Serb List condemns police incursion into Rajska Banja complex

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The Serb List has strongly condemned Tuesday's incursion by the Pristina police into the Rajska Banja complex in Banjska, near Zvecan, in northern Kosovo and Metohija, and requested an immediate intervention from the international community.

"The Serb List condemns in the strongest terms the seizure of the Rajska Banja complex in Banjska, directed by the anti-Serb regime of Albin Kurti, who is seizing this extremely valuable and significant spa complex from the Serb people in front of the eyes of the international community," a statement said.

They recall that the Rajska Banja complex was built exclusively with the money from the Government of the Republic of Serbia, invested through the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

"This complex was opened in 2019 and Kosovo institutions have not invested a single penny in it, so they have no legal basis to be in it or pretend to be the owners of this complex," the statement stresses.

Dozens of Serb families earn their living working in the spa complex, which has been blocked for almost four months, while thousands of citizens with various health issues have been finding a cure for their illnesses in that spa for years, until the complex was closed using brutal force in September, and then usurped yesterday.

The Serb list indicates that the seizure of land from the Serb owners in Leposavic and Zubin Potok, which happened without an adequate reaction from international representatives, "gave Kurti's regime space to continue with such activities" so on Tuesday it was Rajska Banja's turn to be seized along with land belonging to Serbs in the village of Banov Do.

"What is born crooked time will not make right, and that is true of the character of this anti-Serb regime, which each day clearly shows its occupying and tyrannical character, using any means to terrorize the Serb people. We demand an immediate reaction from the international community, the countries of the Quint (Italy, US, UK, Germany, France) and mediators in the dialogue. The land grab and banditry of Kurti's regime must stop and international forces must react to this flagrant violation of the Serb people's elementary rights, the right to property, the right to medical treatment and the right to work," the statement said.

(Telegraf.rs)