Removal of memorial attempt of erasing traces of Serbs' existence in Kosovo - Office

BELGRADE - The Serbian government Office for Kosovo-Metohija said on Monday the removal of a plaque commemorating fallen Serbian soldiers from the Balkan Wars and WWI in the military section of the Serbian Orthodox cemetery in Pristina was an attempt of obliterating all traces of the existence of Serbs in Kosovo-Metohija and rewriting history in a brutal manner.

In a statement, the Office said it had informed of this non-civilisational move the OSCE mission and all other international missions operating in Kosovo-Metohija, demanding concrete answers and accountability for the perpetrators of this act of vandalism.

"In collaboration with our Eparchy of Raska and Prizren, we will use all legal mechanisms and options to have the plaque returned to its place and we have been working on that since the day this act of vandalism happened," it said.

"The fact that,...