Petkovic: Banjska resort raid part of plan to ethnically cleanse Serbs

BELGRADE - The head of the Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija Petar Petkovic said on Tuesday Pristina's raid of the Rajska banja resort at Banjska near Zvecan earlier in the day was a part of a plan aimed at ethnically cleansing Serbs from the province.

"That way, too, Pristina confirmed its intent to comprehensively occupy the north of Kosovo-Metohija and sent a message that Serbia has no right to help its people in any way, the Rajska banja tourism and recreational complex being one of Belgrade's strategic investments in the north of Kosovo-Metohija," Petkovic said in a written statement.

Besides attacking the collective rights of Serbs, this display of force also violates the right to inviolability of property, which is sacrosanct in today's world, "because the extremists from Pristina are violating and taking away the property of municipalities, the...