech to the public after the incident in Banjska, when he said Kosovo Serbs did.

Trajkovic: He said it and we remembered it. After all, we know it well. When the crisis came, all the authorities sought a way to transfer responsibility to us. That we are responsible for the situation we are in. And in fact they're responsible, especially the Vucciki who destroyed all the institutions that existed here. Today, only the ruins of Vuciqi's politics exist in the Serbian environment. Now he wants to rebuild a certain institution again, forgetting what he has promised. How is it he's now calling for elections, but for the Association of Serbian municipalities? This was the basis of a return to institutions. He must take responsibility for this because he admitted his mistake. This people had many victims, so many people were killed, deported, kidnapped. We survived 2004 and he lost everything overnight.

Nova: How do you see the incident in Banjska?

Trajkovic: I see it as a result of his policy. When I see Banjska, which is catastrophic because young people, three Serbs and a Kosovo policeman were killed, I remember a train, a colorful train. His open manipulations and all the experiments he conducted already began with the colorful train. Establish military alert and aircraft. It had to end like this and he couldn't escape responsibility. In a conversation on January 30th 2018, after Oliver Ivanovic's murder, I asked him who Milan Radojic was? At that moment I have been dealing with Kosovo for thirty and more years and have never heard of it. He says he does not even know him, but after a month and a few days, he is appointed vice president of the Serbian List. So Milan Radoiciq is his man. What Milan Radocik did, he did. Even if he has not gone according to his command, he is indirectly responsible. Services needed to know that. These evidence being gathered now says either that we are a completely incompetent country or that Vucinqi and his policy are responsible for the events in Banjska. Those young people thought that they were sharing in noble activities, fighting for the freedom of the people, because we are threatened. But this war must be fought in another way. These people just got into it and the tragedy remained for their families and no one else except us who received new pressures. After Banjska, there are reactions by Albanians to Serbs who are neither guilty nor obliged.

Nova: What was his reaction?

Trajkovic: Well, I personally had a nightmare that day, when I was coming back from Belgrade, in Podujevo in the roll. When they saw Belgrade records, the car stopped right before me. I tried to get out of that trap for two minutes. I received information that some of our people were forbidden to enter stores at the first moment. Until people woke up and realized that this is not the way to solve the problem. Therefore, the consequences of Banjska come more directly.

Nova: How do Serbs from Kosovo see Milan Radociqi, do they really see him as a hero?

Trajkovic: They've been blackmailed, either Vuciqi's through Radochiki has blackmailed this people here. Both his existence and his position, he put fear into his dependent people. Please, Radojic decided who the dean or university rector would be. What are we talking about? Well, the Wuchitch is not ashamed and he knows, that half-wit controls the fate of this nation.

Nova: And how did you comment that Vuciq is constantly trying to protect that man, even his villa in Gazivode Lake, whose video we all saw?

Trajkovic: I'm listening to the president and I can't believe it. Only one blackmailed person can say that. Everything seems to me that Radojic has something important in his hands, so the president supports him. I have no answer for this.

Nova: After Banjska, no one from the Office for Kosovo was submitted to the north of Kosovo to visit citizens to talk with them. What does that say?

Trajkovic: Who should appear? Who has the authority to appear? Unfortunately, our nation depends on the government, so it has to endure the worst. The government that caused him a great wound too. The people know it depends on the government and Serbia's budget, and this is presented as being before Vuciqi's, even though it's in front of the citizens of Serbia. People complain, but they're scared.

Nova: What is the atmosphere among citizens?

Trajkovic: They're silent. And that's dangerous. When watching from Belgrade, they have a lion, and when they look towards Pristina, they have a tiger. You come back, you die. For years, they were managed by half the political world, the name Srpska list. Young people are leaving. I have recently received information that 5,000 Serbs have left Lipjan in the last 10 years. We estimate that 20 per cent of Serbs have left Kosovo since Vuciq was in power. Scary is the fact that graves are being opened in recent months and bones are being transported. This is about the incredible depression of citizens. The people are broken.

Nova: At the same time, it makes your work difficult in every way. Have you recently cancelled an appointment?

Trajkovic: We are forbidden to rent cultural space. The explanation is that no one can appear here except the Serbian List. At the Cultural House in Gracanica, we had a gathering of 400 guests who were forbidden. Then we wrote to all cultural centres in Kosovo, we received answers only from Zubin Potok, we were told they would not leave space. Everyone else kept quiet. We also wrote to Bishop Teodosier to let us pitch our tents at the gate, but he agreed with him. The reason is that after that parliament, Vuciq could not say that Kosovo Serbs support him. Serbs don't trust him anymore. He signed all agreements that made Kosovo an independent state, that an ordinary man could see. Either way, we will organise the assembly in Belgrade. We will invite all parliamentary parties, the intellectual elite, Patriarch Porphire, Bishop Teodosije, my proposal is to invite Vuchy to that assembly. We wrote three letters to the patriarch asking him to meet, and he was not even willing to answer us. With the patriarch Pavle as often as we wished, even the patriarch Irinej, this patriarch does not want to speak.