Battered Kosovo Serb recovering
Kosovo Serb Branislav Milovanovic who was attacked and brutally beaten by a mob of Muslim Albanians is out of danger, say the hospital.
Milovanovic was attacked by a mob of Albanian men as he was trying to return back to his home from which he was ethnically cleansed by Albanians.
Kosovo Serb Branislav Milovanovic in the hospital
Milovanovic was attacked in front of his house in the Village Opraske located near Osojane, Metohia.
The Albanian mob inflicted head injuries, concussion, fractures of the ribs and numerous bruises on Milovanovic’s body.
“As soon as I was on the street, they cut me off and whacked me,” said Milovanovic.
With a cracked skull and broken ribs, Milovanovic was still able to walk 2 kilometers to a nearby village of Kos where the villagers took him to the hospital in Kosovska Mitrovica.
Milovanovic said that they were beating him “to kill”.
Returnee coordinator Vesna Milikovic says that the attack on Milovanovic has made the other nine returees in fear for their life. Milikovic says that returnees in nearby villages are also in fear of the organized Albanian mob.
“Since the NEw Year day, attacks on Serbs are more frequent and attacks on their property and just in Opraske, in which 9 returnee families live, this is a fourth incident. One week ago a Serb house was lit on fire owned by Mile Vuletic. The house burned to the ground but, luckily, when the house was lit up nobody was inside. This Sunday, two Serbian homes were robbed,” says Milikovic.
Serbia’s Minister for Kosovo-Metohia Goran Bogdanovic said that the Ministry demands that EULEX locates and arrests persons who attacked Branislav Milovanovic, a Serbian returnee from the village of Opraske in Metohia.
Since 1999 when the Albania separatists violently took power in Kosovo, Serbs have been routinely attacked and killed and conviction of attackers is very seldom.
Council of Europe has recently named the Kosovo Albanian separatist leader Hashim Thaci as the chief of a mafia-type organization whose reach stretches out of Kosovo into Erurope and includes control of organ trade, sex slavery, weapons and heroin.
The Minister pointed out that the conspicuous silence of the Kosovo police is an incentive to Albanian extremists, as well as proof that Kosovo institutions are trying to prevent the return of banished Serbs to the province.
Therefore, the Ministry for Kosovo-Metohia is demanding that international forces in the province immediately find a way to protect Serbs from such attacks and create conditions for their survival and return, Bogdanovic underlined.
Bogdanovic stressed that whoever is responsible for the state of affairs in the province must face reality, especially those who keep imposing the story about lawlessness and chaos in Serbian communities with the aim to scare the returnees with these attacks.
January 25, 2011
SERBIANNA
Radio Serbia
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Aside from the despicable treatment afforded to this person, events such as this provide an opportunity to win the media war that Serbs have lost consistently since the Bosnian war began back in the early 90′s.
Beograd needs to push incessently for the fair and proper treatment of returnees.
I feel bad for the guy who got beaten. That is not good. Perpertrators must be found and brought to justice.
But quit calling us Muslim Albanians. We do not identify ourselves as a Muslim nation. In fact there is a percetage of Christians in Kosovo. Why can’t you say Albanians or Kosovo Albanians for the sake of correct journalism? This will do nothing but raise hate. It’s like saying Orthodox Serbs….it’s known you’re Orthodox so no need to say it. What’s not right (beating someone up like this guy) is not right. But you are doing nothing but instilling more hate. Hate creates more hate and it all never ends….
The Serbian minister for kosovo says EULEX must take action against the attackers,when will these clowns in Belgrade get it through their thick heads if they want Serbs to be protected they will have to go down there and do the job,not plead to the occupier,they are a disgrace.
@ Shpend :You call yourselves muslims when it is to your benefit to do so.
” you made the bed now you have to sleep in it”
Dont come here talking about hate pal, your people beat that man up. Because he is a “orthodox serb”. and was born in kosovo and has every right to be there.
You are raised to hate serbs, and no one will bring anyone to justice, because justice does not exsist for serbs in kosovo or anywhere else on earth.
Shpend
You wanted to muslims so now you dont want to be called muslim?.
your a tool
“In fact there is a percetage of Christians in Kosovo.”
You mean the remaining Serbs who are guarded by barbed wire and foreign troops?
Congratulations.
Incidentally, call us Orthodox Serbs if you like. We’re not ashamed of it.
Shpend, what’s wrong with calling you Albanian Muslims? That is precisely what majority of you are and all of you are in Kosovo.
Is being called Muslim an insult now? Are you ashamed of being a Muslim?
I have no problem being an Orthodox Serb. This is not an insult because I am proud of it as you should be of being an Albanian Muslim. Not all Albanian Muslims are bad so please do own it with pride and behave like a civilized man in order to project a better image for your brothers.
Peggy, no need to be jealous at Albanian plurality. We are just people, in Albania albanians, Kosova kosovars, Italy Arbresh, Greece Arvanite, Turkey Arnaut ect.
Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim or Jew. no problems with any
Of course you have no problem being an Orthodox, your problem would be not to be Orthodox, we would see your mother Russia drop you faster than they dropped the Sorboi.
And not all Serbs are hiding from genocide charges either, but we dont call all Orthodox a war criminal either.
Anyway, just some truth for a combo breaker of Serbs high fiving in their own matrix world