Incidents in Kosovo and Metohija in 2021
January
07/01 The Vučković family house in the village of Babin Most was broken into;
13/01 Petar Petković, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija, was not allowed to enter;
16/01 At the “Jarinje” CCP, a bus with 40 passengers carrying season’s gift packages for children was not allowed to enter;
20.01 Inspection raided the Health Center in Štrpce, searching for vaccines;
28.01 Igor Popović, Assistant Director in the OKM, was not allowed to enter;
February
02/02 Two Ristić brothers were wounded by firearms in Laplje Selo;
03/02 KLA graffiti were inscribed on the Krstović family house in Goraždevac;
03/02 The mast and flag by the Monument to Serbian victims in Goraždevac were broken;
04/02 Archeological items were stolen from the Hermitage of St Petar of Korisha, near Prizren;
05/02 The Jovanović family house in the village of Mogila was broken into;
10/02 A KLA Billboard was placed in Čaglavica;
10/02 The Vučković family house in the village of Berkovo was broken into;
13/02 The TV PINK and TV Kraljevo crews were not allowed to enter;
15/02 The RTS crew, filming the series „The Right to Tomorrow“ was not allowed to enter;
26/02 Serbian boy M.M. was stabbed by Albanians in Kosovska Mitrovica;
28/02 Team of the Arilje Handball Club was not allowed to enter;
March
03/03 A Serbian house in Gračanica was broken into, money and personal documents were stolen;
04/03 Two Goranis in Globočica were wounded by two Albanian men;
05/03 Serbian boy L.P. was hit in Gračanica by car with an Albanian driver who fled the scene;
06/03 On All Souls’ Day, Orthodox church of St. Peter in the village of Klokot, Municipality of Kosovska Vitina, was broken into and some money was stolen;
06/03 On All Souls’ Day, Orthodox church of Holy Trinity in the village of Parteš, Municipality of Gnjilane, was broken into, and from it were stolen money, a hand-made shroud and an icon;
07/03 A tombstone in the graveyard of the village of Binač was stolen;
07/03 A Serb restaurant-owner in the village of Šilovo, Municipality of Gnjilane, was shot in the leg by an Albanian;
12/03 From the parish house under construction, next to the Church of the Holy Apostle Luke in the village of Vitomirica, Municipality of Peć, construction material was stolen;
12/03 ROSU members searched the premises of the Municipality of Klokot, then searched the family house of the Municipality President and arrested him;
13/03 Church of 40 Martyrs of Sebastes in the village of Drajkovce, Municipality of Štrpce, was broken into and its money was stolen;
13/03 Church of St. Dimitri in the village of Donja Bitinja, Municipality of Štrpce, was broken into;
15/03 Church of St. Kyriako in the village of Gornja Gušterica, Municipality of Gračanica, was broken into, demolished, and looted;
16/03 At the “Jarinje” CCP, Ms. Svetlana Miladinov, Assistant Director in the OKM, was not allowed to enter;
18/03 Church of St. Marko in the village of Šilovo, Municipality of Gnjilane, was broken into, and its money and sound system were looted;
25/03 KLA graffiti were inscribed on the wall of the Health Center in the village of Suvi Do;
27/03 At the “Tabalije” CCP, the Kosovo Police did not allow 17 football players of the FC „Šumadija“ to enter Kosovo and Metohija;
30/03 Ms. Mila Anđelković, a returnee whose family house has been illegally occupied by the Albanians, was arrested;
April
10/04 Serbian youngsters Marko Nikolić and Miloš Rošić, while sitting in a cafe in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica, were attacked by bottles;
12/04 Health clinic in the village of Gojbulja was broken into;
13/04 Teenager Luka Dimitrijević was attacked in Gračanica;
15/04 Albanian flags were waved followed with an attempt of incursion into the Clinical Hospital Center in the north of Kosovska Mitrovica;
16/04 Petar Petković, Director of the OKM, was not allowed to enter;
18/04 Ms. Tamara Grujić, a RTS journalist, was arrested in Vučitrn;
18/04 The front door of the elementary school in Obilić were demolished;
26/04 Lazar Đoršević and his family were attacked by Albanians, while at their own estate in the village of Gojbulja;
May
03/05 The Jaćović family house in Kosovska Vitina was stoned;
03/05 A window was broken on the car belonging to the deacon in Orahovac;
05/05 Miroslav Lukić from Velika Hoča sustained a broken nose after being physically attacked by three Albanians;
06/05 On the St. George’s Day, a group of thugs attempted to remove the Serbian flag from the Bell tower of the church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Klokot;
06/05 The church of St. John the Baptist, located in the center of the City of Peć, also known as the Metropolitan Church, was stoned and a window got broken;
09/05 The church of St. Petka in Kosovska Vitina was stoned;
09/05 In the village of Suvi Do, Municipality of Kosovska Mitrovica, three shots were fired into the air from the passing vehicle;
10/05 The church of Most Holy Mother of God in Lipljan was stoned;
11/05 The house of returnees Radoje and Miloje Pumpalović in the village of Dubrava, Municipality of Istok, was attacked, for the fifth time within the timeframe of a year;
20/05 The Jaćović family house in Kosovska Vitina was attacked once more;
24/05 In the church of St. Petka in the village of Donja Šipašnica, Municipality of Kosovska Kamenica, front door was burglarized, church was ransacked, and its holy relics were stolen;
26/05 The house of returnee Sreten Stojiljković, near Novo Brdo, was broken into, and his tools and firewood were stolen;
26/05 An outbuilding belonging to Božidar Zdravković from the same village (Ćeranovica Hamlet, returnee village Klobukar, Novo Brdo) was burglarized and a stove was stolen;
30/05 The signpost pointing to the Draganac Monastery in the Municipality of Novo Brdo was shattered.
June
03/06 “Greater Albania” graffiti were inscribed on a Serbian home in Orahovac;
10/06 Kosovo Police raided the Temple of Christ the Savior in Priština, after the liturgy;
11/06 Hate graffiti were inscribed on the Temple of Christ the Savior. Kosovo Police stood by, passively watching the desecration as it went on;
11/06 Ms. Darija Kisić Tepavčević, Minister of Labor, Employment, Veterans' Affairs, and Social Affairs, scheduled to hold lecture to students, was not allowed to enter Kosovo and Metohija;
11/06 A group of 39 Christians believers on pilgrimage were prevented from visiting the monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija;
11/06 Bus carrying Christians believers was kept on hold for more than 5 hours at the “Jarinje” CCP;
12/06 Two buses carrying Serbian athletes and Christians believers was returned from the “Jarinje” CCP
14/06 Graves of families Stojanović and Šarić in Orahovac were desecrated;
19/06 A bus carrying 50 Christians believers from the parts of Central Serbia on route for the All Souls’ Day to Kosovo and Metohija;
20/06 Electrical installation in the church of St. Uroš in Uroševac was stolen;
21/22/06 Minister Vanja Udovičić was not allowed to enter into Kosovo and Metohija;
21/06 The front door of the church of holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Talinovac near Uroševac was shattered, electrical installation taken down, and icons thrown around;
24/06 The family house of Staniša Stojanović in the village of Babin Most, Municipality of Obilić, was broken into, looted, ransacked, and the money was stolen;
26/06 A group of Serbian mountaineers was banned from hiking to the top of the Šar Mountain starting from Štrpce and the Brezovica Ski Center;
27/06 Repeated assaults against Dragica Gašić, the first ever Serbian woman returnee into Đakovica, coupled with the stoning of her apartment, pasting photos of deceased people, and announced protests of NGOs with requests for her eviction;
28/06 Stopping the vehicles with Serbian license plates on the road to Gazimestan while on way to celebrate Vidovdan, seizure of any Serbian symbols; a nun was searched, and a Montenegrin citizen was arrested and, two days later, remanded to a 30-day custody;
On that same day, several Serbian people were arrested just because they were singing the Đurđevdan song and uploading videos to social networks;
29/30/06 In the Gračanica Monastery, the tricolor of the Serbian Orthodox Church was stolen, and the mast on the monastery gate was broken. The photos of the desecrated church were posted on social networks, also depicting a black-clad Albanian holding the flag of “Greater Albania”. Few hours later, there was a video on social networks with that same masked Albanian burning the stolen flag;
30/06 Dragica Gašić was forbidden to install an armored door in her apartment, and the door got confiscated;
30/06 Four persons from Čačak were apprehended at Gazimestan on June 28, brought and interrogated before a prosecutor, over their T-shirts captioned “No Surrender”. According to them, those T-shirts were found in the trunk of their vehicle with Čačak license plates. They were questioned by prosecutor without interpretation, because the alternative to it, as they were informed, was to wait until the next day. They were fined with EUR 400, which they did not pay immediately, so the Kosovo Police system withheld their ID cards;
30/06 In Lipljan, a group of Albanians prevented several Serbian boys and girls to set up a basketball hoop in a local park;
July
01/07 An “ALBANIA UCK” graffiti appeared overnight on a billboard presenting the Monastery of Gračanica on the Gračanica – Laplje Selo road;
01/07 A group of Albanians has beaten up a 13-year-old boy, Nikola P, tearing off the cross around his neck and leaving him in bruises and contusions.
