Kosovo in protest: “Jablanovic, out. Trepca is ours”

24/01/2015 00:00

The Self-Determination Movement leader, Albin Kurti, gave 48 hours to
Prime Minister Isa Mustafa to discharge the Minister for Return and
Community, Alexandar Jablanovic, and for returning the law that makes
the “Trepca” plant a public enterprise.

Kurti gave this ultimatum after dozens of thousands of citizens, from all Kosovo, protested in front of the Prime Minister’s office in Prishtina.

“We are giving a 48 hour ultimatum to the government to discharge Alexandar Jablanovic. Isa Mustafa should discharge him until Monday at 16:00, and bring back the law for Trepca, and return that into a public enterprise’, Kurti declared.

Nusrete Kumanova, from the association “Mothers’ Appeal”, held a speech before Kurti, during which several protesters threw stones against the Prime Minister’s Office.

“Kosovo belong to Albanians. Kosovo is ours. It’s a shame for this government after hurting us, mothers, after receiving us in thousands of meetings. We do not want to see their faces. We want our dear ones to return”, Kumanova declared.

After the Serbian Minister offended the mothers of Gjakova, many of them protested in Prishtina tody, relatives of the missing persons who were joined by the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj; the chairman of the Initiative for Kosovo, Fatmir Limaj; the former Parliament Speaker, Jakup Krasniqil the Mayor of Prishtina, Shpend Ahmeti, MPs, representatives of the civil society, NGOs and football fan groups.

Ramush Haradinaj left the protest before it was over and posted on Facebook: “The discontent is growing. The people is getting together. The government is a minority and must understand that the power doesn’t belong to individuals, but to the people”.

The request for discharging the ambassador, and the defense of the Trepca ploant, got together such a big number of protesters for the first time since the war.

They held banners saying “Jablanovich out”, “Trepca is Kosovo”, “Mustafa, helper of Serbia”, etc.

Albin Kurti warned a similar protest on Tuesday, if Prime Minister Mustafa will not take this request in consideration.

While the Self-Determination Movement was calling the end of the protest, a group of young people kept throwing solid objects against the Prime Minister’s office, escalating this way the situation with an intervention of the Special Police.

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