00:00 Northern Kosovo. On Sunday, a group of Serb gunmen in uniform barricaded themselves inside
00:06 a monastery and engaged in a shootout with members of the Kosovo police. When it was
00:11 over, one police officer and three gunmen were dead. A fourth body was found the following
00:17 day. Kosovo, along with many Western countries, called the incident a terrorist attack. For
00:23 Serbia, it was a day of silence. On Monday, several armoured vehicles belonging to the
00:28 Serbian army were seen near the border. Speaking at a press conference on Sunday evening, Serbian
00:34 President Aleksandar Vučić blamed Kosovo's Prime Minister and government, saying that
00:39 local Kosovo Serbs could take no more of Kuti's terror. Vučić condemned the killing of the
00:46 police officer, but not the clash itself.
00:48 The only culprit for all that is happening in the north of Kosovo and Metohija. The only
00:52 culprit. Unfortunately, there are a few culprits who help in this, and that is part of the
00:59 international community. That is Albin Kurti. The only culprit.
01:03 When tension arises, Serbia is usually quick to react and declare a state of emergency.
01:07 But not this time. Some say President Vučić has lost control. Some see him as the guilty
01:14 party. Rada Trajković, a Serbian politician originally from Kosovo and a well-known opponent
01:20 of the Serbian President, doesn't believe that President Vučić knew anything about
01:25 what happened and thinks he is protecting himself.
01:28 It would be terrible to prove that Serbia was the most directly involved in something
01:35 that is increasingly defined as terrorism. Killing a police officer at work is really
01:42 something to be held accountable for. He normally separates himself from the Serbs in Kosovo
01:49 and responsibly transfers responsibility to the Serbs in the north.
01:54 Military analyst Aleksandar Radić thinks that the President may have lost control of
02:01 his own people and was not completely aware of what was going on.
02:08 He obviously did not radicalize the situation this time. He is aware that the problem is
02:15 in his ranks. The fact is that he has created a delivery unit that has grown into a kind
02:22 of feud among the Serbian society. There are people who think that the topics related to
02:27 Kosovo are theirs and that they have the right to keep the information.
02:32 Bojan Elek, a political and security expert originally from northern Kosovo but now living
02:39 in the Serbian capital Belgrade, thinks that this is not good for either Serbia or President
02:46 Vučić, especially when it comes to dialogue.
02:49 Unfortunately, I think that this will not contribute to the dialogue in the part of
02:54 the dialogue that should be done on the implementation of state solutions for the survival of Serbs
02:59 and for the peace. Now the dialogue is already over a year in a crisis management mode.
03:05 All international representatives, but I suppose the pressure will be put on both sides
03:11 to come to de-escalation. This is what is being talked about the most now. I think we are
03:16 far from finding a solution as long as we deal with security situations and security problems
03:22 that we have had for a year, at least if not longer.
03:26 Serbian media reported that some of the escaped Serb gunmen were treated in a hospital in
03:32 Serbia. Kosovo has demanded that they be handed over, but it doesn't look likely that this
03:38 will happen any time soon.
03:40 Serbian media reported that some of the escaped Serb gunmen were treated in a hospital in Serbia.
03:45 Kosovo has demanded that they be handed over, but it doesn't look likely that this will
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