KPS uses tear gas against Serbs

First of all in which country would it be EVER allowed for ANY ethnicity to refuse the reading of the meters??? NOWHERE. Why should get those Serbs the slightest understanding of other people for their action?? I think the Kosovo police showed tremendeous patience so far in many areas of the country following planned provocations. I find it extremely contra-productive.

Isn't it funny how the Albanians claim Serbians in Kosovo are the most privileged "minority" in the world?

It is very simple. Serbians will not cave in to criminal and terrorist pressure in our occupied southern province.

"They also said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read."

Duh! No free lunch, electricity costs money.

"Kosovo and Pomoravlje District head Dragan Nikolić told Tanjug that this was another attempt to impose Kosovo Albanian institutions on the local Serbs."

Not really, Dragan, just an attempt to get the money for the power used.

Depriving Serbian villages of electricity is just another form of ethnic cleansing. Same as depriving them of freedom of movement and employment and access to the most basic of human rights. All I can say is that after watching this for 10 years it is the most inhumane way I have ever seen victors treating the vanquished. And all this under a UN/EU Protectorate!

So this is the paradise on earth that "Kosova" is supposed to be for the world's so-called "most privileged" minority.

LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power. So dear Serbs yes you are being treated just like every other citizen of Republic of Kosova. The last 10 years UNMIK let the Serbs enjoying more rights than other people of Kosovo but now we are getting more equel and Serbs bith over it because they see them self as an upper human being. NO Bills NO power thats simple.

lowe, iseult henry, ZK & others,

do you pay regularly your bills? Do you ever dream not to let the employees read them? You know what would happen to you in such a case, don't you?

"LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power. So dear Serbs yes you are being treated just like every other citizen of Republic of Kosova. The last 10 years UNMIK let the Serbs enjoying more rights than other people of Kosovo but now we are getting more equel and Serbs bith over it because they see them self as an upper human being. NO Bills NO power thats simple.
(Danish Albanian, 7 March 2009 13:43) "

So no more"paradise on earth for the world's "most privileged" minority ..... what excuse will you think of next? Oh, I know! There is no electricity in heaven!

"The Šilovo villagers said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read. "
I really do not understand some serb commentators here that say that these Serbs are being abused and not treated equally. these Silovo serbs do not allow the company who provides electricity to read the electricity meters in their houses.
Can one of the Serbs tell me here please, what does the Serbian electric company do in Serbia with someone who does not allow them to read their electric meter?

Again, I love this sight, electricity termination after 10 years of non payment and refusal to even have meters read is called "ethinic cleansing". But I guess loading hundreds of thousands on trucks and taking to the border after burning their homes is just a govt sponsored tourism program.

The Šilovo villagers said that they wanted the same rights as others in Kosovo, regardless of their ethnicity. They also said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read.

DUH - best part was where they got tear gassed for blocking the highway. No jovo you can't do that.

Reading Serbs' comments it appears clear that they just can't understand that there is no free lunch or not anymore. People have to pay their bills EVERYWHERE, be it the US, China, Russia, India, Serbia or Kosovo. Those, who want to get "free lunch" are leeches. In the current hard economic times worldwide no society can efford them.

Yes genc, I do pay my bills, however, if the mafia disconnected my power and demanded they read my meter to calculate their commission then I would certainly object and not pay up.

That is what's happening in Kosovo because it is not a country and it doesn't have competent authorities. Those demanding money from Serbians have criminal links and operate as mafia.

When a proper Serbian power company issues a bill to those people, I'm sure they will pay promptly.

"Kosovo and Pomoravlje District head Dragan Nikolić told Tanjug that this was another attempt to impose Kosovo Albanian institutions on the local Serbs"

That is all about. It is not about electricity it is all about sabotaging the Kosova's institution.

More discrimination from the occupiers, who are trying to cleanse what is left of Serbs from their own homeland. SHAME!

Joe says..."Why should get those Serbs the slightest understanding of other people for their action??"

I give up Joe.
I don't have the slighest understanding of what you, Joe, have written.

Nato and the EU know them real well from mountains of data that have been collected on them for decades. That's why they broke their own Constitutional Laws,
International Laws and God's Laws just to get them out of their own countries so they wouldn't have to deal with them. The little bit of sympathy the International Community had for the Albanians evaporated in 2004. Now it's strictly business and scrambling in trying to find some kind of win-win solution. The present, International Community concensus is that it is a "lost deal". Their enthusiasm, and will to proceed against their values, principles and conscience is visibly eroding. The blame game for their failure has always been Serbia. With so many Western leaders, and noted authors and politicians admitting mistake after mistake, they are continually creating cracks and divisions among themselves. That's too embarrassing, and a big no-no in the international world of politics. Serbia has survived the biggest onslaught, the biggest "blitzkrieg" of united Western mass media ever assembled against a nation and her people in the history of the world. Why did Serbia prevail? International Law and Russia? God? But in the international arena of politics defeats and failures are not readily admitted. So the only way for the West to get untangled out of their own web and save face is to place the blame on someone that the blame will stick, and then tell the world---God knows we tried our best, but these people are incorrigible. We all live in the world of illusions and forms where nothing remains the same, and change is constant. Old Native American saying: "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you". Today the Serbs are living surrounded and divided by barbed wire, and escorted by foreign soldiers for their safety even for the simplest daily basics. They are still being bullied, killed, humiliated, and forced to watch their mother's and father's churches, monastaries, and heritage which was almost destroyed under NATO's watch, now being guarded by those that tried to destroy it all. None of us know what tomorrow has in store for us, but if the wheel is still true as it has been true throughout human history, it should be able to give us some indication of events to come our way.

"LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power."

LOL indeed. The rest of the SFRY paid the albanian bills for decades, even taking billions from the IMF to do so.

Of course, the level of service by KEK is not worthy of any modern utility considering they have abjectly failed to keep their power stations running regularly and that millions set aside for modernization were stolen. That is why KEK imports electricity from Serbia and then resells it.

It is a poll tax. Service indeed!

"The rest of the SFRY paid the albanian bills for decades, even taking billions from the IMF to do so."

The same IMF loans Kosova is paying now? Btw, how much money did Serbia get from Croatia and Slovenia???? A lot more than poor Kosova got. When Tito went there he was shocked at the level of infrastructure and in late 70's we got some money and flourished.

>> "That is why KEK imports electricity from Serbia and then resells it. "

All the Balkan countries give and take, and Kosova will in 2-3 years be an exporter. Actually, KEK is at loss, it sells for lower that it buys it (there was a Gazeta Express story on it) that's why now they need to collect the money.

Rule #1. Pay the bills
Rule #2. Don't block the roads for no reason
Rule #3. Read rule #1

My electricity bills is $200+ a month in USA and I pay it or they will shut it down after 2-3 months. I might be able to talk to them and pay 30% now and the rest later, but I have to reach an agreement with them or else...

hey people, this has nothing to do with nato, and discrimination.

listen when all people in kosovo pay the electricity why Serbs dont have to pay it.

I think this is discrimination, when albanians and other minorities pay the bills and the dear serbs dont want to pay.

come on people pay your bills or you will not have electricity simple.

i am albanian and if i dont pay electricity they will cut imidiatly and if I try to resist police will take me to prison.

Law is the same for all of us it dosent matter if you are albanian, serb, turk or gypsy.

My electricity bills is $200+ a month in USA and I pay it or they will shut it down after 2-3 months. I might be able to talk to them and pay 30% now and the rest later, but I have to reach an agreement with them or else...
(Alban, 7 March 2009 23:03)

You don't even live in Kosovo and you claim to be a resident expert. If you do not pay then they cut you off they don't give you 2 months to pay and so please. Why don't you come back to Kosova and help the country grow? Yeah right why leave the US where power is always on, you can live off the system and give that up to go to Kosovo LOL. Alban right you turned your back on Kosova and call yourself an american.

#18 Alban wrote: "Kosova will in 2-3 years be an exporter."

Alban,

Kosova is already any exporter... an exporter of criminals, human trafficing, drugs, organs.... you name it.

"That is what's happening in Kosovo because it is not a country and it doesn't have competent authorities. Those demanding money from Serbians have criminal links and operate as mafia."

Oh, I see. If I belive that Wall Street and USA is corrupt I can have free power, cars etc etc.

>> "When a proper Serbian power company issues a bill to those people, I'm sure they will pay promptly."

Thee, they can wait--without power--until then. The problem is that they want free power from the "mafia state"

I have two questions for the Albanian Posters:

1. If these people do not have money to pay for the electricity and food do you think that it is OK to let them die?

2. Do you think that life would be much better if there were no Serbs in Kosovo (or anywhere else)?

I look forward to your responses.

I recommend the Serbs in Kosovo arm themselves with similar equipment as the kps and fight back with equal measures.

Very shameful and pathetic of a self-annointed police force.

It is curious that some posters point to the US as a 'good' example. I didn't know how this is relevant to Kosovo as it is neither a part nor borders the US.

Just to be clear, Kosovo is part of Europe. It is on all the maps too!

Europe and the EU do things differently than the US where for example, yes they are quite happy to cut you off, but in most european countries (as have been pointed out already) the process is quite long and drawn out and usually there is government assistance for those who are unable to pay.

This is in 'normal' circumstances, not in extraordinary circumstances a minority (the serbs in kosovo) is under pressure by a majority (albanians) to accept their will by means short of force.

So forget about comparisons with the US, which according to the WHO there are approximately 35 million children who do not have enough to eat.

1.have two questions for the Albanian Posters:

1. If these people do not have money to pay for the electricity and food do you think that it is OK to let them die?

2. Do you think that life would be much better if there were no Serbs in Kosovo (or anywhere else)?

I look forward to your responses.
(Krlja, 8 March 2009 16:13)

Answer

1.These people get benefits paid by Belgrade and another paid by EULEX ( Kosovo government budget). These payment are monthly and more than enough to pay the bills and have minimum life standard. Much better off than their counterpart in Kosovo who only get one payment.
2.I think he would be a shame for the Serb to leave their places and their properties. After all the Albanians never denied the existence of Serbs in Kosovo. It's their country too. But their need to realize soon that their country is Kosovo, not Serbia and not to be manipulated by Belgrade.

These are my answers and my personal opinion only. I believe is the opinion of many people in Kosovo.

LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power. So dear Serbs yes you are being treated just like every other citizen of Republic of Kosova. The last 10 years UNMIK let the Serbs enjoying more rights than other people of Kosovo but now we are getting more equel and Serbs bith over it because they see them self as an upper human being. NO Bills NO power thats simple.

Depriving Serbian villages of electricity is just another form of ethnic cleansing. Same as depriving them of freedom of movement and employment and access to the most basic of human rights. All I can say is that after watching this for 10 years it is the most inhumane way I have ever seen victors treating the vanquished. And all this under a UN/EU Protectorate!

Isn't it funny how the Albanians claim Serbians in Kosovo are the most privileged "minority" in the world?

It is very simple. Serbians will not cave in to criminal and terrorist pressure in our occupied southern province.

So this is the paradise on earth that "Kosova" is supposed to be for the world's so-called "most privileged" minority.

First of all in which country would it be EVER allowed for ANY ethnicity to refuse the reading of the meters??? NOWHERE. Why should get those Serbs the slightest understanding of other people for their action?? I think the Kosovo police showed tremendeous patience so far in many areas of the country following planned provocations. I find it extremely contra-productive.

"LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power. So dear Serbs yes you are being treated just like every other citizen of Republic of Kosova. The last 10 years UNMIK let the Serbs enjoying more rights than other people of Kosovo but now we are getting more equel and Serbs bith over it because they see them self as an upper human being. NO Bills NO power thats simple.
(Danish Albanian, 7 March 2009 13:43) "

So no more"paradise on earth for the world's "most privileged" minority ..... what excuse will you think of next? Oh, I know! There is no electricity in heaven!

"They also said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read."

Duh! No free lunch, electricity costs money.

"Kosovo and Pomoravlje District head Dragan Nikolić told Tanjug that this was another attempt to impose Kosovo Albanian institutions on the local Serbs."

Not really, Dragan, just an attempt to get the money for the power used.

More discrimination from the occupiers, who are trying to cleanse what is left of Serbs from their own homeland. SHAME!

Yes genc, I do pay my bills, however, if the mafia disconnected my power and demanded they read my meter to calculate their commission then I would certainly object and not pay up.

That is what's happening in Kosovo because it is not a country and it doesn't have competent authorities. Those demanding money from Serbians have criminal links and operate as mafia.

When a proper Serbian power company issues a bill to those people, I'm sure they will pay promptly.

Joe says..."Why should get those Serbs the slightest understanding of other people for their action??"

I give up Joe.
I don't have the slighest understanding of what you, Joe, have written.

"LOL if you dont pay the bills you get no power."

LOL indeed. The rest of the SFRY paid the albanian bills for decades, even taking billions from the IMF to do so.

Of course, the level of service by KEK is not worthy of any modern utility considering they have abjectly failed to keep their power stations running regularly and that millions set aside for modernization were stolen. That is why KEK imports electricity from Serbia and then resells it.

It is a poll tax. Service indeed!

Nato and the EU know them real well from mountains of data that have been collected on them for decades. That's why they broke their own Constitutional Laws,
International Laws and God's Laws just to get them out of their own countries so they wouldn't have to deal with them. The little bit of sympathy the International Community had for the Albanians evaporated in 2004. Now it's strictly business and scrambling in trying to find some kind of win-win solution. The present, International Community concensus is that it is a "lost deal". Their enthusiasm, and will to proceed against their values, principles and conscience is visibly eroding. The blame game for their failure has always been Serbia. With so many Western leaders, and noted authors and politicians admitting mistake after mistake, they are continually creating cracks and divisions among themselves. That's too embarrassing, and a big no-no in the international world of politics. Serbia has survived the biggest onslaught, the biggest "blitzkrieg" of united Western mass media ever assembled against a nation and her people in the history of the world. Why did Serbia prevail? International Law and Russia? God? But in the international arena of politics defeats and failures are not readily admitted. So the only way for the West to get untangled out of their own web and save face is to place the blame on someone that the blame will stick, and then tell the world---God knows we tried our best, but these people are incorrigible. We all live in the world of illusions and forms where nothing remains the same, and change is constant. Old Native American saying: "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you". Today the Serbs are living surrounded and divided by barbed wire, and escorted by foreign soldiers for their safety even for the simplest daily basics. They are still being bullied, killed, humiliated, and forced to watch their mother's and father's churches, monastaries, and heritage which was almost destroyed under NATO's watch, now being guarded by those that tried to destroy it all. None of us know what tomorrow has in store for us, but if the wheel is still true as it has been true throughout human history, it should be able to give us some indication of events to come our way.

Reading Serbs' comments it appears clear that they just can't understand that there is no free lunch or not anymore. People have to pay their bills EVERYWHERE, be it the US, China, Russia, India, Serbia or Kosovo. Those, who want to get "free lunch" are leeches. In the current hard economic times worldwide no society can efford them.

hey people, this has nothing to do with nato, and discrimination.

listen when all people in kosovo pay the electricity why Serbs dont have to pay it.

I think this is discrimination, when albanians and other minorities pay the bills and the dear serbs dont want to pay.

come on people pay your bills or you will not have electricity simple.

i am albanian and if i dont pay electricity they will cut imidiatly and if I try to resist police will take me to prison.

Law is the same for all of us it dosent matter if you are albanian, serb, turk or gypsy.

"The rest of the SFRY paid the albanian bills for decades, even taking billions from the IMF to do so."

The same IMF loans Kosova is paying now? Btw, how much money did Serbia get from Croatia and Slovenia???? A lot more than poor Kosova got. When Tito went there he was shocked at the level of infrastructure and in late 70's we got some money and flourished.

>> "That is why KEK imports electricity from Serbia and then resells it. "

All the Balkan countries give and take, and Kosova will in 2-3 years be an exporter. Actually, KEK is at loss, it sells for lower that it buys it (there was a Gazeta Express story on it) that's why now they need to collect the money.

Rule #1. Pay the bills
Rule #2. Don't block the roads for no reason
Rule #3. Read rule #1

My electricity bills is $200+ a month in USA and I pay it or they will shut it down after 2-3 months. I might be able to talk to them and pay 30% now and the rest later, but I have to reach an agreement with them or else...

"The Šilovo villagers said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read. "
I really do not understand some serb commentators here that say that these Serbs are being abused and not treated equally. these Silovo serbs do not allow the company who provides electricity to read the electricity meters in their houses.
Can one of the Serbs tell me here please, what does the Serbian electric company do in Serbia with someone who does not allow them to read their electric meter?

Again, I love this sight, electricity termination after 10 years of non payment and refusal to even have meters read is called "ethinic cleansing". But I guess loading hundreds of thousands on trucks and taking to the border after burning their homes is just a govt sponsored tourism program.

"Kosovo and Pomoravlje District head Dragan Nikolić told Tanjug that this was another attempt to impose Kosovo Albanian institutions on the local Serbs"

That is all about. It is not about electricity it is all about sabotaging the Kosova's institution.

lowe, iseult henry, ZK & others,

do you pay regularly your bills? Do you ever dream not to let the employees read them? You know what would happen to you in such a case, don't you?

The Šilovo villagers said that they wanted the same rights as others in Kosovo, regardless of their ethnicity. They also said they were told the grid will not be fixed until they allow their meters to be read.

DUH - best part was where they got tear gassed for blocking the highway. No jovo you can't do that.

"That is what's happening in Kosovo because it is not a country and it doesn't have competent authorities. Those demanding money from Serbians have criminal links and operate as mafia."

Oh, I see. If I belive that Wall Street and USA is corrupt I can have free power, cars etc etc.

>> "When a proper Serbian power company issues a bill to those people, I'm sure they will pay promptly."

Thee, they can wait--without power--until then. The problem is that they want free power from the "mafia state"

Very shameful and pathetic of a self-annointed police force.

My electricity bills is $200+ a month in USA and I pay it or they will shut it down after 2-3 months. I might be able to talk to them and pay 30% now and the rest later, but I have to reach an agreement with them or else...
(Alban, 7 March 2009 23:03)

You don't even live in Kosovo and you claim to be a resident expert. If you do not pay then they cut you off they don't give you 2 months to pay and so please. Why don't you come back to Kosova and help the country grow? Yeah right why leave the US where power is always on, you can live off the system and give that up to go to Kosovo LOL. Alban right you turned your back on Kosova and call yourself an american.

I recommend the Serbs in Kosovo arm themselves with similar equipment as the kps and fight back with equal measures.

#18 Alban wrote: "Kosova will in 2-3 years be an exporter."

Alban,

Kosova is already any exporter... an exporter of criminals, human trafficing, drugs, organs.... you name it.

I have two questions for the Albanian Posters:

1. If these people do not have money to pay for the electricity and food do you think that it is OK to let them die?

2. Do you think that life would be much better if there were no Serbs in Kosovo (or anywhere else)?

I look forward to your responses.

It is curious that some posters point to the US as a 'good' example. I didn't know how this is relevant to Kosovo as it is neither a part nor borders the US.

Just to be clear, Kosovo is part of Europe. It is on all the maps too!

Europe and the EU do things differently than the US where for example, yes they are quite happy to cut you off, but in most european countries (as have been pointed out already) the process is quite long and drawn out and usually there is government assistance for those who are unable to pay.

This is in 'normal' circumstances, not in extraordinary circumstances a minority (the serbs in kosovo) is under pressure by a majority (albanians) to accept their will by means short of force.

So forget about comparisons with the US, which according to the WHO there are approximately 35 million children who do not have enough to eat.

1.have two questions for the Albanian Posters:

1. If these people do not have money to pay for the electricity and food do you think that it is OK to let them die?

2. Do you think that life would be much better if there were no Serbs in Kosovo (or anywhere else)?

I look forward to your responses.
(Krlja, 8 March 2009 16:13)

Answer

1.These people get benefits paid by Belgrade and another paid by EULEX ( Kosovo government budget). These payment are monthly and more than enough to pay the bills and have minimum life standard. Much better off than their counterpart in Kosovo who only get one payment.
2.I think he would be a shame for the Serb to leave their places and their properties. After all the Albanians never denied the existence of Serbs in Kosovo. It's their country too. But their need to realize soon that their country is Kosovo, not Serbia and not to be manipulated by Belgrade.

These are my answers and my personal opinion only. I believe is the opinion of many people in Kosovo.