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Serbia not to give up on demand to punish those responsible for March pogrom

Belgrade, 17 March 2025

Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija Petar Petković recalled that today marks the 21st anniversary of the March pogrom against Serbs and Serbian holy sites in Kosovo and Metohija.

Petković said that, in addition to the fact that this tragic event, which was also the first pogrom in Europe in the 21st century, evokes empathy and solidarity in every honourable person, it also strengthens the determination and resolve of the Serbian people and the state of Serbia to ensure that such barbarity against Serbs is never repeated.

There is not the slightest doubt that the pogrom was skilfully planned over a long period and organised by Albanian political, criminal and para-security structures, with the aim of ethnically cleansing the remaining Serbs from the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, and that objective was, unfortunately, successfully realised in many parts of our southern province, Petković pointed out.

According to him, it is incomprehensible that a large part of the international community, especially those states that claim to be the torchbearers of democracy, remained indifferent to the mass crime of 17 March 2004, just as they continue to turn a blind eye to the daily terror that the Priština regime is carrying out against the Serbian people in Kosovo and Metohija.

Petković said that Serbia and the Serbian people will never forget the March pogrom in Kosovo and Metohija and the victims of that criminal rampage by Albanian extremists, just as they will never give up on demanding that the perpetrators be found and punished.