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Kosovo authorities create humanitarian disaster by cutting power to Serb villages

Belgrade, 9 March 2009

Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Goran Bogdanovic yesterday stated that the Kosovo authorities have caused a humanitarian disaster by cutting off power to Serbian villages in the province, thus exerting huge pressure on Serbs to integrate in the fictitious Kosovo state.

Bogdanovic told the Tanjug news agency that several thousand Serbs in several villages around Obilic and Gnjilane have been without electricity for days, adding that the Kosovo Energy Corporation stated the power was cut off because of unsettled electricity bills and debts dating back to 1999.

He said Serbs in the villages of Priluzje, Plemetina, Babin Most, Grace and Silovo had to throw away food that went off because of the lack of electricity, as well as that basic medical services in health centres cannot be provided and the schools are closed for the time being.

This all points to the fact that a humanitarian disaster is about to break out, stressed the Minister, adding that the Serbian government is doing its best to point to the problem and help endangered Serbs through competent institutions.

None of the Serbs in Kosovo wants to avoid paying electricity bills but this issue must be resolved systematically, for the entire province, and not a few villages at a time, stressed Bogdanovic.

According to his estimate, this is simply a way to exert pressure on Serbs who decided to remain in their homes despite a decade of struggle to survive, during which they showed a determination to remain in Kosovo and not to sell their property and leave their hometowns.