KFOR usurped the land of the Serbian host!

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“I went 100 times to the KFOR command, I just didn’t sleep there … But nothing! While they were French, they paid something, but since the Americans took over, and this is the sixth year, they haven’t given a dinar! Not just me, but also other people who have the same problem, ”says Dragan.

The second largest military base in Kosovo has risen to 4.97 hectares of land from Dragan. The proof that you are the owner of that property is the certificate of the land books that you received in the Pristina cadastre from the Albanians.

“My great-grandfather was overturned in the grave! First, our property was confiscated by the Communists, and just when we got it back, it was occupied by a foreign army!” Says Mihajlović.

The base that KFOR established immediately after arriving in Kosovo and Metohija in 1999 on the land of Dragan is in fact a forward command post (FCP) camp run by KFOR members and operated from there in northern Kosovo. The FCP is in charge of situational patrols, vehicle checkpoints, and units housed at Camp Nottingham Hill and Gate 1. The FCP has 48 US soldiers and more than 1,000 personnel, mostly American, German, French, Moroccan, Romanian, Swiss and Slovenian.

Initially, the base was commanded by the French corps, which Dragan turned to first for compensation. Dragan’s case was found in a French court, which ruled in his favor. The French Defense Ministry offered the Mihajlović compensation of 52,512 euros for six years of use, of which more than half went to lawyers and other legal services. They arrived at this amount on the basis, as indicated in the settlement document, of the annual loss of profit parameters of the wheat yield. They calculated the price of a kilogram of wheat and a yield of five tons per hectare and reached the amount of 6,564 euros per year for a total of 3.28 hectares. Dragan agreed to the offer.

When the French left the base in 2014, Dragan was convinced that the Americans would behave like them. He duly arranged the documents and with the title deed and the verdict of the French court, he appeared in front of his door with a request to pay the rent. However, time passes and the answer did not come from them.

“They told me to wait a few days, and now it’s been six years! Now they say they can’t, because we don’t know who will pay, whether we (KFOR) or UNMIK will pay. My children are scattered in white. The world, I am alone here and I am waiting for a miracle to happen! If I have to do everything from scratch, hire lawyers and go after them, it’ll be easier for me to lay down in front of the door, so let them run me over, man.

The base used by KFOR covers 50 hectares of arable land, mostly Serbian. The Dragan Mihajlović family from Novo Selo Madjunski, near Vushtrri, was deprived of 4.97 hectares of land in 1953, in accordance with the then land fund law and on the basis of so-called surplus land. That land became social property, that is, property of the agricultural cooperative “Elan”. Almost 40 years later, in 1992, the Mihailović received a decision to have their property returned to them based on the Confiscated Land Restitution Act.

It is not easy to spend every day and look at your property, and not have the opportunity to get close to it, especially it is not easy to observe the army, the tanks, hear foreign languages ​​in the once loose and fertile land where the wheat and barley once they wavered and now trampled. , pressed by tanks and heavy military boots. He also approached UNMIK in due course, from where in 2014 he received a reply that according to the documents of the Serbian cadastre, which he moved to Kruševac, the KFOR base in Novo Selo Madjunski is located on socially owned land. , because the Serbian cadastre did not record the decision it received in Pristina. .