PRIŠTINA DEPORTS FOURTH SERB

BELGRADE, JUNE 15 /SRNA/ – The authorities in Priština today deported Milan Zlatanović, a Serb who has worked in the police in Niš for nearly 20 years and lives with his family in the southern Serbia’s province, the Office for Kosovo and Metohija announced.

The Office has provided legal assistance to Zlatanović, just as it did for the three Serbs deported from Kosovo and Metohija yesterday, and is fighting for their rights through diplomatic channels. "Additionally, following orders from arsonist Kurti, five Serb police officers living in the Kosovo Pomoravlje region were not allowed to enter the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, preventing them from returning home and to their families after duty," the statement reads. The Office emphasized that the self-declared Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti continues his policy of arbitrary arrests and expulsions of Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija. "The targets of his vengeful and anti-Serb policy are Serbs living in Kosovo and Metohija who are employed by police departments in central Serbia," the Office said. They stressed that it is unprecedented for Kurti to carry out such a fascist policy of ethnic cleansing and persecution of one people in full view of the entire international community -without any reaction from those who are supposed to guarantee the Serb people a peaceful life in Kosovo and Metohija. The Office for Kosovo and Metohija has been in direct contact with EU representatives for the past two days regarding these latest escalatory moves by the Priština regime and has informed all international stakeholders. This morning, Kurti's police detained Zlatanović /44/, a father of three from Veliko Ropotovo, at the Končulj crossing. He was taken to a so-called deportation centre in Priština and later deported to central Serbia.