{"id":43605,"date":"2026-07-13T21:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/minister-in-the-government-of-serbia-if-i-had-been-in-milosevics-place-i-would-have-ethnically-cleansed-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T19:55:28","slug":"minister-in-the-government-of-serbia-if-i-had-been-in-milosevics-place-i-would-have-ethnically-cleansed-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/minister-in-the-government-of-serbia-if-i-had-been-in-milosevics-place-i-would-have-ethnically-cleansed-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister in the Government of Serbia: If I had been in Milosevic&#8217;s place, I would have ethnically cleansed Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/MIN.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in the Government of Serbia, Snezhana Paunovi\u0107, has provoked numerous reactions after a statement made during an interview for a Serbian media.<\/p>\n<p>During the conversation, Paunovi\u0107 stated that, if she had the same freedom of action as the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, she would have taken measures for the &#8220;ethnic cleansing of Kosovo&#8221; in 1998.<\/p>\n<p>This statement has been widely distributed on social networks and has caused numerous criticisms, being described as unacceptable and inciting.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Kosovo during the years 1998-1999 was accompanied by the killing of civilians, mass deportations and serious violations of human rights by Serbian forces against the Albanian population.<\/p>\n<p>The statement of the Serbian minister comes at a time when issues related to the past of the war in Kosovo continue to remain a sensitive topic in the relations between Kosovo and Serbia.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government in the Government of Serbia, Snezhana Paunovi\u0107, has provoked numerous reactions after a statement made during an interview for a Serbian media. During the conversation, Paunovi\u0107 stated that, if she had the same freedom of action as the former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, she would have taken measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-43605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-brief"],"views":7,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43607,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43605\/revisions\/43607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}