VIOLENCE AGAINST THE ORTHODOX POPULATION IN THE TERRITORY OF KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - THEN AND NOW-

Abstract

With the research that is in front of you, we will try to explain the concept, causes, conditions and consequences of Albanian violence towards Serbs in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija in historical circumstances in which the Serbian state does not have effective power over this area, while in the empirical part of this work we will subject to a comparative analysis periods in which the independent Serbian state exists, but does not exercise its sovereign authority on the territory of Kosovo and Metohija. Therefore, we will try to get an answer to the question of whether there is continuity of violent behavior by Albanians towards the Orthodox population - Serbs in the territory of Kosovo and Metohija in conditions when the Serbian state does not have effective authority over the territory of Kosovo and Metohija, that is, whether the methodology of violence has remained the same.

We will try to get an answer by analyzing the Report on Arbanian violence in old Serbia prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Serbia in 1898 for the purposes of presenting before an international conference in The Hague the prevalence and forms of violence perpetrated by Arbanians against the Orthodox Serbian population, as well as by analyzing two relevant reports. of international institutions related to the March pogrom committed in 2004: Report of the Secretary General of the United Nations number S 2004/348 and the Report of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe published in June 2008 under the title "Four years later".