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The revolt of the so-called liberation army of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, raised on the basis of an unrecognized “referendum” of Albanians from south central Serbia in 1992, with the aim of joining Kosovo, ended with the laying down of weapons. of this formation, after their commanders signed a declaration on demilitarization. in the village of Končulj. Almost two decades after the armed conflict, Albanian political leaders misinterpreted this document as the “Konculj Agreement”, claiming that Belgrade allegedly committed to amnesty members of the UCPBM, for which they once said that erecting monuments to its members. .
However, it is true that the leaders of the Albanian paramilitary organization initialed the statement in Konculj on May 20, 2001, without the presence and participation of representatives of the then Serbian and Yugoslav authorities, but international representatives were involved in the process, to Namely, NATO chief Sean Sullivan. As “Politika” once wrote, in addition to UVPBM representatives, Sullivan was also included as a co-signer of the aforementioned document on demilitarization as a witness. Belgrade responded to this act three days later: in the joint session of the Federal Government and the Government of Serbia, information on the entry of the Joint Security Forces into the Land Security Zone (KZB) was approved, as well as the public statement ” Amnesty is the way out. ” It was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Nebojsa Covic, General Ninoslav Krstic, and later Colonel Goran Radosavljevic Guri.
This means that Albanian leaders and representatives of the Serbian official authorities have never signed any joint documents, and the Serbian authorities have issued a proclamation “Amnesty is a way out”, which was publicly displayed in south central Serbia, based on guarantees of deposition of weapons. In it, the inhabitants of this part of the country were informed that our forces have accurate data on the citizens of the three municipalities who possess weapons, uniforms, mines and other military equipment, while those who are armed are called upon to hand over all this. war material without consequences. Most of the members of the UCPBM did so until May 31, 2001, and in July of the same year, an amnesty was officially granted to the people who participated in the armed conflict against our security forces.
Members of the OVPBM
On behalf of the Albanians, the declaration on demilitarization was signed in Konculj, a village near Bujanovac, located in the Land Security Zone, by UVPBM commander Shefqet Musliu and his associates Mustafa Shaqiri and Ridvan Cazimi. The UCPB, with the assistance of the international community, committed to total demilitarization, disarmament and dissolution no later than May 31, 2001, and concluded that it would dedicate itself to fighting for the rights of Albanian minority workers. through the political process and would guarantee a safe and peaceful entry into the Joint Security Forces. The formation of a multi-ethnic police force was also required, KFOR was made available to receive weapons, as well as the mission of NATO and the European Union to assist, monitor and verify the demilitarization process. Thus, the representatives of KFOR, the OSCE mission, the EU observation mission and NATO played a key role in signing the ceasefire document, more precisely in the entry of the Yugoslav army into the “buffer zone”, as well as in the signing of the declaration on the demilitarization of the UCPBM.
As one of the political “achievements” of the uprising in south central Serbia, in addition to the misinterpretation of the “Konculj Agreement”, the term “Presevo Valley”, which is regularly used by Albanians from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, was kept. , artificially merging these three municipalities. This term is actually a synonym for “eastern Kosovo”, as the more extreme Albanian circles call the area, hinting that it should be annexed to a bogus state. Albanian activist Belgzim Kamberi once explained the origin of the name “Presevo Valley” by saying that the term “ceded” to Albanians by Americans during the conflicts in the south in 2000 and 2001. “Presevo Valley is a term brought up here by US diplomats with the aim of being a balanced compromise between eastern Kosovo and southern Serbia, “Kamberi explained.
However, the fact is that the municipalities of Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja, where Serbs, Albanians and Roma coexist, according to the administrative division of the Republic of Serbia, are located in two different districts with centers in Vranje and Leskovac. The municipality of Medvedja, that is, it is more than 150 kilometers from Presevo and Bujanovac, and as part of the district of Jablanica, it is located 47 kilometers from Leskovac and in it, even according to Albanian political leaders, never lived more than 25 percent of members. of its people, and according to some interpretations, that participation today is about ten estimates. Furthermore, the term “Presevo Valley” has no historical foundation according to any relevant research.
The 1992 “referendum” was not recognized by the international community
Mention of the “referendum” of 1992, in which the Albanians of southern central Serbia voted in favor of autonomy and thus the supposed right to unite with Kosovo, which would in fact round out the “north-eastern borders of” Greater Albania “” in the previous 20 years. it became an occasional practice for politicians from Pristina, but also from Presevo, Bujanovac and Medvedja. This declaration was not only never recognized by the state of Serbia, but also by the international community, which delegitimizes the very reason for the uprising, which began in 2001. Also contributing to this is the fact that this so-called referendum was organized in such a way that Albanians vote in private houses without the participation of the State and observers, who would evaluate the regularity of this process. This later did not stop some Albanian leaders from speaking of quasi-plebiscitary support for secession from Serbia. In other words, a little more than 45,000 voters were registered and 97 percent voted “yes.”
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