Serb List official Igor Simic: Kurti's laws are designed with goal of ethnically cleansing Serbs from Kosovo

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A member of the Presidency of the Serb List, Igor Simic, said today that Albin Kurti's laws, including the law on foreigners, are designed with the aim of ethnically cleansing Serbs from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija.

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"By applying these laws, in this way, as Kurti's regime envisioned, in Kosovo and Metohija close to 10,000 Serbs will not be able to have residence because they do not have Kosovo (Pristina-issued) documents and will be prevented from coming here. I am primarily referring to professors, doctors and students of the University of Pristina. If we are talking about people who live in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, especially in the four (Serb majority) municipalities in the north, that is close to 7,000 people who, if this law is implemented in this way, will remain at Jarinje, Brnjak and Merdare (administrative crossings between central Serbia and Kosovo and Metohija) as of March 15," Simic told TV Pink.

He assessed that these laws threaten the presence of the Serb people in Kosovo and Metohija and that this is in fact a plan to expel all those who survived the exodus in 1999, and that of March 17, 2004 - and all the years since Albin Kurti's regime has been in power, by applying some regulations which will mean that "mothers are separated from their children, that children and mothers are separated from their fathers, from their husbands, and that thousands of Serb families get torn apart."

"This is what is very dangerous, it will threaten the functioning of the healthcare and education system in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. Because, I remind you, of the 1,180 teachers and associates at the University of Pristina, 550 do not have Kosovo (Pristina) documents. Therefore, education for Serbs in these areas would be endangered, it would be impossible for nearly 3,000 students from central Serbia to come to the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. This also means an attack on the economy that is in Serb hands in the municipalities in the north of Kosovo and Metohija," Simic stated.

He warned that there is a terrible scenario looming on the horizon in a little over a month, and that it is the responsibility of the international community to finally put into practice what they promised to the Serbs in 2013.

Clarifying what the laws in question mean, Simic said that, "if Serbs want to get Kosovo documents, not because they are enthusiastic about that, but because it is a way for them to stay in their own homes and not be foreigners in places where their ancestors were born - they must register as foreigners, as if they are coming to Kosovo and Metohija for the first time ever."

"Then they (Pristina) demand that you, for example, get married in the Kosovo system. If you are already married in the Serbian (system), they don't accept that. Then they ask you to submit a certificate issued in central Serbia that you are not married - and you cannot do that, because you are in fact married. So - you have to get a divorce. Another thing, they say you have to have the means to support yourself. If you say that you work in a Serbian institution, in a kindergarten, school, hospital, healthcare center, wherever, they don't recognize that and say that these are parallel institutions and you don't meet the requirements for that standard either," explained Simic.

According to him, the Serb List carried out "a serious analysis on this topic and it turned out that there are situations where both parents could have Kosovo documents, but a child cannot get them, which means that this child does not exist in the system and cannot stay in Kosovo and cannot inherit their parents' property."

"So, when you add it all up, I repeat once again - this is an administrative method of conducting ethnic cleansing of Serbs (expelling them) from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija," Simic concluded.

(Telegraf.rs/Tanjug)