Kosovo Serb villagers face catastrophe
January 28, 2009 – 8:04 pm
Serbs living a village Donje Drenovce near Kosovska Kamenica are facing a human catastrophe as they enter into the tenth day of no electricity, report the media.
Municipal mayor Boban Jeftic said that villagers are facing a humanitarian catastrophe and that most of their winter provisions they kept in refrigerators is lost.
“Replacement of the transformer at the transformer station in the village, which should be performed by the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK), is progressing very slowly. We do not know what to do, we do not have the right answer to this problem,” Jeftic said.
The villagers are afraid to wonder off from the village because of a danger that ethnic Albanians will kill them.
The ethnic Albanian coordinator for electrical supply company, Suljmije Keka, claims that the relay station has broken down because of over capacity.
However, in a statement, she blamed Serbs of not paying bills on time.
“We appeal on the users to pay their bills. If they were regular payers it is for sure that they would not stay 8 days with out the electrical energy,” Suljmije said.
Assistant to the Minister for Kosovo, Zvonimir Stevic, says that the responsible parties are the international community, the UN and EULEX.
“The international community should tell the public how much did they spend to revitalize electrical production in Kosovo and what was done on that matter,” said Stevic.
Stevic said that the appeal by Serbia to supply the Serb enclaves in Kosovo with electrical energy have not been addressed.
“Shortage of electrical energy is for them [Serbs] a nightmare and that is used to apply a psychological pressure on Serbs so they can leave,” says Stevic.
Kosovo is a Serbian province whose Albanian violent separatists have illegally declared independence in 2008 after ethnically cleansing over two thirds of the Serbian population while NATO troops, there since 1999, claim they are there to keep peace. The remaining Serbs are exposed to daily attacks of various sorts. Some states have extended a diplomatic recognition to these separatists claiming the province is a “unique” case.
January 28, 2009 – 8:04 pm
Serbs living a village Donje Drenovce near Kosovska Kamenica are facing a human catastrophe as they enter into the tenth day of no electricity, report the media.
Municipal mayor Boban Jeftic said that villagers are facing a humanitarian catastrophe and that most of their winter provisions they kept in refrigerators is lost.
“Replacement of the transformer at the transformer station in the village, which should be performed by the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK), is progressing very slowly. We do not know what to do, we do not have the right answer to this problem,” Jeftic said.
The villagers are afraid to wonder off from the village because of a danger that ethnic Albanians will kill them.
The ethnic Albanian coordinator for electrical supply company, Suljmije Keka, claims that the relay station has broken down because of over capacity.
However, in a statement, she blamed Serbs of not paying bills on time.
“We appeal on the users to pay their bills. If they were regular payers it is for sure that they would not stay 8 days with out the electrical energy,” Suljmije said.
Assistant to the Minister for Kosovo, Zvonimir Stevic, says that the responsible parties are the international community, the UN and EULEX.
“The international community should tell the public how much did they spend to revitalize electrical production in Kosovo and what was done on that matter,” said Stevic.
Stevic said that the appeal by Serbia to supply the Serb enclaves in Kosovo with electrical energy have not been addressed.
“Shortage of electrical energy is for them [Serbs] a nightmare and that is used to apply a psychological pressure on Serbs so they can leave,” says Stevic.
Kosovo is a Serbian province whose Albanian violent separatists have illegally declared independence in 2008 after ethnically cleansing over two thirds of the Serbian population while NATO troops, there since 1999, claim they are there to keep peace. The remaining Serbs are exposed to daily attacks of various sorts. Some states have extended a diplomatic recognition to these separatists claiming the province is a “unique” case.
