Serbia passes addresses to about 10,000 Albanians in the Valley

Despite the recent census in Serbia, Albanians in Presevo and Bujanoc have turned out to be a majority, Serbian authorities are trying to reduce their number through their equipment.

According to the Presevo municipality chairman, there are about 10,000 Albanians in Presevo, Bujanoc and Medvedja, who were wrongly followed with addresses, despite having no official data from Serbian authorities.

He tells Zeri.info that with the latest census made in Serbia, in the Presevo municipality Albanians make up the majority -- that is, about 60 thousand or 94 percent of the population in this municipality is Albanian.

The “Baptism is a problem which 10,000 Albanians are not talking about a competition, 8 to 9, but we are talking about 10,000 Albanians who have been deployed. Missing property, deprived of access to identification documentation, deprived of access to civil services and administration, deprived of voting. It means de-facto has been murdered and killed by “Masacre” 10 thousand Albanians”, Arifi said.

He has also stressed that progress is applied only to Albanians, but not to other minorities as well.

The passage is applied as law to us, but not to Serbs. We also have Serbs here who live in Germany or where I know where, but they don't move. It means only selectively used to us specifically and therefore they have the right to tell themselves that they have law, but its application is not fair”, Arifi is expressed for “Zerin”.

Even in the Bujanoc municipality, Albanians are facing unvisited addresses. The head of this municipality, Nagip Arifi, has said of Zeri.info, that through the follow-up of addresses, Albanians in the Presevo Valley are being denied the right to identity documents equipment.

For this problem, Arifi says they have also notified the internationals.

Whatever is at the moment a lot of trouble, it's the postulation of addresses and citizens of our municipality to both the Presevo Valley, they have problems because they're relieved of the civil situation, they don't have the right to use their guaranteed right to the Constitution, to vote, then they have no right to receive passports, ID cards, but they don't have the right to have riches. In this issue we have notified international bodies, primarily the ambassador of the United States of America to Belgrade, Mr. Hill, and OSCE Ambassador to Belgrade, Mr. Brathu, but other institutions of the Republic of Kosovo and the Republic of Albania, but unfortunately is still affecting the launch of”, Arifi said.

Even Arifi says they have no official record of how many Albanians have left the civil registry, but says there are about eight thousand in the entire Presevo Valley, while about two thousand in Bujanoc alone.

And according to some data that are unofficial, because we don't have an official, anywhere approximately 8 thousand citizens are unscheduled in the Presevo Valley, mostly in the Medvedja Community, but also in Bujanoc somewhere in two thousand. And indeed there is a problem which requires a first approach to the international factor, but also the institutions of the Republic of Kosovo and Albania”, Arifi stressed.

He stressed that on the issue of passive display of addresses they have been unable to do anything, as Arifi stressed, the competencies of local government in Serbia are very small, and in this way, he seeks assistance from the international community and Kosovo and Albania.

“I am exploiting the moment, to make the issue more sensitive, invite all Albanian journalists, to have the issue of unscheduling and to take any measures on the Republic of Serbia in this direction. There are problems in this direction. We're trying to do everything, but the local powers in this direction are very, very small. Besides talking about this with the international factor, we're not actually doing anything in this regard. So what we have left is to seek help from the Republic of Kosovo, but first of all from the Republic of Albania, because the Republic of Albania has the right to take an interest in Albanians in the Presevo Valley”, Arifi said.

That Albanians in Bujanoc Presevo are already officially majority, the representative in Serbia's Parliament, Shaip Kamberi, confirms.

“Even the question of postissuing is one of the methods for reducing the number of Albanians, because it is simply an administrative method for artificial change in the technical structure of these municipalities, which is contrary to the Constitution of Serbia because the Constitution of Serbia, the current Constitution itself prohibits the enterprise of administrative measures that influence the artificial change of the ethnic structure of the population, but now, not always what the enemy wants. The census results say that at least per cent we don't have any real upgrades, but nominally, the number of Albanians per cent in Bujanoc has increased from 56 to 62 per cent, while the number of Serbs decline. The concept that, should equality be allowed in state organs, as in the municipality of Bujanoc, where the political power of Albanians would be reflected, according to the Serbian assessment, would affect the departure of Serbs. And that's why they take all these unhuman, degrading, uncivilizing measures, and often racist to keep a situation artificially in terms of Serbs at local level”, Kamberi stressed.

According to Kamberi, the international community is also reported on the issue of having Albanians address in progress, but which according to him, for the most important international, is the foundation of association in Kosovo and the situation of Serbs in northern Kosovo.

So simply by presenting Albanians of the Presevo Valley as criminals, willing to work on narcotics, with illegal activities, they actually want to legitimize the discrimination they're giving us. Now that Serbia is guilty in all of this, because it is not a year or two, it is actually 22 years old with the 2001 agreement the International Community has made, mediated it, and they have it clearly in detail what the current status of Albanians is. And they understand at what level up to what level of agreements are respected, especially that of integration, completely clear. But as always the international community is acting on the priorities that define them. For them (the international community), at the moment there are, today, Serbs in Kosovo, northern Serbs there, association and then see how they will turn up”, Kamberi said.

Serbian authorities made atonement for the civil registry without any warning, they had tried to make it even more difficult to equip with identity documents. By legalisation and household equipment, which Albanians themselves had to pay, Serbian authorities had tried to make this process difficult for Albanians and to facilitate their job of leaving the registry.

MP Kamberi has told Zeri.info that for this, Albanians have long taken measures and equipped with house numbers and legalised their properties and that already this additional measure has been removed from Serbian authorities.

It was also like the initial measure to make it difficult for people to get addresses, but as usual procedures besides rules there are exceptions. And people have started to follow the procedure more regularly than does the passive. In the follow-up, unfortunately very few Albanians have followed the court procedure, if there were several cases in the court, which would then be won right by the letter to the Strasbourg Court, and the situation would be quite different, but the problem is that people have completed the procedure to the second degree, and the second degree is the Ministry of Internal Affairs. And now when we know that in the Ministry of Internal Affairs we've had a person like Voulin, an anti-Albanian, it's been known that the decision giving him the second degree, the ministry in case of complaint with the first degree decision is actually against the interests of the” parties, Camber said.

That Serbia is implementing the law in a selective way as to passiveising addresses, says the chairman of the Commission for Human Rights in Presevo, Belgzim Kamberi.

The question of passiveising one of the main problems is our doubts about implementing the House and Location Law. So even today, Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has not given evidence of how many settlements are passively out of the Presevo Valley in the Republic of Serbia. And all the doubts go back to that when it comes to the municipalities of Presevo, the Medvedja Buyanci, and especially the Albanians who live and live here, it seems that they are much more efficient, the first in implementing this problematic law and second means that it is becoming extremely nontransparently, and when you see the way that state bodies implement this law in Presheve municipalities, the Buyanoc of Meddja, and especially to Albanians, then it seems to be this objective that happens in the implementation of law and this nontransformation actually seems to be a law which is a law which is primarily the target of the Albanian Valley of Presevana, ICECECHCHCHOCHSCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHS.

On the other hand, the chairman of the Commission for Human Rights in Presevo, Belgzim Kamberi, says of “Zerin”, that Serbian authorities don't provide any data to municipal authorities led by Albanians in the Bujanoc Presevo.

According to him, the Serbian state takes care to show more aggressiveness when it comes to Albanians.

While the government of Serbia does not show even no willingness to show, then it shows because very large migration exists within Serbia, central Serbia and never does Belgrade give figures to show whether it is implementing the law in the same way. And a law which is implemented selectively then it's about discrimination measures and that's the issue of non-insistance. This is not the only case, is one of the many cases that seems to be when it comes to Albanians in general, there is a tendency for the state to be much more aggressive in implementing its” legislation, Camberi said.

Asked by Zeri.info, does it happen that even Serbs living in Kosovo or other minorities in Serbia are forced to stay for up to three months at their assigned addresses, or at their own homes, and that then the police inspectors come and check whether they are at that address or not, without any warning, Camber has said it is impossible to have such information from Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs.

According to him, Serbian authorities violate the law when it comes to Albanians, as they do not inform them in time as the law envisions, and only when Albanians go to continue documents of identification do they realise they have left the civil registry and thus lose the right to complaint.

The “is very difficult, almost impossible after data from Serbia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, because it is extremely nontransparent even almost too difficult to have data, for example, state bodies that are law enforcement on the matter of decision-making of whether they are doing the same means with municipalities and other communities in Serbia, the first. And the second is the question that there is no transparency at all of the possibilities and the mechanisms that have been envisioned and legislation. For example, often there is no warning, and not enough opportunity will be given, especially, to state mechanisms for complaint of citizens whose residence is followed. It means by law that there may be eight days that there may be complaints, but often the parties do not even make the decision they made to make, and often they only understand it when they go to continue their passport or to carry out any right, and there are people who, six months later, realize that they have made their way through the settlement and have actually lost their right to complaint. And it says that actually this mechanism and this way in which the housing system is implemented except that it's selective, it means there's a tendency to prevent not only animation, but also to make the rights that this law actually allows. And that's part of what I said a little bit earlier, which except that they don't respect and advance the rights of Albanians with current legislation, because there are many areas that would have to be changed legislation on the realisation of minority rights in Serbia, and this legislation in power actually tends to be implemented selectively even with a very often extraordinary aggressiveness even more among Albanians. And that actually speaks of being used, let's say, modern methods that through law already legally discriminate against non-communities in Serbia”, Camberi said.

Albanians in the Presevo Valley, in two municipalities respectively, in Presevo and Bujanoc make up the majority, while in Medvedja they are minority. But the atonement from the civil registry, Serbian authorities have initially practiced in Medvedja, and then in the other two municipalities, Presevo and Bujanoc, for the sole purpose, the decrease of the Albanian population in these three countries, which are their own.

Albanian political leaders in the Presevo Valley have long raised their voices about the issue of passiveing addresses, but no measures have been taken by internationals or warned Serbian authorities.