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Saturday, 20.02.2010.

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Albanians ambush local Serb

Kosovo Serb Ljubiša Stepanović was assaulted early Saturday morning in the Kosovo village of Žać, near Istok, by a group of Albanians.

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Peggy

pre 14 godina

# NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!
(lili, 23 February 2010 08:19)
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Totally agree. No peace without justice. So, when are the Serbs going to get justice?
When are your keystone cops going to investigate crimes committed against the Serbs AFTER the war?
You sound like Albanians have done nothing to the Serbs during the war. Are you that naive or just that biased? How about all the organs harvested?
How about all the lies still going around like "Racak Massacre"?
You only see injustice done to you and yet you accuse me of that. How about you practice what you preach for a change?
How about you simply bow your head in shame for all the crimes committed against the elderly and young defenseless Serbs even after the war?
How about you apologise for all the cemeteries destroyed out of hate of your own?

There are so many hate crimes committed against the Serbs and still continue and yet here you are telling me there is no peace without justice.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.
(Denis, 23 February 2010 08:18)

Well said but heave a word to lili. It's like of her who are bringing your reputation down even lower.
How would you like it if Serbs started to target Albanians in Preseva or anywhere else in Serbia proper and excused it as justified because of all the Serbs who were killed and expelled from Kosovo?
I bet you would not accept it, but lili here thinks it's ok because we had a war.
Both sides died and both sides have victims so there is NO EXCUSE for this behaviour now.

lili

pre 14 godina

to peggy and some serbian forumers:
you here are all day long commenting each albanian crime,albanian offense against a serbian,despite you have not been personaly touched,but just as serbians.
Now imagine you are the brother,the sister,the son of one of the albanian victims in Zac,what would be your reaction!!!
You can not ask from albanians what you do not do:forget the horrors that happened .As long as YOU will deny or minimize these crimes that are well documented and are revealed even by your soldiers and paramilitary,WE will stand against you and remind you what YOU,as a nation have done ,not only to albanian but to bosnians,croatians as well.
the kids of ZAC that are today orphans will never forget who is responsible for the death of their parents ,be sure of that.Nor the children of these childrens!

lili

pre 14 godina

NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!

Denis

pre 14 godina

As an Albanian I don't care if he was a Serb, this act along with desacrating of the graves are a disgrase for all of us if done by us Albanians. I know what this is though, is the result of barbaric influences of eastern cultures such as islam. No code of behaviour in the ALbanian tradition honor this behaviour.

I remember back in the day although we had our conflicts when a serb was among us we would respect him/her, to the point that we would speak Serbian to each other when our guest was present so we would not offend him.

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!
(lili, 21 February 2010 18:47)
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Way to to lili, invent a bogus charge against the victim and not only look for the real criminal but take the victim to local police station, "interrogate" him until he makes a confession and blame him for what happened to him.
This is a bit extreme for even the Albanian posters here.

lili

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!

Joe

pre 14 godina

When I read this story Angela Lansbury, author of "Murder she wrote" TV mystery series and lieutenant Colombo came to my mind. I am sure Colombo would have a lot of interesting questions to clarify the case.

EA

pre 14 godina

Mikael C,

My previous comment was not intended towards an innocent victim and I do appreciate your concern about that issue which I do simpathise. Any act of violance is unacceptable. But Serbia with its stance against Kosovo/a's institutions is not helping towards the life of Serbian minority in Kosovo/a. That is my main concern. I do expect and I am preatty sure that Kosova/o's authority look seriously to any individual incident and the perpetrator's will be punished according to Kosovo/a law. One more thing I have no issues with anyone thinking differently about political issue but any individual should respect the law of the territory where they live in. Now you might start of continue arguing about the terrotorry of Kosova/o all day and night but we both agree that Serbia has NO AUTHORITY OR JURISDICTION whatsoever in Kosovo/a. The reason why I am saying that is that Serbia should cooperate with Kosovo/a's institutions to improve the lives of people living in Kosovo/a. On the other side the integration plan of whole territory of Kosovo/a must move faster.

Michael R.

pre 14 godina

Did it ever occur to anyone that the victim was assaulted by fellow Serbs because he was friendly with Albanian neighbors. It could happen!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

# Four or Five or meybe more or less or....!Fishy a or...!
(Alban, 20 February 2010 17:34)
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No, not fishy. Typical. You guys never attack one on one but always in a group much larger than the one you are attacking. Preferably you will attack a single person.
This sort of thing has been happening for a very long time now and now ONE person has been arrested. I wonder why.
Could it be because the attacker are in fact Albanians for if they were Serbs it would be to your advantage to find them quickly and show how Serbs are doing this to themselves?

good serb

pre 14 godina

If this serb comitted any crime during the war he should be killed.I am living peacfully with my albanians friends better than before the war.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

Pejoni

Even though most Albanians decided to stay away from this article you at least condemed this attack. Credit to you for that. Certainly, any attack on any person, regardless of ethnic background should be condemned. In this case a Serb happend to be the victim. It's not easy for an Albanian to come to a Serbian forum and condemn an attack by, probably, his own people. For that you should get respect.

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

"Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law..."
EA

EA you are being very dissrespectful. Even if this person should happend to have a different opinon than you it doesn't mean he deservs to die or get beat up. This person is my relative. As I mentioned in a previous comment he is my wifes brother. He speaks Albanian perfectly and has several Albanian neighbours that he is friendly with. However, they often had to meet in privat due to threats from other Albanians. What is disturbing about your comment is that you seem to think that it's the victim who is at fault for getting beat up. This person wouldn't hurt a fly. His family told him not to go alone however he thinks the best of people and was convinced that nothing would happend to him. I guess now he knows better. Ljubisas family are all born in Zac. One of his three sisters is my wife. He is born and raised in Kosovo and has to endure this kind of treatment in his own homeland. This violence is directed towards all Serbs and their ambitions to return. One attack a week is enough to disscourage Serbs from returning. I know that most albanians will be happy when I say that at least one Serb, my wife, will never ever set foot in Kosovo again. Not because she doesn't want to but because she fears for her life. After this incident she has every reason to. With her you have done a great job. I hope you are proud of your selves.

Ylber

pre 14 godina

Let me begin by saying that an attack of this sort is shameful and wrong. Regardless of who the perpetrators are it’s shameful. Adding an ethnic element to it makes it even worse. So I just want everyone to understand I am against any violent acts of any kind and everyone in Kosovo should have the right to move about freely without their security being put in question.
That being said I find it very interesting that this happened as Lady Ashton was visiting. What a coincidence. And the writers of the article have concluded the attackers were unequivocally Albanian even though no investigation has even taken place yet.
What happened to straight forward journalism? This is a news report about a local Kosovar of Serb ethnic origin being attacked by unidentified assailants and being taken to the hospital. Once the investigation takes place we can find out who did it and why and punish the perpetrators. Simple as that.

michael

pre 14 godina

Pejoni. how convenient of you to mention those "attacks", undocumented certainly, after the attack on Serbs. Hmm...why didn't you post that right away like you do with your other daily nonsense?

Typical example of TOTAL albanian nonsense as we witness the continued inability of this illegal state to function

Mike

pre 14 godina

"What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled"

-- My comment should have read "What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have NOW crumbled".

Stupid typos.

EA

pre 14 godina

Reading the information here and taking it as a well being, it looks like an ethnic motivated assault but who is that individual?
Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law...

Thor

pre 14 godina

This is one of the Serbias three priorities to fight for Kosovo that are: Halting the recognition of unilateral independence, preventing Kosovo from joining international organizations and "drawing attention to violation of human rights, particularly the freedom of movement."

And this storry is last for the last priority that is listed above, i think serb posters understand what Namestaljka is.

Mike

pre 14 godina

I'm sorry Mikael C that the assaulted Serb is someone you know. It's even more of a shame that this man was on friendly terms with some of the local Albanians - a relationship I can only imagine was a cause of frustration for more radical elements of the community (or more likely a bused in gang). But unfortunately, like dozens and dozens of other Serbs attacked by Albanians over the years, this crime will largely go unnoticed and unpunished. What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled. I can hope the local authorities catch these thugs, but I know that's wishful thinking.

Frank

pre 14 godina

It is a shame, and the perpreators of such heinous act should quikly be brought to justice. One thing strikes me, how they can be so sure that there were albanians who attacked, I'm not doubting it, just at this stage ther is not substantial evidence neither to confirm or rule out the albanians. As a visitor in Kosova I saw that for albanians to enter Serb living quarters it was not easy because all entrances were guarded by International troops. The jurnalist writes "[albanian]attackers waited for Stepanović hiding on the property of a Serb". They had nowhere else to hide but on Serbian property!?, and the proprietor did not notice them on plain day! or he was an accomplice. Why no one is questioning the proprietor what does he know and what he was doing during that time. Just for information to the public, majority of serbs and albanians on Kosovo can speak each others tongue and would be hardly to determine their real identity just from hearing them.

Bekim

pre 14 godina

Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.

BBC(Belgrade Broadcasting Company as it was called by British politicians during the time NATO bombed you) doesn't need any of your news stories they print propaganda against Kosova all the time.

Pejoni

pre 14 godina

Last week an Albanian was assaulated in northern Mitrovice by a group of Serbs, yet no report from B92. An Albanian house in the same area was terrorized by Serbian youngsters, yet no report. Speedy recovery to Ljubisa and hope police cought these thugs.

miles

pre 14 godina

O and another thing. A lot of people have been rightly complaining of the lack of media coverage in the west on Albanian racist violence and unspeakable acts committed in Kosovo. Don't make it easy for the BBC and others to ignore the truth. Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.
At worse we might be able to foster a consciousness, an awareness or just shame for there deliberate failure to expose these injustices.

I read an artical on the Patriach's inauguration on the BBC website the other day and for the first time I couldn't find any anti Serb bias in the article. So things are changing. Lets help that change.

miles

pre 14 godina

They weren't Albanians that attacked him they were Serbs disguised as Albanians... you know those special service thingy guys still loyal to Milosevic and Darth Vader... they have x ray eyes as well you know...

Where are the fun loving Albanian posters on this one?

Milan

pre 14 godina

Sa... Nationalism is still strong on Albanian side...

Mr Clinton in 1999 spoke a lot about Serb nationalism - but they never see, that real problem in Kosovo was and still is Albanian nationalism.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Hey, hang on a second. I thought the K-Serbs were the 'best protected' minority in the world in this utopian 'democractic Kosova' as ben and the rest of Team Albania would have us believe.

dean SRB

pre 14 godina

Maybe Eulex and Dutch Fiath can say something on this?

Tadic decision to allow Eulex on Kosovo was state treason and the victims are innocent civilians just like Mr. Stepanovic.

Tadic to step down and Eulex to leave Kosovo and Metohija due to its neo-rasistic activity focused on extermination of all the Serbs and non-Albanians from Kosovo.

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

Well what do you know! I was only waiting for one of my own to get hurt by peaceloving albanians. Ljubisha is my wifes brother. I'm not surprised at what happend but when it happens to your own family its a chock.
Ljubisa was friendly with local albnains. He used to go to them and they to him. However, they told him on several occasions that they couldn't be seen in public with him or other Serbs. Now I know why. It's a shame and a dissgrace that the international community is sitting with its arms crossed. Instead of dealing with issues like these they are concerned about incorporating the North into Pristinas domain. If serbs are to survive in this joke of a so called country I hope they stand their ground and refuse to have anything to do with Pristina and the international community who is indirectly supporting this kind of behaviour. Shame on albanians and shame on the international community!

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

Well what do you know! I was only waiting for one of my own to get hurt by peaceloving albanians. Ljubisha is my wifes brother. I'm not surprised at what happend but when it happens to your own family its a chock.
Ljubisa was friendly with local albnains. He used to go to them and they to him. However, they told him on several occasions that they couldn't be seen in public with him or other Serbs. Now I know why. It's a shame and a dissgrace that the international community is sitting with its arms crossed. Instead of dealing with issues like these they are concerned about incorporating the North into Pristinas domain. If serbs are to survive in this joke of a so called country I hope they stand their ground and refuse to have anything to do with Pristina and the international community who is indirectly supporting this kind of behaviour. Shame on albanians and shame on the international community!

Pejoni

pre 14 godina

Last week an Albanian was assaulated in northern Mitrovice by a group of Serbs, yet no report from B92. An Albanian house in the same area was terrorized by Serbian youngsters, yet no report. Speedy recovery to Ljubisa and hope police cought these thugs.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Hey, hang on a second. I thought the K-Serbs were the 'best protected' minority in the world in this utopian 'democractic Kosova' as ben and the rest of Team Albania would have us believe.

miles

pre 14 godina

They weren't Albanians that attacked him they were Serbs disguised as Albanians... you know those special service thingy guys still loyal to Milosevic and Darth Vader... they have x ray eyes as well you know...

Where are the fun loving Albanian posters on this one?

Milan

pre 14 godina

Sa... Nationalism is still strong on Albanian side...

Mr Clinton in 1999 spoke a lot about Serb nationalism - but they never see, that real problem in Kosovo was and still is Albanian nationalism.

miles

pre 14 godina

O and another thing. A lot of people have been rightly complaining of the lack of media coverage in the west on Albanian racist violence and unspeakable acts committed in Kosovo. Don't make it easy for the BBC and others to ignore the truth. Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.
At worse we might be able to foster a consciousness, an awareness or just shame for there deliberate failure to expose these injustices.

I read an artical on the Patriach's inauguration on the BBC website the other day and for the first time I couldn't find any anti Serb bias in the article. So things are changing. Lets help that change.

dean SRB

pre 14 godina

Maybe Eulex and Dutch Fiath can say something on this?

Tadic decision to allow Eulex on Kosovo was state treason and the victims are innocent civilians just like Mr. Stepanovic.

Tadic to step down and Eulex to leave Kosovo and Metohija due to its neo-rasistic activity focused on extermination of all the Serbs and non-Albanians from Kosovo.

Mike

pre 14 godina

I'm sorry Mikael C that the assaulted Serb is someone you know. It's even more of a shame that this man was on friendly terms with some of the local Albanians - a relationship I can only imagine was a cause of frustration for more radical elements of the community (or more likely a bused in gang). But unfortunately, like dozens and dozens of other Serbs attacked by Albanians over the years, this crime will largely go unnoticed and unpunished. What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled. I can hope the local authorities catch these thugs, but I know that's wishful thinking.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

# Four or Five or meybe more or less or....!Fishy a or...!
(Alban, 20 February 2010 17:34)
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No, not fishy. Typical. You guys never attack one on one but always in a group much larger than the one you are attacking. Preferably you will attack a single person.
This sort of thing has been happening for a very long time now and now ONE person has been arrested. I wonder why.
Could it be because the attacker are in fact Albanians for if they were Serbs it would be to your advantage to find them quickly and show how Serbs are doing this to themselves?

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

"Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law..."
EA

EA you are being very dissrespectful. Even if this person should happend to have a different opinon than you it doesn't mean he deservs to die or get beat up. This person is my relative. As I mentioned in a previous comment he is my wifes brother. He speaks Albanian perfectly and has several Albanian neighbours that he is friendly with. However, they often had to meet in privat due to threats from other Albanians. What is disturbing about your comment is that you seem to think that it's the victim who is at fault for getting beat up. This person wouldn't hurt a fly. His family told him not to go alone however he thinks the best of people and was convinced that nothing would happend to him. I guess now he knows better. Ljubisas family are all born in Zac. One of his three sisters is my wife. He is born and raised in Kosovo and has to endure this kind of treatment in his own homeland. This violence is directed towards all Serbs and their ambitions to return. One attack a week is enough to disscourage Serbs from returning. I know that most albanians will be happy when I say that at least one Serb, my wife, will never ever set foot in Kosovo again. Not because she doesn't want to but because she fears for her life. After this incident she has every reason to. With her you have done a great job. I hope you are proud of your selves.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

Pejoni

Even though most Albanians decided to stay away from this article you at least condemed this attack. Credit to you for that. Certainly, any attack on any person, regardless of ethnic background should be condemned. In this case a Serb happend to be the victim. It's not easy for an Albanian to come to a Serbian forum and condemn an attack by, probably, his own people. For that you should get respect.

michael

pre 14 godina

Pejoni. how convenient of you to mention those "attacks", undocumented certainly, after the attack on Serbs. Hmm...why didn't you post that right away like you do with your other daily nonsense?

Typical example of TOTAL albanian nonsense as we witness the continued inability of this illegal state to function

Mike

pre 14 godina

"What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled"

-- My comment should have read "What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have NOW crumbled".

Stupid typos.

Frank

pre 14 godina

It is a shame, and the perpreators of such heinous act should quikly be brought to justice. One thing strikes me, how they can be so sure that there were albanians who attacked, I'm not doubting it, just at this stage ther is not substantial evidence neither to confirm or rule out the albanians. As a visitor in Kosova I saw that for albanians to enter Serb living quarters it was not easy because all entrances were guarded by International troops. The jurnalist writes "[albanian]attackers waited for Stepanović hiding on the property of a Serb". They had nowhere else to hide but on Serbian property!?, and the proprietor did not notice them on plain day! or he was an accomplice. Why no one is questioning the proprietor what does he know and what he was doing during that time. Just for information to the public, majority of serbs and albanians on Kosovo can speak each others tongue and would be hardly to determine their real identity just from hearing them.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!
(lili, 21 February 2010 18:47)
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Way to to lili, invent a bogus charge against the victim and not only look for the real criminal but take the victim to local police station, "interrogate" him until he makes a confession and blame him for what happened to him.
This is a bit extreme for even the Albanian posters here.

Thor

pre 14 godina

This is one of the Serbias three priorities to fight for Kosovo that are: Halting the recognition of unilateral independence, preventing Kosovo from joining international organizations and "drawing attention to violation of human rights, particularly the freedom of movement."

And this storry is last for the last priority that is listed above, i think serb posters understand what Namestaljka is.

EA

pre 14 godina

Reading the information here and taking it as a well being, it looks like an ethnic motivated assault but who is that individual?
Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law...

Bekim

pre 14 godina

Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.

BBC(Belgrade Broadcasting Company as it was called by British politicians during the time NATO bombed you) doesn't need any of your news stories they print propaganda against Kosova all the time.

Ylber

pre 14 godina

Let me begin by saying that an attack of this sort is shameful and wrong. Regardless of who the perpetrators are it’s shameful. Adding an ethnic element to it makes it even worse. So I just want everyone to understand I am against any violent acts of any kind and everyone in Kosovo should have the right to move about freely without their security being put in question.
That being said I find it very interesting that this happened as Lady Ashton was visiting. What a coincidence. And the writers of the article have concluded the attackers were unequivocally Albanian even though no investigation has even taken place yet.
What happened to straight forward journalism? This is a news report about a local Kosovar of Serb ethnic origin being attacked by unidentified assailants and being taken to the hospital. Once the investigation takes place we can find out who did it and why and punish the perpetrators. Simple as that.

good serb

pre 14 godina

If this serb comitted any crime during the war he should be killed.I am living peacfully with my albanians friends better than before the war.

Michael R.

pre 14 godina

Did it ever occur to anyone that the victim was assaulted by fellow Serbs because he was friendly with Albanian neighbors. It could happen!

EA

pre 14 godina

Mikael C,

My previous comment was not intended towards an innocent victim and I do appreciate your concern about that issue which I do simpathise. Any act of violance is unacceptable. But Serbia with its stance against Kosovo/a's institutions is not helping towards the life of Serbian minority in Kosovo/a. That is my main concern. I do expect and I am preatty sure that Kosova/o's authority look seriously to any individual incident and the perpetrator's will be punished according to Kosovo/a law. One more thing I have no issues with anyone thinking differently about political issue but any individual should respect the law of the territory where they live in. Now you might start of continue arguing about the terrotorry of Kosova/o all day and night but we both agree that Serbia has NO AUTHORITY OR JURISDICTION whatsoever in Kosovo/a. The reason why I am saying that is that Serbia should cooperate with Kosovo/a's institutions to improve the lives of people living in Kosovo/a. On the other side the integration plan of whole territory of Kosovo/a must move faster.

lili

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!

Joe

pre 14 godina

When I read this story Angela Lansbury, author of "Murder she wrote" TV mystery series and lieutenant Colombo came to my mind. I am sure Colombo would have a lot of interesting questions to clarify the case.

Denis

pre 14 godina

As an Albanian I don't care if he was a Serb, this act along with desacrating of the graves are a disgrase for all of us if done by us Albanians. I know what this is though, is the result of barbaric influences of eastern cultures such as islam. No code of behaviour in the ALbanian tradition honor this behaviour.

I remember back in the day although we had our conflicts when a serb was among us we would respect him/her, to the point that we would speak Serbian to each other when our guest was present so we would not offend him.

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.

lili

pre 14 godina

NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!

lili

pre 14 godina

to peggy and some serbian forumers:
you here are all day long commenting each albanian crime,albanian offense against a serbian,despite you have not been personaly touched,but just as serbians.
Now imagine you are the brother,the sister,the son of one of the albanian victims in Zac,what would be your reaction!!!
You can not ask from albanians what you do not do:forget the horrors that happened .As long as YOU will deny or minimize these crimes that are well documented and are revealed even by your soldiers and paramilitary,WE will stand against you and remind you what YOU,as a nation have done ,not only to albanian but to bosnians,croatians as well.
the kids of ZAC that are today orphans will never forget who is responsible for the death of their parents ,be sure of that.Nor the children of these childrens!

Peggy

pre 14 godina

# NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!
(lili, 23 February 2010 08:19)
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Totally agree. No peace without justice. So, when are the Serbs going to get justice?
When are your keystone cops going to investigate crimes committed against the Serbs AFTER the war?
You sound like Albanians have done nothing to the Serbs during the war. Are you that naive or just that biased? How about all the organs harvested?
How about all the lies still going around like "Racak Massacre"?
You only see injustice done to you and yet you accuse me of that. How about you practice what you preach for a change?
How about you simply bow your head in shame for all the crimes committed against the elderly and young defenseless Serbs even after the war?
How about you apologise for all the cemeteries destroyed out of hate of your own?

There are so many hate crimes committed against the Serbs and still continue and yet here you are telling me there is no peace without justice.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.
(Denis, 23 February 2010 08:18)

Well said but heave a word to lili. It's like of her who are bringing your reputation down even lower.
How would you like it if Serbs started to target Albanians in Preseva or anywhere else in Serbia proper and excused it as justified because of all the Serbs who were killed and expelled from Kosovo?
I bet you would not accept it, but lili here thinks it's ok because we had a war.
Both sides died and both sides have victims so there is NO EXCUSE for this behaviour now.

good serb

pre 14 godina

If this serb comitted any crime during the war he should be killed.I am living peacfully with my albanians friends better than before the war.

Michael R.

pre 14 godina

Did it ever occur to anyone that the victim was assaulted by fellow Serbs because he was friendly with Albanian neighbors. It could happen!

Frank

pre 14 godina

It is a shame, and the perpreators of such heinous act should quikly be brought to justice. One thing strikes me, how they can be so sure that there were albanians who attacked, I'm not doubting it, just at this stage ther is not substantial evidence neither to confirm or rule out the albanians. As a visitor in Kosova I saw that for albanians to enter Serb living quarters it was not easy because all entrances were guarded by International troops. The jurnalist writes "[albanian]attackers waited for Stepanović hiding on the property of a Serb". They had nowhere else to hide but on Serbian property!?, and the proprietor did not notice them on plain day! or he was an accomplice. Why no one is questioning the proprietor what does he know and what he was doing during that time. Just for information to the public, majority of serbs and albanians on Kosovo can speak each others tongue and would be hardly to determine their real identity just from hearing them.

Bekim

pre 14 godina

Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.

BBC(Belgrade Broadcasting Company as it was called by British politicians during the time NATO bombed you) doesn't need any of your news stories they print propaganda against Kosova all the time.

EA

pre 14 godina

Mikael C,

My previous comment was not intended towards an innocent victim and I do appreciate your concern about that issue which I do simpathise. Any act of violance is unacceptable. But Serbia with its stance against Kosovo/a's institutions is not helping towards the life of Serbian minority in Kosovo/a. That is my main concern. I do expect and I am preatty sure that Kosova/o's authority look seriously to any individual incident and the perpetrator's will be punished according to Kosovo/a law. One more thing I have no issues with anyone thinking differently about political issue but any individual should respect the law of the territory where they live in. Now you might start of continue arguing about the terrotorry of Kosova/o all day and night but we both agree that Serbia has NO AUTHORITY OR JURISDICTION whatsoever in Kosovo/a. The reason why I am saying that is that Serbia should cooperate with Kosovo/a's institutions to improve the lives of people living in Kosovo/a. On the other side the integration plan of whole territory of Kosovo/a must move faster.

Milan

pre 14 godina

Sa... Nationalism is still strong on Albanian side...

Mr Clinton in 1999 spoke a lot about Serb nationalism - but they never see, that real problem in Kosovo was and still is Albanian nationalism.

Pejoni

pre 14 godina

Last week an Albanian was assaulated in northern Mitrovice by a group of Serbs, yet no report from B92. An Albanian house in the same area was terrorized by Serbian youngsters, yet no report. Speedy recovery to Ljubisa and hope police cought these thugs.

EA

pre 14 godina

Reading the information here and taking it as a well being, it looks like an ethnic motivated assault but who is that individual?
Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law...

dean SRB

pre 14 godina

Maybe Eulex and Dutch Fiath can say something on this?

Tadic decision to allow Eulex on Kosovo was state treason and the victims are innocent civilians just like Mr. Stepanovic.

Tadic to step down and Eulex to leave Kosovo and Metohija due to its neo-rasistic activity focused on extermination of all the Serbs and non-Albanians from Kosovo.

Niall O'Doherty

pre 14 godina

Hey, hang on a second. I thought the K-Serbs were the 'best protected' minority in the world in this utopian 'democractic Kosova' as ben and the rest of Team Albania would have us believe.

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

Well what do you know! I was only waiting for one of my own to get hurt by peaceloving albanians. Ljubisha is my wifes brother. I'm not surprised at what happend but when it happens to your own family its a chock.
Ljubisa was friendly with local albnains. He used to go to them and they to him. However, they told him on several occasions that they couldn't be seen in public with him or other Serbs. Now I know why. It's a shame and a dissgrace that the international community is sitting with its arms crossed. Instead of dealing with issues like these they are concerned about incorporating the North into Pristinas domain. If serbs are to survive in this joke of a so called country I hope they stand their ground and refuse to have anything to do with Pristina and the international community who is indirectly supporting this kind of behaviour. Shame on albanians and shame on the international community!

Joe

pre 14 godina

When I read this story Angela Lansbury, author of "Murder she wrote" TV mystery series and lieutenant Colombo came to my mind. I am sure Colombo would have a lot of interesting questions to clarify the case.

lili

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!

miles

pre 14 godina

They weren't Albanians that attacked him they were Serbs disguised as Albanians... you know those special service thingy guys still loyal to Milosevic and Darth Vader... they have x ray eyes as well you know...

Where are the fun loving Albanian posters on this one?

Ylber

pre 14 godina

Let me begin by saying that an attack of this sort is shameful and wrong. Regardless of who the perpetrators are it’s shameful. Adding an ethnic element to it makes it even worse. So I just want everyone to understand I am against any violent acts of any kind and everyone in Kosovo should have the right to move about freely without their security being put in question.
That being said I find it very interesting that this happened as Lady Ashton was visiting. What a coincidence. And the writers of the article have concluded the attackers were unequivocally Albanian even though no investigation has even taken place yet.
What happened to straight forward journalism? This is a news report about a local Kosovar of Serb ethnic origin being attacked by unidentified assailants and being taken to the hospital. Once the investigation takes place we can find out who did it and why and punish the perpetrators. Simple as that.

michael

pre 14 godina

Pejoni. how convenient of you to mention those "attacks", undocumented certainly, after the attack on Serbs. Hmm...why didn't you post that right away like you do with your other daily nonsense?

Typical example of TOTAL albanian nonsense as we witness the continued inability of this illegal state to function

Mike

pre 14 godina

I'm sorry Mikael C that the assaulted Serb is someone you know. It's even more of a shame that this man was on friendly terms with some of the local Albanians - a relationship I can only imagine was a cause of frustration for more radical elements of the community (or more likely a bused in gang). But unfortunately, like dozens and dozens of other Serbs attacked by Albanians over the years, this crime will largely go unnoticed and unpunished. What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled. I can hope the local authorities catch these thugs, but I know that's wishful thinking.

miles

pre 14 godina

O and another thing. A lot of people have been rightly complaining of the lack of media coverage in the west on Albanian racist violence and unspeakable acts committed in Kosovo. Don't make it easy for the BBC and others to ignore the truth. Just cut and paste these news stories and send them to your favourite western media news source, mines worldnewsplan@bbc.co.uk.
At worse we might be able to foster a consciousness, an awareness or just shame for there deliberate failure to expose these injustices.

I read an artical on the Patriach's inauguration on the BBC website the other day and for the first time I couldn't find any anti Serb bias in the article. So things are changing. Lets help that change.

Mike

pre 14 godina

"What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have not crumbled"

-- My comment should have read "What's even worse, whatever goodwill existed between him and the rest of the Serb community of Istok and the local Albanians, have NOW crumbled".

Stupid typos.

Thor

pre 14 godina

This is one of the Serbias three priorities to fight for Kosovo that are: Halting the recognition of unilateral independence, preventing Kosovo from joining international organizations and "drawing attention to violation of human rights, particularly the freedom of movement."

And this storry is last for the last priority that is listed above, i think serb posters understand what Namestaljka is.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

b92 should have recalled what happenned in Za9 during the war and try to explain who committed these crimes.If the "locals" have reacted in that way,they do know that this man is connected to these crimes.
May be this man could explai us who did the bloody massacres there?ask him to tell!
No peace without justice!and certainly not welcoming without repentance for the perpetretors or the collaborators of these crimes!!
(lili, 21 February 2010 18:47)
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Way to to lili, invent a bogus charge against the victim and not only look for the real criminal but take the victim to local police station, "interrogate" him until he makes a confession and blame him for what happened to him.
This is a bit extreme for even the Albanian posters here.

Hank the Tank

pre 14 godina

Pejoni

Even though most Albanians decided to stay away from this article you at least condemed this attack. Credit to you for that. Certainly, any attack on any person, regardless of ethnic background should be condemned. In this case a Serb happend to be the victim. It's not easy for an Albanian to come to a Serbian forum and condemn an attack by, probably, his own people. For that you should get respect.

lili

pre 14 godina

to peggy and some serbian forumers:
you here are all day long commenting each albanian crime,albanian offense against a serbian,despite you have not been personaly touched,but just as serbians.
Now imagine you are the brother,the sister,the son of one of the albanian victims in Zac,what would be your reaction!!!
You can not ask from albanians what you do not do:forget the horrors that happened .As long as YOU will deny or minimize these crimes that are well documented and are revealed even by your soldiers and paramilitary,WE will stand against you and remind you what YOU,as a nation have done ,not only to albanian but to bosnians,croatians as well.
the kids of ZAC that are today orphans will never forget who is responsible for the death of their parents ,be sure of that.Nor the children of these childrens!

Mikael C

pre 14 godina

"Is he one of the "real" Serbs who is determined to undermine the Kosovo's institutions and Kosovo/a's law..."
EA

EA you are being very dissrespectful. Even if this person should happend to have a different opinon than you it doesn't mean he deservs to die or get beat up. This person is my relative. As I mentioned in a previous comment he is my wifes brother. He speaks Albanian perfectly and has several Albanian neighbours that he is friendly with. However, they often had to meet in privat due to threats from other Albanians. What is disturbing about your comment is that you seem to think that it's the victim who is at fault for getting beat up. This person wouldn't hurt a fly. His family told him not to go alone however he thinks the best of people and was convinced that nothing would happend to him. I guess now he knows better. Ljubisas family are all born in Zac. One of his three sisters is my wife. He is born and raised in Kosovo and has to endure this kind of treatment in his own homeland. This violence is directed towards all Serbs and their ambitions to return. One attack a week is enough to disscourage Serbs from returning. I know that most albanians will be happy when I say that at least one Serb, my wife, will never ever set foot in Kosovo again. Not because she doesn't want to but because she fears for her life. After this incident she has every reason to. With her you have done a great job. I hope you are proud of your selves.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

# Four or Five or meybe more or less or....!Fishy a or...!
(Alban, 20 February 2010 17:34)
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No, not fishy. Typical. You guys never attack one on one but always in a group much larger than the one you are attacking. Preferably you will attack a single person.
This sort of thing has been happening for a very long time now and now ONE person has been arrested. I wonder why.
Could it be because the attacker are in fact Albanians for if they were Serbs it would be to your advantage to find them quickly and show how Serbs are doing this to themselves?

lili

pre 14 godina

NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!

Denis

pre 14 godina

As an Albanian I don't care if he was a Serb, this act along with desacrating of the graves are a disgrase for all of us if done by us Albanians. I know what this is though, is the result of barbaric influences of eastern cultures such as islam. No code of behaviour in the ALbanian tradition honor this behaviour.

I remember back in the day although we had our conflicts when a serb was among us we would respect him/her, to the point that we would speak Serbian to each other when our guest was present so we would not offend him.

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

# NO pEACE without justice.
like it or not peggy,
people who have had their relatives killed like in this village will not forget,even if YOU do!
(lili, 23 February 2010 08:19)
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Totally agree. No peace without justice. So, when are the Serbs going to get justice?
When are your keystone cops going to investigate crimes committed against the Serbs AFTER the war?
You sound like Albanians have done nothing to the Serbs during the war. Are you that naive or just that biased? How about all the organs harvested?
How about all the lies still going around like "Racak Massacre"?
You only see injustice done to you and yet you accuse me of that. How about you practice what you preach for a change?
How about you simply bow your head in shame for all the crimes committed against the elderly and young defenseless Serbs even after the war?
How about you apologise for all the cemeteries destroyed out of hate of your own?

There are so many hate crimes committed against the Serbs and still continue and yet here you are telling me there is no peace without justice.

Peggy

pre 14 godina

Without a doubt I am for independece and self-determination, but in no way I want to equate myself to these acts which are the same ones that we suffered from Serbia not long ago.
(Denis, 23 February 2010 08:18)

Well said but heave a word to lili. It's like of her who are bringing your reputation down even lower.
How would you like it if Serbs started to target Albanians in Preseva or anywhere else in Serbia proper and excused it as justified because of all the Serbs who were killed and expelled from Kosovo?
I bet you would not accept it, but lili here thinks it's ok because we had a war.
Both sides died and both sides have victims so there is NO EXCUSE for this behaviour now.