Kosovo Serbs go to protect Vuciqi in Belgrade

In the last seven days, the Pioneer Park, which is located near Serbia's most important state institutions, has become a place of student protests, which require that we be able to pursue lectures at universities.

At this location, there are currently members of the disbanded Special Operations Unit (JSO), whose commanders have been convicted of war crimes and political liquidation; officials of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party, as well as a larger group of people from Kosovo.

For some of them, supporting the requests of “students who want to learn” is not the primary motivation to be there.

“We are here to support President Aleksandar Vuciq, who is always with us”, says a citizen represented as Tihomir from Kosovo.

Asked how long they plan to stay in the Pioneer Park, he answers briefly: “As long as it is necessary”.

Based on the view and the help of online means for facial comparison, Sasa Milosevic, the mayor of the Novoberda municipality in Kosovo, and at the same time the chairman of the International Municipal Authority of Gjilan, which functions within the framework of the Serbian system, as well as Sasa Sculkin, by Pristina's Acting Municipal Authority.

Milan Kovacevic from the village of Baja was identified in the same way, near Skyerright.

Kovacevic appeared in the media in 2018, when the Office for Kosovo in Serbia donated two cows and five sheep to Serbia's government after a previous promise by Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq.

Their umbrellas are set before the entrance of the Old Palace, where the Belgrade City Assembly is located.

They did not respond to messages and calls for comments.

In the Pioneer Park, institutions in the Oricina municipality in central Serbia have also been identified.

The picture is seen in Zelko Grujicic, a member of the Municipal Council of Océocina, as well as Svetozar Gaciq, chairman of Occa's Municipal Assembly.

Even this municipality did not answer questions about how many municipal officials are currently staying at the camp in Belgrade, and whether the municipality has organised their trip.

The Serbian opposition reported earlier on “organisations from the Serbian List”

Free Europe Radio finds that Serbs from different areas of Kosovo, such as Shtrpce, Gracanica, Northern Mitrovica, Zubin Potoku's Leposaviqi, have gone to the camp before the Serbian Presidency.

Among them are employees of Serbian institutions, believed to have been hired and promised monthly salary increases.

There are also those who work in Kosovo institutions, but who are close to the Serbian List the largest Serbian party in Kosovo, which has Belgrade's support.

A fountain near at hand. REL With people who have gone to the camp, that they have been informed “overnight of” at what hour and which place they will leave for Belgrade to offer support to Serbian President Vuciq. Some set off on organized buses, and some in their private cars broadcast Periscope.

Since the end of February, the Serbian opposition in Kosovo has warned the opinion that the Serbian List is organising Serbs from Kosovo, to create a <x0mic human” in front of the presidency of Serbia, to “med” President Vuciq from “the colour revolution”.

Serbia's Serbian List and Presidency asked whether it is true that they stand behind the organisation of Kosovo Serbs' going to Belgrade to “protected” Vucinqiq, as well as what is the purpose of such an organization and who should be protected, was not answered until the publication of this article.

On the other hand, in northern Mitrovica ʹ the northern part of Kosovo has so far been held, in support of students in the blockades, and some have even gone to protests in different cities of Serbia.

One of them is Goran Antiq from Northern Mitrovica. He also plans to participate in another rally in Belgrade on 15 March.

Antiq, who owns a travel transport agency, carries students and other citizens from North Mitrovica at his expense, who support students in the blockades.

His motives as he himself says it is to help people “who are fighting for truth”.

We'll be about 60 people, maybe more. Whoever comes, is welcome, no blackmail, no bribe, no fear. Each decides according to his own conscience”, Antic says.

He adds that his fellow successors who have set up camps before the presidency of Serbia to support “students who want to study” are “blackmailing” and “receive bribes”.

“First, they're not students, they've never studied anything, they just listen to their employers. They're blackmailed with jobs, some are being hired, some promised to be hired... Everyone gets money or a promise. In principle, no one has gone there out of love”, Antic says.

According to him, the Serbian List puts pressure on, due to “views different than”.

He says educational institutions in northern Kosovo are ordered not to co-operate with him and commit him to school trips.

He says he doesn't feel under pressure, because he doesn't have anything to blackmail, because he's not in the <x0 state budget”.

 

Serbs from Kosovo receive different incomes from Serbia's budget from salaries and pensions to social benefits.

Kosovo authorities have closed down most institutions that have operated under Serbia's system, but employees continue to be paid.

Otherwise, some students from the University of North Mitrovica, which operates within the Serbian system, have held another rally supporting students in the blockade on March 13th. They have been supported by several professors and other citizens.

A day earlier, a delegation of students from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade has sent an invitation to Northern Mitrovica for a planned rally in Belgrade on March 15th.

However, in mid-December last year, the North Mitrovica University Rectorate has announced that it supports the right to free opinion, but that it distances itself from individual views.

He has stressed that the academic community should not be politicised.