Photo: Sava Radovanović/TanjugShould the vice-president of the Serbian List and a "controversial businessman" now organize the "people and volunteers" in the north of Kosovo in the same way as the Chetnik duke and paramilitary commander wanted by Interpol did in Krajina in 1991? How it all ended, no one needs to be explained
Like Zelenski - unshaven and wearing a gray olive shirt - Milan Radoičić announced on social networks that he had returned to Kosovo.
"I'm here, and you know what that means," said the vice-president of Srpska and the list in the video below the cross on Kamilja Hill.
Really, what does that mean?
"The nonsense I read in the Pristina press says that Vučić is threatening that," said the President of Serbia. "With what?" How can one man or three men show up somewhere and solve something."
Aleksandar Vučić pretends to be unskilled. How does he know that in the early nineties, people like Radoičić went to Krajina with messages like his that "the Serbian people are still threatened by terror" and that "there is no going back from here". He knows at least one more than well. His name is Vojislav Seselj.
Also, Vučić must remember what followed. At the beginning, these were actions similar to that of the special unit of the Kosovo police in Štrpci after the resignation of Radoičić - allegedly due to suspicion of espionage. Then, as national tensions grew, "patriots" like Arkan or Šešelj would arrive... What happened next and how it ended, no one needs to be explained.
Should Radoičić now organize the "people and volunteers" in the same way as Šešelj and Arkan in Krajina in order to prevent the "Storm" of Aljbin Kurti that Vučić announced in his last address to the nation? And should the Prime Minister of Kosovo be given reasons for further radicalization? Well, that's exactly how the Serbs in Croatia were handed over to Franjo Tuđman. And let's not lie - because of Serbia's attitude towards Russia in light of the war in Ukraine, Kurti has much more support from the West than the Croatian president had in 1991.
Vučić says that Milan Radočić's private matter is whether he is in Kosovo or somewhere else - "it has nothing to do with the state". In 1991, Šešelj had no official ties with official Belgrade, nor did it bother him. It's even easier for Radoičić - at every meeting between representatives of the Serbian List and Vučić, he has a place of honor. And the fact that the north of Kosovo is his private state, just as eastern Slavonia was Arkan's, belongs to the most well-known public secret. If someone doesn't believe it, ask around Kosovska Mitrovica what it looks like - maybe his car just burned down.
The fate of the Serbs in Croatia is a warning. Just like theirs at that time, so is the current government ruthlessly instrumentalizing the Serbian people in Kosovo. Certainly, Serbia must fight tirelessly for its rights and position, but something should never be forgotten. And that is that the population of Krajina lost everything in the "Storm", and after it Seselj and Arkan became richer and more powerful than ever.
We can only hope that Milan Radočić will not get the same opportunity, even though, as Ivan Čolović says in the latest issue of Vremen, the stage is set for a monument to Slobodan Milošević.
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