"Elections in north should be annulled"

Dear old Oliver,

There's no point spinning your facts into reality.

1: The election boycott in the north did succeed. Just because some people voted does not bestow legitimacy. It is obviously the number & percentage of those people who voted that count.

2: The decision on elections will be made in Brussels with the support of their lackeys, the OSCE. They don't give a fig for your opinions.

3: If there is any way they can spin it, Brussels and co would be more than happy to have an albanian as Mayor in Kosovska Mitrovica, however low the turn out.

4: Apart from contributing much hot air, what exactly have you produced of worth in the benefit of the Serb minority in Kosovo? Repeat Brussels words of be crushed or leave? Increased IPA funds? Love and honey?

Really, reality, how ever perversely presented is created in Brussels, not Belgrade. The Steve Jobs reality distortion field actually exists and it is in Kosovo...

I went to Kosovska Mitrovica to report. There was a near total boycott. with thousands of people in the streets but few voting. The number entering the stations was in the dozens not hundreds. Across the street, loudly but peacefully, protesters booed the elections and the voters. It was recorded by reporters but suppressed on Serbian TV. As it became obvious turnout would be far under 5%, rumors spread of thugs from Belgrade coming to disrupt the polls (and thus the boycott). Sure enough, masked men soon ran into polling places and caused small disturbances, in one case breaking a ballot box. However there was no real threat to staff, voters or bystanders. The thugs ran away, but two were caught, one a former Serbian gendarmerie officer. My camera crew recorded a poll worker running out with a ballot box even though there was no further threat. Asked why she was closing the poll, she said "I got the order". The invisibility of OSCE security, KPS and NATO at exactly the time of the set-up "disruption" made it clear it was a theatre show to justify canceling the embarrassing 97.5% boycott of Belgrade's call to vote for the two Serbian candidates for mayor, neither of whom even drew enough Serb support to outvote the minuscule Albanian minority of North Kosovo that did vote. Nikolic, Vucic and Dacic are the big losers of this fake election. The N. Kosovo Serbs are the heroic winners. Bravo!

John Bosnitch
Journalist
john.b@imcnews.com

Election was a chance for Serbs to participate in the political life, to choose their leadership that would affect the overall life of the Serbs in Kosovo. If you wont to fully respect the procedure, you should cancel the elections in northern Kosovo, especially in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, not just at three polling stations. Now, it is debatable when and how it will hold repeat elections, and the question is how it will change the state of affairs. People who think they can maintain the status quo are wrong, it is unsustainable in every sense.

Dear old Oliver,

There's no point spinning your facts into reality.

1: The election boycott in the north did succeed. Just because some people voted does not bestow legitimacy. It is obviously the number & percentage of those people who voted that count.

2: The decision on elections will be made in Brussels with the support of their lackeys, the OSCE. They don't give a fig for your opinions.

3: If there is any way they can spin it, Brussels and co would be more than happy to have an albanian as Mayor in Kosovska Mitrovica, however low the turn out.

4: Apart from contributing much hot air, what exactly have you produced of worth in the benefit of the Serb minority in Kosovo? Repeat Brussels words of be crushed or leave? Increased IPA funds? Love and honey?

Really, reality, how ever perversely presented is created in Brussels, not Belgrade. The Steve Jobs reality distortion field actually exists and it is in Kosovo...

I went to Kosovska Mitrovica to report. There was a near total boycott. with thousands of people in the streets but few voting. The number entering the stations was in the dozens not hundreds. Across the street, loudly but peacefully, protesters booed the elections and the voters. It was recorded by reporters but suppressed on Serbian TV. As it became obvious turnout would be far under 5%, rumors spread of thugs from Belgrade coming to disrupt the polls (and thus the boycott). Sure enough, masked men soon ran into polling places and caused small disturbances, in one case breaking a ballot box. However there was no real threat to staff, voters or bystanders. The thugs ran away, but two were caught, one a former Serbian gendarmerie officer. My camera crew recorded a poll worker running out with a ballot box even though there was no further threat. Asked why she was closing the poll, she said "I got the order". The invisibility of OSCE security, KPS and NATO at exactly the time of the set-up "disruption" made it clear it was a theatre show to justify canceling the embarrassing 97.5% boycott of Belgrade's call to vote for the two Serbian candidates for mayor, neither of whom even drew enough Serb support to outvote the minuscule Albanian minority of North Kosovo that did vote. Nikolic, Vucic and Dacic are the big losers of this fake election. The N. Kosovo Serbs are the heroic winners. Bravo!

John Bosnitch
Journalist
john.b@imcnews.com

Election was a chance for Serbs to participate in the political life, to choose their leadership that would affect the overall life of the Serbs in Kosovo. If you wont to fully respect the procedure, you should cancel the elections in northern Kosovo, especially in the northern part of Kosovska Mitrovica, not just at three polling stations. Now, it is debatable when and how it will hold repeat elections, and the question is how it will change the state of affairs. People who think they can maintain the status quo are wrong, it is unsustainable in every sense.