Stop the Terror
Among the banners protesters were carrying at a massive Tuesday rally was the one that says "What is taken by force is reclaimed by the force". Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia, March 25, 2008
End Diplomatic Relations with Serbian Mass Grave, Albania
Gathered at a massive rally in Kosovska Mitrovica on Tueseday, thousands of Kosovo Serbs demanded that official Belgrade ends diplomatic relations with Albania and called for the boycott of Croat and Slovenian products.
At a rally "Stop the Terror, No to NATO state—the independent Kosovo", president of the Serbian National Council Milan Ivanovic said that Serbs demand ending of diplomatic relations with the state of Albania "where the mass graves of the kidnapped Kosovo-Metohija Serbs are."
"That is where our people were massacred to have their organs sold to Albanian Western friends. We demand boycotting of the Croat and Slovenian products. We want the return of our army and police, according to the UN Security Council Resolution 1244," Ivanovic summed up the Kosovo Serbs' requests.
Kosovo Serbs also request the return of the Russian peacekeepers to the areas populated with Serbs in the province, as well as the cancellation of Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), which allows NATO troops passage through Serbia.
In the case of the repeat of violence in Kosovo-Metohija, Serbia's armed forces should be deployed across the administrative line with the province, Ivanovic said, adding that Kosovo Serbs support the proposal Minister Slobodan Samardzic handed to UNMIK on March 16.
Kosovo-Metohija minister's proposal for joint implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 by the UNMIK and Serbia calls for recognition of the facts on the ground, where Serbian enclaves in the province are already running all of their institutions, including the health, medical and education, in accordance with Serbian state programmes. At the same time, the plan would allow the realization of Kosovo Serbs' need to protect themselves, by having their own police and judiciary that would be under the UNMIK auspices, as mandated by the Resolution 1244, instead of being silently and illegally transfered to the rogue Albanian separatist command.
Vidovdan is Coming: Do Not Touch Our People
Gathered protesters have greeted with ovations the gesture of the top Serbian swimmer Milorad Cavic, who wore the t-shirt which reads Kosovo is Serbia at the winners' podium of a European championship, for which he was banned from the further competitions. "We are grateful to Cavic who, between another European medal and the integral Serbia, chose integral Serbia," Ivanovic said.
Demonstrators were also addressed by the theater actor Tihomir Arsic, who received an exhilarated welcome because he brought his four children to Kosovo-Metohija. Arsic said that 150 nations of the world which have not recognized the unilateral declaration of independence by Pristina separatists are aware of the Serbian pride and Serbian dignity.
Kosovo Serb children helped by waving flags of the countries that refuse to recognize mafia state on Serbian territory, shown here with Spanish, Russian and Greek alongside Serbian flag. Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia, March 25, 2008
He stressed that Serbia must not sign the "Humiliation Agreement" with the EU, but only "the honest and honorable agreement of entering the EU with its Kosovo." Addressing the UNMIK chief Joachim Ruecker and Serbia's president Boris Tadic, Arsic warned that "if one more Serb is harmed, we are coming to a St. Sava (Svetosavski) pilgrimage to Gazimestan on June 28 — 1,5 million of us Serbs, with three million of our children. Do not touch our people, because Kosovo is Serbia."
Kosovo Serb Judges Continue Peaceful Protests to Get their Jobs Back
In the name of the judicial workers who have continued their peaceful protests in Kosovska Mitrovica started on February 21, seeking to be reinstated to their workplaces, the citizens were addressed by Bogdan Spadijer who said that the judicial staff will forgive, but will never forget that the international policemen arrested them for no reason eight days ago. "Regardless of the psychological torture we were subjected to, we are determined to persevere in our struggle for the full respect of the Resolution 1244, which guarantees the territorial integrity of our country," Spadijer said.
He stressed that the judicial workers in Kosovska Mitrovica support the European integrations, but "as an upright and proud state with borders from Horgos to Dragas, and not as a non-existent entity." Spadijer said that Kosovo-Metohija judiciary always was and will forever remain part of the Serbia's judicial system, just as Kosovo-Metohija will remain the integral part of Serbia.
Kosovo Serb judicial workers continued their protest early on Tuesday outside the main entrance of the District and Municipal Court in northern Kosovska Mitrovica, demanding that they be allowed to return to the premises they were thrown out in 1999 with the arrival of UNMIK and KFOR.
The protest is being carried out in peace and without any incidents, and District Public Prosecutor Milan Bigovic told Tanjug that no one from the UNMIK administration had addressed gathered workers.
Kosovska Mitrovica high school student Danica Velickovic also spoke at the rally, reminding that the nation which forgets its history has no future.
Kosovo Serbs carried Serbia's state flags, alongside the flags of the countries that do not recognize a mafia creation on Serbian territory. Protest which gathered more than 10,000 Kosovo Serbs passed without incidents.