"Beating Serbs in Gazimestan points to Pristina's rule by fear": Djuric on Vidovdan arrests of Serbs

The beating of two young Serb men because they displayed the Serbian flag on the occasion of the feast day of Vidovdan (June 28) is a manifestation of institutional violence of Pristina and its rule by fear, which denies everyone, except Albanians, the right to national pride and affiliation, director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Marko Djuric has said.

"With such bestial actions over a display of national symbols, on one of the biggest Serbian holidays, the identity and the most elementary national rights of Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija got attacked most directly said Djuric.

As announced by the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Djuric pointed out that international representatives in Kosovo and Metohija are under obligation to provide an answer to the question why Albanian extremists are allowed what no one else in the civilized world is allowed to do, and why a blind eye is being turned toward the thugs in our southern province for two decades.

"Such a policy of double standards has led to the fact that the few Serbs left in Kosovo and Metohija are today treated not only as second-class citizens, but as inferior beings who can be beaten and abused with impunity," warned Djuric.

He added that he expects Serb political representatives in Pristina to take the strongest position regarding this disgraceful incident and to demand, in the form of an ultimatum, that the esponsible police officers who attacked the Serbs be punished.

After the memorial service at Gazimestan, the site of the Battle of Kosovo, the Kosovo police arrested two young men from Laplje Selo who were carrying the Serbian flag, but soon released them, RTK reported earlier.

According to the young men, the police used physical force against them, and after they were examined at the Health Center in Gracanica, the two were sent to the surgery ward.

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