Serbs disrupt KSF recruitment drive

Several hundred Serbs prevented KFOR members today from holding a recruitment campaign for the KSF in Grabovac.

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Wednesday, 11.02.2009.

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Several hundred Serbs prevented KFOR members today from holding a recruitment campaign for the KSF in Grabovac. KFOR members came to the Serb village this morning in 10 armored vehicles with the aim of setting up a mobile recruitment center and persuading Serbs to enlist in the Kosovo Security Forces (KSF). Serbs disrupt KSF recruitment drive Angry Serbs from the village and the surrounding area came to voice their opposition and, in a sign of protest, blocked the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavic road where the KFOR teams had parked. After talks with Zvecan Municipal President Dragisa Milovic, the Serbs dispersed quietly, warning, however, that in the event of a repeat performance, they would return in even greater numbers “to defend themselves from the willfulness of international officials and Albanian extremists using democratic means.” Milovic said that KFOR’s actions had transcended their mandate and had breached UN Security Council Resolution 1244. The municipal president said that he had received pledges from KFOR representatives that they would convey to their superiors the Serbs’ refusal to take part in the KSF as they viewed the formation as “an anti-Serb military formation stemming from the former KLA and KPC, made up of Albanians that had inflicted harm on the Serb community.” KSF Deputy Minister Behxhet Brajshori said today that the KSF had thus far received applications from 92 members of Kosovo’s minority communities, including six Serbs, and urged more Serbs to apply. Of the KSF’s 3,300 active and reserve members, 1,400 will be selected from the now disbanded Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), while the remainder will come from civil society.

Serbs disrupt KSF recruitment drive

Angry Serbs from the village and the surrounding area came to voice their opposition and, in a sign of protest, blocked the Kosovska Mitrovica-Leposavić road where the KFOR teams had parked.

After talks with Zvečan Municipal President Dragiša Milović, the Serbs dispersed quietly, warning, however, that in the event of a repeat performance, they would return in even greater numbers “to defend themselves from the willfulness of international officials and Albanian extremists using democratic means.”

Milović said that KFOR’s actions had transcended their mandate and had breached UN Security Council Resolution 1244.

The municipal president said that he had received pledges from KFOR representatives that they would convey to their superiors the Serbs’ refusal to take part in the KSF as they viewed the formation as “an anti-Serb military formation stemming from the former KLA and KPC, made up of Albanians that had inflicted harm on the Serb community.”

KSF Deputy Minister Behxhet Brajshori said today that the KSF had thus far received applications from 92 members of Kosovo’s minority communities, including six Serbs, and urged more Serbs to apply.

Of the KSF’s 3,300 active and reserve members, 1,400 will be selected from the now disbanded Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC), while the remainder will come from civil society.

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