Kosovo Serbs feel betrayed by historic deal
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | April 20, 2013 21:34
Some are furious, others resigned, but most Serbs in northern Kosovo feel betrayed by a historic deal reached by Belgrade and Pristina to normalise ties in a step to heal the festering enmity in the Balkans’ last trouble-spot.
“Belgrade betrayed and cheated us,” Marko Dimitrijevic, a 32-year-old pharmacist, said bitterly while sipping a coffee in a cafe in the northern Kosovan city of Kosovska Mitrovica.
The agreement, struck on Friday, provides autonomy for the some 40,000 Serbs in northern Kosovo who steadfastly refuse to recognise Kosovo’s 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia.
The deal — whose details have not been made public by the EU — sought to help solve the last major dispute remaining of the bloody 1990s conflict that split the Balkans.
“Belgrade has abandoned the north of Kosovo, just as it already abandoned us when the (ethnic) Albanians declared their independence,” said Nikola Stosovic, a retiree in the enclave of Gracanica near Pristina.
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