Todic: It is not easy to be a Serb in Kosovo, they hit where it hurts the most

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Mayor of Leposavic Municipality Zoran Todic, who has resigned, said that it is not easy to be a Serb in Kosovo and Metohija, stressing that attacks on children hurt the most, and that the Pristina authorities are "hitting" precisely there.

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"For more than 24 years, Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija have been facing difficulties every day. It is not easy to live and be a Serb in Kosovo. We are more the days when there are no incidents more, than those when there are," Todic told TV Pink.

He recalled the last incident in the village of Josanica, when two young Serbs were beaten.

"They were intercepted by the Kosovo special unit, thrown out of the car, without being ID's or taken into custody. The special forces beat them up and released them after the beating," said Todic.

He added that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija is tense, difficult and unpleasant and that everyone who has children knows what hurts the most.

"It hurts the most when they go after the children. The question is how long the Serb people will be able to endure this. I spoke to parents of the battered young men and saw despair and anger. There is no condemnation, no reaction, attacks are an everyday occurence, and this is just one in a series of incidents," said Todic.

He recalled the beating of a young man in Kosovsko Pomoravlje and shooting people in the back on the Bistrica bridge just because they did not stop.

Todic said that there has been militarization in the north of Kosovo for a year and a half, and that bases for special police units have been created and a checkpoint has been established on the Bistrica River.

"We face harassment on a daily basis. Special units perform routine checks here, patrolling the villages with rifles in hand. I get it that they intend to fight criminals and smuggling. We are all in the service of fighting crime. But you can't do that every day, using combat vehicles with heavy machine guns, in the field. In this way, you are only harassing and repressing," he said.

He assessed that it is high time to stop this behavior of Pristina and the Kosovo police.

"I'm afraid we'll get to a point where someone takes justice into their own hands and tries to protect their family on their own in some way that can lead us in a direction that no one needs," said Todic.

He stressed that Pristina is "stealing Serb property in order to build military-police bases."

He said that the north is especially "problematic for Pristina" because there is unity of the Serb people there.

"The construction of bases for the special unit has nothing to do with preventing smuggling, but only with intimidating the Serb people, and it is directed against a territory where there is Serb unity," Todic stressed.

(Telegraf.rs)