Samardžić: Somebody wanted war

Slobodan Samardzic says that Serbian authorities have proof that somebody wanted to start a war in Kosovo on March 17. “We have strong evidence: pictures, bullets that were extracted from the bodies of the injured, leftovers of sniper bullets that hit Serbs. We have evidence that somebody wanted to create a conflict and a state of war in Kosovo,” the Kosovo minister told daily Vecernje Novosti. Samardzic: Somebody wanted war He reiterated that Serbia had sent an initiative to the UN to start an international investigation into the clashes in Kosovska Mitrovica that, as he stated, should ascertain, above all, who ordered UNMIK police to remove Serb judges from the court, arrest them and take them to Pristina. Samardzic said that “the brutality of UNMIK special forces could not pass without a reaction from the people.” According to the minister, the goal of the UNMIK operation of March 17 in Kosovska Mitrovica was “more than clear”—to apply the “resolution about an independent Kosovo” on the field and to put into practice “intentions to create a new Albanian state,” and to give Serbs “a violent lesson once and for all.” Slobodan Samardzic (FoNet, archive)

Samardžić: Somebody wanted war

He reiterated that Serbia had sent an initiative to the UN to start an international investigation into the clashes in Kosovska Mitrovica that, as he stated, should ascertain, above all, who ordered UNMIK police to remove Serb judges from the court, arrest them and take them to Priština.

Samardžić said that “the brutality of UNMIK special forces could not pass without a reaction from the people.”

According to the minister, the goal of the UNMIK operation of March 17 in Kosovska Mitrovica was “more than clear”—to apply the “resolution about an independent Kosovo” on the field and to put into practice “intentions to create a new Albanian state,” and to give Serbs “a violent lesson once and for all.”