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Kosovar President Says Serbia Still Hasn’t Changed Its “Fascist Policies”

Kosovar President Says Serbia Still Hasn’t Changed Its “Fascist

The several days’ long meaningless squabbling of Serbian officials with the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, on Monday got a new participant when it was joined by the Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who made harsh qualifications against the Serbian state.

“Offensive statements of Serbian ministers Ivica Dacic and Aleksandar Vulin towards civilian victims of the war, murdered by Slobodan Milosevic's regime, “are proof that Serbia still hasn't changed its fascist policies towards Kosovo”, wrote Thaci on his Twitter profile.

“Such actions harm the dialogue and undermine our joint efforts for reconciliation”, Thaci wrote, apparently without the irony of speaking of “reconciliation” and Serbia’s “fascist policies” in the same breath.

Earlier on Monday, the Kosovo government had, in a much more polite tone than Thaci “expresses its deep disappointment with some public statements of senior Serbian officials, who openly continue to show a deep lack of respect for the victims of the recent war in Kosovo, as well as their families, who, for two or more decades, continue to desperately seek out their relatives kidnapped by Serbian forces”.

“These scandalous statements, in addition to severely offending all the victims of Serbian crimes, prove to the world that official Belgrade, during all these years, has deliberately and knowingly covered the traces of the crime, hiding the location of the mass graves in which have ended up hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians”, Kosovo government said.

The outgoing Foreign Minister Dacic stated last week that some Serbs were “snitching” to both the Albanians and the Croats “talking all sorts of nonsense, snitching to them where the Albanians are buried throughout Serbia”, while individuals “from the Prosecution for War Crimes are cooperating with the Albanians”.

Outgoing Defence Minister Vulin, in criticizing the statements of Rama in several announcements called the Kosovo Albanians again, as he regularly does “Shiptars”, promising that he would continue to do so.

Shiptar is the Serbian version of the word Shquiptar, which in Albanian language means Albanian.

However, in the Serbian language, the use of this term has an offensive connotation. By deliberately using the word of which he is aware that the Albanians perceive it as an insult when used by Serbs, Vulin is therefore deliberately provoking both the Kosovo and Albanian politicians.

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