Kosovo launches takeover of 2 disputed border crossings with Serbia
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[quote]PRISTINA, Kosovo — Kosovar special police units launched an operation overnight to take control of two disputed border crossings in Kosovo’s northern Serb-run border region, the Kosovar interior minister said Tuesday.
The action follows last week’s ban by Kosovar authorities on goods coming in from Serbia, a decision made to counter Serbia’s ongoing rejection of Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence. Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi told The Associated Press said Kosovar authorities were forced to move after the European Union’s rule of law mission, known as EULEX, failed to enforce the ban.
He said some 40 policemen are in control of one checkpoint, while a second group is engaged in a tense stand off with local Serbs blocking access to another border crossing.
Both crossings were set on fire by rioting Serbs on the eve of Kosovo’s secession and have since been loosely manned by the 3,000-strong EU mission.
EULEX spokesman Nicholas Hawton said the force was not part of the operation.
NATO peacekeepers have been deployed to the area to deal with any violent threats and their top commander Maj. Gen. Erhard Buehler has engaged in talks with Serb demonstrators to defuse the situation, a NATO official told AP.
Rexhepi said the situation was tense but pledged police would not “endanger the lives of the citizen.”
Kosovo authorities have criticized EULEX for not moving against Serb warlords in Kosovo’s north and of being biased against former ethnic Albanian rebels that fought against Serbia during the 1998-99 war.
EULEX has launched a series of investigations into alleged war crimes committed by the former rebels as well as embezzlement of public funds by the former guerrillas turned political leaders.
The overnight action could undermine progress made between Kosovo and Serbia in EU-sponsored talks aimed at resolving practical issues, such as travel documents.
Kosovo has been recognized by 77 nations. But Serbia has successfully blocked its membership in the United Nations, where many countries share its rejection of unilateral declarations of independence by separatist regions.
NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days in 1999 to force it to stop a brutal crackdown on separatist ethnic Albanians.[/quote]
Source: [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/kosovo-launches-takeover-of-2-disputed-border-crossing-with-serbia/2011/07/25/gIQA7xbTZI_story.html[/url]
Fucking everyone is alarmed by this news here, and it's middle of the night at the moment.
I'll post my rough translations here, they may not be best since they're rushed.
Serbian source: [url]http://www.rts.rs/page/stories/ci/story/1/Политика/930474/Драма+код+Јариња.html[/url]
[quote=Timeline of events]
Special units of Kosovo's police, under the order of Hasim Taci, are trying to take over passage Jarinje tonight on the north of Kosovo. Serbian authorities alarmed international community of danger from violence in Northern Kosovo. Serbia requests that KFOR units are deployed ASAP in crisis zone.
0.44 - Armed Special forces of Kosovo Police started operation in Armed Vechiles
01.20 - Forces of KFOR and EULEX have blocked bridge in Kosovo Mitrovica. Around 300 serbs have gathered. No incidents
01.29 - "This is not action of EULEX", stated by potparol of EULEX
01.38 - Bajram Redzepi claimd that KFOR was notified about begining of operation
01.44 - Minister Bogdanovic calls international community to stop the exclamation of violence
01.51 - The commadant of KFOR Erhard Biler and local serbs are trying to come up with solution about situation around Leposavic
02.01 - Kosovo police arrests 4 serbs near Brnjak passage, beating one of them up. Hunderds of Serbs bolcked passage near Zvecan and are blocking Kosovo police to get to Jarinje
02.24 - After talk between commadant of KFOR and Hasim Taci one unit of Kosovo Police retreats from Rudar near Zvecan
02.46 - Kosovo police with full gear and ten Jeeps blocks passage Mitrovica - Leposavic
03.28 - Kosovo police retreats to around 500 meters from Serbian baricades near Jarinje. KFOR commadant is pressent. Serbians blocked the path with machines and trees. No incidents
03.30 - Ministre for KiM Goran Bogdanovic and chief of negotiation team of Belgrade Borislav Stefanovic have arrived in Kosovo, talks with represantitives of EULEX are taken at the moment
03.40 - Members of "Rosa" retreated from Leposavic to road that goes to Mitrovica
15.04 - Forces of KFOR are moving to Brnjak area so further excalation of violence could be stopped.
15.14 - One member of Kosovo Police injured near Zubin Potok
15.44 - No compromise with Serbia, special units stay where they are, said Kosovo premier Hasim Taci
16.28 - Kosovo policeman recived head injury.He's in hospital in southern part of Kosovo Mitrovica. Special team to take care of injured is formed.
16.54 - There are no injured Serbs, source Kosovo Mitrovica hospital.
17.01 - Passage Jarinje closed again. Serbians blocked the path reacting to news about violence near Zubin Potok.
17.48 - Authorities in Pristina claim that there is not kosovo customs in Brnjak area, but that there are special forces and customs and Jarinje passage.
17.52 - UMNIK is worried, French ambassador requests that, with deal with EULEX, decision of authorities in Pristina is respected and allowed.
18.00 - Heavily injured Kosovo Special unit relocated by helicopter in Pristina's hopsital.
18.05 - Smaller groups of people are gathering at north and south part of the bridge in Kosovo Mitrovica.
19.03 - Kosovo's govermant has the right to take measures so it could secure control over the whole territory, including the control of customs and borders, said potparol International civil office in Kosovo Endi Macgafi.
19.08 - Borislav Stefanovic announced that he made a deal with commandant of KFOR Erhard Biller that special unit ROSA retreats to Pristina by tomorrow morining, and that barricades will be removed from roads in North Kosovo.
20.14 - Website located in Pristina NewKosovaReport claims that Kosovo's goverment doesn't accept the deal about passages Brnjak and Jarinje made by Stefanovic and Commadant of KFOR.
21.05 - Hasim Taci: Police wont leave passages Brnjak and Jarinje, because that's question of suverinity. Special forces will stay on passages until order is secured.[/quote]
[quote=Announcement of Serbian team in Kosovo]
Ok, I tried to take out key stuff from announcement:
- KFOR commadant requests 40 minutes to contact Hasim Tachi
- KFOR can only pass if ROSA completelly falls back
- Serbian authorities requested that situation is returned to yesterday's one
- "This action was organized to provoke Serbians, they wanted to make a situation where no negotations are needed."
- "Serbians will defend this part without falling to provocations."
- "We expect that our requests be fulfilled since they are perfectly reasonable, and we expect more provocations like this from Kosovo Albanians."[/quote]
[quote=Executive of prime minister's statement]
Executive of premier, Ivica Dacic said that intervention of Kosovo police in Zvecani and Leposavic are "try of violent intergration of north Kosovo in so called independent Kosovo."
"Trying to take over control over the administrative passages on North of the Kosovo is completly the opposite of promises that were given to Serbia, that there wont be any changes of reality on field while dialouge between Belgrade and Pristina is made", said Dacic.
According to his words, this intervention is realisation of the thing that Kosovo officials claimed for very long time.
Dacic called international community for urgent intervention. "International community's obligation is to keep and maintain peace and stability in Kosovo and Metohija, instead of playing the role of uninformed guy", said Dacic.
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First of all, Serbia never boycotted goods stemming from Kosovo, as long as it complies with 1244 UN resolution. Second of all, it is so-called Kosovo who breaks the CEFTA agreement which was applied in practice, until so-called. Kosovo (supported by one of the worlds greatest forces) decided to break the agreement and to forcibly impose the will of Albanians over the will of Serbs in the north. If USA supports this violent act, which closely resembles to the 2004 pogrom and exodus of Serbs, the USA will clearly send a message that they are not interested in finding a solution, but rather to cause more suffering in Balkans. The agenda of the USA applied in Balkans relies either on malicious intentions, or on pure desinformation and incompetence. I choose to believe that it's the second, and not the first, though, I am not so sure anymore... Exterminate Serbs from Croatia, exterminate Serbs from Kosovo, exterminate Serbs from Bosnia... is that the only agenda of the USA when it comes to the Balkans? At least it does look so...
One thing more to add. The people in the north of the so-called Kosovo, are strongly opposing this violent action, which seems to be executed with silent approval of western powers, particularly USA. Doesn't democracy end there, where police guns are pointed against civilians, or is it still democracy because the police guns are albanian, and the civilians are Serbs?
There is no thing such as multi-ethnic Kosovo, if the Albanians are allowed to do this, this will not lead to multi-ethnic Kosovo, but to a new exodus of Serbs (slow, but massive migrations and moving away) and to the creation of second purely albanian state in Europe.
Hypocrisy and failure to recognize a failure lead to another failure...[/quote]
Shooting at Brnjak
[quote]Situation at area Brnjak is confusing since the morning - during retreat of Kosovo Police gunshoats were heard, but reliable source doesn't have any information who opened fire. At least one policemen is injured, and there is no data about eventual serbian casualities. KFOR sent unit to area.[/quote]
[quote]End of crisis in North Kosovo?
Chief of Serbian negotating team Borislav Stefanovic made an announcement that a deal has been made with commadant of KFOR Erhard Biller about redrawing all members of Kosovo Police speical units from north of Kosovo to Pristina.[/quote]
How does the middle east get so messed up?
Cold War 2.0 ...
I'll treat that as joke.
But seriously, this will make situation 10 times worse, especially after all the effort in negotiations.
And can it really be a country when it acts so forcefully upon it's citizens?
it's like they've completely forgotten about what happened in the 90's.
This can only end badly.
Wow, they clearly have no brains.
Damnit Kosovo, we're busy! We don't have time for your shit right now!
Tho it is basically your responsibility since you're the reason this shit is happening today.
You were supposed to make and maintain peace and stability in Kosovo, not make it independent.
And serbians are still terrorized by albanians to this day in Kosovo, as it can be seen tonight.
Oh no, I hope this doesn't cause any major conflicts.
[QUOTE=kaine123;31337864]Oh no, I hope this doesn't cause any major conflicts.[/QUOTE]
Major conflicts have been ongoing for years now, mostly albanians forcing out serbs from Kosovo.
Here's an example of what I said before, pogrom in 2004:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LglMUg74eCA[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTRAZ-A0B04&feature=related[/media]
so much shit going on
Serbian team in Kosovo is now live on TV.
[QUOTE=ColdWave;31337536]How does the middle east get so messed up?[/QUOTE]
Are you fucking stupid? Kosovo is in Southeast Asia retard
[QUOTE=smurfy;31337990]Are you fucking stupid? Kosovo is in Southeast Asia retard[/QUOTE]
Are you both stupid, Kosovo is in Eastern Europe.
Time for war again i suppose.
Comment from Serbian
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(уторак, 26. јул 2011, 04:37)
anonymous [нерегистровани] пошаљи одговор
Pomozite, molim vas!
Neka dodje ko god moze.Ne smem da zaspim. Sama sam sa mamom i mladjom bracom kuci, a helikopteri samo lete. Stalno sam razmisljala o ovakvim situacijama, ali nijednog trenutka nisam bila svesna da ovo stvarno moze da nam se desi. Neka se ovo sto pre zavrsi (u nasu korist).
Leposavic[/quote]
My rough translation
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Help us, please!
Whoever can, come help us. I can't fall asleep. I'm alone with mother and younger brother in the house, and helicopters are flying around us non stop. I always tought about these situations, but I was never aware that it could really happen to us. Let this be over as soon as it can (in our advantage).
Leposavic[/quote]
[QUOTE=smurfy;31337990]Are you fucking stupid? Kosovo is in Southeast Asia retard[/QUOTE]
More like southeastern Europe.
[QUOTE=smurfy;31337990]Are you fucking stupid? Kosovo is in Southeast Asia retard[/QUOTE]
I'm afraid that's incorrect.
Ok, I don't know if you guys are did that for giggles or did you really think that. :v:
[editline]26th July 2011[/editline]
Oh also, Serbian team announced
"If ROSA (Albanian Kosovar police unit) falls back, we will let KFOR thourgh, but under no circumstances can ROSA go thourgh. We will return in 20 minutes with the outcome of negotiations."
kosovo sounds like a terroristty name lets bomb it
[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;31338023]Are you both stupid, Kosovo is in Eastern Europe.[/QUOTE]
Dumbass, it's a map in Hostile Intent.
It is actually very corrupted (thanks to huge Albanian migration and exodus of serbs).
It's one of the smallest countries, with over 60% of unemployment rate and highest criminal rate in Europe.
It's basically a shithole.
As a serb, I would seperate North of Kosovo from south, cut off electricity and water that Serbia still supplies to Kosovo even when it declared it's so called independence, and let the south part rot.
Fair play to the Serbs.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;31338170]Dumbass, it's a map in Hostile Intent.[/QUOTE]
What the hell is Hostile Intent?
Wow there are some misinformed people in this thread
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I don't know what news you've been watching.
Anyway this could get pretty interesting. I wonder if China will intervene like they did in Iraq
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;31338171]It is actually very corrupted (thanks to huge Albanian migration and exodus of serbs).
It's one of the smallest countries, with over 60% of unemployment rate and highest criminal rate in Europe.
It's basically a shithole.
As a serb, I would seperate North of Kosovo from south, cut off electricity and water that Serbia still supplies to Kosovo even when it declared it's so called independence, and let the south part rot.[/QUOTE]
Couldn't agree more.
Negotations between Serb officials and KFOR commadant are over, now we're expecting announcement from them.
[QUOTE=smurfy;31338216]Wow there are some misinformed people in this thread
[img]http://imgkk.com/i/ntoz.png[/img]
I don't know what news you've been watching.
Anyway this could get pretty interesting. I wonder if China will intervene like they did in Iraq[/QUOTE]
What is that even a map of, because it certainly isn't countries. The Japanese characters certainly don't read like any countries I know of anyway.
[QUOTE=Spirit_Breaker;31337840]Tho it is basically your responsibility since you're the reason this shit is happening today.
You were supposed to make and maintain peace and stability in Kosovo, not make it independent.
And serbians are still terrorized by albanians to this day in Kosovo, as it can be seen tonight.[/QUOTE]
But we're not the world's police, remember? We shouldn't have a long standing presence in a foreign country, remember?
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