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Aim of attack on Serbs in Zac to force returnees back into exile

Belgrade, 20 May 2010

Minister for Kosovo-Metohija Goran Bogdanovic said today that the latest armed attack on Serbian returnees in the village of Zac near Istok is part of a strategy devised to force returnees back into exile.

File photo of Goran Bogdanovic

Author: Tanjug

Bogdanovic told the Beta news agency that EULEX cannot continue to observe the violence and then just to condemn it in public, adding that EULEX and KFOR must explain how it can be that the Kosovo police has not yet managed to find a single person responsible for any such attacks on returnees, even through there were several attacks over the past few weeks.

Last night’s incident in the village of Zac confirms that the KFOR cannot let the Kosovo Police Service (KPS) to be the only force in charge of the protection of Kosovo Serbs.

Bogdanovic asked EULEX and KFOR to find the attackers on the returnees and to provide full protection and security to the inhabitants of the village.

The Minister requested that KFOR or KPS assume responsibility for security of the population in the village and also urged the international community to ensure the return of refugees to the province, which Pristina is persistently preventing, and even resorting to violence.

Unknown attackers opened fire on a camp of Serb returnees in the village of Zac again last night, which is the second attack on the Serbs in this village in the last seven days.