Serb politicians on independence of Kosovo:

Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of Serbia: Decision of the government of Serbia to in advance and for ever annul proclamation of the false state in the territory of Serbia is the basis of the post-17th February state and national program of  Serbia relating to the province of Kosovo and Metohija. With our amply manifested,  unified state and national policy we must provide for a normal life of all citizens in the province of Kosovo and Metohija who respect the state of Serbia, Therefore all of them must stay in their houses, in their Kosovo and Metohija, in their Serbia.  (Press, 17 February  2008)

Dragan Đilas, Minister for NIP: We have triumphed in the UN Security Council. Kosovo shall never become an UN member. It is a big success of ours, of all the parties which with their joint and unified stance and policy prevented the membership of Kosovo in the UN. 
- We all agree that the success of this country is reflected in the fact that we hampered the access of Kosovo to the UN membership. But we could not have achieved that without our UN membership! Furthermore, one wonders if the recognition of Kosovo by the EU would have been possible if Serbia had become an EU member? Not, it would not be have been possible! Therefore our struggle for Kosovo  must continue within the UN decision-making body. Can Kosovo accede to the Council of Europe? It cannot! Why? Because Serbia is a member of the Council of Europe and it has the right of veto!
- It is clear that Europe formed its policy towards Kosovo under a big pressure from America. Simply, Europe does not want Kosovo to threaten its relations with the US. But why we in Serbia make plans on an ad hoc basis?! Albanians have been charting their plan on independence for hundred years now. So now the situation is as it is. But what shall happen in ten, or twenty years? Realistically speaking, the influence of the countries which are inclined towards us –China, Russia, India, is growing, their economic power is expanding. Things are changing in the world. Politics is not something immutable. I think that at this moment of time our position in the Security Council is of utmost importance, as is the remaining of our people down there, and our effort to build the future of Kosovo and Metohija within the framework of  Serbia.  (Press, 17 February  2008)

Government of Serbia shall not resort to the economic blockade of Kosovo! According to the statements of  Ministers Slobodan Samardžić and Velimir Ilić, there is no need for the blockade of economic relations with the Southern Serb province, for declaration of independence of is an unlawful act. Government of Serbia does not want to introduce  economic sanctions to Kosovo, for it intends to helpe Serbs who live there!  (Press, 17 February  2008)
Velimir Ilić, Infrastructure Minister: The state shall continue to assist Serbs in Kosovo and Metohija and shall set up funds for additional assistance to them. Money collected by tobacco and hard liquor taxation shall go into those funds. We started building 70 houses and 20 flats in village Badovac near Gračanica. We shall resonstruct Gračanica and  Laplje Selo road, and shall re-vamp our monastery of Gracanica in the heart of Kosovo.  (Press, 17 February 2008)
Energy and Mining Ministry: There will be no shift in regard to our Kosovo policy, for declaration of independence is an unlawful act. In the case of confiscation of the Serb mining wealth ande energy-generating companies Serbia shall file adequate lawsuits, applications, and  property compensation claims. But we think the former shall not happen in view of illegality of the said declaration of independence. The act of Kosovo parliament does not annul Resolution 1244, which places its entire property in the hands of UNMIK, which means that formally legal estrangement of the Serb mining resources is not feasible. If the interim Kosovo institutions declare confiscation of our property, we shall lodge applications and property compensation claims with the European courts.  (Press, 17 February 2008)
Ljuba Marić, Deputy Director of „Trepča" mine: Declaration of independence of Kosovo shall impact not only the Serb community in Kosovo, but also the Serb economy in its entirety. But it is still early for any kind of prediction.  „Trepča" shall continue its business as usual. We shall not accept independence, and in the next few days we shall see how the things unfold. Business policy of Trepca mine shall be in sync with the policy and laws of the state of Serbia. Intention of the future special envoy and head of the EULEX mission, Peter Faith, not to recognize any competence and prerogatives of Serbia in this part of the province is an indirect attempt to expell or close down the Serb companies and firms which are still operating and employing people in Kosovo. Regardless of direct and indirect threats which we are currently facing, we are optimists as regards our survival in the province and our staying put there. We count on the support of Belgrade and it means a lot to us. We shall remain here and we shall continue to work here.  (Press, 17 February  2008)
Message of the Serb government ministers: Serbia shall never recognize independent Kosovo, Serbs shall remain in  Kosovo and Metohija, they are  and shall remain citizens of Serbia and we shall do our utmost to help them.  (Press, 17 February 2008)

Božidar Đelić, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia: Visits of officials shall continue and intensify in the forthcoming weeks and months. Serbs in Štrbac are resolved to remain in their ancestral homes, and to give contribution to our statehood, but we are also aware that we must address numerous problems of theirs, and shall do our utmost to help them in resolving them. We shall discuss all possibilities of construction of a small hydro-ower plant in municipality Strbac, in order to resolve the issue of energy supply in that area for good.   (Press, 17 Februar  2008)
Slobodan Samardžić, Minister for Kosovo : I call on all Serbs and non-Albanians to remain in the province, regardless of unlawful decision of the interim Kosovo institutions. Serbia shall never recognize independent Kosovo, Albanian institutions and EU presence in the province, for all of them are unlawful and illegal creations in the Serb territory. In the forthcoming days, representatives of the Belgrade authorities, MPs and ministers shall make their presence felt even more in Kosovo, not only for the sake of moral and political support, but rather to enable Serbia to carry out its regular state business in its own territory. In force is also the Action Plan of the Government of Serbia for Kosovo and Metohija. Serbia shall not block the borders of Kosmet. (Press, 17 February 2008)
Aleksandar Popović, Minister, tried to get across the following message to Serbs in Kosovo Pomoravlje: „You are citizens of Serbia, this is Serbia, and the act adopted by interim institutions is null and void".  (Press, 17 February  2008) 

Predrag Bubalo, Minister: People are very firm in their intention to remain in Kosovo. We found them dilligently tilling their land. Some were sowing barley, some were sowing wheat.  The foregoing best attests to their intention to remain on their land.   (Press, 17 February  2008)
Velimir Ilić, Infrastructure Minister: „Albanians can make artificial states, but the Serb parliament shall annul all so such decisions." Serbia wants every Serb family in Kosovo and Metohija to have its own house. They cannot live in containers! Next month we shall start building a secondary school in Laplje Selo, we shall start reconstructing  the  Gračanica and Leplje Selo road, we shall renovate many streets in the Serb villages, and shall re-vamp our monastery Gračanica in the heart of Kosovo. Kosovo is Serbia as long as the Serb people  live in the territory.  (Press, 17 February 2008) 
Vuk Jeremić, Head of Serb Diplomacy: Countries which recognize independence of Kosovo cannot count on continuation of good relations with Serbia. Serbia stands good chances of  preventing membership of Kosovo in multilateral organizations. As long as Serbia is a member of OSCE, Kosovo shall not become a member of OSCE, of Council of Europe, for in those organizations’ decisions on membership are taken by consensus. Sovereignty is gauged by membership of international organizations, notably the OSCE and Council of Europe.  (Press, 17 February 2008)
Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of Serbia, Boris Tadić, President of the Republic of Serbia, and Tomislav Nikolić, Deputy President of the Serb Radical Party in their joint meeting agreed that at this moment of time it was necessary to “express full national and state unity" and that all party differences and disputes should be left aside. They agreed to continue full co-ordination of their actions and to channel in the right way discontent of citizens and co-ordinate the state policy towards the countries  of the West.   (Press, 17 February  2008)
Synod of the Serb Orthodox Church  assessed declaration of independence of Kosovo and Metohija as  „an invalid act of violence against the rights, law and justice". Departure of  Kosovo and Metohija from the framework of Serbia is “a violence characteristic only of periods of occupation and tyranny". The Synod called on episcope of Raska and Prizren, Artemije, clerics, monks, and Kosovo Serbs, and all other people in Kosovo „threatened by that senseless act" „to remain in their ancestral homes and to remain loyal to their sacred institutions". Declaration of independence of Kosovo is like „a new legitimization of an age-old Ottoman violence and its consequences in this territory and renewed application of the Fascist-style settlement of the WW2 Kosovo issue". Then Kosovo and Metohija were annexed to so-called „Greater Albania”, and „hundreds of thousands of Orthodox Serbs were expelled from their age-old homes, like in 1999, never to return."  (Press, 17 February  2008)
Vojislav Koštunica, Prime Minister of Serbia in his yesterday’s incendiary speech lambasted the US and EU for their support to the Albanian separatists. Daily “Press” carries almost entire speech of Prime Minister  Koštunica: 

Much-respected citizens of Serbia, 
The false state of Kosovo was declared unlawfully on the part of territory of Serbia which is under the military control of NATO. That unprecedented and unlawful move was made possible by an amoral, destructive and cruel policy of force pursued by the US! By that act America had shown to the world that it valus the naked force above the UN Charter and that it was ready to arbitrarily, ruthlessly and blatantly violate the itnernational order for the sake of its military interests. By prioritizing the force and not the international law principles, the US humiliated and forced the EU to trample on the very principles on which EU rests. America forced Europe to follow in its footsteps by effecting a terrible violence against Serbia. Europe has bowed to that US pressure, and hence it shall be also held accountable for all the far-reaching consequences of that violence in the spheres of the European and the world order. That unilateral decision shall humiliate EU, and not Serbia.  
By refusing to bow to the force and sticking firmly to the international law, Serbia refused to humiliate itself.  Unilateral proclamation of a mock state under the patronage of the US and EU represents the final act of the policy of force which began with the aggression and senseless bombardment of Serbia and continued with the NATO troops deployment in Kosovo and Metohija. Now it has finally become manifest why Serbia was destroyed by NATO bombs. The true foundations of the mock state of Kosovo are the bombs with which NATO devastated Serbia. Therefore the truth must be uttered: behind this false state are military interests of NATO, as confirmed by the Annex 11 of Ahtisaari plan. Thanks to such vested interests that mock state was put in place. But it remains a mock state, despite the fact that the Western countries have sacrificed the whole international legal order and risked peace in order to make possible that recognition.  The US President, responsible for this violence, and his European followers, merit the worst place in history of Serbia, and in any history of the international law and on the world order based on that law. 
We are well-aware of the blindness, cruelty and danger of the policy of force pursued by the United States. But even in the face of that knowledge, Serbia decisively and once for all annulled all decisions relating to the one-sided declaration of independence, and all the future acts stemming from that unlawful decision. Serbia has also nullified the EU decision on deployment of its mission in the province, the decision taken because of European impotence. On the other hand the aforementioned decision of the Government of Serbia laid the foundations of the state and national program of Serbia for Kosovo in the post-17th February period. Citizens of Serbia, Serbia do not recognize and shall never recognize the mock state-independent Kosovo-on its soil. For Serbia all citizens of Serbia and all citizens in the province who respect our state, are equitable citizens of Serbia.  
Therefore all laws and rulings of institutions of the Republic of Serbia are valid for them. From today onwards we must show even greater concern and care for our people in Kosovo and Metohija. All ministries have the order to work on improving living conditions of Serbs in the province, and on creating new jobs for them as well as jump-starting investments there. The state of Serbia shall take care of every citizen in Kosovo and Metohija. On this day our ministers are with their people in the province too. We would like to bring to the attention of both home and foreign public that since the arrival NATO troops in Kosovo and Metohija many Serbs were killed and expelled, and countless houses, ancient monasteries and churches were torn down. Since the NATO deployment a lot of evil has been inflicted on Serbs. Therefore we must prevent at all costs new victims in Kosovo, new persecutions and new destruction. There was too much violence  against Serbs, and therefore those in charge of security in the province must absolutely perform to boot their tasks. I want to reiterate anew that Serbia is an old state, and that the Serb people are an old European nation. Through an age-old state-building history we have experienced a lot of evil from foreign powers. On the other hand our history has taught us how to fully appreciate the power of rights and justice and value of freedom. Those rights, justice and freedom shall empower us to effect  the total return of the province of Kosovo and Metohija to its rightful place, to the fold of constitutional order of Serbia. And while the policy of force thinks today that it has triumphed by crafting a mock state, millions of Serbs are thinking about the day of freedom which is bound to come. No-one to date succeeded in preventing the Serb people from realizing their freedom. What we are not able to do today, shall be done by new and better generations –tomorrow. Kosovo is Serbia and it must always remain part of Serbia.  (Press,17 February 2008)
Miloš Garić: “In today’s Serbia only the most hardened rogues and traitors have remained impervious to the latest Kosovo development. Only people without an ounce of morality and national pride don’t feel angry, ashamed and saddened, after Shiptari have hoisted their banners of independence, with the blessing of the Americans, Brits and Germans. We are faced with very difficult times, but Serbs should not weep now, let alone resign themselves to the defeat. Now it is futile to talk about stupid policy of Slobodan Milosevic, in fact we must do what other Serb heroes and knights like Duke Lazar, Karađorđe, Putnik have done. We and all the future generations must follow in their footsteps. This and other generations shall have to dream of the return to Prizren, Peć and Priština. Our children shall have to learn that Kosovo is Serbia! There mustn’t be any dilemma about that.  A, Shiptari? They should remember that we shall never forgive them their recent act. In our dispute no democratic rules, pacifism or Europe-minded positions shall apply. They won the battle, but we must won the war, in 10, 15 or even 150 years. The time-frame does not matter. Only when that happens we shall know that we are the true people, Europe shall respect us, and bones of grandfathers shall not rot in vain on the slopes of Prokletije mountains”.  (Press, 17 February  2008)
Vojislav Koštunica: "Serbia refused to humiliate itself, it stands firm and shall not bow to the force."  (Press, 17 February 2008)
Boris Tadić: "Serbia shall never recognize independence of Kosovo and Metohija. The state, at this moment of time should not take any rash moves. ”
 "Much-respected citizens of Serbia, 
At this difficult moment of time for our state and for all of us, I want to appeal to all the citizens of Serbia, to our fellow-nationals in Kosovo and Metohija, to have first in foremost in their minds that we all must be guided by the common sense. Serbia shall  take responsible steps and shall do its utmost to annul the unlawful and arbitrary declaration of independence of Kosovo. Serbia has responded and shall respond by all peaceful, diplomatic, and legal means to have this act of interim Kosovo institutions annulled. Serbia demands from the international institutions in Kosovo to immediately declare null and void that act, because it is contrary to fundamental principles of the international law. At this moment of time we value most the lives of our fellow-nationals in Kosovo and their security. KFOR and UNMIK are duty-bound to provide for security of all Serbs and non-Albanians in Kosovo and to protect their homes and all our sacred institutions. They shoulder the responsibility for every life in Kosovo and Metohija. I demanded that the KFOR and UNMIK provide the maximum security for Kosovo Serbs. But we are also duty-bound to take care of  them, to protect them.  
We shall best demonstrate our care for them by refraining from hasty or rash moves which could threaten the security of our fellow-nationals in Kosovo and Metohija.  Srbija shall do its best to provide for the security of our fellow-nationals in Kosovo and to make their lives easier there. Once again I call on all the state officials and leaders of all parties in Serbia to act responsibly in this situation. I ask all the politicians to instruct in their statements all their followers to act and behave in a peaceful, serious and restrained manner. Party promotions should be discontinued to enable the state to act responsibly and in a unified way in this situation replete with challenges. I appeal to the mass media in Serbia to do their job with utmost responsibility and without resorting to sensationalism in the next few days. Serbia shall overcome this situation in a peaceful, dignified and civilized way. Serbia shall not resort to violence and such a tack shall enable us to continue our legitimate struggle for preservation of integrity of the country. In that diplomatic struggle Serbia shall be persistent, and  it shall defend both its interests and international law, as long as it is necessary and until the illegitimate act on independence is nullified. "
Politicians in Serbia adamantly refused any possibility of „any trade off with Kosovo":
Dragan Đilas, Minister for NIP:  First and foremost I don’t believe that such an US offer would materialize at all. Even if it is made, it is not viable or debatable at all. Kosovo is and shall remain part of Serbia forever.  Serbia shall never agree to independence of its province. 
Velimir Ilić, Infrastructure Minister and leader of the New Serbia Party: Let me tell you that such a move is out of question! We are not a banana republic to even try to engage in any trading of our territory. Americans committed a terribly violent act,  similar to what Hitler did in Europe in early stages of his rule. 
Bratislav Grubačić, diplomatic analyst: Iit is not realistic to expect such “an indecent offer” of Americans for Kosovo, but the US shall most certainly try to alleviate the consequences of its policy towards Serbia.  President Bush has repeateldy stated that the US are a friend of the Serb people. The US shall most certaily try to mollify us, but I think that such an attempt will meet with great resistance on our part. (Press, 18 February  2008)
Dušan Savić, footballer : Kosovo is the oldest Serb house and address which cannot be changed by anyone, despite attempts to that end by the most powerful  world rogues.  gangsteri.  (Politika, 17 February  2008)
Milorad Dodik, Prime Minister of Republika Srpska and President of the Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats: „ All those who think that by today’s proclamation of independence of Kosovo and Metohija that issue and similar crises in the world have been finalized are utterly wrong. Today all double standards and duplicity of the policy of the leading Western countries became manifest. By rendering support to Albanians to declare independence of Kosovo and Metohija they certified the practice, at least for the time being, that the naked force was above the international legal order.  I wonder how those Western countries shall explain to us and other peoples why they are not granting to us the same thing they had given to Albanians in Serbia, although the latter are only a national minority in this country. ”  (Politika, 17 February  2008)
Mladen Ivanic, Leader of the Party of Democratic Progress: “ By unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo not a single thing is resolved. This day in fact marks the first day of the new crises, not only in the West Balkans, but also in many other countries which have secession-minded movements. As regards Republika Srpska, if the West continues to pile pressure on us, and if RS existence in Bosnia and Herzegovina continues to be denied or contested, we shall be compelled to look for different solutions, for a new  pathway. ”  (Politika, 17 February 2008)
Tomislav Nikolic, Deputy President of the Serb Radical Party: „Three big powers shall never recognize independence of Kosovo: Russia, China and India. I call on the President and Prime of Serbia to launch diplomatic actions and also actions in the country in order to show to citizens that we have not accepted that secession, that we shall never reconcile with that secession and that we shall do our utmost to stop the secession of Kosovo from Serbia. Now we measure the time from the 17th of February to the day of the return of Kosovo within the framework of Serbia.”
The Serb Radical Party called on the President and Prime Minister of Serbia “to  channel the wrath and frustration emerging in all the hearts of all citizens of Serbia by organizing a large rally, to astound the whole world and to show to that world what kind of country and people we are.”
According to Nikolic, the Serb Radical Party shall wait until Thursday, and then if “Kostunica and Tadic don’t feel ashamed”, most probably stage a rally.  Nikolic then sent the following message to citizens in Kosovo and Metohija: “Neither we, nor any other authority in Serbia, shall ever abandon you.”
Nikolic added: “For years now the Serb Radical Party kept underscoring that Serbia had other friends in the world. It would be ideal if the UN took a firm stand and stated that an end had to be put to violations of the international law and the UN Charter, and subsequently annulled yesterday’s decision of Kosovo parliament. If the UN fails to do that we must turn to our friends. Three big powers –Russia, China and India-shall never recognize independence of Kosovo.” 
He sent the following message to citizens of Serbia, who according to him were also suffering because of Kosovo’s unlawful independence:  „But don’t feel ashamed. As long as this Serb Radical Party exists efforts shall be made to return  Kosovo to its original fold, to Serbia. Kosovo Albanians, in agreement with the US and many EU countries, embarked upon a dangerous path of independence of a mock state, and Serbia must be ready to respond to such a provocation.”  (Politika, 18 February 2008.)
The day when Kosovo was wrested from Serbia 
Yesterday’s act of secession of the southern Serb province was monitored with great attention by separatists in all parts of the world. They perceived that act as a precedent which could well serve their objectives.  
Yesterday Serbia faced the unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo with a restrained wrath. It also sent a loud and clear message that it would never recognize independence of Kosovo, and that its parliament would shortly annul unlawful acts of the Kosovo parliament. Despite conspicuous efforts of the authorities to stage peaceful and dignified protests against Kosovo independence, during rioting in front of the US Embassy in Kneza Milosa street,  a certain  number of both protesters and policemen were wounded. 
„Let this day be a new beginning”, said the Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Tachi, during adoption of declaration on independence of Kosovo, probably alluding to the beginning of life of the self-proclaimed state, but those in the world who were listening to him, interpreted his words in line with the months-long warning of both official Belgrade and Moscow. 
Separatist regions in Georgia- Abhazia and South Ossetia – announced that they would follow in the footsteps of Kosovo and Metohija and hinted they would immediately lodge an independence claim with the United Nationas and Russia. Political representatives of Hungarians in Romania also listened attentively to the news of the new beginning of Kosovo. The latter prompted Antal Arpad, an MP of Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in the Romanian Parliament, to say that representatives of the Hungarian community in Romania, should „use that precedent”, that is the fact that the EU countries and the US would recognize independence of Kosovo…that is, express their wish for autonomy, while in parallel soliciting the EU and Washington’s backing for such a claim of theirs. Needless to say that the Basque regional authorities assessed that they should draw a good lesson from the recent  proclamation of Declaration on Independence of Kosovo, which is stiffly opposed by the Spanish authorities.  (Politika, 18 February 2008)

Ljiljana Smajlovic 
Days of Wrath 

When last week Vladimir Putin said that the Western support to unilateral declaration of independence of Kosovo is unlawful and immoral, I remembered the words which Slavko Curuvija uttered on the 24th of March of 1999, at the last staff meeting he held with the  journalists of “Evropljanin” and “Dnevni Telegraf.”
Slavko’s voice that day was so strong that it seemed dispel all the tension which was in the air. He said that we would not make newspapers for Milosevic’s censors, but he added the following: “We are against Milosevic, but we are also patriots. Thus we are aginast unlawful, immoral and illegitimate NATO attack on Yugoslavia.”
Only three weeks later I spoke at this funeral. I told the present what was his message to us on the eve of the first bombs. I also added that he was a brave man, in contrast to those who cowardly shot him in the back, and in contrast to those who bombed him from the air. 
Like other Slavko’s colleagues I blame the regime of Slobodan Milosevic for his death. But I nonetheless have the impression that today Slavko Curuvija would be as embittered as I am, because of our Western friends’ hiding behind the pretext of crimes of a former regime, of the regime of the dead man, Slobodan Milosevic, in order to justify violation of international law, wresting of other country’s territory, and awarding of the militant Albanian nationalism. 
Some big and influential countries shall today recognize self-proclaimed Kosovo’s independence. And therein lies the drama of this moment of time in history of Serbia. The Albanian triumph is at the same time the triumph of Western interventionism, and our defeat is the defeat of the principle according to which the international law should protect the small, and not only the big states. Serbia was not defeated by Albanians, but it was defeated by the Western leaders who had given a state to Hashim Tachi, after blocking the pathway of Serbia to Europe because of Mladic and Karadzic. 
In today’s Serbia humiliation is acutely felt also by those who had opposed Slobodan Milosevic, not because they were against the Serb national interests, but because they were against Milosevic’s authoritarian, unjust and unlawful rule. Because of that rule Slavko Curuvija lost his life. And because of that rule other opponents of that regime, who are currently trying to integrate national pride with the state interests, tradition with modernity, European values with self-respect, rights with justice, feel like they are facing an uphill battle.   
Serbs are a small nation, but they have an unpleasant habit to oppose those who are stronger. Defeats which we had experienced in the last decades have however traumatized our national psyche. It is up to the authorities to respond to independence of  Kosovo like any other sovereign state would respond to the trampling down of its sovereignty and wresting of its territory, but also by having in mind all the time the fact that half of population is as much afraid of Tomislav Nikolic as it is afraid of retaliation of our Western friends. 
Indeed there are differences in stands of Boris Tadic and Vojislav Kostunic on Kosovo and on our pathway to Europe. But if there is any comfort at this hour, then it should be seen in the fact, as Aleksa Djilas has put it recently, that “both stands are highly moral, and ethically superior to the ones espoused by the Western leaders. Therefore, we have nothing to be ashamed of. On the contrary, we have many reasons to feel pride.  
Or as Tomislav Nikolic has put it yesterday: „We are equally enraged with this wresting of our territory”.  (Politika, 18 February 2008)
Velja Ilić, Infrastructure  Minister: We cannot defend the people who stage protests and actions in order to maintain that Kosovo is not ours. We cannot protect them from being harassed or battered by someone who had come from Kosovo. 
This is what Velja Ilic said about the Liberal Democratic Party: “It is a group of traitors who would sell this state for a handfull of dry meat. In fact they have not invested anything in this state, I don’t even know their roots and ethnic descent, in this Serbia. Probably because of their dubious descent they don’t value this Serbia. But there are people who deeply love and value this country, this is our only homeland. 
They, the Liberal Democratic Party and others have organized the violence, when faced with a very large number of people who came to a peaceful rally. Attack on journalists was also a part of that scenario. It was engineered by those external forces, to instill in  the ordinary people  the hatred of us, defenders of the dignity of Serbia.  (Kurir, 28 February 2008)