Life as a humanitarian disaster

In Kosovo and Metohija today, you can see empty shelves in stores, lacking basic necessities such as bread, flour, milk, salt, oil, water, and sugar. With the region essentially sealed off, hospitals, student centers, and kindergartens are running out of food. Bread is only available for hospitals, students, and kindergartens, and in recent days, tea has been given instead of milk and yogurt. This further complicates the care of patients suffering from serious illnesses, as well as pregnant women and babies. However, this situation is well-known to the residents of Kosovsko Pomoravlje. They have experienced it many times over the past decade. Empty stores, pharmacies, and bakeries are part of everyday life for Serbs in this region. In some villages, residents have gone weeks without electricity. For us, a humanitarian disaster is not a temporary situation it is our reality. The conditions in which the Serbian people live are unworthy of any human being in the 21st century. Pregnant women have nowhere to give birth, children have limited access to medical care and education, and students from some villages travel up to twenty kilometers to reach their schools. In short, life is hard. Recent events have increased fear among the Serbs and even led to an exodus. In recent years, the Serbian population in Kosovo and Metohija has faced extremely difficult living conditions. We could never have imagined that international institutions would allow a humanitarian disaster to occur for one people in a democratic society, as a result of the arbitrary actions of certain political elites.