Posted on 06/28/2012 10:03:22 AM PDT by Ravnagora
GAZIMESTAN, PRIŠTINA -- 16 Serb children were injured when Molotov cocktails were thrown at them as they were returning from the Vidovdan ceremonies in Gazimestan on Thursday.
A man carries the Serbian flag surrounded by KPS members at Gračanica on Thursday (Tanjug)
The attack happened in Priština. B92 has learned that two Serbs received serious injuries and were treated in the nearby enclave on Gračanica.
Gračanica Health Care Center Radmila Trajković told Tanjug that they treated 16 Serb children - between eight and 16 years of age - and that they were injured when their buses returning from Gazimestan came under attack.
The two boys who were hospitalized were "hit with concrete blocks on the head", she said.
The attackers were described as "a group of (ethnic) Albanian youths". Their target was a convoy of school buses leaving Gazimestan.
A total of four Molotov cocktails were thrown at the buses, along with blocks of concrete, Trajković explained.
The Kosovo police, KPS, are yet to make any statement regarding the attack.
Thousands of Serbs gathered at Gazimestan to mark one of the most significant and symbolic dates in the nation's history - the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.
The KPS members searched them and confiscated their clothes, flags, and other insignia they were carrying.
RTRS reporter Siniša Mihailović said that he heard the KPS members say this was done because in Kosovo and Metohija, "it was prohibited to wear t-shirts with inscriptions in the Cyrillic script", as well as "others' coats of arms, or any word that reminds of Serbia".
Among those who gathered at Gazimestan were members of some right-wing organizations who at the end of the services chanted slogans supportive of war crimes suspects Ratko Mladić and Radovan Karadžić, which prompted Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Irinej to intervene and "calm them down", media reports said.
More separate incidents and injuries were reported today from the administrative line between Kosovo and central Serbia.
Earlier in the day, reports said that "hundreds of Serbs were arriving at Gazimestan where a central celebration of Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) is beinge held".
Kosovo police, KPS, were searching the Serbs and confiscating all items with national and religious markings aside from Serbian flags.
According to Beta news agency, some members of the KPS were "rough and they are even confiscating šajkačas, Serbian traditional hats, from the citizens".
The Kosovo police also seized t-shirts with political slogans, leaving numerous participants shirtless. Some citizens have protested against the Kosovo police’s actions but there are no incidents.
According to reprorts, "special units" searched all Serbs who came from Gračanica to Gazimestan and seized items with national and religious markings, including t-shirts with disputable writings.
The police threw the seized items into a ditch near the Priština-Kosovska Mitrovica Road.
Some Kosovo policemen even seized the Serbian flags and a flag of the Democratic Party (DS).
There are large numbers of police officers along the Priština-Kosovska Mitrovica Road.
The central manifestation started at 13:00 CET. A liturgy for the fallen soldiers of the medieval Serbian kingdom who died in the Battle for Kosovo in 1389 will be held, as is the case each year.
There have been several incidents in Kosovo and at administrative crossing today and the most serious one happened at the Merdare crossing where Serbs, probably Partizan fans, clashed with the Kosovo police.
20 Serbs were injured in the incident and one of them sustained serious injuries and was taken to a hospital in the southern Serbian city of Niš. Kosovo Interior Minister Bajram Rexhepi said that several Kosovo policemen were also hurt.
Serbian Patriarch Irinej served holy liturgy in the Gračanica monastery.
St. Vitus Day is celebrated by the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) and the Serbian people in memory of the soldiers of the medieval Serbian Kingdom who fell in defense of their land and Christianity, faced with the Ottoman Turk invasion, in the Battle for Kosovo in 1389.
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Awful..... just awful
I see the pro-Milosevic party just won in Serbia. “No one will ever dare beat you again!”
I notice that the word “Muslim” is not mentioned, nor the motivations of those who threw the firebombs and concrete blocks.
Knowing the region, I would believe that Christian Serb children were attacked by ROP “extremists” as part of their continuing campaign to ethnically cleanse all Serbs from Kosovo.
Wait until this one shows up! I bet nobody trys to *confiscate* them. There might even be an *incident!*
Wait until this one shows up! I bet nobody trys to *confiscate* them. There might even be an *incident!*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlQ6KqTlyfk&feature=related
VDV Russian Airborne Song with ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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